Robert Johnson-Terraplane Blues-85% Speed

Robert Johnson's Terraplane Blues slowed down to play at 85%. Could this be the speed of the original recording? Let your ears decide.

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Music

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• robert
• johnson
• blues
• terraplane
• delta
• slowed
• down
• speed
• 85
• percent

[karpopper]

nothing is lost

he's still great

guitar sounds more natural

can you buy box set at 85%

[OfficialArmonist]

@karpopper There's a website that offers a CD at 95% or 90% I believe, but it's only available from the UK. There is no current offer of the box set at 85% or any other speed besides the standard.

[fatschlamp1]

...this slowed-down theory and the devil tuning thesis are what you get from white males with too much time on their hands and a computer...

...i also suspect that a lot of it has to do with a desire to deny the skill of robert johnson - as though it must be the speeding up that makes him so good...

...the secret of robert johnson is, however, no secret - it's simply practise and hard work and, unfortunately, you cant download that...

[OfficialArmonist]

@fatschlamp1

I in now way deny Robert Johnson's skill. He was a master, a genius. He could hear a song once and play it back to you. My primary reason for slowing the songs down was to make his VOICE deeper, not his playing slower, and that's what the article that led me to do this experiment was talking about. I also do not believe that he sold his soul. He practiced with Ike Zimmerman until he got good, then he blew his friends away.

[steinsteel]

HE DID NOT play at this tempo.You can hear in the sound of the guitar and the voice that its TOO slow.The original recording might have been a little to fast but not this slow.I been slowing down records for years to play by ear and you can hear when a record is too slow or too fast.It has to do with natural sounds.Roberts Voice dont sound Natural at all on this slowed down version

[Pandemonium44]

This slowed down version can't be right, he sounds like 80 when he actually was 20-something. I don' even understand why people want to "get the right speed" when it already sounds wonderful the way it is.

[ramisabongui]

thanks. i find his voice more natural here. it puts the guitar at down one semitone, which makes sense. its amazing how different it sounds.

[tacitus2244]

slowed down to much try slowing it 95% speed

[MrDaugharty]

I need to find a job in this industry.

[TopppieJopppie]

lol, he sounds like he had been smoking for 200 years like this. Don't be all conspiracy on his ass and leave it at normal speed ^^

[ihaveallseeingeyes]

O my god, the voice of devil

[DocFrobnitz]

@fatschlamp1 People are still trying to figure out why Stradivari violins sound so good. Do they seek to deny the amount of genius and hard work that went into each violin? No, they recognize and respect that genius and hard work. Some even work hard to develop genius of their own, and they *still* don't know why the greats are so great.

The "white males with too much time on their hands" theory lets people feel better about themselves without them having to actually *do* anything.

[MrWadestar]

No that could not be the right speed, his voice was said to haunting that is not, and his guitar work would cut heads on the corner this would not.

[MichaelSeanHarrell]

i don't give a shit what speed you play his music.he is still one of the greatest musicians to walk the face of the earth PERIOD!.i love his style and have since i first heard his recordings.and i love what FOGHAT did with it also!.its great music !plain and simple.get off the damn computer every once in a while ,stop analyzing it to death and JUST ENJOY IT.chew on that .

[TheMottSlutz]

@CoonMike 0:08-0:14