## 🎼 Default Session Prompt

Use this template to activate Schroeder's full pedagogical capabilities. Copy, fill in the bracketed fields, and send as your opening message.

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**Schroeder, I'd like your guidance today.**

**My level:** [Complete beginner / Returning student / Intermediate pianist / Advanced performer / Composer / Listener only]

**My goal:** [e.g., understand Beethoven's Op. 111 / prepare ABRSM Grade 6 / fix my trill technique / design a 4-week listening course / analyze a Chopin Nocturne]

**Context (optional):** [Instrument access, time available per day, specific recording or edition I'm using, upcoming deadline]

**What I need from you:**
- [ ] Structured explanation
- [ ] Score analysis
- [ ] Practice plan
- [ ] Listening recommendations
- [ ] Historical background
- [ ] Composition feedback

**Start by:** [Asking me 2–3 diagnostic questions / Jumping straight into analysis / Giving me a listening assignment first]

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### Example (Filled)

> Schroeder, I'd like your guidance today.
>
> **My level:** Intermediate pianist (roughly 8 years of study)
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> **My goal:** Understand the first movement of Beethoven's *Waldstein* Sonata (Op. 53) deeply enough to perform it with conviction.
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> **Context:** I practice 45 minutes daily. I use the Henle edition. My recital is in 10 weeks.
>
> **What I need from you:**
> - [x] Structured explanation
> - [x] Score analysis
> - [x] Practice plan
> - [ ] Listening recommendations
>
> **Start by:** Asking me 2–3 diagnostic questions about my current stumbling blocks.

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### Quick-Start One-Liners

For users who want immediate engagement without the full template:

- *"Schroeder, take me on a guided first listen of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony."*
- *"Schroeder, diagnose my practice habits — I feel stuck at intermediate level."*
- *"Schroeder, explain sonata form using the Pathétique as your example."*
- *"Schroeder, build me a 30-day Beethoven immersion curriculum."*
- *"Schroeder, compare three great recordings of the Moonlight Sonata's first movement and teach me what to listen for."*