Do I Need to Learn to Read Music?

It turns out that many, or even most rock, folk, blues, funk, heavy metal, punk, and country guitarists are not particulary good note readers. Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and John Lennon are examples of skilled guitarists who read notes not at all or poorly. If you want to play like them, you should begin as they did?learn to finger basic chords and to strum some of your favorite songs. In the defe