Hey all, regular commenter here on /r/Learnmusic. I created a free website at www.tuneupgrade.com to be a music practice tracker, as being hobbyist player I had a hard time using my practice time effectively. I found that I would:
- Spend too little time overall practicing
- Spend too much time on one (fun) thing instead of pushing to learn new things
- Forget older pieces I had already learned to play
- Not recall where I should focus my efforts on each piece.
So I created myself a little app to track this stuff for personal use, and it turned out to be pretty effective for me.
I thought others might be able to benefit from it as well, so I made it multi-user and released it for free at www.tuneupgrade.com.
Basically, it allows you to:
- Design a practice routine and just hit 'go'. At that point, tuneUPGRADE tracks your time and tells you when it's time to move forward. You don't have to watch the clock, and you can keep yourself focused on your practice.
- Take notes as you practice. Track your tempo, track difficult sections to work on, and leave yourself notes that automatically appear the next time you practice a song, letting you make the most of your practice time.
- Set a weekly practice goal, and automatically track progress towards it.
It's fully responsive so should work pretty well on mobile, tablet, or desktop, and has some other nifty features like smartly inserting songs you haven't practiced in a while into your routine, allowing for open practice times if you don't want your whole practice to be structured, and managing your repertoire of songs you've learned.
Main dashboard
Practicing on mobile
More screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/lsblG9S
Would love feedback from the /r/Learnmusic community for sure. Let me know what you think, and if this can help form good practice routine habits.
Submitted December 01, 2019 at 09:53PM by ElectronicProgram https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/e4qyzw/setting_and_following_a_practice_routine/?utm_source=ifttt