Hello from the Netherlands!

[rainy-taxi]

I'm self thaught drummer and pianist so my reading is pretty bad (which I regret developing. I wish I could read like a classical trained pianist can for example). I usually run trough a whole solo very slow to see what finger positions I can do. Then I work out the fingerings and learn it with the metronome. After that, it's just speed.
Firth of fifth for example is around 155 bpm. Because I'm consistent with my fingerings I can get up to speeds of 220 bpm which is 65 beats faster.

I always work with metronome or just the record (for the vibe). Our singer however always works with midi files. And there are live performances of the midi's. I know this because I made a lot of them in my early days (I started this all with making midi files around 2000).

Most of them are lost I'm afraid (alas, had them on diskette but those are lost or unreadable) which was a shame. I had all songs except the drumduet from the way we walk - the longs (so the old medley, domino, hbts, fading lights, driving the last spike); had 3 versions of the in the cage medley (abacab tour, mama tour and invisible touch tour second leg), did supper's ready from seconds out and some other stuff like mama, dreaming while you sleep (which I thought was one of the best things I made) and the brazilian.

http://genesisjukebox.20m.com/GJBplain.html

I think that some of my stuff is still up on that website.

I'll ask our singer where he gets his midifiles.

[mocando]

Well, has been so long that I learned "some" reading, that is like I don't anymore. I learn the music the same way you do. And I do the fingering as well, just streamlining the best way of move the fingers and swap them for fluidity and speed. What I'm not using is the metronome. I almost always put them midi file in the sequencer (when available) or just put the song and I try to cover it.

I'll ask our singer where he gets his midifiles.

That would be outstanding, my friend.