Loops

Practice Hub has two separate ways into this page, and it's worth keeping them straight in your head. The Loops tile, down in the grid, is a library of backing tracks you drop into and play over immediately — no prep, no setup screen. The Loop Trainer card, up top next to Routines and Fretboard, is a different tool doing a different job: grab one hard passage and slow it down until your hands catch up. Tap either one and you land on the same screen; which half you see first just depends on which you tapped.

The loop library

The library opens on a catalog of bundled backing-track loops — blues, funk, rock, jazz, and more. Pick one and it starts playing immediately, looping continuously so you can work out a bassline or lock into the groove for as long as you want. Adjust the key and tempo to fit what you're playing, then just play. A "now looping" mini-player stays pinned while you keep browsing the rest of the list, so switching from a funk groove to a blues shuffle doesn't mean stopping, backing out, and starting over.

Saving your own setups

Once you've dialed in a key, tempo, and feel you like, save it as a named setup of your own — separate from the bundled defaults, one tap to recall later. Useful if you keep coming back to the same backing track at the same slowed-down tempo to work out the same walk or fill; there's no reason to re-adjust it every time.

Recording over a loop

Hit record while a loop is playing and your take gets saved right there, playable later from the loop's entry in the list. Good for hearing back a line you improvised, or just checking whether what you played actually locked in with the groove.

Loop Trainer: woodshedding one passage

Loop Trainer isolates one specific stretch of music — a fill, a walk, a position shift — and slows it down without dropping the pitch, so you can hear it clearly at a speed your hands can actually keep up with. It works from three sources:

• An existing recording. Any idea, song take, jam take, or loop take you've already recorded. Drag the A/B handles around the tricky bit and it loops that slice at whatever slower, pitch-preserved speed you need.
• A song from your library. Pick a range of the bassline and Loop Trainer plays it back as a full band, with a tempo ramp that eases you up toward full speed rather than parking you at one fixed slow tempo forever.
• An imported audio file. Bring in any song, loop a section, slow it down without changing the pitch, or transpose the whole thing up or down to match your tuning — handy if you've dropped your low E to D, or you're running a five-string with a low B.

For imported files, Loop Trainer also runs an automatic "what chords is this" sketch — useful for a bassist working out what to walk over even though you're not the one playing the chords.