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Needing Help Changing a Song's Pitch + Tuning Questions

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Jak Angelescu

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    Hey everyone! My singer wants to work on Parkway Drive’s “Wishing Wells” to practice her screaming. But the song is REALLY freaking low. I put our track into our Slow Downer and it needs to be raised 1 1/2 steps to be in her register for practicing. Is there ANYONE here that I can have help me actually DO this (not just in my slowdowner) so she can have it for practicing?
    Also the tuning for the song is in Drop B. Is that like just two WHOLE steps down? So completely every single string drop tuned 2 whole steps? And if so, if I needed my guitar RAISED 1 1/2 steps from drop B, what tuning am I in? Thank you guys so much!
     

    idssdi

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    Drop B is like drop D but 1.5 steps down(all the strings dropped 1.5 step and then the low E is dropped 2.5 steps) so moving back up means you’re back in drop D.
    If you have an MP3 file of the song you can use this site to change the pitch https://www.audiospeedchanger.com/. I used it for hail to the king, paradigm and couldn’t stand the weather as well.
     

    Firsty Lasty

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    B is like tuning down five frets (2& a half steps) from E. One & A Half steps up from drop B is Drop D. For changing pitch, my first thought would be to see how it would sound if I dumped the song into Reaper, used reaPitch to adjust it, and then export that into Mp3 or Wav or whatever. I haven’t tried it yet ‘cuz this computer is too old and crap and my good computer is dead, but I bet it works.
    edit- looks like Ids beat me, his way looks more practical than mine.





    This reply was modified 4 months, 4 weeks ago by  Firsty Lasty.


     

    Kfir Yaakovi

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    Hi Jak,
    Drop B is just drop D in 1.5 steps down.
    So 1.5 steps up is drop D.
    You can always use Guitar Pro tabs and shift the tuning 1.5 steps up and export it as mp3 (with 3 guitars and drums it sounds great, ofc not a recording quality ^^, I can help with that if its OK for you).





    This reply was modified 4 months, 4 weeks ago by  Kfir Yaakovi.


     
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    Jak Angelescu

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    Boy you all are awesome! I got your message, thanks Dan! I’ll look up how to do this on Reaper because she’s got like 20 songs she needs the pitch changed on. Thank you so much everyone! Love you all!
     

    Noah Berends

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    It’s very easy to change a track’s pitch in Audacity if Reaper is a bit too complex (which for some it is, and that’s totally understandable). Under track effects there will be one fir pitch and you can alter pitch by the cent or by steps. Since drop B is, like others said, 1.5 steps below drop D, you would raise the pitch by 1.5 in the controls.
     

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