Pros like Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles all learned to play guitar during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s… During this time period there were… NO computers, NO Internet, and NO YouTube. And, most amazing of all… none of these top pros learned to read music.

In fact 99.99% of guitar players in the world never learn to read music. so they never teach anyone else how to play (because they think they are not qualified to teach music). So exactly how did the pros learn to play guitar? With no Internet to search, new guitar players had to buy music books that showed the finger positions of the major chords. and magazines or song sheets that showed the lyrics and chord positions of popular songs.

With these basic instructions, and a vinyle record of a song they wanted to learn, new guitar players practiced playing along with the recorded music. They practiced until they were happy with their progress. Then they started with a new song record. In the beginning, new guitar players were only shown a few chords (to get them started). After that they were on their own. Learning to play guitar was a solitary private activity until the student played well enough to play in public.