How many years of lessons continuously have you taken from an Instructor

None. I was in an afterschool program for 1/2 of the 4th grade.
I liked it and was learning but lost interest.

Dumbass.

I remember walking the 1/2 mi or so carrying books under one arm and a plywood acoustic in a plastic garbage bag in the other.

I am warming more and more to the idea of taking a round of lessons aimed to help correct bad technique and help get past the sticking points I am kind of stuck in.
All I need are time and $$, lol.
Birthday is coming, and maybe if the Jaguar I have listed sells.
 
gball said:
I took lessons for a brief period of time when I very first started playing, so this is going back to about 1976. Probably only did it for a year, maybe just a little longer. I really didn't do well with the lessons, the teacher was very well respected and well known in the area I lived but I wanted to play hard rock. I really had no interest in doing any of the other styles that he though were so important and I just lost interest. Also, a bunch of the older guys in my neighborhood played guitar and a couple of them were excellent. They were teaching me much more than the instructor and at a much faster pace, plus it was stuff I actually wanted to play, so I quit taking lessons and learned from doing and from listening to records.

Never took another lesson and been playing guitar for going on 42 years now.

One thing I notice from watching interviews with well-known guitar players is that many of them have the exact same backstory: started playing, took lessons for a while, dude wouldn't teach them Aerosmith songs, quit taking lessons, learned on their own, never looked back.
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My Instructor wanted me to do some Classical, I told him no I don't want to take any Classical , him and I came to an agreement, teach me what I want to learn Classic Rock and Blues. If you are being taught something you don't like,. well you don't learn. If you cant find a teacher that will teach you what you want to learn, then its time to part ways and find someone who will.
 
Session 5 said:
My Instructor wanted me to do some Classical, I told him no I don't want to take any Classical , him and I came to an agreement, teach me what I want to learn Classic Rock and Blues. If you are being taught something you don't like,. well you don't learn. If you cant find a teacher that will teach you what you want to learn, then its time to part ways and find someone who will.
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I didn't have a lot of sway over the situation being only 10-11 years old, but I completely agree with you and probably would have if I had been older. In the end though I had plenty of passion to play and I don't regret giving up on the lessons, there is no teacher that's better than figuring it out on your own and although it probably took me longer it was rewarding in its own way to go through that process. I do wish I could read music though. Tab is fine but it would be nice to know the real deal.
 
Four years of piano lessons from when I was 8 to 12. I pretty much sucked at it. I didn't think it was much fun at the time, but now I am pissed I didn't keep up the little skill I had acquired. I was very bad at reading music, and I'm still pretty close to illiterate in that respect. I never took any guitar lessons, other than having a friend show me how to do barré chords properly. I wish i had the time to do it now, though. One day I will.
 
Took lessons very briefly around 83. stopped playing by 87. (insert 20 years of motocross here)

Picked up the guitar again in 2010 and never put it down. I took about 3 more lessons, but didn't enjoy it. I've been teaching myself and practicing every day since.
 
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