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01-27-2017, 08:28 AM
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If I thought about picking up a guitar to "practice", I would probably never pick it up. I always think of picking it up to "play". That sort of defines how I feel about my musical endeavors. Guitar/banjo/ukulele is a hobby for anti-work and anti-stress enjoyment. Playing is fun time, and I like to keep the fun in it. It keeps me coming back.
As a kid, I always hated sports practices, but I liked to play. Certainly, when learning something new, I go over the material again and again until I get it down the best I can. Yes, that is "practice", by definition, but my neurotic brain prefers the word "play". As a hobbyist/amateur, if it isn't fun, what's the point? I do know a lot of pros who hate to practice, but that is "work" related. opencee . 
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01-27-2017, 08:28 AM
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In the religious community there is a joke that goes "I've been thinking about praying about that." It is trotted out when someone asks if you've been pray about something. Of course, the reverse joke is also used, "I've been praying about thinking about that," when someone asks if you've thought about some possibility.
It's a self-deprecating joke about laziness.  Bob
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01-27-2017, 08:32 AM
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01-27-2017, 08:48 AM
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After reading the AGF for a few hours, I am often inspired to practice.
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01-27-2017, 08:49 AM
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I have a fairly long commute, and do sometimes go over lines and fingerings in my head while on the bus, to see if there's something I can change or improve on. Then, I'll see how it works out when I get home. But for the last 2 or 3 years or so about 50% of the time I have a guitar in my hand I am practicing something, not just playing the stuff I already know over and over again. Going over different books, videos, etc. As I get older I feel I need to be better, much better really than I currently am.
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01-27-2017, 08:51 AM
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If I have a set goal in my practice strategy I find I get more motivated to make it happen. For example this week I set a goal to learn to flat pick the fiddle tune "Cherokee Shuffle". I thought about it all day at work and couldn't wait to get home to learn and practice it.
If I'm just thinking about practicing and don't have a clear focused goal it tends not to happen.
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01-27-2017, 08:53 AM
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01-27-2017, 08:59 AM
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This is the story of my life nowadays. I spend 12 - 14 hours a day behind the wheel thinking of how good that guitar is going to feel in my hands only to be too fried by the time I shut down for the night to do more than plunk a few chords and go to bed.
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01-27-2017, 09:04 AM
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Yes, I can so relate. The only thing that works for me is having a goal and agreeing that I will spend 10 minutes per day on working towards that practice goal. There are days when I do more than 10 minutes and a couple of days where I do not get to it at all, but I end up actually practicing probably 60% more of the time when I approach it that way.
Best, Jayne
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