Instrument Practice Flashcards

Automatic scheduling for efficient daily practice

Create flashcards for your practice materials and have them automatically scheduled for spaced repetition. The flashcards you need to practice more will appear more often, helping you focus on making progress. Ones for which you’ve met your performance goals can be kept in rotation, helping you maintain your abilities.

  • Free to use
  • No sign-up required
  • Save data to your web browser — A4Musical won’t send it elsewhere without your consent
  • Backup and restore available in case of data loss or to sync to other devices
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Create

To create a flashcard:

  1. Specify the instrument it is for.
  2. Specify the material it is for. This could be instructions for playing an exercise or a piece of music, in a book or on a web page, for example.
  3. Optionally specify a target tempo and any other performance instructions for it.

Review

Choose an instrument to review flashcards for. If needed, a virtual keyboard is available to tune your instrument to.

For each flashcard:

  1. Optionally set the tempo and start the built-in metronome.
  2. Practice the material following any performance instructions.
  3. Answer “Did you meet your performance goals at the set tempo?” to schedule the next review:
    • “No”, or “Almost” or “Yes” not at the target tempo — 0 days off before the next review (scheduled for the following day), or 1 day off after 3 consecutive reviews with the same answer and tempo.
    • “Almost” at the target tempo — 1 day off before the next review, or 2 days off after 3 consecutive “Almost” answers at the target tempo.
    • “Yes” at the target tempo — 2 days off before the next review, then double the days off after each consecutive “Yes” at the target tempo, up to 32 days.

Manage

  • View schedule for each instrument.
  • Browse your flashcards organized by instrument, material collection, and material.
  • View progress by checking past review data and which flashcards have been marked as having goals met at the target tempo.
  • Activate and deactivate flashcards.
  • Edit and delete flashcards, materials, material collections, and instruments.
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