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Today's lesson focuses on a simple but powerful tool to help build and test your consistency. As you learn a movement, or a phrase, or a tune you first gain the ability to play it correctly once or a few times, but it takes added practice to build the consistency you need to play it correctly every time. To be able to perform your movements and tunes with confidence, you'll want to practice in a way that pushes your limits of consistency and gives you specific benchmarks for achievement. Let's look at a simple, fun, and powerful practice game I call The Game of Seven.  I first came across a version of this in a book by Australian piano teacher Philip Johnston. Here's the basic form of the game: Pick a skill area that you want to improve. Now choose something specific such as a single phrase of a tune, or a single exercise to test ...