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🎬 Class ReplayAll LevelsFree Preview📅 Posted January 6, 2022· 1h

Starting the New Year Off Right!

The Short Version

Goals, tools, and systems are three different things, and systems win. A New Year's resolution only fires once. A tracking system — a habit calendar, a tune log, a monthly self-recorded video — makes the behavior close to inevitable, the same way not wanting to break a calendar chain of X's keeps you going long after motivation fades.
You can't accurately judge your own playing while you're playing it. A phone camera is the closest thing pipers have to a stopwatch or a scale. Record a focus set of six to ten tunes once a month, rewatch it, and you get real information about what actually improved instead of a vague feeling.
Plan before you practice, and give every tune its own sheet. Ten or fifteen minutes deciding what needs attention pays back several times over in a focused session. My Tune Success Log gives each tune a single sheet for notes, kept with its music, so you always know exactly where you left off.
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