I’m a huge fan of Ableton Live. I use it not only for music production but also for practice. I set it up with one MIDI track using Kontakt and my Warbl as the MIDI controller. I create separate sessions for every type of tune and include clips with backing tracks.
Now, I can:
- Practice a tune solo
- Practice a tune with a backing track
- Practice a track with a metronome
- Speed up or slow down a backing track
- Record my solo practice
- Record my practice with a backing track
And I can do all of this without disturbing anyone in the house! 🙂
I’m a fifty-something German trad musician building an Irish repertoire on the whistle as a retirement project.
I can read music but I realised learning ITM is much easier without the dot-detour.
If I start working on a tune from dots, it takes me much longer to learn it by heart than when I absorb it from ABC notation.
The quickest way I’ve found to learn tunes (so far...) is to use color-coded ABC, reducing the structure as much as possible. 
