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Practice hours


 

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


 

If I get 2 on a weeknight it's good a bit more on the weekend...tough when
you have a job family etc

:-)

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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

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




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Personally, it varies a lot. There were times I'd spend upwards of 4-5
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)


 

Vince,

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:





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

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






 

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Juan wrote:
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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.
I 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


 

Vince,

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,