Hey I have just found this forum, hopefully its going to help me alot. I have been playing electric guitar now for about 4 months. Had a book with chords in etc. However drifted solely onto solo's, started with Plug in Baby, Hysteria, Chilli songs progressed to harder solo's and techniques now, but have NO chord knowledge other than 5 basic.
So my question is; is it essential to learn the chords? Or can you be a good player without them?