Steveperrywriter
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Usually, I play about an hour-ninety minutes a day. Sometimes at a single sitting, sometimes in a couple of sessions, and so I'm comfortable with that much. No problems with hands or fingers.
Yesterday, I was at an acoustic jam that ran for three hours, we played pretty steadily, just pausing to swap leaders and write chords on the white board, and at the end of the jam, my fingers were sore and my first couple of fingernails worn a little ragged.
When I was a runner, back in the day and training for a marathon, the rule of thumb was, you could keep going in a race about twice your training distance. To run a marathon, you needed to do 14-15 miles regularly.
Anybody notice any kind of similar relationship to playing? Or is it more like one-to-one? You want to be able to do three hours comfortably, you need to practice that long?
Yesterday, I was at an acoustic jam that ran for three hours, we played pretty steadily, just pausing to swap leaders and write chords on the white board, and at the end of the jam, my fingers were sore and my first couple of fingernails worn a little ragged.
When I was a runner, back in the day and training for a marathon, the rule of thumb was, you could keep going in a race about twice your training distance. To run a marathon, you needed to do 14-15 miles regularly.
Anybody notice any kind of similar relationship to playing? Or is it more like one-to-one? You want to be able to do three hours comfortably, you need to practice that long?