| KHP,
It is indeed humbling when you start with lessons. I'm 44 and have been taking lessons for almost a year now. I thought I was doing pretty well before I started but wanted to work on several areas (range, endurance, styling, etc.) I still feel like the high school freshman I was when I took my first lesson in 1976 when I meet my instructor these days. I'll have worked something up, usually to what I would consider fair standards, only to listen and learn that I can still do better. Somedays I get so nervous before a lesson I don't think I can hit a G3, until I start and open my mind.
Keep taking those lessons, get all you can get from your instructor, the good and the bad. Use the bad to make the good better. Don't be intimidated, learn and progress. Once you get over the fact that you'll be making mistakes during each practice sesson and each lesson, learning gets more fun!
Learn to blow your horn, man!
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