Learning songs on bass with looping sections

"I always struggle with sections in YT tabs." One of you asked for a rewind button because hunting for a phrase meant leaving the player. Another asked for volume control on the video. Another fellow bassist said count-in was missing and they needed it before every section. And more than one of you described the same workflow without knowing it: slow it down, find the hard part, loop it until it clicks.

That's not a workaround. That's how you actually learn a song. This update is built around that.

Section Focus (Section Loop)

A new view mode. When you activate it, everything that isn't your selected section disappears. The timeline clears. The section list narrows. You're left with the chosen section — and any subsections like fills — to work on without distraction.

How to enter: Open the Views dropdown and choose Section Focus. Or hit the loop button on any section row — it drops straight into focus mode for that section.

Inside focus mode: The timeline stretches to fill the width with only your selected section. The list below shows only what's in focus. Everything else is dimmed.

How to exit: Switch to any other view. Or deactivate the looping section. You're back to the full song instantly.

Count-in

You asked for it. Now every time you start playing from stopped, you get a 4-beat visual and audio count-in before the section begins. No scrambling for the downbeat. It runs at your current playback speed — 0.75x count-in for 0.75x playback. On loop repeats it stays out of your way.

Song controls

"A rewind 10 or 20 seconds would be useful" — done. « 10 and 10 » jump backward or forward without leaving the player.

"Would love volume control on the YT video" — done. A dedicated slider beside the speaker button. Set level or mute in one tap.

Speed now opens a panel with a slider, − and + buttons in 0.05× steps, and quick presets from 0.25× through 2×. Fine enough for the slow-downs that actually matter.

The hardest part of solo practice isn't technique. It's the friction of getting back to the exact spot that needs work — looping it, not losing the thread. Section Focus removes that friction. The rest of the song isn't going anywhere.

Built from your feedback. Keep it coming.