How much time do you spend practicing guitar everyday?

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Currently I’m practicing around 20 minutes.

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It has varied a lot for me. Recently it has been 20ish minutes.

I’m retiring from work at the end of next month so hopefully if you ask me this question in 3 or 6 months time the answer will have increased. Lately I’ve not felt I’ve had the energy to practice more (which is partly why I am leaving work)

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I really don’t know. My guitars are hanging on the wall and in stands so I grab one when ever I feel like it or have time (when I’m waiting for my wife to get ready to go out)
some days I won’t pick up a guitar at all. when I get together with friend to jam it usually 3 to 6 hours but that’s playing not practicing.

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I’ll vote, but havn’t yet.

So what is constituting practice?
Does playing, or should I say trying to play a song count as practice?

That’s a great motivator to retire imho Matthew.
Ya gotta do what’s important.
Guitar is most important… :wink:
I wish you much happiness in your upcoming retirement.

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Playing count as practice to me :+1:

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this is where people get it wrong. True Practicing is focused on a task you don’t know or are trying to improve. Playing is having fun, noodling or playing songs you know well and don’t have to think about.
This is why some people improve very quickly and others play for years and don’t seem to improve at all.

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Yeah to me any time I’m playing my guitar is all practice… whether it’s scales, songs or anything else.

To the point made by @stitch I suppose I don’t noodle much at all. It’s fair comment that you’ll likely improve faster with focused practice, but I’m just looking to enjoy playing. I think it’s possible to go too far trying to optimise everything and lose track of why you first picked up a guitar

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I picked up the guitar to play in a band which I did for 10 years and still jam with friends 2-4 times a month. So I guess it’s all about what you classify as “Enjoy Playing”

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Averaging around 1 hour, sometimes 2 between playing, learning new stuff and reading. Used to practice more but I was starting to injure myself!

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7 5-minute practice items each morning after breakfast. With tuning, switching from acoustic to electric, etc., this takes me ~45 minutes.

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Hmm - I know where you’re going with this, but I’d like to argue that playing with others is still practice - it’s a specific skill that involves listening and adapting. Very different from sitting on your own and noodling imho.

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I very rarely practice anything. I only pick the guitar up to play and have fun which works for me. If it’s not fun then why bother. Some days it could be 5 minutes, other days an hour or more and sometimes I go days even weeks without touching it. It all depends on my mood or what else I have going on…

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Often, when I’m having a brew during my working day I’ll visualise playing a piece and imagine the sound of it……does that count as practice?

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This. Well done.

I’m afraid that’s what Music Theory does, take off the music from your heart and put it into your head :zipper_mouth_face:

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Since being on BLIM 2-3 hours a day around 5 days a week, I’m retired so it’s fine

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What’s “BLIM”?

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JGs Blues Immersion course, there is probably going to a Rock soon as well

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Year 1: 75min/day
Year 2: 58min/day
Year 3: 91min/day
Year 4: 85min/day
Year 5 (3 months so far): 91min/day

Total:
2,060hrs/1,556days = 1.3hrs/day (79min/day)

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I don’t believe you lol

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I’m practicing for about 20-30 minutes per day (exercises on my to-do-list).
After this I’m having fun with my guitar (playing songs) for another 30 minutes or more if I have the time.
Sometimes (on rainy Sunday afternoons or cozy evenings in winter) I play for 1 or 2 hours and completely forget about the time :guitar: :wink:

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