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Normally around an hour to an hour and a half. Much more and I get tired and feel I'm doing more harm than good. ) Most of it is just playing what I feel like, rather than practising, though. I've started very recently to try to get a little more disciplined about practising things I really should be concentrating on, but I still play rather than practise most of the time. I figure making sure I enjoy it is the main thing.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Also at 57 years old I struggle like crazy to pick things up.
15 minutes of picking - still rubbish, but generally triplet scales and quad licks and chromatics
15 minutes legato - chromatics and triplets
5 minutes of sweep picking
30 minutes of trying to come up with something new, perhaps a riff, a clean chord progression (or even just a single chord that I could use). Because my practice is mostly creative, I don't know how to play many songs from other folks. But I come up with a good riff every week, and sometimes record it. Came up with 2 nice ones today, inspired by Mark Tremonti. I also came up with a stupid simple 2 chord progression that, with delay, fast phaser and reverb, would sound excellent for either a verse or, more likely, an interlude or some kind in a heavier song.
It keeps me interested, and I feel like I'm contributing to the pool, rather than just learning covers. I used to learn only Metallica and chilli peppers! But I lost interest so worked on my own sound.
It also gives me something to do with my hands whilst watching, so I don't bite my fingernails to shreds if my team aren't winning eight-nil.
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I write a lot, but I almost never play anybody else's songs.
I try and pick up my guitar everyday. I either just noodle away and play the stuff I know, practice for the band just to get the parts lodged into my grey matter or try and improve as a player by finding something I can't play, usually these days from YouTube .
At the moment I'm trying to master Travis picking but it's doing my head in....
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.