David's Tip of the Day: Listening to Slow Blues at 2x Speed

It can be challenging to track within the form of a slow blues due to the slow tempo and the amount of activity, or lack of activity, that happens within all of the space provided in a slow blues. Using practice software (like the Amazing Slow Downer) to increase a song's tempo to two times its original speed can help to make form elements much more apparent. Listening to a song a couple of times in this way can really help give you a better road map of what's happening. When slowing a song back to its original tempo after doing this helps you to track better and have a better sense of where the song is going.