Musicians

Man...That's easily twice what I'm currently putting in.It's all I can do to put in 3 hours a day.I WANT to do more.My fingertips might take it but my wrist and arm won't.
In my first practice session each day,I can go 60-90 minutes,depending on what I'm practicing,5 minutes at a time each,and in what order I do them in,before a soreness or fatigue somewhere makes me stop.After some rest and recovery time,I'm only good for 15-20 minute spurts to make my daily 3 hours.I always try to push myself a ways past where I start feeling sore/tired,hoping to stretch that point.I'm not noticing that that's happening so much as the time I need to rest between is becoming shorter.Months ago I had to recharge a couple hours.Now it's as little as 15-20 minutes.So I MUST be getting stronger,but it's not showing up as letting me go longer.

My practice routine is already pretty heavy with scales and technique stuff and I think I have a grasp of practical music theory beyond what I can physically do with it.Although I'm taking something of a break,I am studying music theory.Ear training is something I've been unable to buckle down to.My instructor mentioned once,kind of offhandedly,that ear training comes as a consequence of learning all the other stuff.That it,in large part,resolves itself and can be fine tuned later.That,at this stage,we have bigger fish to fry.Being that,for some reason I've come to dread the ear training exercises I have been exposed to,I accept that as reasonable...