What is your daily practice routine?

I use "Play 'n' Practice to log my time. I start with 20-30 minutes of site reading using "Piano Marvel". My restored Mason and Hamlin AA is equipped with ProRecord by PianoDisc so it has a bluetooth connection to the app as a digital piano does. Then I work my way through the 4-6 pieces I am currently working on as app sorts last played piece to the top of its list.  I try to use the Pomodoro Technique to cycle through sections in 20-25 minutes at a stretch. I have 4 mics on my piano and they are connected to Digital  Performer DAW as well as the midi data. In the breaks I can listen to recording either with headphones or have the piano play it back.  When I have a piece pretty well in hand I play along with whatever artists recording of the piece I admire. I find that lets me really see where they are moving the tempo and breaths around as well as dynamics. And can feel how different artists take different approaches. Not trying to emulate, but a way to gather fine tuned direction. Its a pretty geeky approach but I like this setup very much. I also watch/listen to Tonebase lessons while doing dishes or something and then work through them in detail at the piano. I usually spend 2-3 hours a day at the piano. I try to get a decent recording before moving on to new piece. That fells like performance pressure and really highlights the weak spots. When traveling I have a Kawaii ES110 that I have setup to same height keyboard and bench as my grand and triple pedal so can keep up while away.  Some of this process is compensation or work around to not having a teacher. I know that too would add another dimension and am considering that option. 

Dominic, great advice, as always. I too start with goals for the day’s practice session. Then work on pieces that I will be performing first. Recently, I found that playing “cold” what I’m soon to perform improves my confidence and memory.

Then I get to my routine: a few Hanon exercises, some scales and arpeggios, all in medium tempo, which helps limber up my fingers. I usually have a Bach piece in the repertoire, so I tend to go there next, because Bach is a great way for me to really warm up.

As with you and others, memorization is next, and then I work on “fractures” in the current repertoire. Plus a little sight reading of something enjoyable. 
 

I generally practice an hour at a time with longer re-set breaks (Josef Hofmann’s advice), which works well for me physically and my daily routine. 
 

FYI: The concept of “fractures” comes from an invaluable how-to-practice book for amateurs “Playing the Piano for Pleasure” by Charles Cooke. 

I usually practise in blocks of 20-30 minutes, 3-4 times throughout the day. I try to think first what I want to work on in that block of time.

With the warm up, I was using Bach Inventions as warm up pieces before but nowadays I just do a brief runs of chromatic scale in a mirrored contrary motion to wake my fingers up and to observe how both hands move and feel.

Then onto the repertoire piece first at slow tempo, then whatever I need to work on. I have recently started keeping a practise log (I use 'Andante' app) and at the end of the practice block I jot down the things that needs more work (e.g. HT not quite together at x bpm, LH needs more clarity, RH lighter, ...) which feed into the future practices ... though I don't usually go back to read them as a pause to think and writing them down is usually enough but it's there if I need a reminder.

I am retired, an early riser, and approaching 70 in a couple of months. All of which factors into my practice routine!

I do 2 practice sessions every day, with the first one at about 6AM and the second one in early evening, both about an hour long.

In the mornings I warm up and wake up by playing through a couple of Bach Chorales. I'm sure you have one of those big books with several hundred harmonized chorales, right? Sometimes I will try to sing one of the lines as I play, but usually I am just listening to the harmony, trying to guess what comes next, and sorting out which hand plays the alto/tenor (not written to be played at the keyboard, but to be sung). It is a nice warmup for the mind and the ear.

Then I sightread, usually about 15 minutes. There are thousands of pieces to use: Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven Sonatas, Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Grieg Lyric Pieces, the "Classics to Modern" collections, Scarlatti Sonatas, and so on and so forth. When you run across something, save it for later. I can also get a digital version of "Pianist" magazine through my local library - new stuff to sightread in every issue.

Then I do scales/arpeggios. Scales on odd calendar days, arpeggios on even calendar days. Because I am old and arthritis is a problem, I need to keep the fingers moving. Use it or lose it. If you haven't learned all the major/minor scales and arpeggios - what are you waiting for? Now is the time. I vary the routine by playing them in interesting ways. It usually only takes 5-6 minutes to play through every key.

By now I am at about 30 minutes - time for the first break. Then I start working on pieces. If it is a piece full of problems yet to be "mastered" then I just pick one small thing and try to fix that one - small goals. Then move on to another small thing.

For the second practice of the day I skip all the warmup/technique/sightreading and go straight to pieces.

I use a time tracking app on my phone to keep track of the time. I have used various ones over the years - currently using "Toggl Track". And I have a pomodoro kitchen timer (mechanical) that I use when working on pieces - set it for 25 minutes, then a 5 minute break.

I just go onto the piano & start playing

For anyone looking for a list along with mapped out arpeggios in each key of the 11 Russian chords Dominique discussed, I found this website: pianounlocked.com: https://pianounlocked.com/how-to-practice-arpeggios/

Scrolling down on this site's page will offer a great gift: to download, for free, a PDF of all the triads on all the starting notes of the keys. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9msjkkp6agfin0z/The%20Only%20Arpeggio%20Exercise%20You'll%20Ever%20Need.pdf?dl=0

This December I will have completed a full year of tracking my piano practice using a helpful practice journal that I found on Amazon.com by Olivia Ellis and Davis Dorrough. I thought I would share the link here just in case anyone else might find it useful: https://a.co/d/3X0vFaX