The main purpose of Song Surgeon 3 is that it allows you to take any piece of music (a guitar solo for example), and slow it down to a snails pace without changing [...]]]> Play Guitar? Electric or Acoustic? Song Surgeon 3 is the ultimate tool for learning AUTHENTIC and killer guitar solos and Rhythm Guitar.

The main purpose of Song Surgeon 3 is that it allows you to take any piece of music (a guitar solo for example), and slow it down to a snails pace without changing the key.

It is suitable for any guitarist no matter what skill level they are at. For example, I’m playing 30 years and I use it every day. I have students who are playing only months and this is the first thing I recommend to them. Their advancement is uncanny once they know and use this type of approach.

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In fact I know that it is so good and SO effective, that I even built a dedicated site to it!

If you use it on a daily basis, your guitar playing will come on in leaps and bounds – I’m not exaggerating here.

Due to its nature it is suitable for any guitar style.

The sound engine in it is excellent no matter what speed you choose to play a song at (right down to 10% speed).

You can loop this file endlessly, or any amount of times you like. You can insert silences after the piece, you can export your chosen loops as mp3s and then play them on your computer, iPad, mp3 player … anything.

If you are learning guitar from Tab you will be left behind in a Song Surgeon trained player’s dust very quickly. Its light years ahead of Tab. In fact this video includes a Tab warning which you should heed if you want to excel on the guitar.

Who am I? My name is David O’Toole and I’m a guitar player from Ireland (that’s me playing in the video). I’ve played the guitar for 30 years at this stage so I know what it takes to move forward on the instrument. I’ve also taught many students, and I continue to love the guitar as much as when I started.

For a full review and more information on it and to find out how you can get special bonuses with it, visit my site review click:

http://www.songsurgeonreview.com

You can visit the official Song Surgeon site at: Song Surgeon

If you get it (from my link) why not pickup some free bonuses? These include Pro backing tracks and a site download guide. You can reach me from my site at songsurgeonreview/contact

The video below shows four absolutes giants of the ‘modern’ Jazz scene in full flight. This tune ‘Footprints’ was composed by Wayne Shorter. I like how in some genres we ‘write’ pieces of music and songs, but in Jazz like this we ‘compose’ .

Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, [...]]]> Song Surgeon 3.0 / Slowed Down Saxophone

The video below shows four absolutes giants of the ‘modern’ Jazz scene in full flight. This tune ‘Footprints’ was composed by Wayne Shorter. I like how in some genres we ‘write’ pieces of music and songs, but in Jazz like this we ‘compose’ .

Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stanley Clarke, Omar Hakim – [1991] – LIVE IN MONTREAUX – Footprints

This is pretty ‘hardcore’ Jazz and if you love this type of music, well it is done here at its peak by these four masters. I went thru a huge ‘Stanley Clarke’ phase during my early years but I went of him a bit later as his Tone changed.

I loved his early work such as on the albums ‘Stanley Clarke’, ‘Journey to Love’, and ‘Rocks, Pebbles And Sand’. I guess it was a sort of ‘Jazzy-Rock’. I started playing Electric Bass then too, with ‘Stanley Clarke’, ‘Phil Lynott’, and ‘Jaco Pastorious’ as my influences. Interesting combination lol.

I also got into Herbie Hancock thru his work with Clarke around this time, and I heard a lot of Omar Hakim with different line ups over the years – serious Drummer. Two giants if ever was the case.

I had my ‘Weather Report’ phase too. I particularly like the album ‘Heavy Weather’ with my fave track ‘Teen Town’ on it and of course ‘Birdland’. This is where I first heard Wayne Shorter.

I used to musically ‘steal’ my favorite bits from these players and play them on the guitar where suitable. Yup a good old vinyl record player, slow it down and work it out that way. I had rigged the record player to slow down to various speeds (I was an Electrician) so ‘don’t try this at home’ as they say.

It worked to a degree but the sound quality was very bad plus it changed the key of the piece, so I had to first learn a piece in this lowered, slowed down speed key, and then transpose it back up. It was a nightmare but it worked – I persevered thru the love of music .

Nowadays I still do all this but in a much better way. I discovered ‘Song Surgeon’ a few years back, and it is designed to do exactly this but its all done on your computer. No more scratched vinyls, blown expensive electronics to replace, and terrible humming sounds straining from my record player. Wow, when I think of it!

Here’s an example of what I mean. Here I’m taking a piece of Wayne Shorter’s Sax solo and slowing it down to 40% speed.

Notice how you hear each note clearly and its in the same key – just slowed right down. His speed bursts are brought right down to a learnable level. Hey Song Surgeon where were you when I wanted you .

If you can hear these mega-musicians at this clear and slowed down speed, you can work out a lot easier what they are doing and add their material to your own ‘bank’ of sounds. Change it around a bit to suit the music you are playing over. Change key to suit. Make it your own. Build up an arsenal of soloing pieces this way and you will build your own style. If you can do this for these four virtuosi you can do it for any musician you like right?

Learning soloing thru audio is the way forward on any lead musical instrument (it also works for Rhythm). I suggest that you get a great player and teacher (if necessary), and combine their instruction with your own Song Surgeon 3 ‘sound experiments’. This method suits beginners to advanced players – that’s just one beauty of it. Another? You’re learning directly from the masters themselves. Want another? It suits most all styles of music.

The words ‘effective breakthru’ spring to mind.

