Here at The Bag, we always list the tempo of our beds and loops so you can easily toss them into Acid or whatever and get funky. But if you want to use a piece of popular music and edit accurately you’ll need to figure out the tempo on your own.
In Pro Tools, although the same method applies to all, you can usually start by editing a 2 bar phrase from the song. Then zoom in on the first downbeat and trim it up nice and tight. Next, cut just before the beginning of the 3rd measure. Place the start of the edited region on a downbeat in grid mode and then adjust the projects tempo so that the end of the edited region lines up with the bar markers. This usually means moving your edited section every time you make a change in tempo so that the beginning lines up on a downbeat, but if you keep it in Grid mode it will snap to it. Once you’ve found the tempo simply stretch the front and back of the region to include the whole song and edit away!
This is the ghetto method for those who don't have beat detective or something like it.
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