PianoTell's 1st Annual Practice Accountability Challenge - Team 2024 (PACT2024)

Sophia · 2024-06-21T22:53:53+00:00

You are cordially invited to join the Practice Accountability Challenge - Team 2024 (that's PACT2024)! This year, the challenge starts on July 1st, 2024. Nex...

Sophia

Right, well don't worry about it either way - the PACT will be here when you come back 🙂 Please find some time to relax and just do what you can or want to!

rsl12

Forgot to report -- went to the beach for Labor Day, beach has no piano, forgot to sing in the hotel shower. Sophia, mark me up for August 31 and Sept 1.

MandM

rsl12 Ha, ha, my beach 2 years ago in Costa Rica had a piano, LOL. It is a 61-key Piano:Go 😃

Sophia

Oooohhhh if singing in the shower counts, I have been participating in PACT since I was five 😂 Of course back then the kindergarten teacher told my parents my singing was so bad, that she literally said "a Maria Callas she'll never be!"
That is a story I had to endure at many, many visits 😃 So I'll leave the singing to the ones with nicer voices... @rsl12 and @MandM 😊

I have added your dates to the E-list!

HeartKeys

So on vacation I’m in Santa Barbara, with no keyboard or piano with me. Last few days have been playing Pianoteq with my thumb.

Had to keep it simple, and focus more on notes and ear training (since I play 100% by ear). Since playing on a phone is hard to do much, I challenged myself with playing the following basic songs, in all 12 keys: Fur Elise; Bach Prelude; Autumn Leaves. Doing what I can with two fingers.

Obviously I’ll lose some dexterity muscle memory in playing a piano, but I’m keeping my relative pitch, and ear, sharp. Also, whatever I’m hearing playing on the radio, at stores etc I’m playing along to it as well.

I’m glad that I’m still keeping my piano brain sharp! 🙂

Sophia

Haha that's wonderful! I could bring my two-finger cat piano on a trip then 🤣

BartK

I had guests this week and I forgot to report here. I couldn't practice on Tuesday September 24th. Otherwise, my PACT is still going as usual.

Sophia

Added your date, Bart 🙂

TLH21

Reporting absence as I have been away from home. Starting last Thursday after a 26 hour journey to get to my destination, I managed to get hands on piano keys on Saturday in a small music store in the city I was visiting. Lots of small cheap uprights from manufacturers I don’t typically see in my neck of the woods. Yesterday was sightseeing and travel. Today (Monday, I think) I will likely be home too late to practice and I really can’t face wandering the airport to find a piano. So, I am seeking absolution for missing Thursday to Monday inclusive (Saturday was not exactly focused on practice).

Sophia

Added you to the E-List @TLH21 (and I forgot to tag @BartK the other day, though I don't think that matters much 🙂)

Have a good trip home!

HeartKeys

I hope the journey is going well for everyone. I wanted to share some insights that could help those of us, within this PACT, who find it challenging to stay consistent. We all may have our own methods, such as discipline; willpower; creating habits; having external accountability, etc.

I found the following book to be super applicable to developing habits - Atomic Habits by James Clear.

This was something that a coach once prescribed to me, to establish consistency and habits in the things I do. Naturally, I am horrible at staying consistent, but this book provided me with very real-life, applicable ways to establish processes to make habits a super easy thing.

I'm proud to share that I've been consistent 100% since we started PACT. And I do not attribute it to being strong or something. It's not natural to me. I simply created a way where it's easy to be consistent in this no matter what. And I got a lot of those concepts from this book.

Anyhow, wanted to share! And I hope y'all are finding tons of success in your current PACTs as well! 🙂

Pallas

HeartKeys I love that book! I have found that one and several others (like Getting Things Done) very helpful.

Sophia

HeartKeys I'm proud to share that I've been consistent 100% since we started PACT.

That's fantastic!!! It really, really helped me too. When I first started playing (again... after too many quits), I posted this in PW:

Ah, sweet memory lane. At the time I posted that in almost desperation, and then when some of us shifted to PT it was one of the first things I wanted to (continue to) commit to, which quickly morphed into PACT. And here we are 🙂 Nearing the end of the year and I can absolutely say it's helped me spend time at the piano each and every day! Thank you PACT (and all of the fellow PACTicipants).

I guess we'll be continuing this tradition next year as well, right? 🤩

bSharp

I did not practice the past two weeks. Out of the country in South Korea. Will start up again tomorrow.

Sophia

@bSharp I have noted you for October 13th-26th ☺️ Welcome back!

TheBoringPianist

TheBoringPianist I'll pledge to practice daily with exceptions for injury and travel

I gave myself a travel exception for good reason 😅. Missed Oct 26th (7am flight), 27th (lost the day crossing the international date line), and 28th (busy with work!). Will see if I can squeeze in trips to a local practice room as the business trip progresses but I expect there to be a lot of missed days over the next few weeks.

TheBoringPianist

TheBoringPianist apparently I forgot to add plague to the list of practice exceptions. Missed Oct 30, then Nov 1–9. Finally at a hotel with a little more space now so I can unpack my Piano de Voyage and maybe get in some practice this week.

Sophia

Haha good for you @TheBoringPianist (who isn't boring at all) 😃 I have added your dates and happy to add more as needed 😁 Happy travels!

Sophia

I have added those dates to the ones you already submitted @TheBoringPianist 🙂

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