WebeleonTagged: practice
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Practice
Repertoire decays: gig prep as memory management
Songs are skills with a shelf life, not entries in a list. Treating your repertoire like spaced-repetition material — reviewing each tune just before it fades — beats cramming the week of the gig.
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Edgars: a practice butler, and the rules it will not break
Edgars answers the question every practice starts with — what should I play next? — in about three seconds, and it makes every answer honest. A build note on the loop, the two ratings, and the six design constraints behind the app.
Software
What should I play next?
The first three minutes of practice are a negotiation, and the negotiation is where sessions go to die. The fix is deciding once, with a published rule: gig urgency first, then the weakest scores, ties broken by age.
Practice
The journal that writes itself
Every teacher says keep a practice journal; almost nobody does, because journaling is admin at the moment you least want admin. The fix is not discipline — it is letting the session leave a trace on its own.
Practice
Rate the take twice
The rating you give from inside the performance and the rating you give after listening back disagree — and the disagreement is the information. Felt and verified, why the verified one counts double, and one honest number per song.
Practice
Your ears lie while you play
Playing and judging compete for the same attention, which is why you cannot hear yourself accurately mid-performance. Recording is the cheapest teacher in the room — if the take survives long enough to be heard.
Practice
Why guitarists can't read music (and the ten-minute fix)
The guitar hands you three ways to dodge standard notation. Here is why that happens, and a ten-minute daily routine that actually starts to fix it.
Practice
CAGED, but for arpeggios: five shapes, whole fretboard
The CAGED system maps arpeggios, not just chords — five shapes that tile the whole neck for one chord, how they connect, and a practice order that makes them stick.
Practice
Practice you can move through
Arpèges v7 adds two gestures — slide the fret window up the neck, swipe back to the card you just nailed. Both come from one idea: practice should never be a one-way street.
Practice
Scales meet arpeggios: one drill for the whole fretboard
Arpèges now deals scales and modes off the same deck as the arpeggios. Why practising the two together — not in separate sessions — is the thing that actually moves your playing.
Theory
Voice Leading in Four Parts
How to move four independent voices smoothly between chords — common-tone retention, contrary motion, and the small steps that keep a progression singable.
Practice
Building a Daily Practice Loop
A repeatable daily practice structure — a short warm-up, one focused target, and a quick review — designed to compound small gains instead of chasing marathon sessions.