How Often Do You Practice?

I am just curious how frequenty other leaners practice. My wife and I started learning guitar from square-1 about 10 days ago, and we practice at least 60 minutes every day. We are both in the sore-finger/hand zone but knowing it will not last long keeps us practicing.

So how often do you practice? What is your practice regimen (scales, finger boarding exercises)?

I gather you are both on Guitar Fundamentals 1, follow each lesson and practice what you have just learned until you can play the lesson fairly well. This may take more than a few days in the beginning. 60 minutes every day is excellent to start with. Some times things can get hectic in life and you may only be able to do 30 or 15 minutes, that is fine. The idea is to have the guitar in your hands every day. Learn easy songs to reinforce what you have learned. Remember everyone started out the same, you get what you put into it. You don't have to master each lesson, push yourselfs to go on to the next lesson, when you go back to review what you thought was hard you will find it easy. That is when you know you are learning and getting better. Lastly don't think about how long before you get good, just learn one lesson at a time and the "good" will come.

In the beginning I would practice for hours on end, and sometimes when time permits I've been known to still do so, however I'm a visual artist as well and that's my day job, so if I go too overboard my hands end up hurting and has some affects at work. So depending on my schedule I try to do no more then two hours a day and try to get theory in there too, to give my hands a rest. I do this everyday, some days it's just two hours of working on a song im trying to learn. However Rome wasn't built in a day and good stretching and warm ups are key. A typical session starts with finger stretching and then warm ups which includes spider fingers and scales, a lesson from here (in the blues course now) try my best to master the lesson if it's rusty I mark it as a favourite so I can go back to practice that, then on to theory. Right now circle of fifths and trying to memorize relative minors. Then finally and most importantly to me is I practice a song that I want to learn and have fun. I always try to end on a high note as positive reinforcement doesn't only work for Pavlov's dog. Like I said it's a marathon not a race, I have realistic goals which in the end, is having the courage to stand up with a band and play. As well as recording songs for my family, corny I know, but having a song gifted to you, to me at least, would be the ultimate gift. I wish my wife would have chosen to learn with me, might not take as much flack buying new gear lol.

Thanks for the responses!

When I first played guitar, I practice almost 5-6 hours until my finger hurts but I continue until it hurts no more. The more hours you invest in practicing the better guitar player you will be.

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GustavoWoltmann is the man!

I think one hour of practice a day is enough as a beginner. I was once told warm up scales or some exercises, review some known material, then work on new or current material. So far it is working for me. Keep working at it, take it easy when you need to. The soreness will eventually go away.
Good luck