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Posted by: Sergeant_Ant Jul 30 2007, 08:35 PM

hey, how many hours does everyone usually spend practicing a day? and how much time practicing each specific technique and such?

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jul 30 2007, 08:43 PM

i usually spend at least 5 hours practicing. I dont seperate them into categories, i just practice what i feel like practicing.

Sometimes i get to practice 12 hours, but its very rare and only when im Highly motivated.

Posted by: Pavel Jul 30 2007, 08:51 PM

Usually i practice like 5-6 hours! But two weeks now i just don't want to practice! I'm tired of everything and i practice maybe 2 hours a day. Mostly sweeping and alternate picking!

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jul 30 2007, 08:56 PM

why is that Pavel?

Posted by: Sergeant_Ant Jul 30 2007, 08:58 PM

everytime i dont feel like practicing i find a song i like and try to learn it, then i usually wanna shred for about 23 hours a day

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jul 30 2007, 09:01 PM

yeah, actually that works alot, and i do that very frequently. Im currently learning all the Orion solo's

Posted by: Pavel Jul 30 2007, 09:08 PM

I am constantly sleepy, tired and just sick of doing anything! Also the weather here is WAY TOO HOT to live. So i guess it's the high temperature that's wasting me also. But as i said i still practice 2 hours each day until i get back to normal!

Posted by: Travelin' Man Jul 30 2007, 09:12 PM

Staying up too late playing BF?

Posted by: The Spartan Jul 30 2007, 09:15 PM

I practice each technique for about 3 hours a day
but play all day long

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jul 30 2007, 09:22 PM

i see. Weather can be very devastating. Hope you get back on track soon!



Lol!!! hmm, r u sure its the weather Pavel?

Posted by: Pavel Jul 30 2007, 09:51 PM

No BF2! I go to sleep at 01:00 every night! And sleep like 10 hours each day!

Posted by: kjutte Jul 30 2007, 09:59 PM

practising technique isn't fun. I usually just jam all day, trying to develop my technique while playing a solo. improvising doesn't get boring

And, if my gf isn't here, I guess I practise about... all day ? prolly 8 hours or so.

Posted by: deWeLL Jul 30 2007, 10:03 PM

until I signed here up I practiced 2-3 hours a day ... I prognosticate now it'll be 10 hours until I passed my exam on Friday ... then I'm about to crack the 24 hours I have to get used to practice alternate picking while sleeping ...

Posted by: muris Jul 30 2007, 10:06 PM

I'm recording almost every day for various artist,giving classes,playing live etc..
Is that practicing?

Posted by: FretDancer69 Jul 30 2007, 10:17 PM

imo it is!!

Posted by: muris Jul 30 2007, 10:28 PM

Might be,but I'm still missing good sitting at home with guitar...

Posted by: mattacuk Jul 30 2007, 10:30 PM

I wouldnt get to hung up on how many hours everyone is playing. You need to do what is rigt for YOU!! I would certainly recommend a few hours good solid practice! But i really do feel quality over quantity is the key. I currently practice alternate picking and sweeping also and im seeing good progress

Posted by: Pavel Jul 30 2007, 10:37 PM

That's amazing! I hope to be doing same one day!

Posted by: atomix1337 Jul 30 2007, 10:48 PM

I agree 100% with the 'quality or quantity' idea.
Yet sometimes i just goof off for 5 hours. ><

Posted by: Sergeant_Ant Jul 30 2007, 10:58 PM

yea, i usually stick to the excercises of like alternate picking, occasional sweep picking, thats what i really need work on ive only been playing about 7 months, but ive been practicing alot hopefully i can get as good as you guys, thanks for all ur advice!

Posted by: superize Jul 30 2007, 11:15 PM

How many hours per day i play is very different.

some days i can play 5-6 hours and some days only one.

It all depends on what mood i am in, what the weather is like, if i have enough time because i do a lot of sports so my time is limited.

Posted by: Ttask Jul 30 2007, 11:35 PM

I really have a lot of work these weeks so I'm glad if I can play one hour when I'm back home
Even when I have more time, my left hand fingers get really tired after two hours of playing. I hope that practice does make perfect!

Posted by: St.DAnger Jul 30 2007, 11:46 PM

Hey you're practice heroes, i just practice 1 hour a day, i must change that (thanks for motivation)

Posted by: deanrzrback Jul 31 2007, 04:21 AM

Man I wish I could practice as long as some of u. Between a full time job and school full time and an 11yr old playing football, I'm lucky to get an hour.

Posted by: ibanezkiller Jul 31 2007, 04:51 AM

I spend around 6 hour. I start with strech Techniques and then scale and mode work with a metronome... Then i try to creat a small solo or riff using what i just practiced... then i play over backing tracks i recorded... Then some sweeping and chords, and more recently ive been doing what steve vai does, say sentence then try to play it on the guitar... all while build my chops!!

Posted by: betschart Aug 1 2007, 03:20 AM

I own BF.

Posted by: Otto Aug 1 2007, 03:12 PM

+5 hours a day???

Im on holiday now so can play alot but when working its like this:
Work: 20:00-06:00
Sleep: 07:00-13:00
then the options (humour) but a little bit of thruth in it

(A) Complain about Life 13:00-13:05 OR ( 13:00-13:30 Wake up in a good mood
If if its a B day then I can play for maybe 2 hours, a good day YES!
anyway I play most when I get a whole day off, but have to try to play alittle everyday, atleast 1 hour a day.

Note to myself, remember to play a little everyday!

Posted by: chast Aug 1 2007, 04:49 PM

I play 63 hours a day, for doing that, I've to do a timewarp...
I just love that parody about John Petrucci^^

I dont know how much I practice maybe 2 hours a day, that is not that much, but I cant play more, because after 2 hours my fingers dont want to do what I what them do.
Than I stop practing and pickup the guitar another time for maybe half an hour or something like that.

So I really dont know how much time I spend on practing, but mostly I think around 2 hours a day

Posted by: fire Aug 1 2007, 06:37 PM

I practice 2-5hours regullary days, in the weekend less and, on holiday like now up to 8hours (:
no routine just play when I like. I dont play them at one piece, either. It keeps the motivation level up, doing something else from time to time (:

tobi

Posted by: Eat-Sleep-andJam Aug 1 2007, 06:46 PM

Idk it really varies. I like to get 3 hours of solid playing on good days. But when im not playing im reading theory, studying various types of music, and expanding my musical status with the tools around me! I do like to play very late at night though. Sometimes I stay up to 2am just playing.


- John

Posted by: Rik Veldhuizen Aug 1 2007, 06:54 PM

Well, married, 2 kids and work... I'm lucky to get about 20 minutes of practice a day But hey, better something than nothing...

Posted by: FretDancer69 Aug 2 2007, 02:16 AM

very true, keep practicing dude.

Posted by: Sergeant_Ant Aug 2 2007, 02:20 AM

awesome umm some people say its better to practice in the morning so your pushing harder, some say its better late at night because you can play better in the morning (odd..) but does that effect any of you guys? i try to practice morning, noon and night but i was wondering what you guys thought?