revisited
In previous posts, I have scorned click tracks.
Rookie mistake. (Never liked paying taxes either)
But now, I see the light!
Since my sense of meter is pretty bad, I’ve been
looking for an aid. And what I’ve come up with
is very helpful, but there might be an easier way.
So, I will explain what I’m doing, and hopefully,
someone here will come up with an easier way.
I start by just jammimg (guitar) into a 4-track
analog recorder. Just to get ideas on tape quickly.
If there are several bars of something worthwhile,
I’ll transfer them to a .wav file.
Then I create a loop of two bars, that satisfy my
sense of tempo.
I’ll plug this into ReCycle.
Now this is kind of tricky 'cus it takes some
experimenting to get the BPM.
I do this by trial and error, changing #of beats,
and time signature.
Then I will plug the BPM info from ReCycle into
Audacity to generate a click track of a few measures.
(A BIG thank you to Jeremy for the Audacity click track generator info)
Then to check, I will import both into a DAW, and play back looped.
This picture did not post as it appears in the .jpg image.
You have to fill in the missing beats, but it is correct.
So far, this has worked spot on.
Now that I know what BPM I was playing, I’ll generate a long click
track, and if I still remember how I played what I recorded,
I will re-record using the generated click track.
Now it should be a lot easier to add other instruments like drums
and bass, and synth etc.
Is there an easier way to get BPM info from a .wav with unknown tempo?
PS. After viewing the preview of this post it appears that
the images are not clear enough to see the detail.
In this case, ReCycle spit out 160.856 BPM, whcich
seems to be correct.
Look at your watch - count how many downbeats in 10 seconds and multiply times 6.
works for me!
Anyone know where I can get a watch?
make things easier on yourself, not harder.
lay down a long click track of a suitable, yet known, tempo; then jam to that.
Tap Tempo - freebie software from AnalogX - hit your spacebar in time to the music and it calculates BPM for ya.
You are doing what I call "Pullin’ with a long rope."
Tying a 50 foot rope to a feather to move it 6 inches. More work than is needed.
If it works for you though - do it.
I use my drum machine for getting close to an existing tempo. I rarely have need for it though. I would like to know more about why you need it? Performance wise it would most likely be better to play along with the existing file. Unless you are trying to re-do all parts in better meter?
Then there’s always a metronome. I have actually recorded one before - mic’d it. It’s gonna be deleted anyway.
Suppose you want to record Carole King’s
’I Feel The Earth Move’.
And you want to record it to the tempo of the original.
Well if you do it the way I described,
you’ll find the tempo is 117BPM at 2 beats per measure.
C King opening mp3
Don’t think the watch or the tap is going to do that for you.
116.5 BPM at 4/4.
Bill -
That with the Tap Tempo?
If so, I’m sold.
Thanks - I’ll give it a whirl.
i record the output from a metronome - you can (with a bit of trisl and error) record Ns metronome, Ns metronome can be set to play a drumbeat to suit your style - if you start at 120bpm (Ns default) then you can increase/decrease the bpm as required -
Dr J
Quote: (sevenOfeleven @ Jun. 14 2008, 7:16 PM)
That with the Tap Tempo?
Yup.
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To quote a friend of mine “ugh… just ugh.”