I don’t know about you, but sitting in a room playing over a (probably) lame blues progression in front of 22 other guitar players sounds like it would stupendously horrible. But, I guess that’s what they’re doing across the pond:

The man providing this startling reveille is called Michael, and he comes from Aberdeen. He has flown here to attend one of the increasingly popular Guitar Break weekends and is limbering up in his room for the day ahead. By 10am, he is sitting in one of the conference rooms with 22 other men – obviously – who have come here from all over the country for a two-day immersion in the art and technique of playing blues-rock guitar.

Sounds okay. Then this:

During the first day, everyone is invited to step up and improvise over a blues sequence in A minor, with the three experts immediately providing a critique of the performance.

Um, no thanks!