How to triple your practice efficiency
If you play a song from start to finish and only practise the hard part when it comes around, that part gets less than 10% of your actual practice time. With an A-B loop you can repeat a difficult four bars more than twenty times a minute.
Used together with speed control, you can drill in stages — twenty reps at 0.5x, twenty at 0.75x, then twenty at full speed.