![]() ![]() Don’t just hit the pads, try to commit and be present. You’ve practiced for more than 30 days, 5 minutes a day, but you haven’t finished more than two lessons? I’ve been in this situation and, even though I felt great because I was taking the 5 minutes session, I felt bad because I felt stuck on the same lesson. When I had to wake up in the morming, I always took the challenge into consideration and woke up with at least 100 minutes earlier. It was hard because sometimes I was on the go. With gamification on my mind, I took the 90/90/1 challenge (from Robin Sharma): for 90 days I devoted the first 90 minutes of my work day to the one best opportunity in my life, finger drumming practice. In order to practice daily I took the gamification theory that made computer games appealing and applied it to my finger drumming routine. I have started practicing finger drumming with “becoming the best in the world” in mind. Even though I became skillful, there was no return of investment, except having a great time. I felt very good every time I was doing this. There was something that made me repeat the same process over and over until I levelled up. I’ve always been a fan of games, actually I’ve been addicted to computer games. After practicing sessions longer than an hour, I feel like I’m meditating, I breathe in a different way, sometimes I find myself talking to the pads… :) Gamification You hear the displacement of the notes and your body starts to move in a certain way in order to get the groove right. Something about the routineĪfter you do it every day for a period of time, you start feeling different. ![]() ![]() After almost two years of practicing I’ve managed to increase the time for exercising to 15 minutes and I left the break durations unchanged. I’ve started with a period of three minutes for practicing, a one minute break and a two minutes break after 5 pomodoros. I started using this technique on the 7th of June 2016. I have this app, a timer where you can set three different periods of time, let’s call them pomodoros: one for exercising, one for a break and a longer one for a break after 5 complete periods of exercising. This is when I found out about the Pomodoro technique. I had to make the time work for me, not instead of me. I felt that I didn’t have enough time, I felt like I was too old to start learning new skills. In the beginning it felt easier for me to start running for 40 minutes than to open Melodics and practice. ![]() I knew that this is what I wanted to do, but it felt extremely hard to start. In no time you’ll hit the 90% milestone, 94% and 100% Perfect. As long as you keep practicing, your brain will make new connections, and you’ll suddenly feel that you’re out of the darkness. Keep practicing, ignore interfering with your inner voice, just let it mumble. This is the first sign that you are almost there. I found out that there’s no turning back. What happened? What should I do now? you ask. You notice that you forgot the parts that you just learnt minutes ago, you don’t even get close to 80%. The harder you try, the harder it gets, your fingers are not responding to your commands anymore. A couple more and you *** Perfect 100% the first two parts. In a couple of minutes you figure out the finger positions. You feel enthusiastic because it’s something new. Here are some experiences and takeaways from my journey so far. ![]()
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