Every hobbyist knows this feeling: you get home after a long day at work, or perhaps after running a few errands on the weekend, and you just want to get on with a practice session to stay consistent with your goals. You allocate a whole hour to making some headway, but when your timer goes off, you realize that you probably spent only half the time actually doing what you were supposed to do. Where did the rest of the time go? It vanished in the little things that had to be done before even starting to practice.
If you rely solely on videos plucked randomly from your phone’s native gallery and YouTube when attempting to learn a new riff, solo or dance choreography, you are constantly fighting the interface. When you miss the start of a difficult section even by a split second, you are forced to reach for your device, seek to the previous spot by dragging a tiny little dot back, and then re-assume your stance.
Doesn’t sound too serious though, right? Since it probably doesn’t take that much time. But consider this: losing even just 5 minutes a day to this friction adds up to over 30 hours lost in a year.
How can PraLoop help with that? I’m glad you asked.
Isolating a Section
The main benefit which PraLoop offers directly addresses the problem highlighted above. As a team, we understand that as budding artists, mastering complex pieces comes with a steep learning curve. It simply takes time for the muscle memory to kick in and allow our brains to form the neural pathways needed to make those precise movements second nature.
As a result, we have to sit, try, rewind the video and re-try hundreds, even thousands of times before getting it to stick. During these attempts, we would have to put our equipment away, reach for our devices, scrub back to the exact point we missed, and then reset physically.
This takes time, and we would like to solve that. With PraLoop, you can set loops for the exact sections you want to master, and seamlessly switch between one and another. Paired with many other useful features such as mirroring and speed control, these loops let you focus on the finer details while building confidence at your own pace.
Figure 1: PraLoop Player Screen Controls
Simple and Intuitive UI
At PraLoop, we strongly believe that a tool should be easy to understand from the moment you start using it. We are committed to ensuring that the UI remains functional and minimalistic, which enables users to have the best experience utilizing the application.
All four supported media types (audio, video, YouTube and recording) have their own dedicated screen, giving your library a clear and predictable structure. Additional sorting mechanisms are also available via the Playlist Creation and Filtering functionalities.
Figure 2: PraLoop Nav Bar
The Player Screen, PraLoop’s main feature, has also been carefully engineered to follow the same principle: useful controls without unnecessary clutter. The intuitive layout keeps core features such as looping, speed control and mirroring easily accessible, while giving additional tools their own place so they are exactly where you need them to be.
Focus & Environment
Another underrated benefit of integrating PraLoop into your practice routine is that you will have a dedicated app for your practice, which in my personal opinion makes it worlds easier to stay consistent. You will be able to build up a good habit by associating PraLoop with practicing, as you are only a tap away from being able to access all your material and dive right into learning, instead of having to scroll through your gallery, your YouTube history, and perhaps even your device’s note-taking app.
As a YouTube Shorts enjoyer, I also have a slight problem where I cave in to watch that one Short with an interesting thumbnail, and there goes my meticulously planned practice session. Having a dedicated app which bundles everything you need in one place and keeps you away from distracting feeds is a massive help.
With PraLoop, even if you skip a few days, you are able to resume right where you left off, as all your videos and recordings are saved as is, along with the notes you have graciously taken for your future self. Pick up tomorrow, a few days later or in a week; whenever and wherever you want.
Conclusion
To sum it all up, there is a lot of friction in workflows that only use YouTube and native media players. Deliberate practice requires entering a “flow state”, and that is broken each time you need to look away from your fretboard, bend down to tap on your phone, look up from your script or stop an exercise you were doing.
PraLoop removes most of that friction. You only need to set things up once, and then your focus can be directed entirely towards execution.
Don’t just practice harder, practice smarter. Download PraLoop today.
