I began playing guitar in my early 20's with the hope of being able to play a few songs around the camp fire.  I accomplished that goal within a few years and got really bored with my playing over the next few years.  I took some lessons from an accomplished friend and progressed - got stuck for lack of practice time.  The baby arrived and over time I quit all together.  

In my early 40's my new wife bought me a guitar and got me lessons with an extremely accomplished jazz instructor.  I got stuck and quit.  I did befuddle my friends by learning to play Autumn Leaves.  For the next 8 years I practiced sporadically, watched video traning tapes, and made only minor progress.  At some point my downstairs condo neighbor asked if I was "still trying to learn to play the guitar".  I thought that was really funny until I realized how true it was.  I was trying to learn rather than learning.

I sold my business and moved to rural Oregon.   I found a respected guitar instructor 5 minutes away from my house and began lessons again. He assumed I knew something about guitar theory and for a while I had him fooled... I continued with the lessons for over a year - 1/2 hour every other week.  I progressed some - practiced a lot of chords and scales - got stuck and frustrated. My instructor was frustrated too.  

We decided to drop the lessons in theory and just do some blues songs with lead riffs.  I found an online site and began to learn fun blues and contemporary riffs.  I guess the instructors on that site assumed I knew something about music theory and I still believed I did not need to know anything about ...

In December 2008 I was looking for alternatives to private lessons and stumbled on LLS Learn and Master Guitar.  It sounded like Steve did not assume I knew anything about music theory.  In fact - he assumed at the very least a review from step one would benefit most intermediate players. I accepted Steve's advise and began again at the beginning.  So I am now on the path of starting over from the beginning - and learning basic things I skipped in the past. 

I am currently working on session 11 and I see progress from day to day.  OK - maybe not every day.  When I started this course I thought I was an intermediate player.  Now I have come to believe I am a beginner/intermediate player that aspires to be an accomplished intermediate player.  Nothing wrong with that. I believe this course could be namedLearn and Master Intermediate Guitar.