karl01 wrote:
:blink: Just wondering how many hours a day you play guitar. How much time spent learning new songs, scales, riffs etc. vs just playing stuff you already know. My wife say I play too much now that I joined this site.
Karl
Karl,
Today marks exactly six months that I've been playing guitar. I started out barely playing 15 or 20 minutes because of finger pain. It took about 3 or 4 months to get tough enough to actually limit my playing time for some reason other than pain. I play *every day*, including the day I had hand surgery, which was the second day I owned a guitar.
On weeknights I play 90 minutes, much of which is like Bear said - scales, some easy stuff and some hard stuff. I work on clear notes and intelligent chord changes. On weekends, I go crazy - I usually play 3 hours twice on Saturday, and 3 hours on Sunday. The Sunday session is my "concert session" - I try to play as artful as I can, and I'm making progress - both my wife
and my dog stay in the house now for the whole show.
On weeknights, the 90 minutes breaks down into about 15 minutes on scales, about 45 minutes working on technique, and about 30 minutes playing through what I can already do easily. I close the weeknights with hand exercises on a toy rubber football. The 3 hour Saturday sessions are for lessons and new songs. Sunday is all presentation - I play everything I can as well as I can.
wrench