Nice tool I just found for YouTube looping of songs

[Oldhat2]

Some of you know that I’ve been working on my ear training by learning songs by ear only over the past few months. The way I do this is play the song/video on Youtube (60" TV on my bedroom wall or on my laptop w/headphones on) and play to it.

Yesterday I finally realized that a lot of my time learning lead lines was being spent “rewinding” (clicking) the song back to the start of the lead line I wanted. I’d say well over 1/2 my time was being spent using a remote.

Yesterday I finally realized that if I had a looping tool that my life and my learning would become a lot easier…ask and you shall receive.

There’s an APP to loop sections of songs in YouTube videos.

Don’t know if most of you knew this, but it’s free, simple to use, and will def free up a lot of time if you use YouTube for learning songs.

Just figured I’d share.

Looper for YouTube

[Oldhat2]

I also wanted to add…

I can’t figure it out on my Samsung “Smart” TV but on my laptop when I watch YouTube videos under “settings” (for that specific vid) I can slow down the videos/music.

Oh yeah, in my ear training there are plenty of times when I toss on my headphones and slow the song down to .75 to better hear what is happening.

There was a lick that was giving me a hard time. There was a phrase that was very familiar and yet I couldn’t pin point what it was or where I had heard it before. As I slowed it down it started becoming more and more familiar. Once I slowed it down to about .3 it became obvious - It was a familiar melody one would hear while riding a Ferris Wheel. I had heard it before somewhere…either while watching a movie or in real life as a kid or with my kids…sure didn’t sound like it being played at a million miles per hour.

Take advantage of all the tools that are available.

[Simone]

I also use YouTube, and, the “official” recording of the song - if I have it - to ‘by ear’ the things I try to learn… and yes the "rewinding " part of either is a distraction & a time burner.

My workaround has been to record what I’m trying to learn onto the voice recorder on my phone. My phone voice recorder has a setting to infinitely loop a song (several hours worth anyway!) I record just the break or the whole song, or both.

Phone speaker is crummy and low volume, so I’ve a decent bluetooth speaker that I play it back on, then play along with…

Works well for me as I’m frequently not near a computer. Plus, computer is way old/outta date like yours. But I will check out the looper that you mentioned. Sometimes I can get these things to work…

One thing I’ve been meaning to try is the Amazing Slow Downer bit havent got around to it yet . I believe @Fiddle_wood mentioned it on here a while back.

And- I’m still working on song #3… Grisman’s using some all the way up the neck, tippity top of the fretboard (nosebleed section) notes and his wild sliding tremolo up there that I’d like to emulate better… taking me a bit of time cuz I’d really like to get it right…