How much do you practice/play your instrument....

[Blaha 41]

and how long have yo ubeen playing and how good are you?

i play about 3 hours a week during school (used to be 3 hours a day) and about 2 in the summer, and i get paid on campus gigs after 2 years of playing.

what aoub tyou?

oh yeah. i can't play any covers or dmb riffs aside from satellite with no singing :bounce

[STsoon2BrockAR]

ive been playing for about two years now, i used to practice about 7 hours a day, now i play maybe one or two. i dont really play covers anymore, pretty much only my own material. you can listen to the mp3 (the link is down there) and decide if im good or not.

[kgoedman]

i started playing in august of last year and dont have any originals yet, so i just play covers right now...but i play between 1-3 hours a day...sometimes just music, sometime music and vocals

[Rob]

I do about 3 hours a day AND I'm in school. In a related story, I rarely pass classes.

[adave]

i have been playing guitar since August. I play for about 5 hours a day. I have come up with a couple of my own stuff. I would say I play covers and my own stuff equally.

[Mathers420]

I started playing the guitar two weeks ago yesterday.

I've played about two hours a day and I can kinda play some dylan songs (watchtower, Tangled up in Blue, Hurricane I have memorized) I still haven't quite learned how to strum with rythm so the songs don't quite sond like they are supposed to.

I plan on taking lessons next month when school is out.

[gkwillie40]

let's see.. i've been playing alto sax for about 6 yrs and i never practice and (not in a conceded way) i think i am pretty good... i'm in honors, jazz, concert band and orchestra.. so yah

and i've been playin guitar since dec. and i practice whenever i feel liek it.. usually an hr a day
and i got mr. jones, crash, typical sits, wish u were here (pink floyd), no such thing, long december, hannukah (sp?) song, and some other stuff down pat
go me!:D

[ECLEKTIK RHYTHM]

I've been playing for about 3 and 1/2 years. I have my own band, which coincidentally we play a lot of DMB covers but we also have original material. I would have to say i practice around 2-3 hours a day. usually spent working on my own material and improv. i also work on vocals whenever i can. I have learned guitar while going to college and i have to say i practice less now than i used to, previously i would practice 6+ hours a day. I also know a bunch of other cover tunes but my main focus anymore is originals. One thing is for sure no matter how much i practice i don't screw up my school work. In fact graduating with a 3.7 in May!

well sorry to babble but if anyone is in pittsburgh and want to check out my band drop me an email and i'll put u on the mailing list!

CHEERS,
J.T.

[nrthmissallstar]

i played the guitar for 7 years, starting in kindergarten, only practicing at most 1 hour day, then i took a few years off and have just started again and am practicing about 2 hours a day, waiting for summer so i have a little more time because school makes it tough

[Josh]

I've been playing for about nine years with varying amounts of practice over the years. Now-a-days I probably practice 1-2 hours a day on average. Some days I don't put the thing down for 1/2 of the day.

[AnUprightMan]

i think i actully pracitce about 1 hour a day. but i always have the damn thing in my hands pulckin' or strumming or whatnot. So probably 3 to 4 hours a day.

[Dooser]

i was just thinking about this last night...

sax: at least 40min a day in band, but usually another 30min to an hour at home

piano: half hour to an hour each day

guitar: 20min every couple of days.

piano is my 'main instrument' i guess you'd say since i've been playing 9 years. but im really getting into sax since i have such a good role-model (john-savage.com) as my teacher, friend, etc.

[gravedigger34]

been playin' for, oh I dunno, 4 years pretty steady I guess. few hours a day. sometimes a lot more, but rarely not at all. I play mostly Dave stuff but sometimes just random shit. well that's it. oh am I good? nah, you're not good unless you're entertaining people and/or making money right? so I guess I'm horrible.

I do play many a mean Dave song, though

peace,

[juineaux]

Ive been playing for about 5 yrs now. During the school year I play about 6 hours a day(classes arent going well for me either) during the summer, who knows, alot! I dont really pratice though, I just play...I probably should pratice...ltr-

[PilotC150]

I've been playing about 2 and a half years, I play at least 2 hours a day, usually along with an MP3 or something. But now that I just got a new guitar yesterday, I'll probably be playin a bit more once I get back from Chicago. I can't write music worth shit, so I just learn all the covers I can. Unforutnatly, (or fortunatly, depends how you look at it), I really don't enjoy playing anything except DMB. Everything else is just kinda boring to me. So I'm up to about 50 DMB songs. Got quite a few left though, by the time summer comes I'll probably most all of them down pat and memorized.

