How much do YOU practice?

[Tehdouglas]

So how much do you guys practice on average? By practice I pretty much mean anything involving playing Bass, not just scales and the likes. Im a highschool student and I usually manage my time well to get in 3-4 hours a day, depending on homework. Of course theirs days were Im too busy or out doing stuff but this is just an average. What about you?

[Suckbird]

about 6hours.

[Vorago]

not hardly enough

[Herman]

I average about 1.5-2 hours per day.

[bassjus]

Not enough as of lately.

[SnakeAnthony]

Depends. I always make an attempt to play at least an hour a day, and I usually go through with that, but sometimes I pick up my bass and dont set it down for 4, 5, 6 hours.

[Thunder_Fingers]

I Practice when i feel like it... when i sit down with a cd i often use 2 hours... and i go to whats called a "Folk highschool", the music line, so i get about 2 hours of playing each day...

but i tend to play whene ever i feel like it, i dont have a "Special time" i should be playing.

[Figjam]

Homework owns my life, as does tennis and other stuff, but during the week i get in about 30 minutes a day, on the weekend about 4 hours a day during band practice.

[Stewmc5222]

it's a tough question to answer because I do a lot of practicing with no bass in hand (visualization, composition and the like). I also spend a lot of time at work checking out basses but really just dickering around and not working on anything more than moving my fingers, so...

actual physical practice = 1-3 hours a day, with occasionally more

total practice a day = 2-5 hours

amount of time with bass in hands = 2-4 hours a day

when I was younger I would play between 6 and 10 hours a day, but it was hardly all beneficial in terms of advancing myself as a player. I was gigging and jamming a lot, and not sleeping very much. things change a bit with age for some of us...

thanks to some great teachers and friends I now use my time better.

from the lowest,

Stew

[iamlowsound]

well on weekdays because of school work and homework i do good to get in more than 30 minutes. on weekends i might play for 10 hours a day, one time me and a few friends jamed for a whole day with little breaks and in total we probally played for 11 or more hours thats day

lowsound

[Redhotbassist]

Usually about 2 hours..but when im really in the mood and have enough spare time about 4-5 hours..

[j-raj]

1.5-3hrs

[XtraLongScale]

Not as much as I'd like to. Roughly an hour a day to keep myself sharp. If I had more time, I'd do two hours a day.

[Jazzin']

Not enough. But I'll go practice right now.

[agreatheight]

I probably really only 'practice' less than 1 hour a day, but I play all of my instruments quite a bit as I teach lessons and love to jam. Of course, I think 'practice' can be overrated and prefer 'playing' with other people over, well, playing with myself... lol.

[Jason Carota]

I try to get about 2 hours of practice a day. One hour going over material from teachings and theory/technique books. The other hour consists of transcribing.

[j-bass-kreep]

on weekdays about 4 to 5 hours . Im studying Biology and it only has 4 to 5 subjects per semester

weekends I usually try to get up early and practice all day long unless I have to practice with the band . But most of that time Im not really practicing as it should be Im just practicing my muscle memory ( playing minor , pentatonics scales as fast as I can ) . While I watch tv .

[Alistair R]

Anywhere between 1 - 3 hours a day.

[jerry]

Not enough, but I sure think about it a lot!!

[FastEddie]

When you guys are playing / practicing 4-6 hours a day, what are you doing??? I like having the bass in hand but more than 3 hours and I don't find enough to do in one sitting. Or do you space it out doing an hour, break, hour, break, hour, break, etc.?