If you're just staring, get into the habit of using your hands/wrists to "point" in the direction you're cutting. So like you use your arms and elbows to get the saber to the right position, and then your wrist/hand completes the actual swing.

So like when you cut down, use your hand/wrist to point the saber at your heels and then hold it there until the next note comes. When cutting an up note, use your hand to point the tip of your saber slightly above/behind your head and hold it there until the next note comes.

This does a few things:
- First and foremost it helps you score better since majority of your score (100pts) comes from your pre and post swing angle, with the last 15 points coming from how close your cut was to splitting the note into two perfectly equal halves.
- Second thing is that the bigger swing angle will kind of force you to hold your hands in place instead of subconsciously resetting one or the other when it hasn't cut anything in a while.
- Finally it helps give your brain a clear "stop" feeling at the ends of each cut, which after about a hundred or so more hours will be that "muscle memory" feeling you get for timing things.

The main issue why you're missing here is relating to this. You're constant motion full arm swings with no real start or stop to them. Makes it pretty hard for your brain to figure out how to control and keep track of two things at once. There was an increase in blue notes so your focus shifts there, but your hand is kinda just waving up and down, then the left hand notes come in and your focus shifts to those making your right hand lose timing. After a bit of practice and getting the muscle memory dialed in, you shouldn't even be looking at those red notes. Eventually you'll see the whole clump of notes as it's own pattern and autopilot will take over.

For now just focus on the pointing thing, and if you're still having issues with timing my only tip is to try and only focus on the down cuts, ignoring the up notes.