Originally Posted by: x0o_BurnOut_o0xBut then after a couple months you get to a certain point where lessons cant help anymore, you need to do it on your own.

I disagree, sorry to do so tho. I think lessons will always be ebneficial, although maybe you will need to upgrade your instructor, or combine that with working with lessons on this page...
With the internet, one on one lessons have become less vital,but they still work great...I mean right up until he died, Randy Rhoads would book a lesson in every town that Ozzy toured, although as Ozzy admits,he would usually end up with a teenage "teaching" him...but it must have helped,because he never stopped doing it.