alt Hacker NewsGuitar music in particular has very little actual pressure on learning any music notation or theory. Some of the greatest guitar soloists of all time could not read sheet music and knew zero music theory. This is common enough where there's good odds if you just name a great guitarist, they are probably in this camp.
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djtriptych • today at 7:23 PM
There's a great clip (probably a bunch actually) of Jimi, on stage, holding up the band, counting frets one by one to find his starting position.
This is debatable because I dont know what you mean when you say they didnt know theory. Hendrix is a great example, supposedly he didnt know, but it is very clear he would play the pentatonic of the quality of chord he was playing over. Is that knowing theory? Or playing is playing the BB King box theory? Or is knowing the major scale theory? It's almost certain that the best guitars that you're saying, some of these things. So do you mean the nomenclature?