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[Help] Piano Practice Application Suggestions
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09/08/17 09:01 AM
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Hello everyone, I started building an application (desktop for now, but Android in the future) about scheduling piano practice. This would be for personal use but I might consider publishing it in the future depending on how it goes. I want to use it mainly for 2 things: - Scheduling my practice, for example inputting 1 hour of practice, and getting 20% scales, 30% repertoire, 50% trascribing (in minutes). This would change depending on my monthly or general goals (for example if I want to compose I should transcribe more in relation to sight reading).
- Keep track of my practice progress with data/graphs, meaning I could see my practice days in calendar, how much time each, what category I practiced. Then I could see with radar graphs my "strength" in each element (technique, theory, etc).
On to my request now. Because I'm a relatively beginner/intermediate pianist, I would like help categorizing practice. I have already created a list: - Scales
- Modes
- Chords
- Chord Voicings
- Chord Progressions
- Sight Reading
- Repertoire
- Arpeggios
- Transposing
- Transcribing
- Improvisation
- Composing
- Ear Training
My question is, how would you categorize these in basic categories (technique, theory etc)? Do you have anything else to add? I really want to keep it as simple as possible, that's why I want to categorize these into simpler categories. I would also like having the user choose a "profile", like "I want to improvise" or "I want to perform classical music", and then create a personalized practice profile for him (40% improvisation, 40% chords, 20% scales for a jazz pianist). I don't know how feasible this is yet, because I would need tons of teaching experience for that. Sorry for the long post, and thank you! EDIT: I have created a spreadsheet with the categories as I imagine them here.
Yamaha YDP-163 Working on: - Alfred's Adult All-In-One Book 1
- First Lessons in Bach
- Czerny Op. 599
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Re: [Help] Piano Practice Application Suggestions
[Re: bilarion]
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09/08/17 01:32 PM
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Some comments on your list: - Chords: Is that knowing what the chords are on paper or practicing chords on the keyboard? The latter is a technical exercise.
- Sight reading is a practical skill, not theory. It should be part of musicality.
- Composing is theory. Unless you're doing it at the keyboard then it's part of improvisation.
- Transcribing is part of ear training.
I would seriously question the value of making such a detailed list. General categories, yes, but not specific things like arpeggios. You will quickly find out that there are many other things that you can do in a practice day. Are you going to add them to your list and split your time into fractions of a percent? Personally I use Excel. My general categories are: - Lessons
- Ear Training
- Sight-reading
- Pieces (practicing)
- Repertoire (playing)
- Etudes (e.g. Czerny)
- Technical Exercises (e.g. scales, arpeggios)
- Improvisation
I don't count theory as part of my practice time. That just shows my priorities. Yours may be different.
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Re: [Help] Piano Practice Application Suggestions
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09/09/17 02:38 PM
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Thank you for your reply, maybe you're right about the detailed list. I was thinking of creating a few fundamental types of practice, like technique, theory etc, then have some more detailed subcategories. I'll think about it.
And yes, I'm thinking it as this: If I have 1 hour and 20 minutes available for practice time today for example, I would input 80 minutes, and the app would divide that time into fractions of a percent. Like 20% (16 minutes) of scale warmup and so on.
Yamaha YDP-163 Working on: - Alfred's Adult All-In-One Book 1
- First Lessons in Bach
- Czerny Op. 599
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