This is an uninformed video by someone who wants to present a contentious topic.

If you can not read or write, you have limited ability to communicate. That is true for the common language we speak and for the symbolic language of music.

The idea that one should consider not learning something just because it is time-consuming is frequently promoted by the uneducated.

If you can not be bothered to get a basic rudimentary musical education, then some of us will not be bothered to interact with you.

This sort of stupid thinking is becoming all too prevalent, especially in the United States, where large portions of the population can not read the front page of a newspaper, and people with an MBA can not find Canada on an unmarked map.

Being uneducated in today's world with more or less unlimited information at your fingertips from the internet is a personal choice.

We can continue this stupid conversation about the fact that there is a hand full of well know, famous, highly skilled musicians who are uneducated and use that as an excuse to be uneducated.

That idea that nothing can be learned to improve the ability to play guitar, or any other instrument for that matter, by being able to read music is a patently stupid, uninformed comment.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”