Practice
Practice Routines & Auto Plan
How routines are put together, how Auto Plan builds a session around the time you have, and how sharing exercises with the community works.
A routine (the app also calls it a practice plan) is nothing more clever than an ordered list of exercises with a name, a difficulty and a category. You follow it top to bottom, and at the end it logs the session for you.
Ready-made routines, playalongs, your own plans, and plans shared by other players.
Three ways to get a routine
The app ships with plans for common goals, so start here if you don't know what you need
My Stuff → Create Plan. Pick exercises, put them in the order you want, save it and reuse it forever
Tell it how long you've got and it assembles a session for you
Auto Plan
You choose a length between 15 minutes and 2 hours, optionally narrow it down to certain categories or a difficulty, and it does the rest:
Only exercises matching the categories and difficulty you asked for stay in the pot
So you don't get the same session two days running
Exercises are added until the plan is close to the length you asked for, then it stops
If nothing fits your filters in the time available, you get a single exercise rather than an empty plan
The difficulty label on a generated plan is worked out from the exercises that actually got picked, so a "medium" plan really is a medium mix. Before you start you can reorder exercises, drop the ones you don't fancy, or re-roll any single exercise for a different one.
Pick a length, press start, play.
What's inside an exercise
- Difficulty and category
- So it can be filtered and so your time is tagged correctly
- An estimated length
- Which is what Auto Plan uses to fill your session
- Instructions and tips
- Step by step, written to be followed while holding a guitar
- A suggested tempo
- Where a metronome range makes sense
- Related skills
- What the exercise feeds on your skills screen
- Tab or a backing track
- When the exercise comes with one
Your exercises and the community
Every exercise you create sits in one pool; a single public/private switch decides who sees it.
- My Exercises
- Everything you've written, public or private, under My Stuff
- Community
- Only the public ones, browsable by everyone and sorted by rating, under Practice → Exercises
Community exercises can be rated one to five stars. Sharing pays a little too: a "thanks" from another player pays you +5 Fame, and the first time somebody other than you completes your exercise pays +1 Fame. Playing your own exercise doesn't count towards its play count.
+5 FameCreating or editing an exercise opens the tab editor, where you can write out the notation. When you publish it, you choose whether it goes public (the default) or stays private to you.
Questions people ask
Do I have to finish a routine for it to count?
No, whatever you actually played gets logged. Finishing simply means everything is ticked off
Can I edit a ready-made plan?
Not in place, but you can build your own version with the exercises you like
Is a routine worth more points than free practice?
No. Time is time. Following a plan does let you tick the Exercise plan habit, which is worth a point
What happens to a shared exercise if I make it private again?
It leaves the community list. Ratings and Fame you already earned stay