Members DaveAronow Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 If you had to guess. A few hundred? Tens of thousands? Do you think you are where you would like to be musically for the amount of hours you have played or where you imagined yourself being by this time when you first started? I don't care what kind of playing, could be on stage, jamming with your records or cj's or just strumming watching tv or whatever. Just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blackface Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 3467.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 roughly 2 or 3 thousand I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Burgess Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 After just some ballpark estimates I would say it's most likely in the 30,000 hour range. Maybe more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 It would be quite an exercise for me to calculate since the amount of time playing every day changed alot through the years. Between 9 and 15, I played little but some so it counts for, let's guess, 350 hours. Then at around 15, I became crazy about playing guitar, played electric in a cover band. Hard to remember how much but I played every day almost so I'll say about an hour/day for the next three four years. That's a thousand, roughly counted. Now, around 19 or 20, things become different, I switch to acoustic guitar and I have guitar playing for breakfast, lunch and supper. For many years, 15 or so, I played at least two hours a day, some days as much as five or six hours. At 38, I married, moved to Germany, had kids, etc. that made me play less but still played most days. The single thing that had me reduce my playing time is THIS FORUM. But hey, it made buy a bunch of stuff, most of them I regret buying (I'm getting out of topic...) That's a bit of a long story, So I'm gonna say I have played between 10,000 and 15,000 hours, a very rough guess but it sounds about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 Hrmm... I played a fair bit from 6 to 10 and a whole lot from 10 to 13 when girls got to be pretty cool. Still played quite a bit from 13 to 19 then less from 19 to 22. Since then, a fair bit. I would guess about 8,000 hours between 6 and 13 and prob another 5,000 since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 I'd guess somewhere around 5200. I guessed a half hour per day on average since I started playing seriously (as a hobbyist) in '84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stomias Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 30,000-40,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jamdogg Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 10 minutes a day for the last 5 years. Its all a blur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PunkKitty Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 It's safe to say that my playing time doesn't come close to the time I've spent searching for good gear deals. If I spent that many hours playing, I'd have been the next Randy Rhoads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 I would have to say at leas 30K but it may even be twice that started before the age of three - got serious about it at 11 - started playing professionally at 17 been a full time guitarist for 40 years - still put in a full day at least four days a week hard to do all the math Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tiltsta Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 I'm guessing around 6,500 hours or so. I've been playing for 25 years, probably averaging 5 hours a week or so. Maybe closer to 5,000 hours, just to be conservative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floyd Rosenbomb Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 rough ballpark, 8500 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Saturn Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 9,999. In one more hour I will be an expert. I better get to work. I'm expecting great things to happen when I reach 10,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Canadian Jeff Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 A million billion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Burgess Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 I would have to say at leas 30K but it may even be twice thatstarted before the age of three - got serious about it at 11 - started playing professionally at 17been a full time guitarist for 40 years - still put in a full day at least four days a weekhard to do all the math I would think you'd be right around six figures, probably on the plus side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 Roughly around 5000 hours, although in a 20 year period, a good portion of that came in the first 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 3,650 ive spent way more time playing tennis and looking at porn. no wonder I suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor Morbius Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 Not enough to be any good. Too many to sound as bad as I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Red81 Posted August 4, 2012 Members Share Posted August 4, 2012 i gotta get cracking. i spent more in the last 3 years than in the first 10 of playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members warriorpoet Posted August 5, 2012 Members Share Posted August 5, 2012 Not enough to be any good. Too many to sound as bad as I am. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members poppytater Posted August 5, 2012 Members Share Posted August 5, 2012 Around 1,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jrockbridge Posted August 5, 2012 Members Share Posted August 5, 2012 4681 hours and 12 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Snappy Hat Posted August 5, 2012 Members Share Posted August 5, 2012 9,999. In one more hour I will be an expert. I better get to work. I'm expecting great things to happen when I reach 10,000. that is the magic number . [video=youtube;XS5EsTc_-2Q] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Saturn Posted August 5, 2012 Members Share Posted August 5, 2012 Well an hour later and I'm still the same. Maybe my math is off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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