Electric guitar...

Something that I wrestle with too is I've only been to this person for lessons twice now and we're working out of this book that has audio with it and I'm not feeling I'm getting my bang for my buck per se. I don't enjoy the time. It's more him telling me I'm not putting my hands in the right positions... I'll start with my strumming hand I like to keep my three smaller fingers open and he'll say that a lot of good players play that way but that's not the way he teaches. If it's the way I'm comfortable it's probably going to be the way I'm going to play at least for now.. on my fretting hand I know I would like to curl my fingers more but it ain't happening yet all them years of concrete construction and mechanicing ain't letting it come in the first 2 weeks...
I'll get there but it's just concentrating on too many things at once... Like I'll play the notes correctly but then he wants me to leave the number one fret down while I play the number three for it and back to the number one. I get that that would be faster but then I concentrate on that and I don't get any of the notes correct... And the next thing you know my half hour is over LOL...