How Often do you practice?

I only can play when my daughter and wife are sleeping.

Sam

Same for me. When the wife and kids are in bed is my time. Which generally means its after 9:30pm.

I practice as often as possible but as little as necessary lol :)

seriously, it comes out to about 1 - 1.5 hours on most days of the week. Any less than that and I start to lose technique.

Since GF moved out cause I spent to much time playing I play all the time.lol


4-6 hours a night
If weather is bad(and it usually is this time of year) I'll play most of the weekends

I don't have a set practice routine but rather spontaneous times. I've played for years and never a pro but for the love of guitar and music. I'm rather bored but never stopped playing every day almost.

For my practice routine I put myself on the spot, make a song whether it's new or revamp. :)

For practice, practice the scales and chords but don't keep practicing them, use 'em. :cool:

well i practice alot. Like alot alot. I just graduated and have really nothing else to do so im able to practice more and i love it. I need some advice tho. I sit down after going ovr theory. And im ready to practice my chords and scales. Then I play like the first three notes. And I go off on my own song. Then I spend all my time practicing and focusing on the song I wrote. Which is GREAT but I still have got the chords I really want to get. Its so weird.

I generally get an hour/hour and a hlf a night, starting with Lisa spider warm up and then scales and then chords, i always allow 5 minutes at the end for some effects noise, nothing like that top gun riff to convince yourself you can play :)

I don't know how you guys do 4-6 hours at a stint. I'm up to 2 to 2.5 hours a night (I have a full time job and a wife so I have other priorities to balance). After 2.5 hours I'm mentally exhausted and my hands are sore.

Originally Posted by: Kathryn Mwell i practice alot. Like alot alot. I just graduated and have really nothing else to do so im able to practice more and i love it. I need some advice tho. I sit down after going ovr theory. And im ready to practice my chords and scales. Then I play like the first three notes. And I go off on my own song. Then I spend all my time practicing and focusing on the song I wrote. Which is GREAT but I still have got the chords I really want to get. Its so weird.

That's good as you're improvising. Know what chords you're playing over and that chords share notes. :)