Hi all,
I'm a hobbyist intermediate level piano player, and I've lost a bit of interest in playing. I play mostly rock/pop music covers, though I have background and education in classical, blues, and jazz as well. The main reason I've lost interest is because I feel like with the level I'm at and the amount time I have to practice, I would go through rushes of practicing but then get dissuaded by not being able to see the improvement I've made, which of course, gets harder and harder to measure the longer you play your instrument.
Right now I'm trying to refocus by targeting two tracks.
- Going through an exercise book called "100 Rock Piano Lessons"
- Picking 2-3 songs and writing my own covers for them.
To 'measure progress' I'm trying to get up some sort of gamification system where I have a spreadsheet that lets me mark progress.
For the exercise book, I have a grid from Lesson 1-Lesson 100, and 10 'slots' to mark progress on the individual exercises within the lesson. I'll slowly changed these from "Sightread" (orange) to "In Progress" (yellow) to "Complete" (green), targeting playing along with the recordings provided with the book at the same tempo.
For the songs, I don't think I've been able to break these down enough into small tasks to measure progress effectively. Right now I have my steps as "Chord Chart Made", "Set up in Transcribe" where I load it into transcribe software and put down different section markers, "Half Speed", "70% Speed", "Full Speed", and "Memorized".
I'm just curious if anyone else can offer advice on my method here, and if anyone else has devised a nice way to measure week by week progress or to gamify their practice to help encourage staying focused.
Submitted August 21, 2018 at 10:48AM by ElectronicProgram https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/993aao/setting_up_selfgamification_or_progress/?utm_source=ifttt