Licks'N'Chicken Pickin'

At what point does "Can you show me how you play that bit on the guitar?" go beyond sharing technique with a fellow guitarist & become 'Conducting Guitar Lessons'?

Is it when you spend 2 hours showing the person 'that bit' because they still don't get it... or is it after the fourth similar-length session when that person starts picking your brain for other tricks'n'licks?

I think I have my first pupil... The other question is ~ should I be charging for my time? Especially since these 'lessons' are being conducted in Debtor's Prison.

But then anyone who's foolhardy enough to try following my left-handed-upside-down-different-tuning playing technique has their work cut out for them already. Maybe that's why it takes him so long to play things I think are pretty simple... It's not that he's a bad guitarist, just that our approaches & styles are different.

Edit: And, a couple of weeks ago I had a bit of a rant & wail about modern 'journalism'. I'm not sure if Sam DeBrito agrees with me or not, but we seem to be on the same page... somewhere...