The comments around YouTube training always sound like that. Perhaps it’s more about the guy or gal that is teaching, they might be doing a bad job at it? Just making an uninformed guess really, the channel might be a good one, it’s just that you get to a point of frustration and it may not be your fault. And people who come to CG Cookie always say that following tutorials here is so different than watching YouTube, the quality is far superior. So all that to say, that since you’ve tried it so much, perhaps it’s the content that has something wrong in it.