Jam Master is where you see Riffmaster’s ability to accurately assess the tempo of the song you’re trying to learn. Jam Master, Riff Builder, and Chord Viewer. The zoom navigation bar highlights the section that is zoomed in and you can navigate the whole song by sliding the highlighted section. You can zoom in or out using your mouse wheel or zoom (-) (+) to the left of the chord strip. Beneath the chord strip is the zoom and navigation bar. Just beneath the waveform is the chord strip where the software has detected the chord structure of the song or section. All this, and it will also analyze and detect chords being played within any section of the section.Īfter clicking on File and importing a song using Open Audio File, you see the audio in the waveform viewer in the top window. You can even take the liberty of rearranging sections of a song by your favorite artist to build your own backing track using the riff builder tool. The opposite is also true in that Riffstation can also mute the guitar in the mix so you can practice what you’ve learned over the top of the original track, or improvise your own solo. When learning a complicated solo, Riffstation can isolate the guitar in the mix and almost completely lift it out of the mix to concentrate completely on the guitar. Riffstation allows you to import the song you’re trying to learn, isolate the desired section, loop the section, adjust the tempo, and it even automatically gives you an accurate metronome click along with the section to improve timing.

Riffstation, is a software guitar practice tool designed to eliminate much of the guess work of learning your favorite songs, riffs, and solos.

More often than not we would end up simply piecing the parts together by ear, subsequently wearing out our CD’s by listening to the sections hundreds of times. If we couldn’t find the artist or song in tablature, we might resort to a local teacher to scour through the composition and teach us a reasonable facsimile. Then,we would pool our gas money together to get to our local sheet music store that had a specialty section for guitar tablature. Before the internet andIpods, we would either wait for the radio DJ to say the name of the artist or song, or sometimes call the station and request the information. We start frantically searching the neck up and down for the notes that sound the most similar to the ones that just inspired us. It’s sometimes only a matter of minutes… We pick up the guitar, fall in love, and then the clock starts ticking down to the first riff or solo that we hear that captures our attention and sets curiosity in motion.

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