I average 40 minutes but it varies from 10 minutes on busy-at-work days to 90 minutes in two sessions on weekends. This is the stuff I log in a journalā¦ If you asked my wife she would assert a higher number 
since I try to play for fun or automating a pattern when I can.
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I wish I had the knowledge to play a lot. Iām a beginner and thereās not much to do 
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Oh, the list will soon get longer and longer. Thereās so much exciting stuff to learn. Just follow the course and have fun 
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For sure my ladybug 
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Justin just uploaded this video to his website about 20 minutes ago and it goes with this thread perfectly.
https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/broad-vs-focused-practice-which-works-best-yt-2026-01
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I spend about 45 minutes to an hour a day on the beginner grade module and the strumming SOS course, and then some more time trying things out, just for fun. That is now the beginning of Sweet Child OāMine.
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Ok Iām scared now.
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Well Itās time to practice, Iāll see you all in about 25 minutes.
1 hour laterā¦ Iām back
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I practice for half hour in the morning than another half at around 6:00.( I try to practice as much as possable!
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That would be songs. That I donāt know.
I tend to have a song that I donāt know, and that Iām working on. When I like that song, I will practice it over and over till I just canāt seem to move forward anymore. Then Iāll still play it for years to come on and off. Generally improving slowly on it at that point.
Even when Iām learning a song, Iām having fun playing and learning to play the new to me song.
I donāt do much noodling, I donāt think. If I do, many times itāll be a off shoot of practicing scales. Or the noodling will lead me to a song I want to play. I just donāt think I play aimlessly. If I do, I donāt do it for long and will usually just put my guitar down. I like to have a goal when I play, practice even. For me, noodling I find to be kinda boring so I donāt do it much.
I canāt think of any song I know well. I always have to think about playing a song. Preferably with music in front of me.
Thatās me, kinda. I feel Iām always improving or discovering a way that I like to play a tune that is new and different to me. Add a embellishment here, another there. Still same tunes Iāve been playing for years though.
On the other hand. Iām leaning a new song now. Amazingly, I may know 1 out of 12 of the chords in it. All others are kinda new to me. Some more than others. Some are even tying my fingers in a knot (fwiw, Abadd9, which after much time Iāve discovered is barre G @ the first fret plus add9) they are so new to me.
I think Iām improving on the song after a month of playing it. And when Iām learning a new song, I really can spend 2 hours a day playing it. Which I likely have done for the last month. Then thereās not only that I donāt know Abadd9. In the context of the song, I have to go into Abadd9 from Dbadd9. Then go between Abadd9 to Ab within a bar of 4/4. Also Dbadd9 to Db is killing me in this song. Then thereās timing, to play them chords in proper timing. After I do that for a few bars I go to Dbmaj7 @ fret 1. Which is harder than @ fret 4. Which I also use in this song. Point is, there is much learning to do for me in this song. Iāve not played many, if any songs, that much of the song is playing barre C and Barre G chords. Especially at fret one. Half this song is in the key of Ab. This song is above my knowledge, and learning to play it has a large learning curve to it. But since I want to learn the song, I have motivation to learn these new to me chords. imho, I will only be a better player by practicing this song till I can play it, smoothly.
Point is. imho, there is much to learn, all within one song. If I donāt know it, I spend much time on it.
Of course, you could say I know it. But Iāve not honed it to where I want and where I would share it with others.
My general goal is to play a song while recording it. If I take the option to play it back and enjoy listening to it (me playing it). Then Iāve succeeded in knowing that song.
Most songs I play are not that way.
Plus, after a month of playing my new song, Iāve forgot the ones (songs) I did learn, so then I gotta remember what I did on them that I already learn, but have forgot.
This is the way I see it. For practicing. For practicing a new song even. 
Your very fortunate. Iāve been looking, kinda sorta, for someone to collab with for 3 years to no avail.
When I did have someone to collab with, I had to practice the songs we covered, over and over and over to get them to sound like whatever song I was playing.
I did enjoy it. Even when I couldnāt play the song, right up to when I was done with that song and ready to move on to another.
Then I wonāt play that song for a while. When I come back to it, I gotta relearn how I played it.
I do get your notion though.
Perhaps, practicing is following Justinās lessons? So I can move on to the next lesson.
I personally hope there is more to practicing that that. I just wasnāt sure and wanted to clarify what Renan had in mind for spending time practicingā¦ before I answered the question. Which I answered at 2 hours. Of course, sometimes itās less than that. But then other times itās more than 2 hours tooā¦
I feel that to play a song, there is just āMUCHā involved in learning to play that song. So me personally. I call it practicing.
Lastly, Iāve not touched on me relearning to read music. Read timing, knowing where the notes are on the guitar neck. There is just so much involved. All on a song that I know, or donāt know, that I will soon knowā¦
imho, this is a interesting conversation. Good choice for a topic Renan.
I got your back.
Man, your comment is huge, I will read it maybe tomorrow 
Have you tried tuning a 1/2 step down to Eb and playing the song using open A which would be Ab
I love reading about the different approaches, thanks for this thread Renan 
I fall into the majority 1 hour/day, but it really depends, sometimes itās 1h30m, sometimes itās just 30 minutes or even less, sometimes on lazy weekends I can noodle around with a chord melody for hours while itās taking formā¦but itās not just ānoodling aroundā, itās more developing something, it is focused creativity at work 
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Nope,
Because the first half of the song is in the key of G.
Good suggestion though, thanks for the thought. Iāll take any suggestions that may enlighten me.
Iām also in the current Blues Immersion program and currently doing 2 hours per day. 30 minutes before work, 30 minutes after work, and an hour before bed. There is a ton of content and I want to accomplish so much. I was doing 60-90 minutes per day before the blues program started.
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Just play the G part as barre chords using G#(would be G in Eb Tuning)
or play the Ab part on the 4th fret Ab Barre chord if you stay in standard tuning.
Exactly. This is a crucial distinction that I have found most beneficial so farā¦and why I listen to such advice so oftenā¦
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I manage to squeeze in an extra hour or so most days - so about 25 hours a day.
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Thanks for providing that link. Itās got me thinking. Now all I need to do is figure out, well, what it is I want to do.