PracticeLover vs Only Practice

---- What Is Practicelover For? ---- Many people like to use plain paper to jot down their guitar practice schedule. They stick it to the wall and check off tasks when done. PracticeLover is here to help digitize this chore and make improvements. Following are the differences between just use your plain paper: • Practice data allows you to analyze your progress. • Effectively use your spare time to do practices without a guitar such as listening to the classic tracks, ear training, or organizing and modifying your practice schedule. • It is a mess to frequently update, modify, and re-order your schedule on the paper. • Integrated seamlessly with the Pomodoro timer. ---- Why Do You Need A Guitar Practice Schedule? ---- It is not easy to get into your guitar practice mood when everyone else is glued to their mobile phones. What we have found is that the motivation is from the sense of progress. You are not using your time effectively to make progress if you just pick up a guitar and play something you already master. This is more like “playing” instead of “practicing." Force yourself to do deliberate practice by using a well-planned schedule. Enjoy "playing" your guitar only after finishing your daily practice. Also, use the checking-off and completion rate calendar functions to stay motivated. “The key to acquiring high-level musical skills is something called deliberate practice. The more deliberate practice you do, the better you get-and this applies to any skillful activity. But deliberate practice is not the same thing as ordinary practice. Ordinary practice often involves simply repeating something you can already do pretty well. Deliberate practice, by contrast, means that you are taking a step forward. You are doing something you find difficult - and once you have mastered it, you will be a step nearer to perfecting your skill. One of the defining characteristics of deliberate practice is that generally, it isn't fun - which is why excellence is rare.” By John Powell "Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica - The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds" “Split your guitar time into two parts: practice and play.” By Justin Guitar ---- How To Organize Your Guitar Practice Schedule? ---- If you just begin, you don’t have to worry too much about your practice. Committing 15 or 30 minutes each day is sufficient to stay on the track. However, if you want to progress along the way, you need to start planning your practice routine more seriously. Check the following practice schedule planning recommendations. (More links are in the App.) Decide What To Practice by Justin Guitar https://youtu.be/IucozqgzJcw Keep A Practice Schedule by Justin Guitar https://youtu.be/FEo106Ysdic ---- Features ---- • Practice in your spare time. Doing practice tasks don’t require a guitar when commuting. Pause your practice if you need to and resume later. • Running in the background. PracticeLover can run in the background and pack everything you need for your guitar practice including backing tracks, ear training, metronome, and all the rhythms. • Pomodoro timer Efficiently nail one task at a time with the Pomodoro timer. • Practice stats Stay motivated and get feedback by reviewing the overview calendar. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” - Peter Drucker • Weekly view Even if you only have limited practice time each day, you can organize your practice tasks by using the weekly view. • Design Manually switch to dark mode with the groove. Minimal design matching with any styles from folk to metal. • Simple After setting up your practice schedule, the daily practice tasks will be popped up automatically without worries. ---- The Idea Is From ---- Justin Guitar - Effective Practice “Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica-The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds” by John Powell ---- Thank You ---- Feedback and comments are welcome! Thank you!

Only Practice — a music practice journal, one session at a time. For musicians who play piano, violin, cello, guitar, and more. Choose a piece, start the timer, capture an idea, or record a passage to listen to later. Keep a record of your practice, whether you are just starting or refining your repertoire. Record each practice session Use a stopwatch or countdown to track your time and follow your practice streaks. Tap a recently practiced piece on the home screen to pick up where you left off. Give every piece its own cover Create square covers using symbols, emoji, composer illustrations, or your photos. Choose soft background colors, gradients, and symbol colors, or crop a photo. Your cover appears across the list, home screen, and piece details. Keep notes within reach Write, read, and edit notes during practice. Pin useful reminders to the side of the screen and find them again the next time you open that piece. The timer keeps running while you use your notes. Set the beat Open the metronome popover on the practice screen to adjust tempo, beats, and sound, or save a preset. Tuck the panel away when you are ready to focus. Listen back and see your progress Save recordings and notes with your pieces, then revisit them in piece details and the timeline. Explore your practice time in Statistics and organize completed pieces into achievements and collections. Continue across your devices Made for iPhone and iPad, with iCloud sync. Supports iOS 18 and later, with glass effects that adapt to your system version. Only Practice offers free features, monthly and yearly subscriptions, and a lifetime purchase. Pro unlocks unlimited piece management. Current prices are shown in the app, and Restore Purchases is available. Turn your love of music into a lasting practice habit with Only Practice. Review and share your practice See weekly and monthly practice charts for each piece. Browse recordings and notes with the timeline calendar. Turn notes into images or animated Live Photos, choose a style and edit the sharing text separately. A Home Screen widget shows a piece’s cover and saved practice hours. Listen to reference performances Save multiple reference performances for each piece. Search Apple Music or paste a song link and audition available previews before adding. You can also extract audio from a video you choose. Listen from piece details or during practice, with speed controls for video audio. Full Apple Music playback requires an eligible subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/shawnchenxmu/Practice_Privacy_Policy/tree/main