it and then start learning the song by sections. I'll check tabs on Mandozine as well to see if there's anything that I'm doing wrong or if there's better ideas then what I've figured out. Once I know the song, I'll play it over and over while I'm watching the news, when I wake up, before I go to bed, etc. As I play it day after day I'll speed it up, look away from the neck while I play, etc. And in no time, I've mastered the tune! 1998 Rattlesnake F-5 Mandolin #13 "You know, I never wrote a tune in my life. All that music's in the air around you all the time. I was just the first one to reach up and pull it out." Bill Monroe Re: How many tunes at a time? The tabledit files are like from Mario Brothers, BUT I do find them useful to lock in a tune. Especially the precise tempos you can choose to learn. Too slow, and there's no flow, but too fast for my ability and the wheels fall off. The tabledits are also a good way to check progress in terms of timing. I'm more into tone than speed though. When I'm having a tough time figuring out a passage, I try to remember when it's coming up and think "descending run down the thirs to the fourth string, land on low A, or something like this. It actually helps, but hard to explain Maybe it's another