Make a practice plan for learning a musical instrument
A weekly practice routine with warm-ups, skills, and songs matched to your level, goals, and available time.
The prompt
Create a practice plan to help me learn an instrument.
Instrument: [e.g. "acoustic guitar", "piano", "ukulele", "violin"]
My level: [complete beginner / know a few chords or pieces / returning after years]
Goal in 3 months: [e.g. "play 5 songs to sing along with", "read simple sheet music", "play at a family party"]
Music I love: [ARTISTS OR GENRES]
Practice time: [e.g. "20 minutes, 5 days a week"]
Lessons or resources I use: [teacher / app / videos / book / none]
What I find hard: [e.g. "chord changes", "rhythm", "sore fingers", "staying motivated"]
Give me:
1. A practice session template that fits my time, split into warm-up, technique, new material, and playing for fun, with minutes for each.
2. A 12-week plan, week by week: skill focus, exercises, and a song or piece to work on that suits my level and taste.
3. How to practice well: slow practice, short repeats of the hard bit, using a metronome, and recording myself.
4. Signs I'm ready to move on, and what to do when I plateau.
5. A simple practice log format.
Flag physical warning signs (pain beyond normal fingertip soreness, wrist or shoulder strain) and suggest checking posture with a teacher. Don't overload me; beginners progress best with a few things done often.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "acoustic guitar", "piano", "ukulele", "violin"
- ARTISTS OR GENRES
- e.g. "20 minutes, 5 days a week"
- teacher / app / videos / book / none
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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