1. Under Passage, tap + New and give it a name you'll recognize, like "Creston mvt. 1, mm. 47–53." Each saved passage keeps its own progress, records and trouble spots.
2. Open Setup. Choose a method, the range of bars, the time signature, a start tempo, a goal tempo, and how much to go up each time.
3. Press Play. You get a one-bar count-in, then the click. The ring lights each beat, the highlighted boxes show exactly what to play, and the gray bar shows the bar and beat you're on.
4. Tap Clean only if it really was clean. Otherwise tap Missed it. A miss is useful information, not a failure.

Fast playing is built from slow playing that never goes wrong. You start the metronome so slow you can't make a mistake, then raise it a little at a time. Each jump should barely feel faster, usually 5 bpm and never more than 10. Your hands keep making the same correct motions, just a little quicker each time.

The interleaved version adds variety. Playing one spot over and over feels productive, but your brain stops working hard after a few repetitions. Switching between the new spot, the spot next to it, and the whole thing, with the tempo changing every time, makes each repetition a fresh problem. It feels harder in the moment, and that extra effort is what makes it stick.

Basic. Play the whole passage. Start at 60 or slower, go up each time it's clean, and keep going past your goal tempo if you can. Note your fastest clean tempo and try to beat it next time, even by one click.

#1 Add-on. Click up the first bar on its own. Then go back to the start tempo, add the next bar, and alternate between the new bar alone and the bars together, each at the next tempo. You can work in bars or beats, forward from the first bar or backward from the last. Here's three bars, 60 to 80:

Gold is the new bar alone. Blue is everything so far. Each round starts over at the slow tempo.

#2 Rotate. For two to six passages at once (A, B, C). Click up each passage in turn by 5s, then 10s, 20s and 30s. Then play each at the start tempo, halfway, and the goal; then start and goal; then everything at goal tempo.

After a miss, the boxes you just played turn red. Tap the bar or beat where it slipped. Those taps add up in Trouble spots, which is a good list to bring to your lesson.

Under Preferences, choose whether a miss keeps you on the same step or drops you back one tempo.

Every clean step that covers the whole passage counts toward today's top tempo. Next time, the app shows your last record and tells you what to try for, and the roadmap tags the step that would beat it.

Clicking up builds a passage. A performance check tests whether it holds up when you get one try with no warm-up, like on stage. Pick your 4–7 hardest spots, then go through them in random order, one try each. A clean try earns a tick. A miss erases all of that spot's ticks. You're done when every spot has five in a row.

Subdivisions add quiet clicks inside each beat: eighths, triplets or sixteenths. They help at slow tempos, where it's easy to rush the notes between beats.

Break reminders. A lot of learning happens after you stop, while your brain settles what you just practiced. The app suggests a short break every 15 minutes of clicking (you can change this), and at the end of each round in #2.

Bluetooth page-turner pedals work if they send arrow keys or Page Up/Down, and most do, so you can mark steps without taking your hands off the instrument.

• Start slower than you think. 60 or slower is a good default.
• Keep the jumps small. If you notice the jump, it was too big.
• Click up past your goal. Then performance tempo feels comfortable.
• Don't fix-and-continue. Stopping at every mistake in a run-through mostly practices the mistakes. Isolate the hard spots here instead.
• Have a goal for every session. Know why you're playing a passage before you play it.
• A little every day. Ten focused minutes daily beat an hour once a week.

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