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So one thing that over the hundreds and hundreds of years I have been playing BeatSaber is that I really like to pick my favorite song. And so, generally, if I'm going to say, work on another Expert+ project, I will go to my favorite Expert+ song, which I may have mentioned before, is Breezer, and I will just do it because I know I can do it, I know I can do it really, really well, and I know I can do it at a really fast speed. And so, initially doing something successful that also is kind of impressive, it really sets sort of this high bar of confidence. And so even if you think, you know, this next song you're gonna do is really hard, you're not starting the day off with what some could consider a failure.. you're starting off with what everyone would consider a really big success. And so that will set you at a really high bar immediately.

Afterwards, what I'll also do is warm up on another song or two. I know I can do them and I know I can do them really well, and I know I really enjoy them and then I'm really happy.

The second thing you can do is now going into your project, think of it in sections where you can start. You could try to do the first 20 seconds of the song. You can even go shorter if you want to, 10 seconds, or 15 seconds. My general chunks are in chunks of roughly 30 seconds. Now, I don't necessarily time it, but I just have a general idea of where my chunks are, and I'll practice the first chunk.

Now, you may or may not want to do that, but you can, and then you can skip to the next section, and then you can try to do that. (It’s easiest to use “practice mode” while doing this, as you can easily skip to different times) and then just do individual sections until you've done the whole song to an okay standpoint where, or just a standpoint where you are happy. Once that's done, you can try the whole thing.

If it's a project of yours that you may need a lot of endurance, which you may or may not have yet, in which case then you can extend your chunks to where you can combine two. And then, instead of having 4 chunks, now you have 2. You can even have a point where you have, you know, two thirds of a song and then the last third is different. What I’m getting at is you can make up your own chunks, haha.

Along with the above, also know when you are first doing a project, one thing that I also do is I go screw the accuracy. When I'm doing a project for the first time, I just want to hit the blocks. At a point, I don't even really care if I'm hitting them properly. I just have to hit them. and so for me it's like, don't go into a wall, don't hit bombs, hit the blocks somehow, and I'm good! And then once I've hit a ton of blocks, it doesn't matter how well I do, then I can start being like, “okay, now I want to hit them really well”. And so now you're hitting them properly, or at least most of them properly.

Once that happens and you can hit the majority of them properly, then you can start focusing on accuracy if you want. But the one thing that I definitely do is I'm just like, “no, I don't care about accuracy, I just want to hit them”. Because at a point you're just thinking that there's so many coming at you, accuracy is not necessarily a priority yet. If that makes sense.

Lastly, one mental block that I would say at least that I've personally had, is just honestly the mental block of failure. It's when you have been doing a song for a very long time and you still have not yet completed it and it's just like “why, why have I not completed this??”

The one thing that I think of is.. You don't need to complete it yet. It could take you a long time to finish a song, and that's okay. You don't have to finish a song in a day or even less. You could spend a month or longer on a really difficult song if you want to. There's also just the option of doing a slightly more in-range song first, then progressing slower. You can always build up to it. You don't need to just go to something super hard immediately.