At 80 years old, this is how much John Fogerty practices guitar a day
How many hours of practice per day should guitarists aspire to? Answers for this question vary greatly, with some saying serious players should be aiming to get hours in every day.
On the upper end of the spectrum, virtuoso Steve Vai recently recounted his rigorous practice regimen as a teenager, which saw him “happy if I got nine hours a day”.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty doesn’t adopt quite the same level of obsession to his practice schedule, but in a new interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he details how he keeps his chops sharp.
“It just feels really good,” he says [via Guitar World]. “I like to practice, because my connection to the guitar makes me feel better. It’s a kind of therapy.
“It always takes a certain amount of time to work up to where you were yesterday. It doesn’t just start right there. You kind of sink back or something. Your muscles have to get warm again, I suppose.”
He goes on: “What’s cool about it is the next day, meaning today, you start practicing, and then you get better at something than you were yesterday.
“That happens every single day. Sometimes, there’s a big chunk I’m trying to get better at, and sometimes it’s just some little thing. And the more you do it, the easier it gets, and the more you understand it, and you develop the actual coordination.”
But the big question: how many hours does John Fogerty actually practice per day? He answers about two or three hours.
“That’s ingrained in me, and also when I do that – that’s kind of what for other people would be their office, and their meditation space to kind of get it together to do their job.
“I’m practicing, and I do have various things I’m trying to get better at, but it also allows me to mentally and spiritually bond with the music that I love. You know, there’s always little bits of stuff that I’m not good at, and I wish I was better at some parts.”
Elsewhere, John Fogerty recently revealed the one thing that’s more important to musical success than being a good guitar player.
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