[stsanford]

Thanks so much for all the insight.
I understand what you're saying Brent, there's a guy who works in IT and I've helped him a couple of times. He's got so darn much knowledge he is utterly frozen, and useless in the real world, he sees the side effects of nearly any approach taken which makes it impossible for him to move forward. I would say my search is for Practical knowledge and the enjoyment of "getting" the compositional principals employed for fingerstyle and chord melody style guitar.

Thanks again for all the insight, now I have some homework to do!