I kind of do it in two stages. In the first stage I just play off the score so I know the song somewhat. I find that if I start off with an accompaniment recording, I wait until a note is played and then I play mine a second later. That’s more like imitation it doesn’t really work for me.

Stage two is when I go to the recording.

One thing I’ve learned is in stage one you got to be relentless about tapping your left foot. You can’t slow that foot down just because you don’t know part of the song. If you’re relentless it does a couple of things. One it slows you down because you can’t keep up with the foot tap. Two it keeps the song even tempo all the way through instead of hotspots and cold spots.


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