I’m a musician, and I learned the tricks of the trade the expensive and slow way: with private guitar lessons, summer music programs, and more theory books than I’d like to admit. Thankfully, in 2018 you can get pretty far in your music-learning journey without the traditional methods. And, yes, we’ve way outgrown instruction booklets and Youtube videos. The apps I list below help you familiarize yourself with instruments and build a better understanding of music theory. Some actually listen to your performance and make judgements about your playing, too.
Some people learn better by example. Instead of trying to learn from a “guitar for beginners” book, the Riffstation app, website, and desktop app—now owned by Fender guitars—will teach you the chords to your favorite songs in real time. It syncs up with videos on YouTube, and depending on how clear the guitar tracks are in the recording, allows you to play along with them. Within the app, you can adjust the tempo of songs, add a metronome, and switch between learning the songs on guitar, ukulele, piano, or mandolin. If you feel like you’ve learned the song, but it isn’t in the right key for you, you change the key of the song with a virtual capo.
If the mobile app doesn’t have the song you want, you can use the website to request a song, or download the Riffstation Pro desktop app to analyze chords of audio files you own. $35.
Simply Piano by JoyTunes teaches you how to play piano by using the microphone on your smartphone or iPad. If you make too many mistakes in a row, it takes you to a practice mode, where the music is slower and a metronome ticks. The app gives you personalized drills and tracks your progress. It also offers well-known pieces of music ranging from John Lennon’s “Imagine” to Bach compositions. The free download offers two lessons, but after that, you need to upgrade to the paid subscription options. They offer subscriptions for 3 months, 6 months, and a year—$45, $60, and $90.
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- Music Speed Changer is one of the most popular applications for slowing down the music. It allows you to change the speed of sound files on your device in real-time without changing the pitch, or change the pitch without changing the speed. In addition, speed and pitch can be adjusted together.
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Letting your kids learn how to sing could do wonders for their self-esteem—and this app much cheaper (free!) than vocal lessons. Vanido uses your phone’s microphone to listen to your pitch, giving you real-time visual markers to track your accuracy. It even creates exercises based on your ability to keep pitch, and gives you daily reminders to practice. Free.
Tenuto doesn’t teach you music theory, but it’s a fantastic tool to fine-tune (pun intended) and reinforce what you’ve already learned. The app features ear-training exercises for notes, chords, intervals, and scales. Free.
Audacity, a free program for Linux, macOS, and Windows, offers a simple way to reduce vocals on a digital song file. Actually, there are a couple of ways. First, you can use the ' Invert ' tool to cancel out most of the vocals from an MP3 or other digital audio file. You split the track in two, invert one half, and switch the audio to mono. If you have an apple device, the AnyTune app allows you to change the song key. If neither of those are an option, I would master it in the original key and then make the move down to the key of E and try playing it without the track.
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Remove vocals and voice from a song, adjust key and tempo. Merge or clip karaoke songs.
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Karaoke Sound Tools 2 allows you to:
- Remove vocals from a song
- Change key of a song to better suit your voice
- Change tempo of a song to make it easier to sing
- Process MP3, WAV, BIN, and MP3G (MP3 and CDG) file formats
- Combine multiple tracks to create a karaoke song medley
- Clip karaoke tracks to remove dead air
Karaoke Sound Tools 2 window
Karaoke Sound Tools 2 is an easy-to-use vocal and voice remover program, music key and tempo changer for audio processing. It contains of three modules:
Process
Process
- Vocal remover to remove vocal parts from CD recordings
- control the amount of bass and treble processing
- remove vocals from non-centered recordings using balance
- adjust karaoke song voice removing level and output attenuation
- create multiplex tracks (with vocal in the left and instrumental part in the right channel)
- Music key changer to adjust a song to singer's voice
- change the pitch in the -12 to +12 semitone (half-note steps) range
- after processing, music instruments have no chipmunk or time speed up or down, holding the key tempo the same as if the original studio recorded in your key
- you can process karaoke songs with lyrics (BIN and MP3G)
- Tempo changer to speed up or slow down a song
- change tempo of a song from two times slower to twice as fast
- our tempo changer tool retains the original key of a song
- you can process karaoke tracks with lyrics - they will be adjusted to stay in sync
All these karaoke sound tools can be fine-tuned in real-time, and work with MP3, WAV, BIN, and CDG files.
If you use a karaoke BIN or MP3G file and use our tempo changer, the graphics part of a song will be adjusted so the lyrics are in sync with the slower or faster version of a song. No other software has this feature!
Advanced preview allows to:
- listen to the processing result in real-time
- control the playback position
- play selected part of a track in loop for fine-tuning
Merge
Merge
Merge allows to combine several karaoke songs into one medley.
- combine any number of MP3+G, ZIP, or BIN files
- remove silence (dead air) between tracks
Clip
Clip
Clip allows to remove starting and ending part of recording.
- process any number of MP3+G, ZIP, or BIN files at once
- remove silence (dead air) at the beginning or at the end of a song
- remove the beginning of a track and start at the exact moment (this can be used to remove logos or images from songs)
This karaoke software contains tools that other companies are selling separately at extremely high prices, and yet they cannot match the quality and ease-of-use of Karaoke Sound Tools 2.
Do not take our word for it. Download the evaluation version now and listen to results yourself.
System requirements
We recommend Windows 10 to run our software. It also works on Windows 8 and Windows 7. Needs at least 2 GB RAM. It will not work on Mac.
Karaoke Sound Tools 2 costs $49 USD.
If you own any other our software, you get a $10 discount on your purchase.