Question about Blue Sixths study

Well, I've just checked this out, first off I play this as tabbed and it certainly sounded ok to me when I was doing the lesson, but now that you point it out your suggestion may well be correct it does indeed sound to me like an E5 is being played instead of the tabbed B8.....just maybe....or is it the power of suggestion? 

Tbone, you can slow down tracks in Reaper while keeping the pitch the same too. Over to the right of the play/pause/record buttons, you'll see "BPM" displayed. Just change that to a slower BPM and there you go. If you go up to the top where there's that horizontal bar where the time is shown, hold down the left mouse button and highlight a section, then press the "toggle repeat" button (next to the record button), and it will play that section over and over.

That repeat function is really handy for practicing too, as you can highlight the whole song in that time bar and it will play it over and over so you don't have to keep hitting play every time you want to go through it.  Highlighting the song in the time bar is useful for recording too - when you're done recording and want to "render" the track, the render dialogue box comes up and you can choose "time selection" under "render bounds" and it will only render the part you've got highlighted, which is a great way to chop off any extra stuff at the beginning and end.

Joachim - great catch on that!  I've noticed a few things myself, like right now I'm working on Tremblin' Tremolo in More BYCU, and there's one part that the tab says to play on the G and B strings, but it's actually on the B and E string.  And in Funky Soul in the R&B book, that fast descending part, well the pulloffs and slides in the tab didn't seem to match what I was hearing on the CD, so I kind of came up with my own tab.  And in the Rhythm book, on High Nines in D, in bar 12, the first two chords are tabbed as F major 7th chords when they're actually D9 chords.  So yeah you've always got to keep your eyes and ears open for that sort of stuff.  

Yeah, you're absolutely right about setting the BPM before you import a media file - I'm usually just too lazy to do that   I'm always practicing stuff at slower tempo and if I always leave it at the default 120 BPM (regardless of what the actual tempo is) then I know that when I get it up to 120 I'm good.  If I set it to the actual tempo of the song, then I'm like "What tempo is this song at?  I wrote it down somewhere...oh I think I wrote it in the book.  Where's that book?  Oh it's buried under all these other books." 

I just learn by encountering a problem or finding something I wish I knew how to do but don't, and then looking up a video on YouTube lol.  That online Music Production class I'm taking at Coursera is going to get into a lot of the stuff about busses, sends and FX chains - which is great 'cause I ain't got a clue about any of that stuff