Hubby kind of sequestered me for days at a time as I learned - ie, he prevented me from listening or hearing guitars and guitarists. Rotten tricks like, "Let's go shopping-!" and "Let's go find that cafe you saw!" Dirty tricks to distract me from having idle time that might have let me watch guitar-playing videos or even listen to songs I KNEW I could learn to play. "No no - all practice makes CB learn faster!" uh huh... So, are you sinning? Watching other How-To videos during this 6-string Bataan death march? Or watching how other guitarists play? (I hope so. I know I learned soooo much from face-to-face observation of other guitarists once I understand what they were playing. "Why's yer finger THERE?" and then of course relaxing and letting my sloppy fingertip placement be compensated by the other strings' finger tones.