How to Use Your Practice Notebook

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 Your Practice Notebook is to help your create goals within your practice sessions

1. Keep your music books and your notebook in an organized manner near the piano. Keep a pencil and eraser nearby.

2. Go over the blog post about the notebook images with your child if they are learning, or read for yourself if you are the student. 

3. Notice the blank table labelled Scales/Arpeggios. The aim is to fill this in with the major and minor scales/arpeggios and exercises that you have acquired skills in. These are used as warm-ups for each practice session.

4. You will see a grid containing five items to practice and the days of the week for you to tick or sign if you have a child learning piano. This is your tracker. You can also enter the minutes you have practiced into the student portal on the My Music Staff App. 

For adults, this grid is where you write your goals for the piece, tips and pointers to improve the piece.

Items to practice

Scales/Arpeggios - these are your warm-up to start with each time you practice

At-level pieces- these are the current pieces you are working on, that you can improve each day

Fun/Creative piece - this could be an older piece that you like to jazz up, or change to a different key or style. It could also be a fun improvisation that you have created, or just a chord progression. This is your permission to create and have fun!

Challenge Piece - this is a longer-term piece that you are working on little-by-little so that you can perform later in the term/year or perhaps it is a long-term dream to complete the piece

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