Anki spaced repetition flashcards for Gypsy Jazz

Buco · September 4

@limalima I'm not sure I understand why I need to rebuild whenever I want to use it... it's still early, I need my 2nd coffee. Wouldn't this do the trick to show the recently answered cards (from the article you linked)?

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In this particular case, yesterday, I wanted to practice using these licks on my own, away from Anki. Thing is, (and I may be messing with the process again if I'm doing the work away from it) after few days that it's been quizzing me on a group of cards, and I've been answering "good", now they're scheduled to show up in 10-11 days. I'm like, what...lol. I get it, that's the whole point. In 10 days I might answer hard and then they'll go back into rotation. Until one day, after a 10 day break, I answer "good".

limalima · September 4

I think you'll need to rebuild the deck whenever you empty it. It doesn't dynamically populate from the search (at least not on my machine).

You're right, if you want to repeat all cards from today outside of the algorithm, use the search term you highlighted. I find this really useful at times and have been doing it for years - anecdotally, I don't find it has a negative effect on retention.

Buco · September 4

That's it then. Thanks!

Edit: that did the trick, opening a deck and searching for

prop:rated=-2

returned the cards from the last two days

Looking at the list, I at least partially played all except Jimmy Minor. So it's working.

limalima · September 4

@Buco, I see you're searching in all the cards. You can make a "Filtered Deck" which will display as a deck in the app with these cards, and prompt you through them just like normal study (except outside normal study).

Tools -> Create Filtered Deck

Then put the options in for the search filter, and uncheck "Reschedule cards based on my answers in this deck"

And you'll have a new deck which is outside the algorithm for just reviewing the recent cards.

Maybe you had already understood this. But here it is explicitly for any future readers.

Buco · September 4

Ah I see, you sort of create a sub-deck. That's pretty cool too. This time I just needed it to remind me what I worked on. But this can come in handy. Maybe you select fewer cards that you want to put extra focus on and specifically try them in a live situation. Then you create this filtered deck and ultra focus on those only. I suppose in a way that's wanted to do, I just wanted to do it on my own. Thank you 👍

Buco · September 21

If I see any of you two in person, remind me to buy you a beer. Especially @Azazzell for getting this started.

Next up for practice with Anki stuff is the book I got about a year ago. I don't buy stuff usually, this is one of the two books I got in recent years. Another one is Remi Harris Gypsy Jazz licks and I got it to support the guy since I learned so much stuff from his YT videos that I use.

It's by Tim Lerch: Melodic Jazz Chord Dictionary. It's an interesting book because he designed it with arranging chord melodies in mind. The way it's structured is it groups the chords by its basic quality (maj, min, dom...etc) but then it breaks it down by where the melody note might fall. A picture will probably explain it better

I created a deck called Tim Lerch Voicings and then the subdecks as I tackle them. And I just started with the chords with the melody in the 3rd string.

Again, once you build a deck, it takes so much work out of getting you to practice. It makes it super easy and it doesn't feel like a chore. I just breezed through the set of chords that might have melody on the 3rd string. Easy voicings but I never used this stuff. And hey sound very nice. They would work great for accompanying a singer, for ballads accompanying a soloist etc...

limalima · September 22

Thanks @buco.

I have that Tim Lerch book as well, it is a very useful way to organize chords.

What do your cards look like for that? Does the front say: Major 6, root on top on third string and the back of the card have the diagram?

Or are you running through the set as a family: front: A minor chords with 3rd on the 2nd string.

Back: 5-10 chord diagrams?

I'd like to hear a little more about how you are using this. Thanks!

Buco · September 22

This

What do your cards look like for that? Does the front say: Major 6, root on top on third string and the back of the card have the diagram?

Just like that, simple. The deck is named "Tim Lerch voicings". Then I created a subdeck "major chords, root on top, 3rd string melody". Then I'll just keep adding subdecks as I go through the book. I'll follow his own groupings of chords and make a subdeck for each, one chord/card at a time. At least that's the plan for now.

I figure if you know these positions well in major quality, then moving them into minor, dominant...etc is just a matter of moving the 3rd, 7th and so on, so the subsequent decks will be easier. Then there's putting them into actual use, that's where the real work starts...

Which I kinda started by coming up with this little thingy inspired by these initial voicings

https://youtu.be/VUPxUZ5Extw?