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pog	Date: March 6, 2005 @ 10:43 PM I used to practice between 8 and 16 hours a day on guitar, and these days I only get a few hours a week in. This is mainly because I havn't nearly as much time in a day as I used to. I'm curious ... how many hours per day/week do ya'll get to practice ??? Please state what instrument if you're not a guitarist.
Droquen	Date: March 6, 2005 @ 10:58 PM Wow! 8-16 hours a day is pretty excessive I only play about 2-3 mostly because I'm playing my guitar pretty much whenever I'm on the PC to kill some idle time.
TheFearDrone	Date: March 6, 2005 @ 11:27 PM Only about 20-30 minutes per month over the last several years. Hoping for more 'music time' in the coming months.
victorsskull	Date: March 6, 2005 @ 11:48 PM maybe once a week 1 to 5 hours
DaveHall	Date: March 6, 2005 @ 11:53 PM Practice has morphed into "learning parts during Creating" which is usually the case in my current schedule. Drums are my escape, whenever my 41 year old body feels up to it, after drywalling the world...
BlackMage	Date: March 7, 2005 @ 5:29 AM Usually six hours a day including piano, guitar and bass when I'm at dad's place. When I'm at mom's place it might be zero hours. Depending on if I have my guitar there or some other instrument.
mos	Date: March 7, 2005 @ 10:27 AM everyday, something like 7-9 hours
imemine	Date: March 7, 2005 @ 10:34 AM I’m embarrassed to say that between my job, my family and DM I only practice when I’m trying to learn something to record or writing songs. Frankly, there just isn’t even enough time to do a great job at anything these days. I never practice my bass anymore— my main instrument and it shows-I just play it- but I must practice the guitar and keyboards before I ever record anything. Still not enough to get a truly flawless performance, everything is a compromise. When I left playing in bands I went almost 10 years without hardly picking up an instrument only to return to playing just a few years ago. It’s not like riding a bicycle. I would love nothing more than to play all the time but----“Time won’t let me”! stay tuned for that last line to make sense
kingo	Date: March 8, 2005 @ 8:29 AM I practiced one time, it was like 12 years ago. i practiced my guitar. Spent like 13 minutes doing that. Man, that was awesome.
tsand19151	Date: March 8, 2005 @ 9:23 AM "Practice has morphed into "learning parts during Creating" yeah, my feeling exactly. thank GOD for midi......
Bhairava	Date: March 8, 2005 @ 11:37 AM I practice a few hours a day and most oppertunities I get inbetween school work. But I'm not one of those people that just learn songs and say you can't improvise until your a master. What a load of rubbish!!! My practice is often in writing songs or learning techniques I learn some songs for my band when I need to. But I think its not just hours of practice its always listening to others and having your attention on it. Sometimes you improve loads by not playing. When I started playing I practiced around 8 hours a day but I think after a while it makes you worse.
fanch-t	Date: March 8, 2005 @ 5:50 PM i never practice. that probably explains why i'm not any good. oh, and that 13 minutes 12 years ago was the best recording session halaka ever had. kingo practiced the rest of us right out of the room.
kingo	Date: March 8, 2005 @ 7:02 PM And y'all are STILL running away from my daunting fucking abilities. I'm knocking all the shelves over.
Cowboy666	Date: March 8, 2005 @ 9:11 PM I would practice if I could play anything.
zedsalt	Date: March 9, 2005 @ 12:17 PM I try to spend about 4 hrs./day on music, but I can't say as I've ever really "practiced"...
gothian	Date: March 9, 2005 @ 9:01 PM I used to practice a lot of hours a day... but now I play at rehearsals 2 or 3 hours two days a week, and an hour or two on weekends. I should practice my english too... seems like it's getting worse
lpguitar	Date: March 15, 2005 @ 2:27 PM holy crap i could never practice that much... i might do 3-4 hrs a day tho.
SilentDeftone	Date: March 16, 2005 @ 8:33 PM I try to get an hour or two in daily. Doesn't always happen.
Resiliance	Date: March 17, 2005 @ 2:53 PM I used to try and get a good 2 hours of practice every day... But the last 5 months or so, I've not "practiced" once, and often times I've found myself working on the mental aspects much more than the physical aspects... Must be because my technique allows me to do what I want at this stage...
pog	Date: March 17, 2005 @ 3:20 PM I went through stages like that .... like listening to the radio and trying to figure out all the intervals without a guitar in my hands. Also, learning to play in the dark is a good one... I was having issues playing live when the lights were flashing in my face, and I couldn't figure out which fret I was on, so I spent a few weeks playing in the dark to learn the fretboard by feel. Both techniques teach you how to visualise the fretboard in your mind instead of relying on looking at it all the time.
zedsalt	Date: March 18, 2005 @ 10:52 AM Every once in a while, I do this on guitar and/or keys: I turn on the TV, grab the remote, and find a station that's playing music of ANY sort, and I play along as long as the music's goin'. When the song or jingle stops, I change channels until I find more tunes. I end up playing along with a surprisingly wide variety of stuff this way, and it seems to help my improv chops quite a bit.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: March 18, 2005 @ 3:01 PM I practice about an hour per day. Usually my "practicing" is just fooling around, not really practicing.
OddOneOut	Date: March 20, 2005 @ 10:38 AM 8-16 hours? woah, id kill to have that amount of time to spend doing whatever i like (mainly cos school and clubs take up so much time but usually its up to an hour a day for me.
Travelsonic	Date: March 20, 2005 @ 12:55 PM I put in 2-3 hours/day, but yesterday I worked for 7 hours strait. My hands were numb after that.
Intergalacti...	Date: March 20, 2005 @ 1:27 PM Mine vary a bit some days I can go for 2 to 3 hours others i wont pick it up
jordanthegreat	Date: April 4, 2005 @ 4:24 PM good ideas, i find just throwin on a bunch of random albums and soloing over them in different chord shapes is neat. playin with the tv is cool but i keep it strictly Am
guitarjunkie	Date: April 12, 2005 @ 10:19 PM i try to get at least 2 hrs a day in after school, or when i get home from work...i usually work till 6, and the days i dont work i get home from school at 2:30 so its easy to practice on my days off
japarti	Date: April 21, 2005 @ 12:08 AM 4 hours weekends and 2 hours on weekdays
Traf	Date: April 24, 2005 @ 6:21 AM I s'pose I actaully have a guitar either round my neck or on my lap for an average of about 6 hours a day, but the amount of quality and serious practice I do is probably about an hour a day... the rest of the time I spend just twiddling and thinking about fishing.. Sometimes I even take my guitar fishing but it gets a bit smelly... and I miss to many bites...
Hanzi	Date: April 24, 2005 @ 8:32 PM wow thats alot! I usually practice about 2-3 hours a day, and I thought I was practicing excessively!

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