And though my looks changed as I began to go through other phases, the desire to be creative stuck with me and music continued to be my passion. Lessons Suck! Taking lessons as a child was a task that was never quite as fulfilling as I had hoped. To put it bluntly. Lessons sucked! Over the 8 years I took lessons I slowly progressed, going from teacher to teacher, following in the same patterns, and being bored all the while. My teachers would put a piece of music in front of me and drill it into my head until I could play it note for note. I developed the ability to site read music very quickly and could play incredibly difficult pieces of music but had no idea what key I was in or what chords I was playing. In other words, my teachers were only teaching me one aspect of the music. I wanted more. My first guitar teacher in high school seemed to have the same problem as my piano tea...