Beginner songs to mess with on a looper pedal

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I bought a Boss RC-30 secondhand and am using it to help with learning. As a side project I would like to try and mess with some songs but am lacking suggestions which would lend themselves to this.

Any ideas?

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I’d just find some common progressions and start with those without necessarily worrying about them being really songs.

There’s the classic “Axis of Awesome” progression :
I V vi IV

So in the key of C that would be:
C G Am F

Or you could start even simpler with a classic I IV V I, such as:
C F G C

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I second what was said above. Practice playing a simple chord progression, then practice recording it into the looper.

It’s not as easy as they make it look on all those YouTube videos. It will take awhile to get used to stomping on the pedal at the right time without messing up your playing, but it’s the fist step towards true guitar stardom :grin:

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Looping is a skill you need to work at. I always advise building in steps. The shorter and simpler the better.

Try looping two bars of a single chord with a simple rhythm where the quarter beats are obvious.

Try looping two bars with a chord change and a simlle rhythm.
A → D
E → A
G → C

Try looping four bars with two chords, hold each chord for two full bars.
A → A → D → D etc

If you can reach a point of successfully being able to loop these, no mistimed moments, timme after time after time then you will be ready to progress to four bar loops with more chords. And from there, longer loops.

Have fun.

Remember… it is all about catching beat 1.

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As others have suggested, the best place to start is with a simple chord progression and then play over that. I found this pdf to be a good source of ideas - I’m currently playing around with No.12 The Andalusian.

The Boss RC -30 is quite a powerful unit. It has built in drums that will sync to your loop so you don’t have to be quite as precise with your first loop start and end.

You could also get an octave pedal and put down a bass line.

When you say songs, do you mean you want to play songs like Ed Sheeran? I’m not a singer so can’t help you there, but Justin has a Shape of You video.

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