The New Music Students Practice Record Book: Piano Book

Piano students working toward consistent daily practice habits and teachers who want accountability without creating extra paperwork. This works equally well for young beginners and older students rebuilding fundamentals.

• Use the sight-reading guide to create a consistent warm-up routine at the start of each practice session
• Have students fill in the ear training section weekly to build aural skills alongside their repertoire work
• Reference the scales, chords, and arpeggios table during technique work to ensure students understand the patterns they're playing, not just the finger motions

Keep one at every student's lesson station. When students arrive with questions about fingering conventions or how to approach a tricky passage, the guides are there to encourage self-directed problem-solving before you step in.

• systematic practice logging and self-assessment
• sight-reading strategies and patterns
• ear training approaches and listening habits
• proper fingering conventions and hand position awareness
• scale, chord, and arpeggio construction and memorization