If you only had an hour?

[baddarryl]

To live what would you do? J/K!

I am limited to the practice time I can forge. There are days when I can practice longer, but I am wondering what is a good well rounded regimen for an hour long practice? I am sure I can create a disciplined schedule on my own, but I was wondering what you guys did to keep things creative and maybe even switch up exercises for different days or whatever. I would call myself an intermediate player at best with great aspirations! How is that for the proverbial can of worms? Thanks.

[BluesHonky]

Depends on U're level of playin. Scales and patterns if thats not needed put on some music U like and Play ! I have a couple of disc I ripped from the Cd,, Eq"d as much of the bass out as I could and made a Jam CD

[baddarryl]

To clarify I am an intermediate player at best. I had 3 years of middle school sax back before time began, then picked up guitar and played that by ear. Never disciplined enough to become very good. Dibble dabbled with bass. Put it all down for 10 years +. Now I am fully committed to the bass and am in the process of learning scales and theory off the internet and went to a teacher for the first lesson for guidance and especially to correct my sloppy technique.

[DocBop]

Daily practice is most important even if only 15 minutes. To make short practice sessions productive you need to keep a practice journal so your not start over every session. Like learn major scale in 12 keys in second position and lets say 15 minutes a day. You're not going to get thru all 12 keys in one session so write down where you stopped and pickup from that point the next day.

So take you 1 hour break it into 4 or 5 time slots. Put a practice task in all but one, leave one for just improv or jamming with tunes. Then journal and keep metronome settings and other info on each task. You'll be amazed at end of a month when you look at journal how much you get done even in short sessions.