Practicing

Tonight on a guitar-related forum that I'm on, someone posted a question about how much time people spend practicing. I responded that these days I usually practice about two to two and half hours a week - and that there was a time, long ago, when I was doing that much each day.

This is the problem with guitar playing as a hobby: it takes time to achieve and maintain a skill level that makes it worthwhile, but almost anything else has to take priority over practice time.

This problem is compounded for (would-be) multi-instrumentalists, who need to keep up on several instruments - all of which are likely to suffer as a result.