You can check it out at my site Song Surgeon Review and pickup a nice little bonus if you invest in it from there (howto easily do this is on that page):

I like it. I was inspired to brush up  on my intervals on my guitar . Here’s the video, [...]]]> I’ve added a new page to my new site showing the Song Surgeon 3.0 effect at 50% speed reduction on Yehudi Menuhin. It includes a short video demonstrating a Classical piece where he is playing intervals.

I like it. I was inspired to brush up  on my intervals on my guitar . Here’s the video, its called:

Yehudi Menuhin — Violin Slow Down in Song Surgeon 3

Learn from Yehudi Menuhin

http://www.songsurgeonreview.com/Song-Surgeon-Review-Violin.htm (opens in new window)

I was reading up on Menuhin at Wikipedia and I found some interesting facts about this great musician which caught my eye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin (opens in new window)

* He lived in Switzerland, my ‘adapted’ country.

* His recording contract with EMI lasted almost 70 years and is the longest in the history of the music industry. He made his first recording at age 13 in November 1929, and his last in 1999 at age 82. In total he recorded over 300 works for EMI, both as a violinist and as a conductor.

* Here’s a piece I found from Wiki which particularly interested me …

‘When he finally resumed recording, he was known for practicing by deconstructing music phrases one note at a time’

Bruno Walter and Yehudin Menuhin

That’s exactly how I approach taking a solo or piece of music apart with Song Surgeon, and what I suggest to any musician.

Here’s another great video showing these two violin virtuosi having a ‘Jam’! It also includes something that amazed me about Yahudi Menuhin’s situation with improvisation. This really surprised me – I didn’t think it would be so black and white for him. But as he importantly says in the interview ‘ there is room for both types of player’.

Stephane Grappelli & Yehudi Menuhin BBC Live ‘Jealousy’

Stephane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin - BBC Live 'Jealousy'

Stephane Grappelli & Yehudi Menuhin BBC Live ‘Jealousy’ (opens on Songsurgeonreview video site / new window)

Having a great teacher will cut years off your learning curve in every instance. So get a great teacher and at [...]]]> Whatever instrument you play you must have a good musical ear. You can train that! Sure its best to get a quality instructor on an instrument. In fact on some instruments its an essential.

Having a great teacher will cut years off your learning curve in every instance. So get a great teacher and at least learn the basics from him.

But with that said, no matter how you approach learning an instrument, you must get your musical ear ‘fine-tuned’ (pardon the pun ).

How do you go about this? Simple. Listen to a lot of professional recordings of the instrument you are learning. Get as many CDs as you can get your hands (or should I say ‘ears’) on, and listen closely and critically to a master at work. Pick one to start with. Then comes the critical bit – pull his work apart!

Pick out particular parts you like and learn them yourself. The best way to do this is to slow down the part in question. But this brings problems. For example, if you just slow down a vinyl record it will also change the key and bring it down a few tones.

This makes learning the piece (and then having to transpose back to the original key) a total nightmare.

Another big problem with slowing down a piece of music, is that in many cases the sound quality suffers. Sometimes drastically depending on what you are using to do this. That makes it so much more difficult to hear what the player is doing.

Its still good for your musical ear doing this even with an inferior sounding slowed-down piece, but there there is a much more effective way to approach this. And its a seriously much better way to push your skills forward in leaps and bounds.

‘What is it?’ I hear shouts from the back of the room. Its called ‘Song Surgeon 3′ and it is the answer to every musician’s learning dream, no matter what instrument you play. Now that’s a very bold statement to make but I can assure you that it is 100% true.

It will work for most any instrument. And the best thing about it is that you can learn a piece directly from the original source. Not some error ridden Tab or Sheet Music which is many the times the case.

You can see and hear exactly what it does on my website www.songsurgeonreview.com. The videos there use guitar for examples, but it is effective with any instrument, any player. From the likes of Yehudi Menuhin to Charlie Parker. Can you imagine the benefit of learning from any Musical Master you prefer using this approach? Its powerful.

If you hear a solo you like and want to learn, put it in Song Surgeon 3, slow it down and learn it by ear. If you need further help with it, run by your teacher to sort out any troublesome parts or techniques used which you are unsure of.

A few weeks at this and DAILY practice sessions on it, and you won’t know yourself. You may well surprise your teacher too.

Ear Training is paramount no matter what instrument you play or wish to learn. Song Surgeon 3 will boost your musical ear beyond your wildest dreams if you use it regularly. And this translates into you becoming a seriously stronger musician.

Hi, my name is David O’Toole and I’m a guitar player from Ireland. I’ve played the guitar for 30 years at this stage. I’ve also taught many students, and I continue to love the guitar as much as when I started.

This blog is concerned with a major breakthru [...]]]>

David O'Toole - Webmaster Song_Surgeon_Review

Hi, my name is David O’Toole and I’m a guitar player from Ireland. I’ve played the guitar for 30 years at this stage. I’ve also taught many students, and I continue to love the guitar as much as when I started.

This blog is concerned with a major breakthru software called ‘Song Surgeon 3′. This software will enable anyone learning any instrument, to have a huge advantage over other players who don’t use this way of learning. Like for example ‘Tab Learners’ on the Guitar. It leaves the Tab learning way in its dust.

It is so powerful that it can be used to make dramatic breakthrus on any instrument. Violin, Saxophone, Cello, Trumpet … you name it, anything. It suits all styles of music.

So I’ll be posting lots of interesting info on it and including demos, videos, tips, and whatever else comes to mind. From Paul Gilbert to Yehudi Menuhin you may well find them here.

Talk soon,

David / Blog master