No music-reading ability is required to learn with this method. It is designed for guitar players who want to learn rock guitar technique and who already understand basic open chord strumming as taught in Mel Bays Anyone Can Play Guitar DVD volume one. You will learn barre chords, power chords and lead gitar scales to use along with the rock accompaniment tracks included in the DVD. A PDF file for the free instructional booklet is available for download at http: //www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.