How Much Do You Play Guitar Each week?

[Geoff06]

I generally play 2-3hrs each day, 3-5 days each week. For me, playing music is invigorating, relaxing, therapeutic, life-giving and immensely fun. Some of my time is targeted practice, some is improvisation, some is songwriting, some is just cranking effects and making sounds. I'm able to be "me" when I'm holding a guitar, and when I go for more than a few days without playing anything, all of life becomes more difficult.

So, how about you - how much do you play? Do you enjoy being a lifelong learner?

 

[Thrup'ny Bit]

I don't think I've managed an hour in the last month.

 

[Deafsoundguy]

I try and spend 2 hrs making animal noises every night. Keeping your brain active by playing guitar wards off dementia. I’ve seen brain scans showing high level of electrical pulses between each lobe when playing an instrument.

 

[stratobiker]

I generally play 2-3hrs each day, 3-5 days each week. For me, playing music is invigorating, relaxing, therapeutic, life-giving and immensely fun. Some of my time is targeted practice, some is improvisation, some is songwriting, some is just cranking effects and making sounds. I'm able to be "me" when I'm holding a guitar, and when I go for more than a few days without playing anything, all of life becomes more difficult.

So, how about you - how much do you play? Do you enjoy being a lifelong learner?

Same here. I play every day, sometimes nearly all day!
I'm always working on something, always learning new things,and there's always something new to learn. I love it.
That and cycling.

 

[Higgins1980]

I don’t play near as much as I should but things that need to be done keep taking priority over thing I want to get done.

 

[AncientAx]

Maybe an hour . Guess that’s why I suck .....

 

[Malurkey]

About 20 minutes a day, most days. So that’s between 1 and 2 hours a week.

 

[El Gobernador]

Fifteen minutes a day to keep my chops up. I've played for 58 years.

 

[Scott Baxendale]

Not enough. At first, during the pandemic I played a lot for the first 6 months and made several recordings. But after that first 6 months the desire to play faded. I play an average of 10-15 minutes a day at the most lately.

My big album project with Kimberly Morgan York is released sometime in July. We plan on a tour after that, so I will be back in the daily playing routine sometime around mid summer.

 

[Dana Rudd]

Not as much as I'd like, so 2-6 hrs most weeks.

 

[sssstratsss]

Not much during the week, hours on weekends. Sunday's are lazy guitar playing days. Last Sunday I played for almost 8 hours. That's rare, but sometimes happens when I get carried away and be vibin

 

[Mouse]

It depends on the week. I try for an hour a day but some weeks I don't tally an hour total. As lately I'm learning to fingerpick, that hour could be nothing more than me watching TV and repeating a pattern over and over until I can do it in my sleep. Not the most fun playing I've done, but necessary.

 

[Ebidis]

I play every day. Usually about 2 hours, except for the odd day here or there.

 

[Baelzebub]

Not enough.

And yes.

 

[Telecaster582]

Same here. I play every day, sometimes nearly all day!
I'm always working on something, always learning new things,and there's always something new to learn. I love it.
That and cycling.

Yeah, I am pretty much the same, I play usually (or try) to play at least an hour a day. My music teacher when I first started was saying about how I should practice till my fingers bleed he said he practiced about 4 hours a day, and I was amazed, but at 9 and just starting guitar, I didn't know enough to practice for that long. Now that I am more advanced and know tons more, I can practice longer, and I believe that getting more advanced helps me love it more than before, and that's why I practice longer, if that makes sense

 

[Seamus OReally]

I try and spend 2 hrs making animal noises every night. Keeping your brain active by playing guitar wards off dementia. I’ve seen brain scans showing high level of electrical pulses between each lobe when playing an instrument.

Playing the guitar does not ward off dementia. Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (the most common form) is a progressive disease, and there is no known cure or therapy to slow the disease. There are drugs that help mitigate symptoms, but nothing that forestalls or slows the progress. Brain scans notwithstanding, if you develop dementia, you’re signed on for the whole trip, no matter what instrument you may play.

I’m a volunteer for the Alzheimer’s Association, which is the source of these facts.

 

[4wotitswurth]

Mucking around…. ‘Playing’…. 2-3 hours everyday, addiction of sorts I guess… a fun one!

 

[Noobieoldie]

I pick up a guitar multiple times a day. It might be for a few minutes just to cop a feel, or I might plug in. It probably averages out to an hour a day?

Today I'll be changing strings, fiddling with the bridge, and checking out the Strat talk threads where unintentional hilarity sometimes occurs (I'm thinking about a topic from yesterday, where a kid got his first Fender and was arguing up, down and sideways about pickups).

 

[Mr Jagsquire]

Usually 90-120 minutes a day, most days of the week. So certainly in double figures per week, more if we rehearse (usually 3 hour sessions) or gig.

Had some other stuff on lately as I finish work in three weeks, so been clearing the decks and trying to get my wife's car cleaned up ready to trade in (I'll lose my company car when I retire). My hands are bone dry with all the cleaning stuff and fingers feel like sausages...I had to cut it down to 30 minutes a day lately just to try to loosen my fingers up ready for a gig on Saturday.

 

[Groundwire]

I try to play for an hour each day. I give myself fifteen minutes after I finish working and before I have to pickup the kids from school. This is the time I can play with a bit of volume. Then in the evening I usually go downstairs and play quietly for anywhere from 30-60 minutes. This is where having a good attenuator really helps.

Sundays is when the band practices, and that’s usually about 2.5 hours.

So, I’d say I play 8-10 hours per week.