Scales/Chords versus piece practice

Songline at 21h22
05
May
2010
Scales/Chords versus piece practice

I'm new at this but quickly realized I need some structure. Say you have an hour a day to practice how much time would you spend practicing scales, chords, triads etc. and how much time on learning and playing general music? I bought a couple of years worth of workbooks from RCM series.
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