[monkeyBoy22]

I've been playing for about 4 years and started off on an electric learning Floyd (extremely technical), but then the DMB bug got me and now I'm learning all DMB songs, Grateful Dead (I play what I like to listen to) and slowly writing my own tunes....need help with lyrics though....

I have been wanting to get voice lessons for a while now too.....

I practice about 1-2 hours a day, but I'm "between jobs right now"...when I'm working I might not pick up the guitar for a week at a time, and that sucks...One needs to play everday to keep their hands up to speed...

[scoot_14]

I'm also at college, I play between 1 and 3 hours a day, mostly on Keyboard but some guitar too. It varies though.

I played at a bar last night for a little more than a half hour, so I only practiced a few songs that I was going to play during the daytime, so I'd be fresh at night. But the day before that I played for about 4 hours throughout the day and went through everything I might play at the bar at least three times.

[TheMadViolin]

well, I play the violin and have been playing for about 8-9 years now.

practicing depends totally on my mood and what time of year it is. Of true practicing, its usually 1-2 hours a day, 4-5 days a week. However, I'm in school related orchestra (I'm the concertmaster) for 40 minutes a day from september to june, I'm in a Community Orchestra which is once a week for 2 1/2 hours, I play for church, weddings, festivals...... but it is the musicals that really suck up the time. Musical rehearals run 3-3 1/2 hours everyday for about 2 weeks straight. That coupled with my 2 to 3 musicals each winter keeps me pretty busy

[Tewkool4u]

I've been playin since christmas day 2001, so almost a year, i can play almost every dave song...except for the stone cuse my picking technique sucks...lately i've been tryin to stray away from cover song and make my own stuff, it's hard to do but i'm workin on it...Pe@cE

[bigeyedharper]

Ive been playing for about two months...I just bought my first guitar cuz i had been playing my dads. Im not very good yet, I can play Angel from Montgomery, Run Around, Redemption Song, and Im beginning to get Karma Police down. I play anywhere from an hour to four hours a day. Basketball and school hella get in the way...but what are you gonna do.

[mattwertzfan]

I've been playin almost a month now a couple classical songs, dave songs are christmas song, crash into me, lover lay down and some matt wertz songs (sure yall havent heard of him check him out though mattwertz.com) and two of my own is all i know so far i practice about 2 hrs a day

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me!

[Versacci41]

I've only been playing for a few months and i practice about 2 hours a day, sometimes more...i try to learn covers and stuff.. i still play scales and learn chords and i can finally play and sing at the same time...i just try to learn a song or two a day and then go from there...guitar is probably the best thing ever.

[gravedigger34]

Originally posted by Versacci41
guitar is probably the best thing ever.

I agree :)

DMB is a close second :cool:

[ZildjianPilot]

Hey folks. About eight years on the drums. I practice everyday, anywhere from one to four hours. As a drummer of course, I play mostly with other music. Soloing is fun, though. ;-) I actually started with a similar background as Carter, which basically led me to play in a similar fashion to him without knowing he had beat me to it! When I first saw his video and saw he played just like me, I was hooked, and still am. He is my main inspiration. OK, sorry to babble. Wanna talk DMB -- AIM = ZildjianPilot.
~ Don't Burn The Day ~

[PilotC150]

Originally posted by ZildjianPilot
Hey folks. About eight years on the drums. I practice everyday, anywhere from one to four hours. As a drummer of course, I play mostly with other music. Soloing is fun, though. ;-) I actually started with a similar background as Carter, which basically led me to play in a similar fashion to him without knowing he had beat me to it! When I first saw his video and saw he played just like me, I was hooked, and still am. He is my main inspiration. OK, sorry to babble. Wanna talk DMB -- AIM = ZildjianPilot.
~ Don't Burn The Day ~

where you located Ziljian?


(no i'm not really a pilot)

[ZildjianPilot]

Alabama

[elk_hunt]

I have been playing for about two years... I probably play anywhere from 3 hours a day to maybe 5. I play a bunch of DMB covers, I also have some of my own written songs songs three of which I play at jams... I guess the hardest song I can play is Satelite and sing the entire song at the same time...