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Stats for December and 2024

December was a good month for practicing! Even though I lost some time with traveling and working out in the evenings, I still managed to get 54.9 hours in. I also was within range for all of my percentage goals! I did change the goals toward the end of the month. Both classical and ragtime review were at 10%, and I changed them to 8% and 12%, respectively, because I felt that ragtime needed more attention.

Jingle Bells Rag was over range for most of the month as I worked to have it ready in time for Christmas. Once I posted the video to Facebook on Dec. 24, I focused on other projects, though I did revisit it a couple of times as a new maintenance piece.

The Stats

Here are the stats:

(The "# of wins" category refers to which pieces got the most practice time each day.)

Here is a chart showing time allotted to my main projects and maintenance categories:

I also graduated from one piece this month (Jingle Bells Rag).

Some 2024 Stats

I wrote a little about my 2024 practices here, but below are a few additional stats for the year, in a nutshell. Some of them are from the PWJ site. Note that I didn't start logging my practices until I joined PWJ on January 31, 2024, so this doesn't include any January practices. (I wasn't playing much in January anyway.)

Total Practice Time: 533 hours, 51 minutes

Total Days Practiced: 297

Longest Streak: 159 days

Hours Practiced for Individual Pieces:

  • Bare Necessities: 81.1
  • Chopin F Minor Nocturne: 59.3
  • Blues Track Courses: 86.0
  • Maple Leaf Rag: 40.2
  • PWJ Sevenths Courses: 22.0
  • Mozart, Rondo alla Turca: 39.0
  • Technique: 36.9
  • Misty Challenge: 14.0
  • Solace: 22.6
  • Jingle Bells Rag: 40.4
  • Liszt, Liebestraume: 31.5
  • Amazing Grace: 6.3*
  • The Entertainer: 9.0

*I didn't track my Amazing Grace practice at first because I started learning it while at my parents' house on the weekends. It was just a "side thing" that I grouped into a category I called "Lagniappe." Also included in Lagniappe were my work on The Old Rugged Cross, PWJ ear training courses, random sight-reading, songwriting, and a couple of PWJ pop courses. My records are showing about 25 hours to lagniappe, but I'm thinking it's more like 40 since I didn't start tracking it until this summer.

I've already written about my 2025 goals, so after this post I will get back to posting my progress in my various projects. Stay tuned!

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