How to Loop a YouTube Video in Chrome

The easiest way to loop a YouTube video is YouTube's own Loop option, hidden in the right-click menu of the player. It's free, built in, and works on almost every standard video in Chrome.

That's it. The loop keeps running until you switch it off — to stop it, right-click the player again and click Loop a second time to remove the checkmark. This is the same feature documented in YouTube's official Help Center, and it doesn't require installing anything.

If you want a loop that never drops — handy for a backing track, a study session, or music while you sleep — add the video to a playlist instead. Click Save → New playlist under the video, open that playlist, press Play all, and turn on the playlist's Repeat button. The single video now keeps looping on its own. You can also loop an entire playlist the same way when you want a set of songs on repeat.

The phone app has no right-click, so the Loop control lives in the video's settings instead.

Heads up: the practice tools below — A-B looping, slowing down a section, changing key and isolating instruments — are built for the desktop Chrome experience, where Riffloop adds its controls right on the player. On a phone, native looping is whole-video only.

Looping an entire video is great for music on repeat — but it falls apart the moment you're trying to learn an instrument.

Say you're working out a guitar solo. The phrase that's giving you trouble lasts about six seconds. With YouTube's built-in loop, you replay four minutes of music just to hear those same six seconds come back around. You spend more time waiting than playing.

The native loop also can't help with any of the things that actually make practice efficient:

• No A-B looping — you can't repeat only one section.
• No saved loops — there's nothing to come back to next session.
• No way to isolate instruments — you hear the full mix or nothing.
• No way to mute the vocals to focus on the music underneath.
• No key change — you can't transpose the song to fit your voice or instrument.
• Speed is whole-video only — handy, but it can't slow down just the hard bar.

YouTube's speed control is genuinely good — you can set anywhere from 0.25× to 2× and the pitch stays put, so a slowed song keeps the same key. But it applies to the whole video, and you still can't loop the one passage you're drilling. For musicians, those gaps add up fast.

YouTube can't loop a section on its own, so the fix is a Chrome extension or tool built for it. These let you set a custom start point and end point — known as an A-B loop — so only the part you choose repeats, over and over, instead of the whole video.

That single capability is what makes a video genuinely practiceable. A-B looping is perfect for:

• Guitar solos and tricky licks
• Piano passages and runs
• Drum fills and grooves
• Bass lines
• Vocal runs and harmonies
• Saxophone and horn lines
• Difficult chord changes and transitions

You'll find a few ways to do A-B looping: no-install web tools (for example, sites that mirror a YouTube link and let you drag start/end markers) and dedicated Chrome extensions that add a loop bar right on the player. They vary in quality, and most stop at looping. For learning music, the one worth installing is the one that also slows the section down, lets you change the key, and can isolate an instrument — which is exactly what Riffloop does.

Riffloop turns YouTube into a complete practice studio. Instead of just looping videos, it gives you the tools musicians actually reach for every day — right on the video you're already watching, with nothing uploaded to a server.

Mark a start and an end, and repeat only the section you're working on. Loop a difficult riff, chorus, solo or verse until you can play it without thinking. Drop in straight on a YouTube video, or open your own files in the Studio.

Reduce the playback speed of your looped section to hear every note clearly, then bring it back up as you get comfortable — the pitch stays steady, so it never sounds like a chipmunk or a slowed-down record. You can slow down songs in the Studio the same way.

Need to practice in a different key? Transpose the song up or down instantly, without downloading or editing the original — the tempo stays exactly where it was. Especially useful for singers and saxophone players who need a song to land in their range.

Instead of building the same loop from scratch every session, save it and come straight back to it later. That's a real time-saver when you're learning a long song over several days.

Split a song into individual stems with AI stem separation, so you can:

• Mute the vocals
• Hear only the guitar
• Practice with the isolated bass
• Remove the drums
• Focus on the keys

Instead of fighting through a full mix, you hear the exact part you're trying to learn — then loop and slow it down on top. The two clips below show exactly how it works.

When learning a song, hearing an instrument completely isolated is incredibly helpful — but it's not always enough. Most musicians eventually need to hear how their part fits with the rest of the band.

That's why the Riffloop Chrome Extension includes both AI stem separation and a powerful Mixer. Start by isolating the instrument you want to learn — whether it's piano, guitar, bass, drums, vocals, or another instrument. Once you've learned the notes, gradually bring back the other instruments with the mixer: add a little bass to lock in with the groove, or bring back the drums to tighten your timing — all while keeping your instrument loud and clear.

Combine this with A-B looping, speed control, and key changing, and YouTube becomes a complete practice studio built specifically for musicians.

Say you're learning a solo that's only eight seconds long. Instead of replaying the entire song:

1. Mark the beginning of the phrase (A).
2. Mark the end (B).
3. Slow the playback to around 60%.
4. Loop it continuously and play along.
5. Nudge the speed back up as you get cleaner.

This is exactly how many teachers recommend practicing a hard passage: slow it down, loop it, and let the repetition build the muscle memory before you bring it up to tempo.

Need the melody in a key that suits your horn? With Riffloop you can:

• Change the key so it fits your instrument
• Slow the tempo down to hear the phrasing
• Loop the difficult phrases
• Mute the vocals so the line is exposed
• Repeat until it's comfortable

Isolate the drum stem. Loop a single fill. Slow it down and play until your timing locks in — then move to the next fill and do it again. By the end, you've drilled each tricky bar instead of flailing through the whole track.

Keep exploring Riffloop: head back to the home page, split a YouTube song into separate stems, mute vocals or solo an instrument with the stem splitter, change the key of any song, or slow a track down and loop the hard part in the Studio — all on your device, nothing uploaded.