Learning to play the electric guitar – an interesting and serious work. It's no secret that many talented guitarists were self-taught, but despite this, managed to reach personal excellence in heights. And yet recently, especially in the former Soviet Union, the situation with teaching aids for people involved in music, was more than difficult. In more simple terms, these benefits simply did not exist, and almost all of its own scarce knowledge of guitarists scooped by guessing or 'withdrawal' on hearing the music from old tired and worn-out records. It's no secret that the most powerful impetus to the development of technique of playing the electric guitar was due to the development such a new phenomenon, as rock music, which in the Soviet Union considers ideological deviation, which in the first place and was the cause of these problems. With the weakening of the iron curtain the situation has changed, but not not assume that only the best. Everything became possible, but among these only the lion's share of things was low-grade suragatom, both in music and in all other spheres of life. It is worth noting that now the musicians appeared opportunity to buy a decent tool, a good electric guitar became accessible to many. The most noticeable change in learning to play the electric guitar to fruition in recent years due to rapid development high technology, which allowed to realize that a few years ago it was almost impossible, or at least very difficult. In particular, the book came out good-tutorials playing electric guitar with accompanying audio on cd, part of which at one time and I enjoyed – the author of this article.