I've had a lot of bad experience with guitar teachers playing stuff "by the book", but the latest bightmare I had was "electric and acoustic popular guitar" lessons. I was told he was in with the folk scene, and, granted, he could play a one row melodeon, but he'd never played folk on the guitar, or jazz. So I went to his lessons being really posative waiting for him to prove me wrong.....tick tock....dong....time up By the forth lesson my lessons consisted of half an hour of him showing me a jazz chord and asking me to name exactly what chord name it was. He got his kicks not from the fact that he taught me anything, but that if I got a bit wrong So he was a bad teacher for me.