I love using SM to work on my playing speed and ability. The Auto-Speedup feature is really useful for this purpose. 3 years ago when I started getting serious about playing, 80 bpm (guitar) was about my fastest safe speed. Today I regularly play at 95 bpm. Tonight I developed a 16-bar exercise using the Auto-Speedup feature and was impressed that within 15 minutes of constant looping over the same section, 115 bpm became a relaxed accurate speed! This exercise has three position shifts in it to push the learning to another level. Soon I will be able to play Charlie Hunter at 115 bpm.
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