How many hours you put into music ?

[Clef_de_fa]

A recent thread about music sprung an offside discussion about practice time.

So how many hours a week do you put into practicing ? I'm not including the time you spend reharsing with you band. Just time along playing music. Learning new things.

I vote 5 hours right now.

 

[gkella]

One and a half to two hours of practice a day.
I am trying to find some musicians to jam with.
When that happens, the time spent will definitely increase.
Recently retired, so I have the pleasure of dedicating as much time as I want.
Glen

 

[fearceol]

While time spent practicing is important, the quality of it is equally important. A half an hour of focused constructive practice is better than two hours of aimless noodling.

 

[lz4005]

So how many hours a week do you put into practicing ? I'm not including the time you spend reharsing with you band. Just time along playing music. Learning new things.

Learning new things alone? About 30 minutes.
Rehearsals, gigs, recording sessions, about 8 hours.
Each of those teaches me more than 10x the amount of time spent by myself.

 

[DuckSoup]

Because I'm still learning the bass, I try to get at least 5 hours a week, but most of the time I can get more.

 

[DWBass]

About 3 hours a week right now. More when I'm learning new material.

 

[richntiff]

Not Enough - should be a poll option for me pick

 

[ChrisQuinn91]

Literally don't practise at home at all. I just listen to whatever cover we are supposed to be doing (while reading tabs) then turn up at rehearsals and play it. We play pretty simple tunes (Roots and a few fills) so I haven't been stumped by anything as of yet. The band is tight as hell though and our rythm section gets a lot of compliments.

 

[ElectroVibe]

I entered 10+ hours because I started as a teenager and played for literally hours every day. Maybe 50 hours a week for several years. But I wasn't following any method (after an initial folk guitar book) and I probably didn't spend that time as "wisely" practicing as some others.

 

[JRA]

i voted 10+ because there was no option for what i actually do....

it's not all practice, but: most days (5-6 days a week) i'm spending 4-8 hours a day* on music (does not include TB time, of course, or gig days).


* retired. when i was a full-time musician = 8-12 hours a day, almost every day of the week.

 

[Badwater]

I put a lot of hours listening to music... Every week, more in the summer months when I do recording. As for playing, about 3 hours a week. more in the summer.

 

[rufus.K]

1.5 a day usually. Some days none. Some days on & off all day long .
On a weekend, if I'm home, from 7am to midnight in bursts. There's always music playing at home. There's always music streaming to my Bluetooth heaphones, and I leave 1 earbud in all day at work. Sometimes I play air-bass when (I hope)no one is listening.
I play latin/afro cuban percussion as well as banjo and guitar, so not all of my practice/ leasure is bass.
I firmly believe knowledge of lots of clave parts and fingerpicking guitar/banjo has improved my timing and technique on bass.

 

[basst scho]

Not Enough - should be a poll option for me pick

same here

 

[ONYX]

Typically 0 to 7 hours per week. I've been playing for 36 years, so these days it tends to be at the lower end of the scale.

 

[Nashrakh]

Kind of a weird question to answer for me. Between studying musicology, being in four bands and singing in the university choir (bass range, of course) at the same time, I only get Fridays and the weekend for purely personal practicing, which gives me about 6 to 10 hours a week. On weekdays, I literally leave the house in the morning and come back around midnight.

If you count my curriculum, and all the bands, I get about 45 hours a week I either spend researching, playing, or reading music.

 

[Jborg]

At least 10..probably closer to 15. that’s split between guitar, upright bass (recent convert) and bass guitar.
There’s so much music that I don’t know how to play!

 

[BD Jones]

I put 10+ because during the school year I practice (alone) between 1-2 hours a day, every day (Sun-Sat). Now, if you include how much time on an instrument I spend during the week I can't even begin to count. Being a professional music educator (band director) I constantly have an instrument in my hand and am either demonstrating for students or playing along.

Now that summer is starting up, I will probably spend about 5 hours a day practicing (Sun-Sat) as I try to brush up on some of my weaker instruments (last year was oboe; this year I am thinking bassoon, but I'm also considering focusing on double bass and violin).

 

[Kevin Teed]

At this point in life, I'm lucky to get in an hour of mindless noodling / week. Between family, my own business and household duties, there's not much time left.
Though I did get a call a couple weeks ago to fill in for a gig. I had about 4 hours notice to knock the rust off and learn a bunch of Zeppelin and Rush tunes. It was like cramming for a pop- quiz!

 

[juancaminos]

I answered the thread title ("How many hours you put into music") in aggregate as it relates to my entire hobby of music. Talk Bass time excluded.

 

[jdthebassman]

I think about it all day I will be at meetings at my day job thinking what bass I will play at the gig songs that I want to work on etc.