| Lessons are only as good at the student, especially in half hour lessons. You have come to the lessons well prepared, maybe write your questions down, and don't waste time BS'ing around focus for the thirty minutes. As good teacher should appreciate that and yo might find you're getting extra time in your lessons. Also realize lessons are all about cool licks and lines, you need to to work on the basics. Good teachers usually reward hard work with the cool licks and tunes and how they they relate to the material you have been learning. So you work hard and lesson are a valuable.
If you are a rookie player half hour lessons can be enough time. If you are more experienced player and working on things like improv that need more time, then hour lessons are better even if only taking a lesson every other week.
Take a month lessons see if the teacher explains things so you understand them. If the material is helping your overall playing. Are you feeling inspired to work. See if the teacher is giving you your moneys worth in that I said you need to be focused, so does the teacher. Some teachers try to become your buddy to chew up time, you want to get along but not feel like you paying to hang out and get some homework and leave.
Good luck and have fun.
__________________
Steve Barnette
The Dojo of Cool :ninja:
------------------------------------------------------------
Practice is the best of all instructors - Publilius Syrus
| 
