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The document is a practice log for a student musician. It includes sections for listing pieces practiced, excerpts and assignments, strategies used, time spent, reflections on effectiveness of strategies, goals for the upcoming week, and daily practice ratings. Some common practice strategies are defined, such as whole-part-whole, slowing it down, chunking, changing rhythm, and others. The log helps the student organize and evaluate their practice sessions.

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Practice Log

The document is a practice log for a student musician. It includes sections for listing pieces practiced, excerpts and assignments, strategies used, time spent, reflections on effectiveness of strategies, goals for the upcoming week, and daily practice ratings. Some common practice strategies are defined, such as whole-part-whole, slowing it down, chunking, changing rhythm, and others. The log helps the student organize and evaluate their practice sessions.

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Practice Log

Name:
Dates: Mon Month Day - Fri Month Day

Piece Name Excerpt Assignment Strategies Used Total Time Spent

Piece #1 instrument @ measure


#-#

Piece #2 instrument @
measures #-#; #-#

Piece #3 identify 3 challenging


passages by bracketing
the section and putting
a * next to them

Reflection
a. Were the practice strategies you chose effective? Did you improve the section? Why or why not?

b. Set two goals for your practice sessions this week (can be related to our pieces or your own skills).
1.
2.

End of week: Did you achieve these goals (circle one)? Both Only One (1 or 2) Neither

Rate Your Progress and Productivity for Each Day

Mon: /10 Tues: /10 Wed: /10 Thurs: /10 Fri: /10
Practice Strategies
Whole-Part-Whole Play through the music and when you reach a difficult spot, stop and fix your mistakes, then
play through with no mistakes.

Slowing it Down Using a metronome, find the challenging section and slow it down from the original tempo
until there are no mistakes, then gradually increase the tempo until back at full tempo.

Chunking Break down a difficult section into a few parts, practice those parts individually, then put all
of the parts together and play through.

Change the Rhythm In a challenging technical section, change the rhythms to make it more difficult (dotted
eighth note and one sixteenth note; one sixteenth and two eighths and one sixteenth; etc.)
then return back to the original notation.

Add-A-Note Start by playing one note of a passage, then add a note after each correct repetition,
starting at the beginning of the phrase each time.

Backing Up Start at the end of the passage, then add a note before the previous note after each correct
repetition, starting on a new note and playing to the end each time.

Air Fingering Finger through the notes of a difficult passage without actually playing (instead, you can just
blow air, or you can sing the notes in the passage).

Record Record yourself playing through the passage, listen back and make note of anything that
should be changed, then record again with the change (and repeat until you reach the
desired outcome).

Penny Game Take out five pennies and find a challenging passage. Play all the way through the passage
and if there are no mistakes, flip a penny over, and repeat for each of the other five pennies
(i.e. five completely correct repetitions in a row). If you make a mistake, turn all the pennies
back over and start again.

Memorize Memorize a challenging section of the passage, so that reading the music does not
contribute to mistakes. Start by chunking sections to play over and over until they are
memorized, then combine to memorize a larger phrase.

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