How much hours do you practice on guitar per day?
Good question dude - It really depends on what my goals are for that day/week/month musically. I spend most hours of my day creating, whether it be metal, rock, acoustic, flamenco, guitar lesson material, studio work, or whatever it is really - but to say it more simply, I put the hours of practice in necessary to be able to execute my ideas accurately.
But lets say I'm feeling like I hit a rut or that I am on the verge of breaking through then I'll often practice for 8+ hours a day. I'm not much for routines for routine sake, I'm more about the joy of progress. I would never pick up my guitar in a mindset that didn't call for the guitar, because what good would come out of that session? Luckily for me - most days are in that proper musical mindset. When that happens, I hone in on what I want to cover that day/week/month...lets call those my seeds. Then I come back again and again to practice that concept for however long is needed - and remember that every person and topic is different - lets call my practice sessions the watering and fertilizing of my seeds... and then after I've fully incubated and grown those seeds into healthy proportionate plants, I would then record my new skill level by writing a piece applying the knowledge learned in my woodshedding - reaping the benefits of my hard work into a beautiful harvest of the fruits of my labor haha there's no other feeling in the world quite like reaching a musical goal on your own... and being able to sit back in a studio and hear it physically the way you heard it mentally all those months ago is beyond divine... am I right?
But lets say I'm feeling like I hit a rut or that I am on the verge of breaking through then I'll often practice for 8+ hours a day. I'm not much for routines for routine sake, I'm more about the joy of progress. I would never pick up my guitar in a mindset that didn't call for the guitar, because what good would come out of that session? Luckily for me - most days are in that proper musical mindset. When that happens, I hone in on what I want to cover that day/week/month...lets call those my seeds. Then I come back again and again to practice that concept for however long is needed - and remember that every person and topic is different - lets call my practice sessions the watering and fertilizing of my seeds... and then after I've fully incubated and grown those seeds into healthy proportionate plants, I would then record my new skill level by writing a piece applying the knowledge learned in my woodshedding - reaping the benefits of my hard work into a beautiful harvest of the fruits of my labor haha there's no other feeling in the world quite like reaching a musical goal on your own... and being able to sit back in a studio and hear it physically the way you heard it mentally all those months ago is beyond divine... am I right?
