Marion, if you can't afford a more professional teacher, it sounds like it's that way or the highway! The question is, is your fiddling getting better? If so, then something's obviously going right!

Problem is that if you rely on a teacher to tell you everything, then you may not end up making any of your own decisions (as per Deckman's singing teachers). If he's trying to "teach" you to interpret the music your way, then there you go.

Grab.