That sounds quite interesting what you are doing there! :D To release a beta is a hell of work and planning, isn't it?
I started twice to learn a music instrument too, the first time, my teacher just said "We will play this, and that, otherwise you will not learn anything". After a month i was frustated and stopped going there.
The second attempt was with a young teacher (around 28 years old) and the first ding he did was to ask me, what i want to play. I told him that i would love to be able to play dragonforce on the e-bass and he just said "Kay, we will get there".
So, in one year, we played things like blood hound gang, hammerfall, amon amarth, belphegor, nile and at the end of the year we played dragonforce.
It's much more easy when you have a teacher which focus on what you want and if he nows how you can get there. :)