10000h Cello Experiment 一万小时大提琴实验
HR 0001 / 10,000

An experiment · since 2020.01.28

Can 10,000 hours teach me the cello?

No teacher, a self-taught experiment.
Every hour logged, every milestone recorded.

0 / 10,000 HRS · AND COUNTING

Scroll — hour 1 → 800
Each light is one hour.
827 lit. 9,173 waiting.

The ledger

679 days, kept honest.

Every practice day since 2020-01-28, one square per day — the deeper the gold, the longer the day. A red seal stamps each 100th hour, from hour 100 (day 87) to hour 800 (day 658).

practice day 100-hour seal rest

The count so far

Year by year

Year Hours Days H / Day

Every 100 hours costs about 80 days of practice.

Recordings

CODA

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best is now."

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