Hey all, I've been steadily building this up for a few years and a lot of people have written in to tell me how it's improved their practice.
It's a free music practice tracker site (www.tuneupgrade.com) which will let you build up practice routines, track your practice time, and take practice notes for desktop, tablet, and mobile (just visit the site on your mobile device). And I mean free - no ads, no freemium - totally free, as a passion project - I'm a developer by day, a musician by hobby, and is a way I get to marry up both my passions. I'm also a mod over at r/pianolearning, so I'm no stranger to spending time trying to help people learn music.
Here's a quick video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS-dzpt1tQg
Here's a screenshot of the homepage:
Dashboard, showing practice progress, leaderboard, gamification, and data.
tuneUPGRADE encourages good practice habits by keeping you focus and on track as well as leaving room for you to be flexible with your practice routine, and has some gamification features to keep up with friendly competition and keep you encouraged.
I also had written up a post explaining how I used to practice, and how starting to track practice changed my habits immensely - basically, I had a lot of trouble putting in enough practice time and managing my practice time well, which as a hobbyist with a lot of other things going on, made me feel like I was learning too slowly.
Features include:
- Timers that count how much time you spend practicing
- Routine building, including options to automatically select things to practice
- Repertoire management
- Ability to take practice notes
- Dashboard that shows your progress towards a weekly goal
- Built in Metronome that remembers your tempo per song
- YouTube integration - you can specify a youtube link, and I'll automatically frame in that video in your practice screen. I use this for youtube lessons, backing tracks, or playalong tracks (really nice when you slow down youtube music videos by 0.5x or whatever when learning a song).
- Spotify integration - similar to youtube integration, can play back a spotify track from your browser within the app.
- Easy access to materials - links to external content attempt to frame in and offer an easy open-in-new-tab link.
- Leaderboard - you can see where you rank on the leaderboard, for some friendly competition
- Manual logging - you can add practice time in manually, not just have the timer automatically count it.
Hope this is helpful to folks, and very interested in any feedback as well. Most of my feature backlog comes from suggestions from my users.
Here are a few more screenshots:
Practice screen, where your time is tracked, where it'll tell you to move on when the timer is up, you can take practice notes, and surface in materials, YouTube videos, and Spotify tracks.
Routine Designer
Submitted August 23, 2022 at 07:07PM by ElectronicProgram https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/ww1lbm/my_free_music_practice_tracker_now_has_40/?utm_source=ifttt