Pallas Very nice! I don't know how others approach a tune, but for me, especially if the song has a poignant or heartfelt lyric, I speak the words in my head, similar to how a poet may recite a poem, and in doing so, I might play the tune faster, or slower, depending on the emotional quality, and sometimes, again like the poet, I might emphasize a word, (a note, in this case), and hang onto it for a moment, or strike the key a bit firmer, to convey the lyric. This would never work with a metronome, so I hardly ever use one. Time is relative, or so I'm told.