I'm not a man. I'm a woman. A schoolgirl. Now you've read it, don't condescend to me because you believe I'm too young or something. Just because I'm a teenager- 17 years old- and other posters are much older. But I would still love to learn by getting a calypsonian to teach me. It's just the way I want to learn. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this. There are people- who have learnt other musical styles by travelling to other countries and studying from people there. What's wrong with that? I don't want to do it this way because of a "classical rulebook" but because I want to learn it in the tradition. I'm not a purist- if i was I wouldn't have posted this in the first place. My username comes from a female character in the Tolkien novel "The Children of Hurin". I highly doubt a man would choose a female character as a username.