I don't mean to sidestep you, Mark, but I'm with Bill on this one. Anything that I could say about Anders' logic and teaching style would be pure speculation, so it would be best to ask him directly in the "Ask Anders Mouridsen" forum. What I can say is that having started out my music career playing woodwinds in an orchestra, I distinctly remember experiencing some of your same thoughts and frustrations when I started here. Yet, now I'm a TAB junkie who uses the standard notation for timing and tempo only, and happily so.

Anders clearly skips around the musical landscape in the process of eventually covering everything. If you don't think that such an approach will work for you then you do have an alternative. Before Anders joined Guitar Tricks as an instructor, the Guitar Fundamentals course was taught by another instructor, Christopher Schlegel, whose course is much more linear and constructed in the unwavering logical fashion that you seem to be looking for. Perhaps give Chris' course a shot and then come back and finish Anders' course afterwards.

Sascha