An item in My Music is something in your musical life that you want to develop, organize, remember, or return to. It brings together notes, labels, focus areas, resources, practice sessions, and statistics.
It might be a sonata, one movement of a concerto, scales, long tones, an étude book, an exercise, or an ensemble project. Choose its group according to the musical structure you want Cadenso to preserve.
General
Choose General when the item does not need a music Library connection or technique-specific tracking.
It is the most flexible type and works well for:
- your own pieces or exercises;
- étude books and collections;
- rehearsals, sight-reading, or ear training;
- any other recurring activity you want to name and organize yourself.
General supports the same shared workspace features as the other groups, including focus areas, notes, labels, status, resources, and practice history and statistics.
Repertoire
Choose Repertoire piece for music that you want to connect to the music Library.
The resulting repertoire item keeps the shared composition or movement information while giving you a personal workspace for your instrument, status, difficulty, title alias, focus areas, notes, logs, and statistics.
Use this type when the identity of the music matters. If the music is not available, you can add a Library record, keep it private or submit it for review, and then connect it to your item. If you do not need a Library connection, choose General instead.
Technique
Choose Technique when you want to track technical work with keys and dedicated technique statistics.
Cadenso provides built-in technique items for Scales, Arpeggios, and Chords. These also support category-specific subtypes. You can create a user-named technique item, such as Long tones, for other technical activities that still benefit from key tracking but do not belong to a built-in category.
Technique items can collect many keys, subtypes, and focus areas under one item, so you do not need a separate item for every combination.
See Understand technique items and practiced variations for details about built-in categories, user-named techniques, and the combinations recorded during practice.
Item type and practice type are different
The item type determines how the item is organized in My Music: General, Repertoire, or Technique.
The practice type describes the kind of work done in a session, such as repertoire, technique, sight-reading, or improvisation. An item has a default practice type that provides the starting choice for new sessions.
You can convert eligible items later without losing their existing history. Built-in technique items keep their official category and cannot be converted.