Originally Posted by: schmange....To me, I feel like I bypassed a stumbling block that personally would have discouraged me from learning guitar. I hated school, never did homework and hated being told what to do. If I'd been forced to learn to read music back then and learn scales I would have hated it so much, I'd never have bothered with it.

Can I get a huge 'amen'? This is exactly the way it was for me, too. I never learned any theory until one day I stumbled across a guitar book that built the bridge between basic theory and basic guitar playing and I was hooked. Now, I still don't care for a bunch of theory but it helps learning the language so I can communicate better with other musicians, and so I can teach.

Steve