Hello,

When I am practicing I like to get a tempo for a tune and use that as a reference point. (Speed is still one of my biggest set backs.) It seems to me that most tabs and some sheet music double up the BPM and use 8th notes instead of 16th notes. I am just wondering if this is in the case or am I counting wrong?
for instance I learning Tony's break for the song Slipstream ( Bela Flecks Drive CD ) I am clocking it around 87 BPM

Thanks for your help
John

John did you get my reply to the PM you sent me ?
I have been lucky from the time I started playing Bluegrass, which has only been about 7 years this time ( started 35 years ago), there has always been lots of better players for me to jam with, & learn from, I am wondering if you are with out local guys to pick with, I find for me any way that it is way ahead of reading tab, more fun as well, next choice for me is videos either instructional or some of the graet performance stuff thats around, Flat Picking Guitar Magazine has some great stuff, & oh yeah get in you tube & Google Bluegrass guitar there is some good stuff there
Fred