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

BartK I'm not sure if regular users can.

I haven't really thought of any specific logistics yet, but so far we've been able to edit all of our previous posts. So that won't be an issue if we choose such a system 😊

Oh and Stub, that's exactly what I noticed as well... it definitely worked for me as a 👢 in the butt 😂

bSharp

I've been doing MYOD at PW since 2017. Happy to join here. I play whenever I am home, and take a break when I travel.

Stub

We could call it MYOP for Master of Your Own Practice (or Piano). The acronym is pronounceable, unlike MYOD. 😐

BartK

Stub We could call it MYOP for Master of Your Own Practice (or Piano). The acronym is pronounceable, unlike MYOD.

It's MOYD not MYOD. It's a reference to the phrase "master of your domain" from the Seinfeld episode The Contest.

I suppose cultural references to '90s sitcoms are no longer funny. I'm getting old...

ShiroKuro

I like MYOP!!

Sophia

I like it too 👍

Sgisela

BartK are there perhaps any updated cultural references that we can tap into? I’m afraid I don’t keep up-to-date with the latest TV trends, but maybe someone else has an idea that references something less dated… Although perhaps the consensus is that Seinfeld has now become a timeless classic!

Sophia

BartK It's MOYD not MYOD

Thanks for that!! I was always wondering why it used an acronym that didn't quite match 😆

ShiroKuro

BartK Yes, you are correct that it comes from Seinfield. But MOYD started ages and ages ago at PW's ABF, and I am pretty sure that at one point, someone wrote MYOD in the thread title accidentally, and then it just stayed that way for a few years. Probably someone fixed it after that and then it's been back to MOYD...

In any case, MOYP and MYOP are both easy to say, so I don't care either way 🙂

Stub

Dang! I read what I wanted to see......

Pallas

Stub We can certainly create one we like better! I would love that, myself, making it a bit more different than over there. Got any ideas?

Sophia

I'm not partial to anything, though I like the idea of a pronounceable acronym. 🙂 Or even something funny and meaningful such as BOOK - Brainy Object Of Knowledge or MALL - Money Accepted, Long Lines (source)

Gooseberry

Sophia PANDA - Practice Accountability (P&A - PANDA)?

PianoMonk

For a long time, I felt like I should play every day, even when I really didn't want to. And while playing every day does enhance my muscle memory, I've found that playing every day sometimes does more harm than good, for me anyway. If I work on just one song, or arrangement, day after day, I soon grow tired of it, maybe even start to hate it. So, I usually have 5 or 6 that I work on. Even with that diversity, I find that I run into a sort of brick wall sometimes, where a tune just doesn't flow like I want it to, or there's a place where I struggle, and I might give up in frustration.

Now, before I hit any rough patches, I just walk by the piano, maybe go outside, take in some nature, or whatever. Then, I pick one of those tunes I'm working on and play it in my head; not thinking about the notation, or the fingering, or anything technical. I play the song in my head the way I want it to sound, as if I were listening to a recording of it, over and over. After a day, or two, or three, or even longer, when I sit down to play it again, all of those rough spots have vanished. It's like my subconscious knows how the tune is supposed to sound, so my fingers seem to have an easier time making it sound the way I want it to sound. So, that's my method of madness for practicing the piano.

Stub

Hmm. Piano Tell Daily Practice Challenge. ~~PTDPC~~ or PTDP to make it more flow off the tongue a bit better.

MandM

Count me in, please. I play fairly often and use the Roland - GO Piano as an airline travel keyboard. It has 61 keys and less than 35 inches width. No knobs or dials to break off, and fits nicely in a padded duffle bag for airline transport.

I know what PianoMonk means ... not every single day is fantastic piano practice. Sometimes it is just so, so. Plus after a full day of working it takes an extra push to sit down and play. I also have a couple of songs that I work on at the same time. And a few songs that I play as warm-up.

Sophia

Very nice! Pending the acronym, "rules" etc, we (not royal we, I mean Pallas and I) were thinking of starting July 1st, which gives us a nice 6 months to ease into the habit. Let's hope this will become a tradition of many future decades 😊

MandM

July 1st sounds great ...

HeartKeys

I’m interested!

Pallas

Late last night, I was up playing with acronyms.

Master of Your Practice, MOYP
(Let's go, MOYPers!)

Masters of Our Practice, MOOP
Masters of Our Dominion, MOOD
(Let's go, Moopers, Mopers, Moopies, Moodies - this sounds depressing as heck! Dead end.)

PianoTell Daily Practice Challenge, PTDP
I have questions. Do I pronounce this PitDiP? Motto: PitDippers Dip in Daily? (At the end, we can celebrate with a badge that says: We DID It? Or Daily Dip 2024!)

Or DPC = Dipsy? I could probably have a lot of fun word-doodling with Dipsy. But it would get silly!

Practice Accountability (P&A - PANDA)? PANDA
Let's go, Pandas! PANDA2024
This would look SOOPER CUTE on a T-shirt.

Practice Accountability Challenge (Team 2024)
PACT2024 (update year each January of course) - (Let's go, Pacters, Pacties, Pactoids, PactTeam!)

Challenge of Daily Accountability, CODA
At the end of the year, we have a "concluding" Zoom party, where we chat and link to our favorite performance videos of the year?
Let's go, Codars, Codies, CODApops, Codaliens...)

Practice Accountability, Refuse To Yield! Because it was super late at this point, and I really wanted the acronym to spell PARTY! 🤣🤣🤣

Please keep suggestions coming, and one of them will surely light our jets!

If anybody wants me to try to make a different piano concept function as an acronym, let me know and I'll give it a go.

For acronyms, please note that MOYD didn't include the words piano, practice, accountability, or anything like that, and it has been functioning for 20 years.

Please note that this can also just be an evocative key word that we like but isn't an acronym. There are several piano camps that use the key word concept rather than an acronym, and it works great for them.

As you can probably see, I'm loving the "team" oriented ones, because I'm loving our positive and inclusive philosophy, and think it would be fun to have check-ins and activities, but if anyone's thinking ugh, socializing homework, and we just want a simple "Daily Practice Challenge" with no frills, that's fine too. Spaghetti is flying everywhere and sliding off every wall at Casa Athena!!!

Let's go with Daily Practice Challenge if there's no consensus on someone else in a couple of days.

HeartKeys

If this were for branding and sales purposes an acronym could help. But for something like accountability and practice, I think acronym isn’t necessary unless it gets created organically.

So I’m all for “Daily Practice” or something similar, per above, if nothing’s naturally created. Having an acronym likely won’t increase or decrease our practice schedules 🙂

Pallas

HeartKeys I think acronym isn’t necessary unless it gets created organically.

I can see where you're coming from! "Organic" usually means one person came up with it and now we're stuck with it whether we like it or not. Who wants to be That Person? Not me! BUT, I'm totally understanding your point. "Keep it simple!"

What Do We Call This Thing?

Daily Practice Challenge: 1 vote (abstainers will be added to this category on Wednesday,6/24).

Various Acronyms: 1 vote each (ignore the non-bolded silliness).

(A poll function would be Amazing! Until then...)

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