Re: How long do you practice for?

by Marnex Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:49 am

Like Thomandy I usally play when I want to. Some days I don't even play for more than ten min and other days I play for hours. So I put no real pattern. I know that's bad practicing if you wanna be good, but yeah.......I'm lazy Razz

by surehit123 Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:22 am

I can practice up to 7 hours a day if I wanted to. BUT i only do it for around 4 -5 hours a day.

by Admin Andrew Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:35 am

surehit123 wrote:I can practice up to 7 hours a day if I wanted to. BUT i only do it for around 4 -5 hours a day.

wow.. that's quite a while!

by surehit123 Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:07 pm

Problem is I only have 49K keyboard with small keys.

My fingers are all over the place. so Really can't practice classical songs since most of them use the full 88 keys.

view my yourtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/surehit123

by surehit123 Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:14 am

Admin Andrew wrote:
surehit123 wrote:I can practice up to 7 hours a day if I wanted to. BUT i only do it for around 4 -5 hours a day.
wow.. that's quite a while!

Quite a while? no, not to me I really love the piano that I get carried away and loose track of time. Very Happy

by VictorCS Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:26 pm

Keep in mind that a pro musician has play'd 5000 to 10000 hours between the age of 4 and 16. That's alot, and also in the time of life we snap up information faster than later.

Anyway, if you practice those 10000 hours between the age of 20 and 30 you will be GOOD. That's 41 straight days of practicing. And that doesnt sound alot at all. But if you practice 1 hour a day it will take you 10 years to reach 3650 hours ^_^

I believe I've about 450-500 hours on the piano. And about 300 on the guitar. Within 2 years.... That's almost 1 hour everyday Razz

by Thomandy Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:33 pm

VictorCS wrote:Keep in mind that a pro musician has play'd 5000 to 10000 hours between the age of 4 and 16. That's alot, and also in the time of life we snap up information faster than later.

Anyway, if you practice those 10000 hours between the age of 20 and 30 you will be GOOD. That's 41 straight days of practicing. And that doesnt sound alot at all. But if you practice 1 hour a day it will take you 10 years to reach 3650 hours ^_^

I believe I've about 450-500 hours on the piano. And about 300 on the guitar. Within 2 years.... That's almost 1 hour everyday

Nice calculations!!

Hm... I got about, to be real; About 300-400 hours on the piano! My average have been less than 1hour a day this last year unfortunately! Razz

I get into these De-motivated periods where I maybe only play 1-2hours a week Razz

... Damn, I got to practice more, reading those nrs you present I need to get up the hours!

by Thomandy Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:12 am

Thanks Vic, your post made me do an Extra pianosession - 40min Smile

Scales, chromatic scales, octaved jumps, and octaved scales, some thirds up and down the piano focus on relaxing and getting my thumbtuch better and faster all with Metronome - Before I ended with Noc Op9 No2 Smile

Yay

by surehit123 Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:50 pm

07dwarves wrote:I started piano two days ago. I actually sit in front of the keyboard for only 15 minutes a day; however, then I look on the internet for six or seven hours all day long and watch piano videos.

Personally, I guess you could say I have some serious fear issues. Fear that I will quit, and fear that I should have started piano at an earlier age. Just a lot of negative thoughts.

Sometimes I look over across the room and I see all those black and white keys over there. They look like teeth of a monster that is patiently waiting to gobble up the hours of my life. In a masochistic way, and as though I were Johnny Depp charging into the mouth of the Kraken, I would like nothing better than just for that to happen.

Actually, it is rather the world outside my door that seems like the monster and not the piano. I would rather stay inside my house being pleasurably hunched over the keyboard all day long. Kind of like that kid in the Charlie Brown cartoon. I have the time you know. I have every hour of the day to spend on piano lessons.

I want to be a person that checks the box that says I even play in my sleep. That is what I want.

But right now. I watch videos for six hours and play the piano for ten or fifteen minutes.

The SOLUTION to your fear of quitting is this:

Watch extremely good and moving performances ( mostly by famous pianists) sure got me motivated Very Happy

by ramaral Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:40 pm

I practice everyday of the week but I don't know for how long...there are days where I can be 1 hour at the piano with some pauses and other days where I can play only for 10 minutes. The only thing that I try to do is to "play everyday" just like Andy says in his videos.

by surehit123 Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:02 am

Yeah, that's good just make sure you have a pattern to keep you on track. Very Happy

by Tony Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:55 am

well, now that I got a keyboard, 2 + hours a day

by surehit123 Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:06 am

That's very good! what kind of keyboard? how many keys does it have?

I practice up to 4 hours each day with a 49 Key synth hahaha

by kimitsu Sun May 10, 2009 3:56 am

I use to practice for at least 1-2hour of piano then 1 hour of guitar =/.

Now I just play 1-2 hours of piano but i just play through the songs that i want to play not the songs i need to practice for an exam =D lol.

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