Practical How-Tos & Resources
From looping and making music to multi-roling and improvisation, these tutorials and practical videos will give you inspiration to build your music, devising and theatre-making skills.
These creative and educational tools are being made available for free during the Covid-19 crisis. Stute Theatre is run by artist Sophia Hatfield’ alongside a dedicated freelance team. If you are able to contribute towards our educational work, please consider donating through the button at the bottom of this page. All money raised will fund the ‘Common Lore’ team to create educational resources and take our performances out to young people across the UK. Thank you!
Looping Basics Kit
A quick, step-by-step introduction to the equipment you need to work with a loop pedal.
Looping Basics Getting Started
A simple step-by-step beginners guide to help you learn how to use a loop pedal.
This tutorial includes simple instructions and a little more information about how a loop pedal works to help you get started.
How to Loop the ‘Common Lore’ Opening Track
A step-by-step guide showing how to loop the opening track to ‘Common Lore’.
This video guide includes more information about how a loop pedal works and some of the effects used in ‘Common Lore’, using sung vocal and instrumental lines. Perfect it you want more inspiration before you create your own tracks, or to see the loop pedal in action.
How to Loop ‘Smoke From Your Own Gun’
A step-by-step guide to looping ‘Smoke From Your Own Gun’ in ‘Common Lore’.
This track consists of a simple instrumental line and simple beat boxing techniques. Great inspiration if you want to use simple musical skills to build a full song using a loop pedal.
How-To Loop ‘Why Are You Crying?’
A step-by-step guide to looping ‘Why Are You Crying’ from ‘Common Lore’.
In this video, Sophia shows how to loop a complex vocal track, with no special effects. It’s perfect if you’re a more confident singer, and want to use your vocal skills to create a complete song on the loop pedal. This video also gives some insight into the way Sophia weaves storytelling around the live-looped elements of the show.
How-To Loop ‘Moving Pieces’
If you’re struggling to come up with your own track, try this step-by-step tutorial.
This video shows you how to loop the track ‘Moving Pieces’ from ‘Common Lore’, by recording spoken words and some very simple vocal lines. It also gives insight into some of the other features of a loop pedal.
Smartphone Looping - Phone Improvisation
If you want to have a go at using a loop pedal but don’t have access to the equipment, you could have a go using one of the many free smartphone looper apps.
Looping isn’t just for musicians! In this video, Sophia demonstrates a drama improvisation exercise for one or two people using a looping app on her phone. Record two halves of an improvised phone conversation to create a full scene and play around with multiple characters.
Smartphone Looping - Thinking Aloud
If you want to have a go at using a loop pedal but don’t have access to the equipment, you could have a go using one of the many free smartphone looper apps.
Looping isn’t just for musicians! In this video, Sophia demonstrates a drama exercise for one to three people using a looping app on her phone. Use the looping app to record the inner voices of a character struggling with a big life decision.
Smartphone Looping 'Moving Pieces'
If you want to have a go at using a loop pedal but don’t have access to the equipment, you could have a go using one of the many free smartphone looper apps.
In this tutorial, Sophia gives a step-by-step guide to recording ‘Moving Pieces’ from ‘Common Lore’. By looping spoken words and some very simple vocal lines, Sophia shows you how to build a whole track. This is a perfect way to get started if you’re looking for inspiration or a track to practise your skills.