MODULES 1-4

We build a complete practice structure using spacing, interleaving, and expanding retrieval. Working with short segments you choose, this structure produces results quickly and becomes the foundation for all practice in the course.

Week 1
We start with the mysterious art of spaced repetition by using one short segment you choose from your music.

That creates little pockets of time in which we can place interleaving.

You will enjoy results in the first few days, then after the first week, and beyond, with just this initial practice structure.

It will serve you for all of your practice to come, and we will do all of our subsequent learning for this course within it.

We’ll spend the first four sessions gradually easing into, and refining, this.
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​Week 2
Add a small new element to our spacing, and begin applying expanding retrieval schedules.

We will simultaneously ‘review and do’ all of the elements of the first week in real time. In this way, we’ll be able to double check what we have been learning.

These methods are unusual and it is easy to get off-task on our own, so we’ll check each week to make sure we are on track.

Week 3
The expanding retrieval schedule is now fully operational.

We will spend time getting used to practicing that this week, as well as adding a few, small, new elements.

Week 4
​Our basic practice structure is complete. We will review everything, and begin the first phase of improving the sections that have already improved dramatically! Paradoxically, it starts by not practicing it at all!

MODULES 5-6

We use this structure to learn how to practice deliberately. Using the same segments, we learn how to focus, identify what still needs to improve, and decide what to work on next, while continuing to use spacing and interleaving.

Week 5
Now we will turn our newfound ability to learn more quickly, to learning how to incorporate deliberate practice. Like spacing – it is simple to understand, but hard to get right in practice.

We’ll go through the same process we did to learn spacing. We’ll use the segments we’ve put through spacing.

They have improved greatly, and some sound great right now. We’ll learn how to find, on our own, what to do next for those that still need to improve!

We will continue using spacing and interleaving in our practice.

Week 6
​We dig deeper into our ability to focus and use deliberate practice.

MODULES 7-8

We add contextual interference to the existing interleaving schedule, reviewing everything learned so far while strengthening technique and long-term improvement.

Week 7
Introducing contextual interference – it does for our technique what steroids do for athletes, and without any negative side effects. We’ll drop this technique into our established interleaving schedule.
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​Week 8
​​Reviewing all of our spacing and deliberate practice learned so far, and adding additional elements to contextual interference.