One thing that I think makes some players seem faster than others at the same speed is the speed between notes. How long can they hang on a note and let it ring before they move to the next note? This adds to the appearance of speed more than playing notes faster, in my opinion. I found I was making notes very stacatto in the quest for the fastest metronome speed and my playing suffered for it. In my practice, I push for speed at the expense of clean playing to as fast as I can go, then I dial it back till it's exactly clean then try and analyze why it gets sloppy at a certain speed. Seems to help at least where I'm at now. :)[br][br]JM