How Often do You Play?

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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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For me would guess somewhere between 10-15 hours a week on average over recent years, some weeks I really get focused and easily go beyond 20+ or maybe double that, less often on busy life/lazy/meh weeks maybe an hour or 2. What would you say your more often than not play/practice/write/record time is on an instrument(s) in a week? Doesn't have to be limited to guitars. Would be interested in what y'all have time for or are most passionate about.
 
JimAnsell said:
2-5 hours a week right now. there was an era of my life (2003-2010-ish) where music was my life.
if i wasn't with my musical co-dependent friend writing or getting wasted, or out on the hunt for unnecessary females, i was selling gear, hunting gear, fixing gear, packaging gear, photographing and posting gear for sale. if i wasn't doing that, i was deep dive listening to / hunting music from around the world. at one point, i REALLY KNEW metal on a global level. "yeah Sigh is Japans best metal band, yeah Nokturnal Mortum is killing it in Ukraine, this band is huge in south america right now, these bands are hot in this part of the world, etc". It only took about 3 years before i had no idea about shit anymore. IT WAS CUZ WE LET THE "CORE KIDS" IN!!!. but i digress...
yes there was a time when music and its related things consumed me 24/7, and i was happy. then i fucked up and had kids. Granted, my kids are the only worthy replacement of such a gear obsession, and they've forced me to really up my game as a grown man...however, i still miss those days like they were the best years of my life.

flash forward to 2010-2025. i've become one hell of a chef, and those years were spend honing my craft....but i still miss the music thing every day. i'm a FAR better cook than a musician, and have had way more REAL ego boosts from that, than being a rock star in my own mind.

every day, i think...."Well, i could get a few grand if i sell everything and go down to a kemper and one guitar".... time will tell.
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Would say that 2-5 hours is considered passionate especially when life is a thing for most people. I have the luxury of time on my hands, so probably the only reason I fall where I do, imo. Also, what is an unnecessary female? :ROFLMAO:
 
I’m semi-retired so I have a ton of time on my hands and I love to play. I’ve been playing for 42y.
 
I travel for work but almost always drive. So when I’m ‘home for the weekend’ I take a guitar with and play in the hotel unplugged. It’s more just to not lose any callous or get too out of practice. I should focus more in that situation. On the ‘home for dinner’ weeks I can get some real play time in.

But after a week on the road I get home and have an enormous yard to mow, house to clean, laundry, etc.

Too much life stuff in the way for me but I could manage it better.

I envy you having time to pursue your passion.

EDIT: 2-5 per week.
 
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My normal daily routine is to come home from work, eat dinner, plop on the couch and play guitar while watching tv / youtube. No energy for anything else.
 
Anywhere from 0-7 hours per day depending on what I have going on in a given day/week or what the weather is like. I always take a rainy day to mean the Lord wants me to play guitar instead of project. Average would be 2-4 hours per day since late October. If I play more than 5 hours per day consistently my hand starts to say enough.
 
I try and play every day even if that means only practicing for 5 minutes one day. I chose 5-10 hours per week because there are definitely sessions that are much longer than 5 minutes lol.
 
I try to stay in the 5-10 hours per week range.

Work days, I like to get in 15 minutes or so as best I can. Days off, I try to get at it for an hour or two.
 
I was getting 3 hours in a day up until about a year ago and now I'm getting about 1:45 minutes in a day, sometimes 2 hours if I'm lucky but I work from home and make time in my schedule to practice.
 
Sometimes life gets in the way but I'm starting a new band and we are working on writing songs. I'd say I don't play enough but there are plenty of times where I could but I end up watching gear videos instead...
 
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