For a piece of your own or an imported one, the practice excerpt lets you narrow down exactly what you're practising — bars, hand and tempo. Built-in exercises only offer the hand choice, and only when the exercise uses both hands. Bars and tempo always stay the whole exercise there.
Opening the practice excerpt
"Adjust ▾" above the player expands the practice excerpt — collapsed, the bar just shows a summary such as "Whole piece · ♩ = 90", or, once an excerpt is active, a chip row with "Bars a–b".
That's how an active excerpt looks — bars, hand and tempo as chips; “Adjust ▾” opens the full controls.
Narrowing down the bars
Expanded, the field reads "Bar a to b", with "of n" alongside showing the piece's total bar count. "End excerpt ✕" resets you straight back to the whole piece.
Choosing a hand
"Both hands", "Right" or "Left" narrows things down to one hand as well — "Play other hand quietly" has Klavissimo play the hand you're not practising quietly alongside, without scoring it.
Tempo within the excerpt
The "♩ =" field changes the tempo only for this excerpt (20–300), with "Original: …" staying alongside as a reminder of the piece's original tempo. If the piece changes tempo in the score, the field is the base tempo, and every tempo in the excerpt changes in proportion.
Following your tutor's suggestions
When your tutor suggests a spot, a button like "▶ Practise bars a–b · ♩=z" appears — one click loads bars, hand and tempo straight into the practice excerpt, marked with the "Your tutor's suggestion" pill.
Good to know:
While an excerpt is active, scoring applies only to it too: Klavissimo compares just the bars in the chosen range, and the result shows a "Practised: bars … · … · ♩=…" line at the top to match.
Good to know:
If you practise just one hand of a two-handed built-in exercise, that is a partial step. The result shows "Right hand practised" or "Left hand practised", and the exercise stays open in your daily plan and learning path, even if the other hand played along quietly. Only a run with both hands completes it. "Practise with both hands" starts the exercise that way straight away. The same applies to pieces, where a section is a partial step too: a piece only counts as mastered after a run through every bar with both hands (or with its one hand, if it only has one).