Advice please

[IKnowCrazy]

Just a comment from personal experience. Whenever my instructor would praise me, I would almost immediately screw up. It did feel really good to hear it, but it also gave me almost an instant feeling of over confidence and broke my "concentration" so to speak

My instructor also tells us that frustration is a good thing. It keeps you pushing yourself more and more, and when you lose that frustration you become over confident and stop learning more.

So, if anything praise should be rare or after class, but you should be still having fun and getting frustrated at the same time IMO. Learn to laugh about your frustration and look forward to it.

On the other hand, it's important that the instructor is paying attention and helping you to learn. If classes are too big, you might want to think about private lessons or moving to a different school.

Hope that helps.