That's the thing - I went to a load, including people who were really, REALLY good technically, but they weren't aware of what they were doing; even people like Malmsteen, etc., didn't really know exactly -how- they were doing what they were doing in many cases, and they certainly weren't explaining it clearly. I remember writing to Guitarist magazine (in the UK) about it, and getting a fairly standard reply of "practice the patterns and notch the metronome up every week", but that was what I'd already been doing for years - and had been told to do that by everyone.