On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:06:57 -0400 Rob Kudla <lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/23/2014 02:21 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > I encountered a nice piano learning video including hands and > > animated keys, but since it is playing at original speed it is way > > to fast for me to learn that song. In case anyone is interested, > > it's this video and I think it's rather nicely done (don't hate me > > for the music :P): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6MF5KjuOc > > While it sounds like you may have found something that gets the job > done, I got better quality (to my ears) than mplayer or VLC like this: > > $ ffmpeg -i careless-whisper-piano-orig.mp4 -an -b:v 1022k -vf > "setpts=(1/0.25)*PTS" careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.mp4 > > $ ffmpeg -i careless-whisper-piano-orig.mp4 > careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.wav > > $ rubberband -t4 careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.wav > careless-whisper-piano-tutorial-stretched.wav > > $ ffmpeg -i careless-whisper-piano-tutorial.mp4 -i > careless-whisper-piano-tutorial-stretched.wav -c:v copy > careless-whisper-piano-tutorial-stretched.mp4 > > It took a while (probably 20 minutes on my underpowered laptop) but I > think this is the method I'll be using the next time I want to learn > a part. Not really a fan of this particular song, but stretched out > 4:1 it sounds kind of mellow and what artifacts I hear just make it a > little bit trippy, while making any Richard-Clayderman-esque > parallel-6th abuse and other easy-listening cliches in this > arrangement less noticeable. So, that's an improvement. > > Rob Thanks a lot Rob. I finally came around to try this method and it sounds indeed better than the on-the-fly methods in VLC and so on. I find it funny that, according to Wikipedia, George Michael himself doesn't particularly like the song (at least the lyrics). I'm not a George Michael fan nor do I particularly like easy listening music, quite on the contrary, but it's a nice enough song and I figured it's not too hard to learn. Once I know how to play it I'll play with it and interpret it anyway. Let's see how that will turn out :) Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
