May Practice Report

Here are my practice stats for May 2024:

I put 64.9 hours of practice into my "assigned" (by me) pieces, plus 5 hours into "free" work (mostly working on gospel stuff while in North Carolina), for a total of 69.9 hours of practice this month. That the most I've practiced since I came back to piano a few months ago!

(Chart does not include the gospel ("free") work that I did.)

The piece that got the most work in May was Bare Necessities (18.9 hours), followed by Rondo alla Turca (15.6 hours) and the Blues Challenge (12.5 hours).

This was my first month to set percentage goals. I met some of them, but I fell woefully short on the Rondo and 7ths practice.

I've adjusted my goals for June to allow more time (20%) for Blues, and less (25%) for each of my main pieces. I'm also going to bump my Lead Sheets goal up to 15% because I have a feeling this course will be more interesting and challenging to me than the Diminished/Half-Diminished Sevenths course was. I'll also combine Chopin and Maple Leaf into a "Maintenance" category with a goal of 10%, and I'll leave Hanon/Scales at 5%.

I'm happy with my progress in May. I can now play through Bare Necessities and Rondo alla Turca, and I made a final/performance video of the Chopin. I still need to make a Maple Leaf Rag video. And I made it through Blues Lesson 8 (the goal) and completed the Seventh Chords Foundations courses! So I feel like I'm in a very good place.

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