I appreciate the perspectives on the different kinds of guitar playing. I remember when I was in a jazz trio in high school, my friend told me that he thought scales on guitar were easier than what he saw me doing on the tenor, since the shapes (his word) of the scales were pretty similar on the fret board, is that true?

I do anticipate a whole lot of exercise if I'm to make any sort of progress with this thing. The strings for classical are nylon, but 4th-6th are wound. At the moment I'm gearing up to restring the damn thing. My buddy told me I should clean it all up first before I restring it, which makes sense to me.

I do have a regular acoustic guitar and I figured I'd clean that one up too and restring that one so I can compare experiences. All I can say, is doing what I'm doing now seems a lot easier than getting my sax back into playable condition (there are so many tiny screws and springs!) not to mention the physical part of rebuilding my lung capacity (my fault) and embrouchure.

Any scale/chord/arpeggio or right hand type exercises you'd recommend?