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THE PRACTICE ROOM

How to actually learn the songs you love, by ear, one loop at a time. Practice methods, ear-training, and stem-splitting tricks from the team behind Riffloop.

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Practice Method

The 20-Minute Session That Beats An Hour Of Noodling

An hour of playing what you already know feels like practice and mostly isn't. Here's the deliberate-practice template that aims every rep at the thing you actually can't play.

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Practice Method

Stuck On The Same Plateau? Interleave Your Practice

Drilling one thing until you've got it feels productive and quietly stalls you. Mixing your problems up is harder in the room and far stickier a week later.

Roy Rosenberg · 6 min
By Ear

The 10-Minute Daily Ear Workout

You don't need perfect pitch. You need to recognize the distance between two notes, and that's a muscle you can build in ten minutes a day, no instrument required.

Roy Rosenberg · 5 min
Stem Splitting

How AI Actually Splits A Song Into Stems

Pulling the vocal and bass out of a finished mix sounds like un-baking a cake. Here's what's really happening, and why some parts come out clean and others stay messy.

Roy Rosenberg · 6 min
Gear & Setup

Practice Headphones And Latency: Hearing Yourself Honestly

You can't fix what you can't hear. The right monitoring, and dodging the Bluetooth delay that lies to your hands, does more for your playing than any expensive instrument.

Roy Rosenberg · 6 min
Gear & Setup

A 15-Minute Practice Corner That Kills Every Excuse

You skip practice because starting is annoying, not because you lack discipline. Spend fifteen minutes removing the friction and the habit mostly takes care of itself.

Roy Rosenberg · 5 min
Product Update

Riffloop 1.0: Stem Splitting Comes To Your Own Files

The Studio now takes your own uploads, not just YouTube. Drop in an MP3, WAV or FLAC and split, slow and loop it, all on your device.

Roy Rosenberg · 3 min

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