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A'swepe 
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Posted: December 10 2005 at 07:34 |
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I don't practice at all - which is why I can't play worth a C**P!
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sularetal
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Posted: November 30 2005 at 07:40 |
When being alone I prefer to practice for about 1-2 hours. I' ve heard that your mind writes new information for a quarter and then it kinda repeats those for 3 quarters. This means that stopping every hour for 5 min. is essential. However it's extreamely important to practice EVERYDAY. Even 10 minutes. Practicing for about an hour a week by doing 10 min. of practice every day is much better than playing 6 hours in a row on Sundey and not having touched the instrument for the rest of the week.
Drummers like Dave Weckl have claimed that they practice like 12 or more hours every day. I belive him but very few people have the ability not to talk about the patience to do that. 1-2 hours EVERYDAY is the best IMO.
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Ptah Khnemu
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Posted: November 20 2005 at 18:09 |
I once was working on a guitar solo for 18 hours straight.
If band practices count, my other guitarrist and I were actually working on an epic for about 25 hours straight. Energy drinks will do that to you.
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Zitro
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Posted: November 12 2005 at 14:54 |
About 20 hours on a weekend when trying to learn the piano intro of Firth of Fifth.
About 15 hours more on a weekend learning the rest of the song.
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pavan
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Posted: November 08 2005 at 09:44 |
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5 hours on one bright summers day
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Trotsky
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 22:53 |
8 hours on the piano at my peak ... which was a long time ago
Nowadays (especially since I mainly play bass), I tend to do it two or three hours at a stretch ... Got two hours pencilled in tonight with my band in fact
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 02:30 |
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Guitar - 8 hours
Bass - 7 hours
Piano - 23 hours...that was one long day, I just didn't want to quit, ended up dislocating 3 of my fingers to the point where the bone ripped the skin. |
you're crazy  I never time myself but I'll take a guess, 8 hours on guitar. then there are those days where I just strap it on and do everything with the guitar in my hands playing bits and pieces here and there 
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KoS
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 01:17 |
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about 8 hours
normally i practice about 1-2 hours a day on my guitar
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Damen
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 18:56 |
Guitar - 8 hours
Bass - 7 hours
Piano - 23 hours...that was one long day, I just didn't want to quit, ended up dislocating 3 of my fingers to the point where the bone ripped the skin.
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Cygnus X-1
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Posted: October 23 2005 at 11:23 |
I once had 8 hours in one day with 2 bands. End of the day was very tired. Usaly with bands its 4 hours each time. At one practice, while everyone was getting a drink i stayed in the room and did a 30 minuets bass blues solo. Ahhh how fun that was
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Posted: October 23 2005 at 08:51 |
Longest: Around 3 hours of drumming a day without stop
Usually: 1-2 hours a day with stops.
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Posted: October 19 2005 at 08:55 |
King of Loss wrote:
10 hours Straight on the geeeetar!  |
10 hours is a long time ... I guess I also did that a couple of times 10 years ago. But I think it's more important to practice on a regular basis - every day, even if it's just 20 minutes.
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King of Loss
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Posted: October 19 2005 at 08:37 |
10 hours Straight on the geeeetar!
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Posted: October 19 2005 at 07:29 |
with my friends i can play 6 hours and more...
its so fun! 
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Gabrielpenteado
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Posted: October 17 2005 at 23:34 |
the largest time would sum about 16,17 hours, counting stops for baths, lunch and etc.
i used to be a guitar freak, spending whole days playing and doing exercises, luckily i got a girlfriend who saved me from the dark
now i dont practice a lot cos im really into musical production and recording
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Kineto-Zetetics
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Posted: October 17 2005 at 12:51 |
At one time I used to practise Czernzy exercises and scales and arpoegios for two hours evey day followed by 3 hours of pieces then a couple of hours composition. All this on a piano in an understair cupboard (2m * 1m). This continued for 3 years then I got a life.
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Posted: October 17 2005 at 05:09 |
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on the "Gong Est Mort - Vive Gong" event, which took place May 14th 1977 and was 14 hours long, the late Pierre Moerlen played drums in 4 (!!!!) bands: the band of Steve Hillage, Gong in the "Shamal" line-up, Gong in the "Espresso 2" line-up and finally in "Classic Gong" (who did an overly long gig). there were several other musicians who played in more than one line-up
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: October 17 2005 at 03:25 |
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i never practice...
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: October 17 2005 at 03:10 |
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I have practiced for 8-9 hours when I was younger.But that is on the drums,it's hard to play for so long,you get pretty worn out.
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Kris_man
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Posted: October 17 2005 at 01:41 |
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I played for about 7 hours straight once. I don't know if you could call it "practising" though, I was more just doodling around on the guitar while watching Tv.
Concentrated practise, maybe 3-4 hours. I don't consider that a very long session, though. There's this guy I met over here who practised about 10-12 hours ever day, after he finished school.
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