smurf,my opinion,,,i started taking lessons, if you are taught too much you forget it, if you only learn a little ,not value for money,the more i learn myself the better i feel,you say you know the majors,minors, triads,,,,,go back to the lessons on psrtutorial learn the inversions ,progressions,, 7th,, major7th,,, minor 7th,,etc and you will find that a lot of it comes together and easier to adapt,i,m not saying its easy ,,,its not, but the more you practice ,it becomes automatic,remember when you first used to play notes one at a time with one finger ,,now you are playing with left hand chords and right hand melody ,to come this far you have come a long way,just continue and use your tutor to give you the info that is missing,this is what i did ,i,m not a proffessional just a happy home player,and bernies advice of going to john axoms site,his patterns will fill in the bits and pieces and again just my opinion,mike

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