I was cleaning my mailbox and found this..... I wrote this about an year back.

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The guitar class was :(. It made me so nervous..... well it hurts deep, when you realize that there could be areas where you don't have an iota of knowledge... and this class for one did prove this point. This teacher apparently is in late 50's... very particular abt his doctrines, methodology etc etc..

Initially he asked me if I knew anything abt Guitar. I very sweetly replied that ya, I have been learning quite a few things in bits and pieces from all the messy printouts I took from the net. He said "ok demonstrate"... and then it was no looking back, this self proclaimed lead guitarist, with
his new baby one his lap..with deep concentration .....and figures strumming on the fretboard - this is C major, A major, D major....
"Good" flash came his response... and I was about to unfold my collars being as corny as I could project myself. Then he said I like your desire to learn but....
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U have picked up all the wrong things. U are not in the right posture, ur hand movements are incorrect, the way you pick strings is wrong...even ur pick is out of shape. Then he asked me to do so many things but I couldn't.. it was so frustrating. I could not pick strings w/o looking at them. Could not strum w/o a jamming sound, could not play sa-re-ga, could not sing a song...

The first thing I did after coming to office was to play my collection of all the solo guitar music, just to boost my determination... yes I can DO IT.