Practice Nag for Musicians

Musicians! Make your practice time more efficient and more effective with Practice Nag. Prioritize what you need to spend time on, set specific goals, and GET BETTER RESULTS!

Receive daily reminders on your iOS device (at times you specify) when you have things that need to be practiced. You can easily change how often you are scheduled to practice certain items, from daily all the way to once a month.

The app is simple to use, but powerful when followed regularly.

Step 1 : Add items to the master list of things you are working on. These may be individual pieces of music, technical exercises, or skills such as improvising or sight-reading, etc.

Step 2 : Specify how frequently you would like to be reminded (nagged) to work on this item. For new repertoire, this might be every day or every other day. For skills, maybe once a week, or on a specific day each week. For established repertoire that needs occasional review, it might be that you need a reminder only once every couple of weeks or so.

Step 3 : Establish one or more brief but specific goals that you will achieve (or make significant progress on) during your next practice session.

Step 4 : Receive reminder messages from Practice Nag each day with a list of what you need to work on. Check off items as you practice them and they will be automatically rescheduled at the proper date in the future. Repeat from Step 3 and start reaping the benefits of directed practice, or as I call it, PRACTICE WITH A PURPOSE.

Practice Nag does NOT track time. Unless you are being paid by the hour to practice, tracking time spent practicing is of little use. RESULTS are all that matter, and results are achieved by continually setting small, manageable goals, achieving them, and then setting new ones.

With Practice Nag, never again will you sit down to your instrument without a clearly defined purpose. In almost all cases, you already know what needs to be done. You just need to be reminded to DO IT!

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Practice Nag was developed by a professional musician and piano teacher of over twenty years. After the birth of my daughter, I realized that if I hoped to continue to develop and grow as a musician, I would need to drastically change my approach to practicing. I had tried some systems that had proven to be too complicated and caused me to spend too much precious time PLANNING how I was going to spend my practice time- time that could have been better spent actually practicing.

I developed Practice Nag to be simple to set up, and to make my practice more focused and effective. Now, I can achieve more in 45 minutes than I would have in many hours back when I was a student.