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Organization: The Audio Tune Lesson Collection is organized into 16 folders (or subdirectories)--1 for each tune in the collection.
- Each tune subfolder contains 11 mp3 audio files for that particular lesson, 1 Adobe pdf file for the sheet music, 1 TEFview file for the fiddle part, and 1 TEFview file for the guitar accompaniment. If you're not familiar with TEFview files, click here to learn all about them and how to use them.
- It's a good idea to create a new folder to put all this stuff in. Call it something like "Audio Tune Lesson Collection," and once you've downloaded the zip file for the collection, you can extract/expand everything into that new folder. Then all your audio tune lessons will be in one place, nice and handy.
Each Audio Tune Lesson has 1 longer audio file for the entire tune, played at a reasonable pace,
8 shorter audio files (1 for each phrase in the tune, played slow), and
2 medium length files (1 for each of the tune's 2 parts, played slow).
I provide these individual phrase and part files so you can loop (repeat) the individual parts and phrases on whatever player you're using. You can also slow down or speed up the playback for each individual file if you like. Here's how this works:
With Windows Media Player: Make sure you have a recent version. I'm using Version 11. Open one of your tune directories in your "Audio Tune Lessons" folder. You should see an mp3 file for the entire tune, and 10 more mp3 files for the parts and phrases.
- Looping The Files: Make sure Windows Media Player is your default player for mp3 files. To check, pull down the "Tools" menu and select "Options." If you don't see the "Tools" menu, hit ctrl/m.
- Click on the "File Types" tab and make sure the box next to "MP3 audio file (mpw) is checked. Click OK.
- Open any other player you have that might have been set as your default player and disable it as your default player
- Double click one of the phrase files to start Windows Media Player or open the player first and then double click one of the phrase files. Either way, the phrase will start to play.
- Now click on the repeat button at the bottom of the player, between the suffle button and the stop button.
- All the files will now loop. No need to reactivate the loop feature when you select a new file.
- To start playing and looping the next phrase file, just double click on it.
- Controlling Playback Speed: Pull down the "View" menu and select "Enhancements." Highlite "Play Speed Settings" and click on it. A window will open near the bottom of the player displaying a horizontal control bar.
- You can move the along the bar to 0.5 (half normal speed) on up to 2.0 (double normal speed)
- The sound quality isn't quite as good as very slow playback, but it's plenty good enough to be a great learning tool.
For tips on using your Audio Files with QuickTime and iTunes, go to Page 2.
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