How Often do You Play?

Do you even?

  • Less than an hour per week

  • 1 hour per week

  • 2-5 hours per week

  • 5-10 hours per week

  • 10+ hours per week

  • Music is my life 20+ hours per week

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I play every day for up to an hour and more in the weekends but as I'm releasing my own music, my time is spent perfecting takes and tone-chasing and that becomes a boring drag. I feel the most creative and 'hungry' when I get to editing and mixing stage but if I cave and grab a guitar, shit won't get done.
I am getting the 'RAWK' out of my system though and soon I'll get back to working on my jazz chops with just a jazz box and not touch a rig unless I want to do a Scott Henderson impression.
The idea of being self-sufficient from both a sonic ( chord soloing and comping over my shitty jazz licks) and musical (improv) POV is more appealing than being a one man band in LogicProX. Then I spend 10mins here and end up looking for the next gained up 100W head I should get to create some metal..
 
I fire an amp up every day; even when I don't feel like playing I usually do even for a little bit. It takes longer for me to warm up, and I've got some slight arthritis in my hands but once I do warm up it flows pretty well.
I've found that, if I don't play for a few days it really affects my playing...so I've got to keep at it every day even if I don't really want to.
 
Lately, i have been playing a lot of acoustic, and it has really helped me to be more precise on electric.

Dan had a good point. The amount of actual practice i do is extremely low, more i am trying to get a setlist put together for some live shows
 
skoora said:
Problem for me is all my shit is in a basement room and I don’t like hanging in the basement. It doesn't help that I’m a night owl but my wife goes to bed super early. The basement room is right below the Bedroom so when I want to play and record it would have to be whisper quiet and I didn’t get a basement to be whisper quiet, so I say fuck it and fire up the PlayStation or watch French, Charles Bronson movies on Tubi instead.
When I do play, it would probably be longer if I didn’t hate using DAWS so much. Or maybe it’s just hating Logic. So tired of having to google every fucking 10 minutes how to do some basic shit because the software has every option on a right click but one that makes sense. I really miss the simple beauty and ease of a tape machine, a mixer and some outboard gear.
The demos just flew out of me when I used a 4 track in the 90’s. And that was recording electronic drums and everything.
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My wife sleeps like she is in a coma. I could place my Marshall down as her pillow and she would sleep thru my 80s riffs and Aqua Net in the ozo ne...
 
it varies, some weeks several hours a week, even several hours a day, or weeks with 1 hour or zero...

Once I retire I'll have more time for hobbies: music, sailing, motorcycle,...at least in theory.
 
rsm said:
it varies, some weeks several hours a week, even several hours a day, or weeks with 1 hour or zero...

Once I retire I'll have more time for hobbies: music, sailing, motorcycle,...at least in theory.
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Let me see that bike
 
Smash said:
Let me see that bike
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it's in the shop now, (oil change, carb cleaning, front brake,...) getting ready for riding. should be finished next week.
 
New gear = mucho playing lately, sun up to sun down on weekends, weakened fingers no more.

I don't practice as much when I get busier with work, but lately I've been on a terror with the Knaggs & Mark 2C+.

C'mon now, a Knaggs & a Mark 2C+ with ++ option, loud as hell if wanted, WTF? Right? Irresistible IMO. Lock me up if I don't play everyday, all day!
 
Right now school is a priority, so very little time goes towards actually playing. Every now and again I'll fire up my amp when the neighbors are gone just to remember what it's like, but those times are few and far between right now as the semester draws to a end. The one thing I do regularly is practice rhythms with and without a metronome. Before my headphones broke it was all day, I'd walk around with a click in my ear tapping my fingers against it. Now that they're busted I only do the metronome from when I get home in the evening to when I head out the door the next day. I've been slacking when it comes to metronome-free practice during the day.
 
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