How much time to practice? A much debated question amongst teachers of guitar and many other instruments. Here is my humble advise on the matter. After having taught many students at all levels of expertise (YES! some were experts in their own right), I have an interesting opinion on the issue.
The fact is that TIME does not matter when it comes to practicing. Especially in jazz or modern guitar, the player should be concerned with "understanding" theoretical and practical concepts well enough to recall these at later times, and transfer these to other musical situations. So in short, the quantity of time does not matter, but the quality of it does! Learning an important concept well enough, beats memorizing other pieces of musical information at the expense of long hours of repetitious practice. This is true especially if we can't translate that practice to real world scenarios. A vivid example at a later post...
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