Since I started the B2B course here, I’ve only missed one day, when I was too sick and exhausted to be upright.
Last night when I got home from work I debated on skipping practice again, just because it was a mentally tough and tiring day.
Personally I feel a little guilty over skipping a day… but it got me wondering: do you do every day? Set days of the week? What’s your practice schedule?
I’m in module 4. I only practice a couple days a week.
I practice just about every day because it’s fun and I enjoy it. If I’m tired or have other things going on then I dont. Forcing yourself to out of obligation can be counterproductive. Take the night off, get back at it tomorrow.
I try to practice everydays in short time with just one note
Since I started the B2B lessons I have practiced every day. Trying to do 2 lessons a day. If the lesson was difficult I may spend extra time on it and just do that one lesson for the day. I may also pick up the guitar just to play on it going up and down the fretboard and do a few things like octaves etc.
I essentially gave up TV a couple of years ago when we canceled cable. I have replaced my TV time with bass practice. My bass is on a stand right next to my computer desk connected to my interface. Whenever I feel the urge I pick it up and play. Sometimes its a few minutes, sometimes its a couple hours. Most of the time its once a day, there are times when its multiple practice sessions. Really it depends on if whatever im working with has my attention. It’s rare for me to skip days.
I try to practice daily. When I started doing Bassbuzz I started getting up an hour earlier to practice. But then one of the modules (12?) defeated me hard and I took about a week off to lick my wounds. I came back and haven’t missed a day since.
I practice every day. Sometimes just 40 mins, but most of the time it is for a good couple of hours. As I’m disabled, I don’t really have much else to do. But finally learning a musical instrument has done wonders for my mental health.
I would but can’t working a 12 and commuting. So 3-4 days on my weekends is what I do. Could be an hour but usually 2 or so.
Usually. Life always happens though and sometimes I’ll miss a day (or two or more 
), but a day without playing music is like a day without sunshine so I’m always running back. If you do find yourself missing practice more than you like don’t beat yourself up. Consistency over time is the key to success, but building a long term practice routine is hard … especially if you have a life and responsibilities. We all fall off the practice wagon, so when you do just forgive yourself and get back to it.
The B2B course is a great way to have structured practice where you keep making progress and you don’t have to think about it. But after you get through it I highly recommend developing some type of “deliberate practice”. For me this means that at the beginning of the month I write down a small list of things to work on: 2 or 3 songs, 3 or 4 skills, and maybe 1 or 2 additional goals. It sounds simple, but being deliberate both lets you track your progress and more importantly it gives you direction. There’s nothing more motivating than feeling like you’re making progress and nothing more de-motivating than being bored and stuck. Deliberate practice is really powerful and will keep you out of the dreaded trap of playing the same old thing and never progressing that so many musicians fall into for months and years (ask me how I know!).
Good luck with your playing!
(My practice goals for the month as an example of what I mean by deliberate practice. It’s 6 string guitar oriented, but the idea works for anything. Have a plan for what you’re working on so when you pick up your instrument you know what to do instead of just noodling. I love noodling as much as the next guy, but it’s not progress. For any practice session I start with things from my list, and after I’ve done some of it I’ll move to “free play” where I’ll jam over backing tracks, revisit songs I know, noodle, and generally just have unfocused fun.)
Songs: Christmas Time is Here, Little Wing, 1 6- 5 4 (b3) progression
Skills: Alternating between blues scale and dominate 7 arpeggios, rhythm chops (adding single notes and double stops in chords), extended blues scale with 9th and 6th
Additional: Bass lessons, basic major and minor chords on mandolin
I try to practice every day, but like you I also got a winter flu in January and missed 2 days, but I find specially on days when I’m not doing good and I’m irritated, the bass helps even though it may be hard to start the practice, when I get it going it lifts my mood and takes away some of the frustrations 
we just have to keep on chugging
I skip/skipped when I work till late or when I’m sick , also on my brother’s birthday
Sometimes life gets in the way and sometimes there’s other things to prioritize on
Either way it’s fine if you don’t practice daily, when I’m doing well and just lacking motivation I set a Goal of one lesson and often it turns to a couple more.
But either way the more pressure you put on yourself the less fun it’ll be in the long run. I’d recommend staying active but not doing more than you can, cheers!
When I started the course I practiced everyday. I find it relaxing and great for my mental health, as playing can help me forget any problems and stress.
This year has been a little challenging with some things in my life, and often I didn’t have time at all to play for a few weeks, and sometimes was completely drained of energy, and was stressed, depressed and worried. Things still didn’t change, but I’m trying to manage my stress. Trying to allow myself to sometimes do less, and allow myself time to just be, watch a movie, play the bass.
In February, once after weeks of not playing much, I played for 3 hours and managed to injure myself. I woke up with some finger joints aching. I’m better at the moment, but now I have to be careful and try to play a little less everyday, such that I don’t aggravate the problem.
A little everyday is a good start.
I want to eventually be able to recognise all the notes by their sound. It would be so awesome to hear a song and immediately know what key it is in, the chord progressing, and be able to figure out the notes when I can’t find the tabs and notation for a song. This will come with time.
Yes, I try to practice almost every day. Sometimes I’m busy with more important things, or maybe I’m tired one night and just not feeling it, but I probably practice 5 or 6 days per week, on average.
I don’t practice everyday, but pretty close. When I am too tired to do a BB lesson(I’m on my 2nd go through), I’ll fire up songsterr and pretend I am the bassist in Def Leppard, or Tom Petty’s bassist, and play along with “Hysteria” or “Learning to Fly”.
Good chugger tunes, and it invigorates me.
I do somewhere in the range of 60-90 minutes a day, six days a week. Saturday is the day I generally don’t practice.
I’m pretty old and decided to learn bass (first instrument) about 2 years ago. During 2025 holidays I did a lot of traveling for about 2 months. Up to that point I had practiced regularly (prolly 7 out of 10 days).
It was difficult to pick up where I left off. I’m about to graduate and I’m feeling better about my technique (not so much on theory but I was planning to repeat the program to get a more solid theory).
To make a short story longer 
, Yes, the break definitely did damage to my ability but it was a holiday spent visiting family which was important and fun.
My approach is - I do this for my pleasure and enjoyment. I don’t let guilt of missing a day or more of practice eat me up.
It’s great if your life has the stability to practice every day but you know you goals and if you need to take a break for a day I’m sure your brain will use the time to build better connections for your skills.
Enjoy what you have and what you can do!
FYI here is a link to a book by a pro musician (piano) about practice techniques. She’s a pro so that’s a different category than me (I don’t know about you)
She outlines some good stuff and the one big point she makes is practice every day. But if you can’t do a who session just spend a few minutes.
I should really. If I played bass as much as my PS5 I’d probably be a pro by now.
She may be a pianist, but that document is for double bass practice. Some good tips in any case. Thanks for sharing. 