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30 Days to Play – Multiple Speed options
I just joined this week and am going through the 30 days to play. Tony keeps referencing different ‘speeds’ to graduate through on things like the Blues Boogey or Blues Bassline but I only see the one play-through at the slowest speed. I’m sure I’m missing something obvious so would appreciate if someone could point it out. FYI, I’m using Firefox on a Windows desktop if that matters. I have also tried Chrome.
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@Whill Welcome to the TAC community! I’ll try to answer your question without confusing you further. Click on the ‘ Play’ tab, and then when you hover over or click on the video it should have a play menu run across the bottom of the screen, and you’ll see a ‘1x’ (this is 100% speed). Click on this, and you can change the speed to slower and then work your way up to 100% or 1x. Hope this helps.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by
Loraine.
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Is that the button right by the settings cog that goes from 0.5x through 2x? I thought that was the typical ‘speed up the video’ button. To give a specific example, at ~8:20 of the Blues Boogie video, Tony says ‘the play through is going to be 3 different speeds’, then goes into the differences between the slow speed, etc. However, going to the Play tab has the 1 video with the speed control you referenced in your answer above with 7 different speed settings. And again, that is just speeding up the video playing, which sounds similar to what I’m asking for but seems like it would be different. At the very least, the 7 different video speed up settings vs. the 3 intentional speed settings Tony says he is providing is confusing to me. It’s probably just me though.
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The old TAC site was set up a bit differently with 3 different speeds of video to practice with. TAC now just uses the .50-2.00 (I believe these are the speeds). The previous 3 speeds he refers to would be the .50, .75 and the 1.0 typically.
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Alright, good to know. Thanks so much for the help!
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This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by
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Hi @Whill , what @Loraine is good insight, but I would like to give my 2 cents. I believe with the new format, the 1x speed correlates to the slow/normal starting speed. You have to work you’re way (incrementally) to the 2x speed to be equivalent to the “fast” speed of the “Old Format”. I think to save server space, they did away with the 3 different speed videos and added the ability to change the speed of the single “original play” video. That’s why sometimes the sound gets distorted when you play the original video at faster speeds.😱
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I just want to point out the advantages I found by learning with a metronome rather than multi speed video. One of the ways I progress fastest was by using the small incremental speed control the metronome offers. It was way easier for me to increase speed 2,3,or 4 bpm at a jump instead of 20 bpm at a bump. I will learn at the natural speed of the video or if I am having difficulty discerning tones and sequences I will suffer the distortion on slow down to get it in my head and under finger but I go to the metronome right after for faster progress.
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