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"Jungle" — Tash Sultana

A bedroom loop session that went viral in 2016 and turned a one-person band into a festival headliner. Tash builds the whole groove alone — bass note, tapped guitar, beats, "ooh"s — using a Boss RC-505 station, then plays a long fluid solo over the top. This sheet is the map of that build.

How to read this loopsheet

  1. Learn the loops first. Each card below is a short repeating bar with its own colour. Practise them alone until the timing feels comfortable.
  2. Read the song bar by bar. Each box is one bar of music. The coloured stripes along the top show which loops should be running; the line underneath is the lyric sung over that bar.
  3. Stack and drop on the down-beat. When a new colour appears, punch that loop in. When a colour disappears, mute it.
  4. Hit play below to follow along — the active bar lights up so you don't lose your place.

The loop library

Six loops, key of B minor, around 95 BPM. The whole arrangement leans on the tapped-guitar ostinato — get that locked in first and the rest falls into place.

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The song

Each box is one bar. Coloured stripes along the top show which loops are running; the line underneath is the lyric sung over that bar. The big feature of Jungle is the long instrumental jam — that's its own 16-bar section below.