Slow down music on your computerBeing able to slow down music without changing the pitch can be very useful during practice. You may want to hear a certain riff in a song, the timing of a certain section of a piece or just play along with a track, but slower. If you are using Minus One CDs for example, you may find the track on the CD is faster than your performance speed. The good news is there are probably various tools which allow you to slow down audio already on your computer! Slow down audio (Mac)Quicktime is all you need to slow down music on the Mac.
Click on the Window menu and open Show A/V controls Use the controls at the bottom of the A/V window to alter the speed. To use Quicktime in this way the music needs to be imported into your computer. This can be done via iTunes and found in the /Music/iTunes/iTunes Music file. A Quicktime bonus is that you can also alter the pitch of the music in the A/V Controller without altering the speed! Slow down audio (PC)Windows Media Player is all you need to slow down music on your PC.
Click on the viewmenu and go down to Play Speed Settings Click on this and the setting open at the bottom of the screen allowing you to speed up or slow down the music To use Windows Media Player in this way the music needs to be imported into your computer. This can be done in WIndows Media Player itself or another program such as iTunes. You should find imported music in /My Documents/My Music Unfortunately Windows Media Player doesn't allow you to save the settings so you have to reset the tempo each time you open the file. If you want to do this for convenience Click here to download the Windows version of Quicktime from the Apple website. Moving the slowed down track
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