Better Practice isn’t just a practice tracker! We put our main focus in motivating students to want to practice - hence, all of our motivational tools built right into the app! We’ve separated the list below by motivation types - read this article first to see which motivation types your students ar… Read More
Maybe you’re a teacher that wants to make your students’ practice more fun and engaging by providing them with backing tracks. Or maybe you’re a student that wants to quickly make a track to play along with. This article will go show you quick ways to make backing tracks for any song you hear. You w… Read More
Think back to your very first musical encounter. What made you pick up your first instrument? Whatever the answer (whether it was inspiration from seeing a performance, a school requirement, or a demanding mother) - I think we all had that flash of hope in us that someday (soon), we’d be playing our… Read More
What does 200 consecutive days of practice look like? We wanted to take time this week to celebrate a Better Practice student, Meryl, who reached a 204-day practice streak! That is no small feat - anyone who practices an instrument should know. Meryl found a way to practice everyday, no matter wher… Read More
This is the 6th installment in our motivating music students series. Here, we'll talk about intrinsic motivation and how to nurture it. Intrinsically motivated students are genuinely interested in what they’re learning. I’d say this is one of the ‘best’ types of motivation as it builds on truly good… Read More
Sometimes when I was younger, I would get a piece to learn that was so long or so difficult that I just didn’t know where to start. I would get overwhelmed just looking at it. So day after day, I’d put it off - until, before I knew it, a week passed and I hadn’t touched the piece. I’d sulk into my d… Read More
"I think I can, I think I can," these are the words from the 1930's children's book The Little Train That Could, and they are also the thoughts of your achievement-oriented music students. In this post, Part 3 of the Motivating Music Students multi-part series, we will explore achievement motivation… Read More