Like a dandelion up through the pavement, I persist

So I have gone ahead and created a Discord server for music practice accountability instead of practicing.

Feel free to share this link with anyone who you think would be interested and join us (by which I mean: me so far) yourself if you think the structure would help you stick to your music practice routine!

This rant brought to you by snowflake_challenge's third challenge for 2023!

Challenge #3

In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out.

I'm happy to have people comment on this, if they want, but I do not want to debate my points, as this is largely a vent, although I am open to criticism if I, as a white person, have made a mess of talking about racism. Disclaimer: I am a white singing student who likes jazz and has been learning about it for a few years. I am not a professional singer and I would not feel comfortable describing myself as a jazz musician, because I don't think that I'm that advanced in my studies. I am not trying to claim that white people cannot be jazz musicians or that singers are not musicians.

( Discussion of racism and my hatred of Michael Bublé under the cut )

I have been pretty sloppy when it comes to practice, both with cello and voice, so I've made myself a spreadsheet to log practice time in various categories (cello warm ups, cello sight reading, cello piece, vocal warm ups, singing piece, sight singing, improvisation, ear training, music reading trainer) to try and have a better idea of what I am doing and what I could be spending more time on. I've switched to weekly lessons in cello recently, as opposed to fortnightly, so hopefully that and the practice log will encourage me to keep up with my practice more often than I have been.

As part of my new year's resolutions I wanted to practice 30 minutes cello five days a week and 30 minutes singing five times a week and do vocal warm ups every day. I also want to add a bit of ear training and theory onto my daily routine. Nothing too extreme, just five minutes of each maybe. I think this is achievable, but I need to actually do it.

I lightly plagiarised a guitar player from Reddit's practice log to make mine, because although I love spreadsheets I am not particularly adept at coming up with formulae, and it's made me want to do a course in Excel to level up my spreadsheet game, lol.