How many hours do people practice?

[pantherairsoft]

About 30 mins a day, plus the odd hour at the weekend if I'm lucky.

That said, by 'practicing', I'm guessing you mean 'getting better at playing bass', where as for me, practising is 'twidding knobs on effects pedals to craft new sounds'.

[Bassbooksbikes]

Yes you are right, as a beginner, I equate practice as a means to get better. 

[pantherairsoft]

12 minutes ago, Bassbooksbikes said:

Yes you are right, as a beginner, I equate practice as a means to get better. 

In that case, the amount of time I spend practicing is “not enough”.

[Reggaebass]

What I’ve learned is long practice sessions don’t really work for me, I don’t tend to absorb it all, whereas if I do 1 - 2 hours I remember everything, also if I can’t quite get something like a tricky Bassline, I always take a break then come back to it , and more often than not I get it straight away , I used to end up noodling for hours but now I make notes of what to focus on 

[Bassbooksbikes]

2 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

What I’ve learned is long practice sessions don’t really work for me, I don’t tend to absorb it all, whereas if I do 1 - 2 hours I remember everything, also if I can’t quite get something like a tricky Bassline, I always take a break then come back to it , and more often than not I get it straight away , I used to end up noodling for hours but now I make notes of what to focus on 

This seems to be what the latest science on learning music also suggests, it's the breaks between the sessions where the learning and improvement take place. 

[Bagman]

Deep Practice 

 

it's a thing 

[Lozz196]

I play when I feel like it, some weeks that might be every day, others may only be once or twice.

 

Only differences to that are if I have a gig, where I`ll go through the set a couple of times in the week of the gig, or if learning a song.

 

I do try to play at least once a week though, I find it very therapeutic just playing along to songs on YouTube.