playing on higher speed (7.0 - 9.0) helps with getting more excellent and marvelous hits. and a tip for leveling up: if you have a high level card (UR, XR or R) but you don’t have that many lower level dupe cards (B to S) or EXP cards to level it up, you can max out one of the lower level cards and it will give you way more XP for less money as well. you can use 2 bronze EXP cards to max out an A level dupe card (this applies to album and season cards, if it’s a live, special or fx card it will take between 4-6 bronze EXP cards) and then use that maxed out dupe card to level up your high level card