Having strict tempo CDs for standard is great, especially if the music isn't just painful to listen to. This CD I bought just to have something to practice to, but found later that it was overall very good music in general. The only fly in the ointment is that the violin soloist who appears in two or three of the tracks is awful. They are so far out of tune that those tracks are painfully difficult to listen to, and the solo is so loud it obscures the beat. Excising those tracks, however, the CD is still of a decent length and contains very good music, especially for ballroom dancers looking for music to practice to that reflects accurately what they will get at an IDSA competition.