Originally Posted by Charlie Fogle
Here's a tip to help with setting the Bar Lines.
It's faster and easier to create the Tempo Map using the Auto Marking Button feature. Manually mark the first four or five bars. Accurately set these bars and ensure the tempo of each bar is similar. There should not be a large variance of tempo between bars in most normal songs. ie: 157.540 - 158.234 would be reasonable. 157.540 - 185.670 is likely wrong. With the first bars edited then select the Auto Mark Button and edit them as there will be variations in the tempo. Every 8-10 bars I recommend converting an Auto Line into a Manual Line because this sections the bars into smaller segments affected by edits. Done accurately, oftentimes it's unnecessary to equalize the tempo.

Interesting alternative. But I am a doubting Thomas about the function's ability to be accurate or for me to recognize that the mark on the waveform might be off from where the beat isn't really there, perhaps falling on another non-beat transient. So I have opted to tap out the beat with the L key for the whole song which actually is kinda fun like drumming. That way I am sure I am in the ballpark with every beat considering my novice waveform reading skills. But I really appreciate your adding your method to flesh out the available options!