Using My Practice Assistant

Beginner Grade 1 Module 1: A & D Chords + Play Your First Song!
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My Practice Assistant is the perfect tool to keep you focused on what matters and track your progress!


View the full lesson at Using My Practice Assistant | JustinGuitar

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I enjoy the pratice assistant. I have a question about it.

Is there a way to display the number of hours played in a long period of time. For instance, how many hours did I pratice this month, this year, last month etc… ?

I can see the pratice time for this week, but I didn’t find how to do it for other periods.

Thanks.

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@mynoud - you can click on the dates on the bottom of the bar chart to enter a different time frame then click on Filter to display the results.

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@Tom_b Thank you. It works like a charm.

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The practice assistant is perfect for me. It keeps me on track for what is important to learn. Really a Godsend.

If ever there is a tweak to the PA in stats I would like to be able to view my total hours practiced from day one as a continuous item that grows over time and then a filtered view alongside it like week, month, year, or mod.

Thanks for everything!
Smokey

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Hi Justin! Love your courses, only just starting but I’m really excite to keep going with the guitar :slight_smile:
Just quickly wanted to mention something I noticed: I’m not sure if this is the case, but I worry that the screen blinking like that when a practice routine has been completed might be triggering for people with photosensitive epilepsy? Maybe just a sound would make the practice assistant safer for everyone? Just a thought. All the best, can’t wait to continue with your lessons, thank you for providing these great resources!

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HI Maximiliane and welcome to the Community.

Its great that you are enjoying your guitar journey and excited about keeping going. There are a whole host of friendly folk here, only to willing to help if you get stuck.

I can’t help regarding the screen issues you mention but hopefully one of Justin’s team will following up. Why not pop over to

Introduce yourself …

Introduce yourself. Then look around, make yourself comfortable.

and let folks know a little about yourself,. As you will see there have been loads of people joining the Community since it was moved to its new platform.

Enjoy your ride. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

@LievenDV or @Richard_close2u can you pass Maximiliane’s concerns and suggestion on to the right folks.

Cheers

Toby
:sunglasses:

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Thanks so much, Toby! :slight_smile:

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Hi I’m having a Weird issue with the practice Assistant. When I click on the start button the screen on my phone goes black I need to touch it to see video or close it by this time the timer is running leaving me less minutes to practice. I tried shutting down always use video assistance and still does it. Can anyone help.
Regards
Adrien

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Hi, I think the practice assistant is a good way to keep my practice regulated, but I have one question about it. If I want to do 4 times 1 minute chord changes, do I have to make 4 different items for that or is there a way to quadruple that in the routine itself? Thanks in advance!

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I had been using the practice assistant a little when it was introduced, but only now really taking full advantage of it’s features. After reviewing the Practice Assistant video again last week, I realized that I could add the songs and associated videos as items directly from the song video pages. Before I had added my own song practice items with the names of the song, but this is so much better.

I am also starting with the module practice items and then duplicating and editing out the completed and mastered items and adding songs for practice as I progress in the module, plus adding in a few items for extra practice.

The Practice Assistant is a real benefit to me to keep myself honest as to how much practice I really do and not just what I think I do. That encourages daily consistency and help with moving forward with my progress.

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A tip if anyone else has been just writing their Minute Chord Change stats into a notebook (or logging them in the app) until seeing this video and deciding to try to use my practice assistant on the website:

You are able to record a backlog of stats by manually changing your computer’s date and time. I’d recommend going to the first day you have stats for and then “time traveling” forward, because your Routines/Exercises/Items only show on or after the “date” they were created.

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Might have been said already but flashing screens can cause seizures. Just turning the screen blue should be enough to indicate time is done on practice assitant. :slight_smile: Thanks for all the zillion hours of work you’ve put into this Justin. I’ve tried to learn guitar many times and now four decades later finally feel like I can play. Grateful for you.

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@Jordi97 Did you get that sorted?

Cheers :smiley:
| Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide, Approved Teacher & Moderator

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Just a note. In the app there is a count off in practices. It makes it hard to count 1-min quick change progress when the website version of the Practice Assistant doesn’t count off so by the time I lean over to click play with my computer and return to playing position I have lost seconds off my quick changes and usually not the same number of seconds ha ha.

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Hello

I have a suggestion for the Lessons and Practice Assistant.

It would be much easier if we could directly add a Lesson from a Module to a Practice Routine in one step (incorporating the information for the “New Item” within that one step).

As it is now, we need to add a Lesson to the New Item and then open a Routine, scroll to find the new lesson/item just added and then add it to the Routine. It seems a bit cumbersome to me.

(Also, I understand that having the lessons as Items is helpful because we may want to copy lessons/items into different practice routines)

It seems like it’d almost be easier to simply create a spreadsheet and copy the link for the Lessons I want to review rather than going through the steps to make Items and Routines in the Practice Assistant.

Don’t get me wrong, the Practice Assitant is a great idea/tool and has useful features (timer, metronome, notes) and I know a lot of work and thought went into it.

I’ve missed several months of playing/practicing and I am trying to go back through the Beginner Course and add lessons I need to review.
I’m trying to figure out the most efficient process to use to add lessons to a review routine.

Thanks
Andrew

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Hi, I can’t seem to add an item to the practice items from your web content as you demonstrated in the video with the finger gym. I go to the Technique, Fretting Hand, and select finger gym but below there is no “Practice” button to add the item to a routine. Can you help me? Is it a browser problem? What is the recommended browser?
Thank you,
Dan

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Never mind, figured it out. It appears that I needed to have created my first practice in order to add an item from the web content.
Thank you. I appreciate the extensive content and material you have.

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Great tool ! Thanks

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This practice assistant is amazing! I love that it not only works for practicing outside of the video lessons, but it also works with any other instrument. Now I can finally organize my ocarina practice and guitar practice without pulling my hair out!! Thanks so much Justin (:

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