How to Create a Looping Music Track
Does rewinding your music interrupt your practice?
When you’re working on one section of a choreography.
When you’re practicing improv, but the music keeps changing.
When you want to repeat a particular drum solo riff.
There are apps for that
Apps like Slow Down Music Trainer and Amazing Slow Downer often have a looping feature built-in.
But you can’t select the looping points as precisely as you might want.
And you can only use the loops in the app – you can’t export them to save or burn to a CD.
If those apps meet your needs, by all means use them.
But if not, you can create your own looping music tracks.
I’ll show you how:
In this screencast tutorial, we’ll cover how to create a looping music track.
You’ll learn how to make two kinds of loops:
- A continuous loop
- A loop with a pause between each repetition
What You’ll Need:
1) A song you want to create a loop from
(or just one to practice on)
In this tutorial, I’m using stock music by the artist dron* on Pond5.com*.
2) Audacity
This tutorial uses Audacity, which is free, open-source software, and available for Macs, PCs, and Linux.
You can download Audacity at:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Watch it Now:
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