This is a practical music practice planner that work like a weekly calendar. Use it to manage how much time is spent on each of four different types of musical practice.
Simply click anywhere on the grid to interact with it, alternatively navigate using your computer keyboard. Your plan gets turned into an editable real-time score. A day of the week is shown in each row. A type of practice appears as a column. Here, they are: Creative work; Repertoire; Technique and Warm up. The number shown are the time allocated to that activity.
How to Use the Music Practice Planner
Tap on any cell to alter it. With every tap you cycle through the times from zero, ten, twenty and then thirty minutes. Note head makes this clear.
The drag painting lets you paint over several cells at once if you prefer. Just select a duration in the sidebar under the brush dropdown, then click and drag to select which cells should be filled. The tool will automatically applies that same duration to all touched cells. It make it faster to set up a consistent routine.
If you’d rather jump around with arrow keys on your keyboard instead, those work too. Spacebar (or enter) will cycle the duration for the focused cell.
There are some tools in the sidebar that let you customize your week. There’s a dropdown menu to change your weekly target. Changing this will update progress meter to show whether your week is going to be deep, light, or somewhere in between. Add minutes to your plan and the meter fills up, giving you a visual cue on what you’ve got planned for yourself.
Buttons in conductor’s desk automate this planning process. Click on conduct a balanced week, and it creates a suggested schedule for you. A balanced schedule spreads tasks out evenly across the day and each category. If you’re stuck, or just want to view a healthy schedule, click here.
To copy your first day into the other days, select echo Monday across weekdays. That will create an even routine Monday through Friday.
The button labeled 48-hour recall echoes plant. That’s a handy memory aid for finding the initial block of practice in any category. Then it revisits briefly two days later. Spacing out your practice sessions reinforces the learning.
Thinning the busiest day reduces workload. The button subtracts ten minutes from the biggest block on that day. It also helps prevent burnout on heavy practice days.
Clearing the blank manuscript erases everything. That resets the grid to zero; now you’re starting fresh.
Next is the balance note section where it provide feedback about your schedule. It breaks down how your practice time are distributed. It will alert you if one area dominates. Then it’ll recommend swapping a bit of time over to another area. It will remind you too that you need at least one lighter recovery day so that your practice routine isn’t unsustainable.
To get even more detail on how things work, you can expand out this help panel which includes not just keyboard shortcuts for navigation but also information about mouse/touch interactions.
The widget stretches out to fill the entire screen for fullscreen mode. You get a larger canvas to work and see in. That’s nice if you’re getting super serious with making plans.
When your system has switched over to dark mode, the widget will change along with it. Your eyes don’t have to be blasted in the evening while you make plans.
Everything stays saved across that session, allowing you to tinker with it until it just feels good.
Begin with something realistic. Block off your repertoire first. Then do the warm up. Space out your technique work with the recall echoes. Drag the brush around or tap cells to adjust duration.
Is your week looking balanced? Look at the balance note. Fill in any gaps yourself, or have the planner automatically do so to make it easier.
It’s easy to see how you are progressing with the planner. Build your routine based off what works for you and take your time.