Kind of curious to find out how much time you spend playing songs vs. doing exercises and practicing technique. For example, I am using the Guitar Aerobics book and spend about 15 minutes on that. I also excercise using the spider pattern and practice major and minor scales, plus a a lot of fingerstyle excercises to develop coordination. But doing that gets boring, and my ambition is to get better at playing music, not scales and doiongexcercises, which I consider a means to the end. I try to get 50:50 time in between practicing and playing, which in effect is also practicing. You have to practice playing a song to get good at playing it, and once I have it mastered I get a great sense of accomplishment. Now I am embarking on my own music.
So how much time do you spend playing songs vs. practicing?
Jim