Hi
Over the last 6 months I have developed a card based practice system, which was inspired by when I was learning Latin for my degree about 8 years ago.
I have a large pile of index cards, and on each card is written something that I want to practice. It might be a written out piece, it might be scales and arpeggios in a particular key, or it might say improvise something from scratch etc etc.
So if when I sit down at the Piano I don't have anything in particular I want to practice, I shuffle the cards and pick randomly from the pack.
I find it works quite well, though as I have scales and arpeggios in every key (one card for each key) and a lot of Jazz scales in every key, and less actual pieces or tunes, I'm more likely to get a set of scales than anything else. But I'm slowly adding more cards with lead sheet songs and things like that as time goes by.
Doing it this way I don't feel like I have to practice one particular thing every session, and it works well for me; especially when I pick a 12 bar blues in C...
Has anybody else done anything similar to this?
Cheers