GUIDE · PRACTICE
A practice plan
for a gig.
You've booked an open mic, a busking spot or a first gig, four weeks out. Here's a plan that spends your practice on the songs that need it, and tells you each week whether you're on track.
1. Make it a goal
- Open Goals and tap New goal: “Open mic at the Crown, 6 songs”.
- Set the date, and link the setlist you'll play. If you haven't made one yet, make it first on the Playlists tab.
- Write one line about what success looks like. “Play all six without stopping” is plenty.
Already have songs in a pile? Organize the songs you're learning first.
2. Break it into milestones
Add milestone for each step. Some you tick off yourself (“book the slot”). Others count themselves from your songs, so they can't be fudged:
- the set reaches six songs
- every song rated Solid or better on the part you'll play
- every song marked Can perform
Each milestone shows a live count, like 4 of 6, and the first unfinished one is your next step.
3. Practice what's in the way
On Practice, pick A goal and choose this one. The session opens on the set's songs. Tap a song when you've played it. With AI on, ✨ Plan a session suggests what to spend tonight on, built from your goal, the next milestone and the songs still blocking it. It only suggests; you decide.
After a run-through, write one line in the song's practice note: what to fix next time. Next time you open that song, the note is waiting.
4. Check in once a week
🗓️ Weekly check-in on the Goals tab recaps the last seven days from what you actually logged, asks how it felt, and proposes the coming week: a practice list, rating changes, a new target date if you need one. Tick what you agree with and apply it. Nothing changes until you do.
5. The week of the gig
Run the set top to bottom with ▶ Play through, or ⏺ Record it to hear how it really sounds. Open the set once online so it's saved on your phone, and check the setlist says it's gig-ready offline. After the gig, complete the goal yourself. The app never decides you're done.
Without AI
Every step above works without AI. The check-in and the session planner are optional extras; the goal, milestones, practice list and notes are all yours to run by hand.
Start your four weeks.
Make the goal, link the set, and see your first milestone.
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Playing with others? Share the setlist with your band, or prepare it for rehearsal.