Originally Posted by: maggiorThere is certainly no need to continue lessons with an instrutor if you feel they aren't doing much for you. Can you go less frequently - once a month? Maybe to ease into the transition? Or do you feel pretty certain at this point?[/QUOTE]
Well, the only option offered is weekly or none, and I'm pretty certain I've got what I wanted from this teacher, or rather, I'm pretty sure this teacher can't deliver quite what I'm after.

[QUOTE=maggior]Years ago I quit lessons because I felt like I was going nowhere. I spent most of the time sitting there watching him transcribe music for me. We would move onto something else before I had what we just did even remotely down. I got frustrated, stopped practicing, and it went further downhill from there. One day I decided enough was enough.

I know what you mean. My teacher decided, all of a sudden that we were gonna do something else, when we were halfway through Sweet Child O' Mine (which wasn't even my first pick for a GNR song to learn from a teacher. That would be some of the other Appetite stuff). One day, we got to the solo after third chorus, and she told me to practice that for next time. Next week, when I got there she just said "today were going to move on to something else". Really annoying.

The fact that she doesn't do a too good job at motivating me either just emphasizes the quality of the teacher I've found... The three Clinics I've been to have each done a much better job, even though they don't know me. Being that one was by Denmark's two best guitarists (in my opinion, that is) and another was by Bumblefoot from GNR, that probably helps a lot. Too bad I didn't have my guitar with me in either of those two cases. At least the Bumblefoot Clinic was at a guitar expo last year, so I could just go grab a guitar from any of the fifty booths and get some practice done :)

I agree that there are lots of great learning tools out there. GT for one has everything a player needs to learn to play any style of music they want, and a highly supporting forum as well. Rocksmith also offers very great learning tools. I usually use it mainly to make practicing techniques, chords and scales more fun (thanks to the Guitarcade mini-games), while using GT to actually learn new things. And I'm pretty sure there are other great learning tools around. I've seen a few rather good lessons on YouTube, both on techniques and songs.

With all those tools, and more at my disposal, from the comfort of my music-room, I highly doubt I'm gonna lose out on anything. Instead, I'll get the chance to go to more Rock or Blues concerts and support my local music scene and possibly get to network with the bands playing, so it'll be worth it. I've also decided to spend the next two months mainly in my music room, since I have very few other plans and two months off, and sitting in my music-room or trying to build some pedals or a small, simple Amp seems like a better way to spend those two months than just practicing as much as I do now :) and if I choose to build an amp, it'll let me keep my electronics skills up as well. It doesn't have to be a 100W 4x12" speaker tube amp. A small solid-state amp will be a good place to start :)