M2M Day 230: Why has it taken me this long?
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For June, my goal is to develop perfect pitch.
Today, I spent most of the day with my extended family, celebrating Father’s Day. So, I needed to find a few minutes here and there to practice my perfect pitch.
Yesterday, I was scoring 75–80% across 10 out of the 12 notes. To continue my progress, my hope for today was to break 90% across the 10 notes during 100-note sessions (I’ve been using 100 notes as my typical session length, which takes around 5 minutes and makes the math easy).
In my first four sessions, I scored in the mid-80’s, which was a nice improvement from yesterday, but still a few notes away from my goal.
Then, in my final session of the day, I slowed down my approach a bit and scored a 92%, which also featured a run of 52 consecutive correctly-identified notes.
In order to stay on track with my plan, I’ll need to score in the high-90’s tomorrow, and 100% by Tuesday night (for 10 notes… After which, I’ll add in the 11th note, and then finally, the 12th note).
Today was the first day that I really standardized my practicing (into these blocks of 100 notes). Previously, I would identify some arbitrary number of notes, and then stop once I was bored or frustrated.
Transitioning into this more rigorous model definitely helped me remain focused and competitive with myself, as well as more easily track my progress.
I’m honestly not sure why I didn’t introduce this model sooner. I feel like I was a bit too loose in my approach for the past two weeks, and probably could have built up more momentum if I had created structure earlier.
Nevertheless, I’m on a solid, measurable track now, so, as long as my brain can keep up with the program, I should have a shot at this.
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