I took lessons as a kid, ( 40 years ago) Back then they would teach you to read music. So I would say at the 3rd week I was playing twinkle twinkle little star. on the E,B G strings. ( I can tab it out if any one wants it. Nice lick !!HA HA!!) the up side of reading music was that you learned from the begining timing was very very very important.. So what ever you do, at least do it with a metronome.. Ok let me rephrase that, don't really do it with a metronome just use one while you are playing..