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Practice hours
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On 11/5/2010 9:28 AM, musicmaker1245 wrote:
In another thread the 10,000 hours was quoted, so for fun I just did the maths. If you are dedicated and do 1 hour/day for 365 days then after 5 years you will have done 1825 hours. To reach 10,000 hours it will take 27 years. 2 hours a day 13 years. Maintaining that consistency will be hard for most people, so a few more years probably needs to be added on.Divide by at least 6 to 10, at least if you are dealing with either me or other serious musicians. You obviously don't kone what "shedding" means! Bobby |
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On 11/5/2010 9:28 AM, musicmaker1245 wrote:
In another thread the 10,000 hours was quoted, so for fun I just did Divide by at least 6 to 10, at least if you are dealing with either me Bobby I remember when 8 hours a day was the norm for me - but that certainly is no longer the case.? I have family and other responsibilities now.? And the quality of practice can suffer with so many things vying for attention - kids, maintaining a house, even spending time reading?the posts to?this group.? But that poses a good question..... How many hours a day is everyone?on this group?typically practicing guitar?? (To be clear, practice would be defined as focused, undivided attention on the instrument - not that musicianship can't be developed in other ways, but that is not the question) Regards, Vince [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Personally, it varies a lot. There were times I'd spend upwards of 4-5
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hours (total) a day practicing, but these days, I "live off my investments" quite a bit. More often than not, when I sit down to practice, I'll take an hour or an hour-plus to learn or work on a tune, or to work on some aspect of my chops, etc. I've been playing for some 40 years, so a lot of stuff is ingrained, ie, I don't have to think too much about it. To be honest/fair, I've always had pretty good ears, so although my reading's serviceable, it's not something I've worked on too too much, but then I never wanted to be a studio player. When I teach, that's also an opportunity to hone the chops, especially with my classical students... Cheers, JV Juan Vega In a message dated 11/7/2010 6:13:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
vevillanueva@... writes: How many hours a day is everyone on this group typically practicing guitar? (To be clear, practice would be defined as focused, undivided attention on the instrument - not that musicianship can't be developed in other ways, but that is not the question) |
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Vince,
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I have a day job and a family so, I don't have many long periods of time where I am mentally fresh to really focus for hours at a time. That being said, I tend to practice in short, focused, episodes of 15-30 min. at a time. I've been playing for over 25 years, so I don't spend much time playing major scales, etc. Most of the time, I spend either working on really learning a tune inside and out, working out ideas for performances, or applying a specific technique to a particular tune. So in the course of a day, I might get in an 1 - 1.5 hours / day. On the weekends, that may get extended to 2-3 hours. -- Mike V. --- In jazz_guitar@..., Vincent Villanueva <vevillanueva@...> wrote:
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Juan wrote: ? I've been playing for some 40 years, so a lot of stuff is ingrained, ie, II know what you mean, Juan.? But after my 25 yrs of playing, I think some of those movements (scales, etc practiced for hours and hours years ago) present unique challenges as an improviser - it's so easy to fall back on those familiar patterns.? Many times I work on trying to get out of those when I improvise - in other words, consciously try not to play arpeggios or scales that are more automatic, even though I still warm up with the same scales that I did years ago. ? Vince |
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Vince,
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Yes, I try not to fall back too much on "stock" stuff, and really listen for and play new things. In the early days, I didn't practice scales/arps so much as trying to cop lines, etc. These days, I have a tendency to insert quotes from other tunes into my solos, just to get my sax player's att'n, lol. :) Cheers, JV Juan Vega In a message dated 11/8/2010 11:28:38 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
vevillanueva@... writes: But after my 25 yrs of playing, I think some of those movements (scales, etc practiced for hours and hours years ago) present unique challenges as an improviser - it's so easy to fall back on those familiar patterns. Many times I work on trying to get out of those when I improvise - in other words, consciously try not to play arpeggios or scales that are more automatic, |
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