Can't Seem To Play With Someone Else? Options

[RobM]

When I practice at home I do pretty good, i always use the metronome and can keep time with what I'm suposed to be playing (I'm still between 80 - 100 bpm on most things but I'm slowly improving since fathers day). My problem seems to be when I go to my guitar class i always seem to not be able to play in front of and/or with my teacher?

I always warm up real good before I leave the house but when I get there and he hears me I'm all fumble fingers? I told him once that when I get here I just seem to suck, he said your don't suck I sit here and listen to suck all day long and you're not part of that. But I don't know if he's being sincere or if he's just saying that to make me feel good?

I have the same problem when I'm practicing at home when someone walks by or talks to me or I hear other people talking I seem to lose concentration, some times.

Anyway I'm looking for a way, or ways to get myself past this because it's really starting to bother me that I do it. Would playing to backing music help? Kind of hard to play to backing tracks to minuet in G or the star spangled banner.

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