Welcome to Guitar Looping Academy

Hey my friend – I’m Antoine Michaud, looping guitar artist, touring musician, and online course teacher here on my website Guitar Looping Academy. 

You might know me from my Youtube channel where I’m teaching lessons and tutorials on guitar looping on a weekly basis. 

Tell me - Are you trying to do one of these things?

• Finally understand how to use your looping pedal properly.
  
  
• Write amazing & engaging guitar looping songs.
  
  
• Improve your timing and technical side of looping.
  
  
• Create with a looper while having FUN - without having to learn a ton of music theory or practicing endless drills or exercises in order to improve.

If so, you’ve come to the right place!

It doesn’t matter if you’ve just started using a looper pedal or if you’ve been trying on and off for a while – I'm here to help you.

Here's my story and where my love from looping came from:

Losing My Passion & Writing 0 Songs In 3 Years

I have not always been a prolific looping artist.

Actually, it was quite the opposite when I started.

In the late 2000’s, I was playing in a female-fronted alt-rock band (think Paramore). We were playing many gigs around Montreal, eyed the Vans Warped Tour, but it never took off like we expected.

Me playing a ridiculous Halloween show with my band in 2009.

And to be honest, each song we were writing went further and further away from my creative vision. This wasn’t really the kind of music I wanted to make anymore.

The experience was frustrating and we eventually disbanded.

And for the next 3 years I did exactly… nothing.

I recorded small song ideas on my phone, but I was pretty paralyzed with everything else.

Suffering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS), changing pedal after pedal, being unsatisfied about the recording quality of my guitar, wanting my songs to be perfect before I released any of them – things were not progressing. I was just discouraged.

This was a low point for me, because I knew I had some music in me. There was just no way for me to let it out! 

It was at the very end of this bad musical season that I decided to overcome my perfectionism and finally dusted off my looper pedal with the intentions of creating music my own way. 

As I forced myself to complete songs, I got better and better at looping, got more joy out of the process and finally found my spark - my love for music again!

Serving Others & Writing 100+ Guitar Looping Songs

After posting several of my guitar looping songs and getting a little bit of traction on YouTube...

Many guitar players started to ask me all sorts of questions:

- How can I reproduce this sound?
- How are you making seamless loops like that?
- How can I play like this too?

And at that point, I understood: my next step to have success as a musician was not by focusing on myself, but by focusing on others!

So I started to post more educational content: guitar lessons, guitar looping tutorials, and other tips & tricks… sharing all my best stuff every week.

Teaching guitar looping tips every week on my Youtube channel.

Making all this educational content made me analyze and understand how to make better guitar looping music and allowed me to produce some of the best songs I’ve ever written, at a faster pace than what I could have ever imagined!

From 2014 to today, I have written 100+ guitar looping songs on Youtube, 6 full length albums & 4 compilations.

And what I was most proud of, was how those songs were inspiring other motivated musicians to do the same.

We created a nice community of guitar looping lovers on my channel! 

Am I special? An uber-talented musician? A naturally gifted songwriter?

Not at all.

I’m just a guy who overcame perfectionism - who turned outward to become a better musician.

And that turned to all kinds of opportunities over the years…

Like becoming a touring musician for Canadian progressive rock band Mystery, getting 20M+ views on my Youtube channel, and earning a living from teaching other people how to become excellent looping guitarists.

Me playing with Mystery in Germany, in front of an audience of 5000.

If you’d like to learn the craft of guitar looping, and benefit from my 10+ years of experience doing it, then you’re at the right place.

It took me 10 years of searching, hard work and dedication to become the looping artist I am today, but you can get started much faster than I did!

In fact, I want to help you right now :-)

FREE Resources

I want to help you in your guitar looping journey, so I made a collection of free PDF guides and mini-courses you can watch to get expert guidance in order to choose your looper and start your looping songs + how to craft beautiful chord progressions & melodies for your songs. 

• Looper Buying Guide For Any Budget (FREE PDF Guide)
  
  
• 52 Song Prompts For Your Guitar Looping Songs (FREE PDF Guide)
  
  
• Spread Triads Crash Course (FREE Mini-Course)
  
  
• Melodic Foundations (FREE Mini-Course)

Click on the button below to check all of them out!