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Basic editing is simply removing musical chunks you don’t want or need. Start by moving your cursor to the beginning of a section and highlighting one or more sections. Delete the highlighted area and play the remaining audio. If it flows well across the edit, you’ve made a great cut. If not, undo your edit, decide what’s missing and try again, using different segments or starting points, as with video editing. Advanced editing includes mixing and matching different combinations of segments.

A good editor hides the cuts in well-shot matched-action sequences, always cutting on motion and maintaining a smooth flow from shot to shot. This flow leads to a sense of continuity that makes the scene believable and the passage of time reasonable. Observe this flow and take its lessons to your next editing session.

Why did he or she choose to make the cut at that precise point? Has the editor hidden the cut in a well-designed matched-action sequence?
When watching a film sequence by sequence, shot by shot, you may be surprised by the number of cuts you find

The pace of edits, the placement of the cuts and the use of transitions are perhaps among the easiest and most valuable lessons you can learn by watching a classic film. Carefully watch the film frame by frame and see where the editor placed the cut between two shots. Could the editor have cut sooner or later?