Reply #23: A small update: I talked to my instructor before class tonight.

[LeftyMom]

He's a really nice guy and very approachable, so I said to him what I said here earlier. He says I'm doing fine and that I'm not off pace for where I started from, and that I'll be fine as long as I keep practicing, and if I feel unsure to get more practice time in. So tonight he had us working on some classical guitar stuff, and none of my classmates have any experience with that, so there wasn't that built-in handicap there, and actually I picked up on it a lot faster than most. So I felt a lot better.

I kinda think he did that on purpose. ;)

I did order the DVD companion for our instructional book, I think part of the problem is that I need more visual demonstration than I'm getting, and that it will help me to have better visuals to refer to on the six days a week that I don't have a class. But I feel a lot less screwed up and lost than I did when I posted.