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Make a short private practice recording with available equipment, choose one listening question and separate a musical observation from the limitations of the recording itself.

Use a slower attempt to observe a specific musical difficulty, compare like with like and avoid assuming that either endless full-speed repetitions or constant slowing solves every problem.

Find the actual point of difficulty, choose a short unit with a meaningful arrival and reconnect it to the surrounding music instead of endlessly restarting the whole piece.

Establish what each click represents, choose a passage you can follow and listen for timing relationships instead of treating a larger tempo number as the whole purpose of practice.

Turn a vague intention to practice into one observable musical task, choose a suitable example and finish with a useful note rather than trying to cover every problem at once.