How much time do you practice?

Hi guys, I was just wondering how much time do you all practice per day? I'm doing like 3 hours a day cause I'm still on vacation. How about you??

I go to uni four days a week and work full time 3 days a week. But i still find a couple of hours a day. Playing guitar while watching films or TV is a great way to get good quick!!

I'm still getting a dimploma in an institutions. Hmm letme see..2-4 hrs per day? sumtimes even 1 hour only, due to the tight schedule i have presently. :D

at least 6 a day every day...maybe more for vacation

I'm a lazy ass f*** n only do 1-2 hours a day, unless I'm recording onto my laptop then I'll do bout 5 hrs. I would do more if I was in a band though.

Originally posted by aiwass
I would practice 12 hours every day if I could, but that damn school is getting in the way. When I graduate, I wanna go to Berklee. Then guitar will BE school!!

hope to see ya there man!

I wish I oculd say that I put in as much time as the rest of you or that I put in as much time as i'd like.. but between work, family and "other" it really only leaves a precious few hours in the day and between my 2 ladies, my wife and my Strat (guess which i love more!) I try to squees in a good hour and a half to 2 hours... the first hour being scales and chord progressions and really studying and the rest of the time I just try to have fun and enjoy what i'm doing.

Admittedly, I've gotten very lazy with practicing. When I first began playing guitar (8 yrs ago), I'd practice in my bedroom for like 5-6 hours a day...literally from the moment I got home from highschool till like 8pm. During the summer, however, sometimes I'd barely leave the house. I would practice all day.

Nowadays, with a job, university, girlfriend, and other commitments, I barely practice. Maybe twice a week. However, I play in a band on weekends and that helps me maintain consistency. I'm confident enough with my guitar skills that I'm not worried about forgetting licks, technical tricks, or whatever. But I don't recommend not practicing...and if I ever win the lottery or hit it big, I would certainly spend more hours practicing.

yep... it really does suck when you dont have time to practice.

4 hrs. When I got a day off from other duties 5.

Yeah, I'm going to have to go back to that last post about practicing maybe 4+ hours a day when I first started, but as time went on and I had to concentrate on things like school it dropped to 2 at the most every few days.

I still work with music a lot but more in the construction of songs on paper, piano and recording gear. Guitar has become more like a perspective to music rather than a focus. But believe me, I still love to nail solos and punch out some grinding riffs every now and again.

around 2-4 hours weekdays
and a lot more on weekends sometimes like 7 hours(specially when i have something new to work on)

When my life really was hell I used to play maybe up to 10 hours a day but now I probably only play 2-3. I think there's probably a part of a guitarist's technical development where practice leads most efficiently to improvement, I think I might have passed that level now so trying harder produces less reward. This is one reason why I don't practice so hard. That said I still can't read much music and my playing centres around a few scales, there are still big gaps in my playing and if I got the motivation going I'd like to stuff em.