I learned a lot of piano pieces by slowly working up to tempo by advancing the metronome just one click at a time until I was at the right tempo. If you can transpose at sight, that’s a great skill. Maybe vary your starting place where you practice, maybe learn pieces “back-to-front,” that is, starting from the end in…

What they’re saying is that the original japanese didn’t say leprosy. That was just a localization interpretation of what they originally said.

I mean, I thought knowing this was integral to understanding Lady Eboshi’s character. All of the people that worked for her came from two groups: lepers, and former prostitutes. Essentially she employed outcasts that would normally have been shunned, making that aspect of her very humane and caring.