Rambling On My Mind - Robert Johnson

I have taken 'Rambling On My Mind', slowed it down a bit and lowered the key to approximate a slower tape.

Recently, an old music tutor of mine - Paul Scott contacted me to say: "The Robert Johnson recordings were not done originally to tape. They ... Read Morewere electrical recordings, done directly to matrices. Tape recording only began being used after the Second World War - it was a German invention."

This means that the songs we hear are the originals, or that they were speeded up when they were transferred to tape later on.

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Music

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• robert
• johnson
• blues
• slow
• tape

[Andytheashton]

I only spent a few minutes on this so maybe someone with more knowledge than me could do a better study of this....

[Andytheashton]

I've recently heard people saying that the original tapes of Robert Johnson were speeded up and that it isn't a real reflection of what he would have sounded like.

I took the orignal track of Rambling On My Mind and using a program called Transcribe! I slowed the track down and used the other 'FX' features to lower the pitch to approximate what it may have sounded like at a slower speed.

[1964atomic]

There was no standard speed fomat for recording at that time and many early blues songs were probably recorded at 70rpm (rather than 78).

[JethroStampTV]

It's stupid to think people CANNOT hypothesize about such things.

[Kazorlag08]

rien a dire . trop bon

[CarpeVolante]

It's almost better than the original.

[Darkshadows90]

don't sound quite right, but I ain't gonna lie. It sounds pretty cool

[ebutuoy62]

Very, very interesting. Thank you!

[holliday666]

mix master mike brought me here

[caesarcerf]

way to slow. they were recorded too slow by at most 3%. nice idea, though. your teacher is wrong. tape recording existed since at least the 20's however it was VERY uncommon.

[JethroStampTV]

Its a valid question. The tunes may be sped up.

Again, read the description - this was created in less than 5 minutes. An in depth creation would sound better.

Finally, very very few people can play his music accurately on the guitar.

[Feeldafunkblast]

@Andytheashton His tracks aren't sped up. Play them on guitar. This doesn't even sound like a person.