How long do you all practice your chosen instruments?

Personaly, I never do any practicing but I play a few hours a day. I guess its what you consider practicing?

I dont do any scales or any of that stuff, I just work out Destruction songs and write new Mutant stuff.

Come on, who plays aaaaaall day?

I don't practise. I've been into sweep picking for a while so I just learn new patterns etc.

It depends...

Sometimes I get a raging clue from listening to Van Halen. If so, I just play unt play and remember how good a guitarist I was when I was 16.

I never PRACTISE as such, I usually just jam out with my clam out for a few hours a day!

Maybe make some tabs or figure out some thrash Or write some shitty new riffs

I don't really practise.

I just sit there, and change songs about a million times.

Which tends to be annoying.

Sometimes I get all "good" and decide to try and understand modes and shizz but then i get all confused, cry and just pretend i understand it.

Most of the time though I pick up my guitar when i want (probably 1 or 2 hours a day avg.) and play along to some songs/work out stuff/write stuff...

I find that "practicing" as such for me turns an enjoyable thing into a chore almost. But as i said somtimes i do feel like it and occasionaly learn something scaley then forget it 20 minutes later.

i try to get a good hours practice on the drums a day, doing different patterns and exercises but at the moment its been more like half an hour

If you dont consider just messing about / writing riffs on guitar practising then i spose i dont practise very often. The only time i really do any structured practise is the week before a gig i just do fast picking to a metro-gnome until my hand feels like its gonna fall off, as often as i can be bothered. That just helps make sure im not too slack on the rhythm when it comes to playing live.

Practise has been less plentiful than I'd have liked recently. I'm trying to write a semi-dissertation on Baltic Russians so I have to read butt-loads of stuff!

Raging Paul wrote:i just do fast picking to a metro-gnome until my hand feels like its gonna fall off... That just helps make sure im not too slack on the rhythm

Some kind of strange sexual perversion? I'd didn't notice the gnome in your room...

Thats because i keep him locked in my drawer. He really likes it when i practise my picking to him. Its the only fun he ever gets, the poor lttle blighter. And theres nothing sexual in our relationship, its purely platonic, much to his chagrin.

I PRACTICE, fuck yeah, god i have to, need to fucking practice a lot, about 3 - 4 hours a day, weekends more, and then including rehearsal quite bit, i need it!

I try to make sure i pick up and practise the guitar everyday, be it 30 min or so many hours.

At the moment i'm doing alot on finger style guitar mainly cause i saw a clip of Kazuhito Yamashita shread 2 scales at once among other things and just thought 'wow'

started doing a but of lead, but i usually only practice rythm for thrash, just sit in front of the tv playing patterns with my right hand, dont even concentrate, but it works

Bangover wrote:Sometimes I get all "good" and decide to try and understand modes and shizz but then i get all confused, cry and just pretend i understand it.

try to think of it like this: all modal scales are the minor scale. the 'aeolian' scale is note for note the same, starts on the first note of the minor scale. the 'ionian' scale starts on the third note of the minor scale. so basically, all the different modes are the minor scale, but choosing a different note to start and end on within that scale (instead of the root). remembering that patterns takes time, but i hope that explains the concept?

as for amount of practise? not nearly as much as i should lol i must admit i only practise like every other day, but i get at least an hour in of going through exercises and virtuoso stuff, usually symphony X, racer-X, impelitteri, malmsteen etc