How to Practice with LoopThisTube
Everything you need to know about setting micro-loops, tempo stepping, horizontal mirroring, and ergonomics.
Instant Ingestion: The URL Replacement Trick
The fastest way to load any video into LoopThisTube is right from your browser's address bar. Whenever you are watching a video on YouTube:
Simply replace you with loopthis and press Enter ↵. The tool mounts the video immediately and sets your practice scrubbers automatically.
Setting A/B Boundaries with Sub-Second Precision
Isolating a musical lick or dance move requires accurate boundary markers:
Click Set A to lock the starting timestamp, or nudge with Shift + A + ← / →.
Click Set B to lock the ending timestamp, or nudge with Shift + B + ← / →.
Press R key to immediately clear A/B boundaries and span the entire video timeline.
Fine-tune your bounds down to 0.10s increments using the tactile (+) and (-) stepper buttons inside the A and B pods.
Pitch-Preserved Speed Stepping (0.25× to 2.00×)
Slowing down is essential for muscle memory, but traditional analog slowdown drops musical pitch, making instruments sound out of key.
LoopThisTube maintains fixed concert pitch at all speeds. Use the speed stepper on the control deck to practice incrementally at 0.25×, 0.50×, 0.75×, and 1.00×.
Mirror Mode & Loop Delay Count-In
Horizontally flips video orientation. When an instructor moves their right hand, it mirrors your right side without mental translation. Perfect for choreographers and left-handed guitarists.
Introduces a visual countdown (1s to 10s) between loop repetitions. Gives you time to reposition your hands or reset your dance stance before playback starts again.