Repeating something over again is still the best way to get better at it, and that’s as true of learning to play music as it is anything else. However you feel about “practice”, the fact of the matter is that it works. The challenge system is designed to help guide you and help you to develop these techniques. Playing across different genres & styles of music introduces different ideas and approaches to those things, and helps you be a more well-rounded musician. There’s a lot more to pad drumming than just drumming on pads! Musical concepts such as timing, tempo, hand / finger independence and time signature all play a part. These challenges are designed to both motivate you, and to encourage you to explore different techniques, concepts, genres, etc. There’s two ways to Level up in Melodics ™ - you can either earn enough points, or complete three challenges that we set you at each level. With Melodics ™ we wanted to replicate that approach, practicing and getting better while staying true to the fact that music is supposed to be fun. And although we wouldn’t have called it "practice" when we were doing it, that’s exactly what it was. We embraced the tools available, and we did stuff until we got good at it. For many of us - brought up on hip hop / techno / jungle / EDM / a million other micro-genres, that approach didn’t fit with what we felt in the music. It raises images of endless scales tinked out an an untuned piano, aching hands trying to get the fingering right for an CMaj7#11 chord on the guitar.
We kind of dislike the word practice, at least as it’s used musically.
Motivational mechanics, and the importance of practice
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