I bought the P.T. book and DVD about a year ago and went from playing basicly tabs to being able to improv enough to make me happy. As Andrew said, it is very common to have Ah ha moments or "so thats how it works"or "now I get it etc". However, it isn't for absolute beginners, You need to know your basic chords and have been around a guitar for a while. A rule of thumb would be if you know chords and bar chords, can play a couple of tunes without struggling or are stuck in a rut playing the same old things the same way ,then you are ready for P.T.
While P.T. will help you understand and see scales, it is not scale based so shredders and scale runners would be dissapointed. However for the more melodic parts of metal that is so prevelent in Metalica,for instance, P.T. would greatly develop you ability to create those kind of melodic riffs.
It is not uncommon for P.T. members to turn around and sell all their How to books after a couple of months of P.T.
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