To slow down playback

I'm trying to learn a foreign language (Italian) and I've put some instruction CDs on iTunes. The illustrative lessons are sometimes spoken too quickly for me to pick up some of the words, and I was wondering if there is a way to slowdown the playback: it wouldn't matter if the pitch dropped. I suppose I would need some extra software: but what would that be. It would seem extravagant to buy an expensive music synthesizing package for such a simple effect.

Drop the clip into the timeline and Modify>Retime>Slow 50%.
If you need to speed up/slow down to aid transcription, drag the
speed indicator and drag to prefered speed.
Add the notes to the INFO tab in the inspector
When done, delete clip from timeline and add the next....

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Thanks. You're right about the bottom track, so forget about that part of my original post. But the rest is still problematic.
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No. Not there. Honest.
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Slowing down playback

I play guitar and at the moment I am trying to learn Classical Soul by Oscar Lopez.
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I had a 79 second clip which I precomposed and enabled time remapping. But I have 12 places where I need to slow down the layer. After a while, I was runing out of room to add more keyframes using the method promoted in many videos and instruction sites (grab the last two keyframes, including the end frame, and drag).
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hey all
Thanks for the advise on this. I will explain a little more what am have/am intending to do.
I have used Audacity to slow the song down (Effect>Change Tempo)
Audacity will allow me slow the original song down by up to 99% (Or anything in-between up to 3 decimal places)
Unfortunately I am working to a time restraint of 12 minutes per clip (as my DSLR will only allow up to a 12 minute clip).
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Test video complete.
(You can ignore the 65% slowed down audio I mentioned earlier if you like, that was just an example of a slower than 50% audio test)
Firstly what I really want to do is to be able to slow the AUDIO down as much as possible (But still within the restraints of only being able to adjust FCPX retiming within a whole 1 percentage in the final video edit), but have the AUDIO of the song as near to/under 12 minutes as possible.
I will then re-record the video again to this new slowed down audio.
Secondly I will speed up the video from 12 minutes to 4 minutes.
Thirdly I will layer the correct 100% Normal AUDIO on top.
The FINISHED video should then look like everyone is wizzing around at high speed but the guitar playing/lyrics look like they are being played/sung at the normal speed.
Whatever happens (due to the constraints of FCPX) I need the calculations to work so that FCPX is retimed exactly to a whole 1% for the final video to sync up correctly.
So what I need to know in a nut shell is:-
What calculation do I use to work out the percentage to slow a 4 minute song down to a 12 minute song?
What calculation do I use to work out the percentage of how much I need to then speed the 12 minute video up to turn it back into a 4 minute video?
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General
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Camera Sounds
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Task Icon
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