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How many hours per week do you play guitar?

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How many hours per week do you actually play guitar?

  • 1 - 5 hours

    Votes: 22 47.8%

  • 5 - 10 hours

    Votes: 10 21.7%

  • 10 - 15 hours

    Votes: 10 21.7%

  • 15 - 20

    Votes: 2 4.3%

  • more than 20 hours (how many then?)

    Votes: 2 4.3%
  • Total voters
    46
Lately I've been playing a fair amount (5-10 Hrs). Maybe it's because the weather has cooled and I'm indoors more, but I like to have a guitar around. I'm not always practising... most times it's just making noise for my own enjoyment. I bit the bullet the other night and purchased another pickup to match the neck pickup I recently put in one of my guitars. (Sounds good!)

I made the mistake today of going to a guitar shop downtown, then into an outdoor equipment shop I buy my camping gear from. Needless to say my heads spinning with some of the gear I'd like to purchase. :drool:
 
I'm with the "1-5" crowd right now, as I am not in band.
Just writing, recording and playing for my own enjoyment...and jamming with my son (15) , which is the coolest thing. We like a lot of the same music and love dreaming about the next piece of gear we'd like to own.:)
 
I voted 1-5 to be safe, but I am plus or minus five. I play 6 - 7 times per week, but sometimes only for 15-30 minutes at some sittings. I suppose sometimes I play just 5 min. Might happen more than once in the day. Other times, if I am practicing, or have lessons, or playing with others I may go 1 or more hours in a sitting. Or I may plunk along while watching tv, not really paying attention to time. So I guessed conservative. That is up from an average of about no times per week before May, 2006. Had my acoustic then, but had not picked it up in a couple years.
 
I'm definitely 1-5 hours a week. Other than the 2 hours a week that I meet with 2 guys to jam which is fairly regular, I sometimes go 3 weeks without managing to touch a guitar. Sad but true.
 
hmmmm I play a L-o-t say i get home from school about4:00 to like 8:30 so thats like 4 hours a night more on weekends cuz I jam with other people so thats a bunch but I dont have any video games except for a ds so thats basicaly the main thing i do
 
Mine is 10 to 15 and sometimes more. Unfortunately I wouldn't call it quality playing/practicing time as there has been little advancement. I will say I practiced the pick holding today and got better at it (something so minor and yet can make such a big difference).
 
I am at 1-5 hrs, too. Tonight I played for about 2 good and uninterrupted hours, and really enjoyed it. Wish I had more time.
 
1-5 here....closer to the 1 hour unfortunately....it has been an adjustment process for me after the divorce but i am planning on devoting more time to guitar playing....i need some "me" time and guitar playing is just the ticket....

ww
 
I voted 1-5 hours, but it was a long time since I could play more than perhaps 2 hours / week...
 
I voted 1-5 hours per week. Guitar playing is an important part of my life, but I have a familiy and I like spending much time with my kids and my wife. Oftentimes I get back home from work very late.

When I was younger I have easily played more than 25 hours a week.

Had I the mature mind that I have today, I would have made more out of the practicing time I had when I still went to school.
 
Not nearly enough. Maybe one or two hours tops. It used to be better when I was playing in church, then I'd have a practice (except when I played hooky, which was frequently if I had schedule conflicts with taking care of the kids) and an hour-long service every Sunday. In addtion to whatever rock band practices or shows I might have.

Played several hours on both Friday and Saturday nights this last weekend while camping with my son however. On my beatup old (but glorious sounding) Yammy 12-string. On the first night a mom from the next campsite over came by with her kids and listened for awhile, and gave Jack (my son) some S'mores fixings as a result.

Does that make me a professional? ;)
 
I voted 1-5 also. Probably averages out to like 30 minutes a day...something like that. Kid's school...homelife...weekends...fishing...parties...projects...all take away from my time to play. When I get the time to play I just maintain my chops and maybe learn a new lick here and there...or I'll play acoustic...depends on what's playing in my head that day.
 
10 - 15 for me......

three, 4 hour practices and 1-2, 90min. gigs a weekend.

I don't think unless I was getting paid enough to pay all the bills that I would play TWENTY hours plus A WEEK!
 
I would guess probably 5-10 hours a week. I'm in with the crowd that always has a guitar sitting next to me. Commercials are a great time to grab one and play a little. And CB and I almost always devote an hour or two a night to some jamming and working on her lesson for the week.
 
I probably average about 5 to 10 hours a week playing. I try to play some every day even if it is just for a few minutes. Now, if only I could find a way to incorporate guitar playing into my workday I could get in some serious playing time :DR .....

hmmmmm.... :whatever:

GG
 
I have a twice-a-week gig that accounts for about eight hours altoghter, and I practice an hour or two a day on top of that. It never seems like enough.
 
I would say on average about 7-8 hours a week. Work comes before play and all. :reallymad:
 
Shiner gets home earlier than i most workdays, but i try to make up for it on weekends. we try to play an hour or two a night, and then if i don't have to prep for court on weekends, i log every single hour i can on my lesson and then play just for me.

it's kind of funny, and probably won't make sense, but we can literally both be working on a different song in the same room at the same time, b/c we're focused on what we want to learn.

it's so wonderful to have something that we both love and can share with each other... very rarely does a night go by where we don't play at least one song together. :D

so my vote is kind of actually skewed. on a bad week, 10-15. on a good week, lots more. :)
 
I probably play 15-20 hours a week now. I was a classical guitar major in college and was practicing around 30 hours a week. It's not as fun when you have to play for a grade. I would have enjoyed college more if they let me drink during my lessons. I always made up for it after class though.
 

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