# Exercise lists

Put a practice session in order, with drills, a page of the score and the video to learn from, then play through it one item at a time.

## A practice plan, ready to start

A practice session often follows a plan: a warm-up, then the hard piece, then something you enjoy to finish. A list saves that plan. Name it, add the items and press **Start practice**. The practice screen shows the list down the side, and when one item is done, the next one opens.

![The practice screen in list mode: the list down the left side — a warm-up, inversions, a progression and a scale — with the first one being played.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/list.webp)

## Adding the exercise you are playing

To keep the current exercise, press **Add to list** next to the exercise card in [Preferences](https://pianokitty.com/preferences). It goes into the list you edited last, or into a new list if you have none. The editor then opens with the new item selected, so you can give it a better name than the default one.

![The exercise card in Preferences with Copy link, Add to list and a share icon beneath it.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/add-button.webp)

## Quick add: one line per item

For everything else, use **Quick add** in the list editor. Paste or type one item per line (a homework list copied from an email works as it is), and the app picks out what each line contains:

- a link becomes the item’s material, and the app recognizes its kind: a picture, a PDF, a YouTube or Vimeo video, or a PianoKitty exercise;
- **“80 bpm”** or **“tempo: 80”** sets the tempo and starts the metronome automatically;
- **“10 min”** gives the item a countdown;
- the rest becomes the name, and anything after the first sentence becomes the description.

![The quick-add box with three pasted lines: a score image with a tempo and minutes, a PDF with minutes, and a YouTube video.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/quick-add.webp)

![The list editor after the quick add: four items on the left; the Ode to Joy item open with tempo 80, 10 minutes, metronome autostart ticked and an image link.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/item.webp)

## The score on the practice screen

A list can hold more than drills. Each item shows its material in the middle of the practice screen, depending on what it is:

- a picture, such as a photographed page of the score, a lead sheet or a chord chart, fills the screen so you can read from it while you play;
- a YouTube or Vimeo video plays in place;
- a PDF gets an **Open file** button under the item’s name and notes, which opens it in a new tab;
- an exercise is the drill itself, with its own tempo.

The link only has to be public, for example a score from a free sheet-music library or a “share with anyone” link from your cloud drive.

![The practice screen in list mode, with the first bars of Ode to Joy filling the middle and the list down the side.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/score.webp)

![A list item with a PDF: the item’s name and an Open file button.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/pdf.webp)

> If you give an item minutes, a gong sounds when the countdown runs out and the next item opens by itself. You can spend ten minutes on the score, then five on the video, without watching the clock.

| Keys | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `→` `↓` | Next item in the list |
| `←` `↑` | Previous item |

## Editing the list

Drag the items into the order you want to practice them. Untick an item to skip it this week without deleting it. The description accepts simple formatting (bold, lists, links) for instructions that do not fit in a name, like “left hand alone first” or “bars 5 to 8 only”.

![The list editor with items, labels and ordering controls.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/editor.webp)

## Private until you share it

New lists are private. Untick **Private** and send the list to a student, a friend or a parent, and they can practice from your plan (see [sharing](https://pianokitty.com/features/sharing)). Teachers attach lists to [lessons](https://pianokitty.com/features/lesson-planning), so the homework is one click away from the lesson log.

![The page listing your exercise lists.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/lists/mine.webp)

## Make a list

- Try it: [Start a new list](https://pianokitty.com/list/create): Name it, then quick-add a few lines.
- Try it: [My lists](https://pianokitty.com/my/lists): The lists you have made.
- Try it: [A warm-up to add first](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=chords&ct=0,1&bn=0,5,7&inv=0): C, F and G in root position. Then go to Preferences → Add to list.
- Try it: [Ready-made sets](https://pianokitty.com/sets): Collections of exercises to start from.

Related: [Favorites](https://pianokitty.com/features/favorites.md), [Share an exercise or a list](https://pianokitty.com/features/sharing.md), [The notepad](https://pianokitty.com/features/notepad.md)

Source: https://pianokitty.com/features/lists