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TooMuch Practice Lessons · Practice · Musical Advancement

Lessons that carry on
through the week.

A place to teach from, practise in, and keep the thread between the two. The teacher's screen leads the student's screen during the lesson, the week's work goes home with them, and what they actually did comes back.

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Ask for access, or ask for lessons

Tell us what you play and what you are working on. If you are looking for a teacher, say so and somebody will write back about times. Accounts are opened by hand, so there is a person at the other end of this.

For teachers The lesson note that writes itself

Every lesson opens with last week's subjects already in it, one for each thing you assigned, one for each piece they worked on, and whatever else you keep track of. Change what you want, leave the rest. No retyping the same paragraph every Thursday.

Lead their screen during the lesson, point at the music, send a tuner or a metronome to their device, and go straight from one sibling into the next without redialling.

For students Know exactly what to do

The week's routine arrives on your device at your teacher's tempo with their notes attached. Press play and it walks you through it, one thing at a time, with the metronome, the tuner and the music all on one screen.

What your teacher wrote about each piece is right there while you play it.

For anyone practising Your own routine, timed

Photograph a page or upload a PDF and it finds the lines, so you tap once instead of pinching. Beat dots, a tuner trace and the clock sit along the bottom, out of the way of the notes.

Hold a note in tune for ten seconds and the tuner line catches fire. Every session is counted, so the work is visible even on the weeks it does not feel like it.

1Ask for accessTell us what you play and who you study with. It is a person reading it, not a form.
2Or ask for lessonsSay so in the same box and a teacher will write back about times.
3Sign in onceA device you use stays signed in for ninety days, so nobody is typing a PIN at the start of a lesson.
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Library & routines

saved
People
Users see every item in the library but only their own routines.
My instruments
The library only shows items for these instruments, plus anything marked for no instrument in particular. Turn them all off to see everything.
Waiting for review
Publish keeps the contributor's name on it. "Make it the library's" moves it to you, so no name travels with it. Keep private leaves it with them only.
Share routine
Shared routines stay yours. The other person sees it read only, and can take their own copy if they want to change it.
Admin
Books
Collections
Written record
Everything typed on this site that another person can read. Kept so a director can answer what was said in their school, and so anyone who asks what is recorded can be told plainly.
Ensembles
Check before a lesson
Everything a lesson needs, checked here rather than with a student waiting. Nothing is sent to anybody and nothing is recorded.
Playing with somebody
Not a teacher and not a student. Either of you can start a session, and either of you can put something on the other's screen.
Nobody yet.
None yet.
Finding your way around
Settings
I teach
Students can ask you for lessons
I take lessons
Lets you ask a teacher
Carry lesson notes forward
A new lesson starts from last time's notes instead of a blank box
Lessons
Starting one puts these notes on their screen. Whatever you open on your own screen opens on theirs, and closing it puts them back on the notes.
Chairs. None ticked means the whole ensemble.
Pick a student.
A copy is theirs: change one student's week without touching anybody else's. It lands in a folder with their name.
Notes for this session
Both of you see this.
Lesson with

Today's notes

Your teacher will open what you are working on here.
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Log & progress

Daily minutes
Most practised
Assigned to me
In this routine
—BPM
—BPM
Shown on the ring while they practise and in the lesson log, so progress towards it is something you can both see.
—min:sec
Shown under the item's own notes on the practice screen.
🔥🔥🔥 10s IN TUNE
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listening…
DRONE
120BPM
4/4
PAUSED
0:00

Notes

In this book
Press C to change where the one you are on stands.

What should it record?

A take is kept in your own list either way.
If it includes them, their screen says so for as long as it runs.

Bookmarks

Tick anything else you want to work on. It joins this run straight away, and sticks to the routine.

Recordings