Loop a section of a YouTube video
Paste the link, drag two handles around the part you want, and it repeats — that's it. Free, in your browser, no signup, and you can slow the loop down (0.25×–2×, pitch unchanged) while you're at it.
▶ Try it live — no signup opens the app; paste your own embeddable YouTube link
How it works
- Paste a YouTube link. A video that can play in YouTube's embedded player can loop here through that player.
- Drag two handles. Mark the start and end of the section on the timeline — the edges land to a fraction of a second, and a loop can be as short as one second. The loop repeats until you stop it.
- Optionally, slow it down. Speed steps from 0.25× to 2× with the pitch preserved, so a slowed loop still sounds like the recording, just slower.
This walkthrough shows the controls, not YouTube playback or a sound-quality comparison. The framed range starts unsaved; naming it in the Loops panel is a separate, optional step that creates a saved loop.
Keyboard shortcuts if you're at a desk: space to pause, arrows to nudge, number keys to jump. On a tablet or phone, everything is drag and tap.
Not just for musicians
A section loop is a general-purpose tool, and people use this one for all of it: musicians drilling a solo, dancers running one 8-count of a practice video, language learners replaying a sentence until the sounds separate, athletes and coaches re-watching one movement in a match or technique video. If the thing you need to absorb lives in twelve seconds of a longer video, looping those twelve seconds beats scrubbing back forty times.
The difference: your loop is still there tomorrow
YouTube already has a Loop option (right-click the player on desktop; Settings → Additional settings on mobile), and it's worth being clear about what it doesn't do. The documented Loop option repeats the whole video, not two points you choose. A-B loop tools can mark two points, and some save or share them. Here, the loop also stays attached to your last-used speed and practice history, so you can return to the same passage tomorrow.
Stairway2Fast keeps the record. Every video remembers its loops — name up to 100 of them ("solo bars 3–4", "dance break", "dialogue at 2:10") — and each one reopens with one tap, at the speed you left off. And if you're using loops to practise something, the time logs itself against the video and the section, building a speed stairway of how long you spent at each pace. After a couple of weeks you can see the climb — the section you started at 0.6× and finally broke 0.9× on. Name five loops and Review starts putting them back in front of you on a rotation, so an old one doesn't quietly go stale while you're focused on something new. Streaks, daily goals, per-video history — all recorded from what you actually did, not what you remembered to write down.
One shortcut: some videos frame their own loops
If a lesson or cover's description has a recognizable list of chapter timestamps — "0:00 Intro", "1:05 Verse 2", "2:40 Solo" — Stairway2Fast can read it when you add the video and turn each stamped section into a named loop. Open a direct practice link to that video and recognized sections can import in the background; add it through the form and you can choose them one by one. Either way, you needn't drag the handles first. YouTube's automatically generated chapters cannot be imported this way when the description has no timestamps. Most adds still start with you framing the section yourself, same as always.
Free to use
Looping, slowing down, pitch-preserving speed changes, automatic speed increases, practice records, Review, and Recap are free, with no account needed. Practicing along with YouTube is free too.
With a free account, your practice records sync across devices. Uploading your own audio or video is free as well, but you need to sign in; each file stays on the device where you added it by default.
FAQ
How precise can the loop be?
The edges are draggable and nudgeable down to a fraction of a second, and the shortest loop allowed is one second — so "the second half of bar 12" or "one spoken sentence" is a realistic target, not an approximation.
Does slowing the loop change the pitch?
No. Playback uses pitch-preserving time-stretch, so an A stays an A at 0.5× — no chipmunk-in-reverse effect.
Do I need an account?
No. Loop as a guest and every section you frame, every speed, every minute of history stays in that browser. Sign up whenever you want it following you to another device — the free account carries it all over automatically.
Does this download or rehost YouTube videos?
No. For videos that can play in YouTube's embedded player, playback stays in that player. Looping and slowing use its documented player API; the video is not downloaded or rehosted. Use of the API is subject to YouTube's terms and developer policies.
Can I loop any YouTube video?
Only videos that can play in YouTube's embedded player. Disabled embeds, age limits, and other YouTube playback restrictions can prevent that.
Can I save more than one loop per video?
Yes — up to a hundred named loops per video, which comfortably covers a long lesson or a full routine. Each one keeps its own name and its own remembered speed, so the video becomes a menu you tap through rather than a timeline you re-scrub every time.
Stop scrubbing. Paste the link, frame the section, and let it repeat — and find it still waiting for you tomorrow.