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Loopsheets

Loop pedals are great fun and total chaos. The idea here: take a song that's built from a handful of small repeating bars, give every loop a colour, and write the song as a grid of coloured chips above the lyrics. A songbook for loop people. Pick a song below to open the sheet.

How a loopsheet works

  1. Each loop gets a colour. Body percussion is red, the riff is blue, the vocal hook is green — whatever the song needs.
  2. The loop library at the top of every sheet shows what each colour is and how to play it, with rough notation.
  3. The song below is a grid of bars. Each bar is a little box: coloured stripes along the top tell you which loops should be running, and the line underneath is the lyric sung over that bar.
  4. Hit play on any sheet to walk through bar by bar at your chosen tempo — the active bar lights up so you don't lose your place.

Pick a song

Three iconic loop-pedal performances, each broken down into the loops the artist actually builds on stage. Lyrics are kept as structural placeholders — bring the original songs and sing along.