When I was learning how to play guitar in the early noughties, my choices were to get lessons at school, attend an expensive specialist classical guitar school, or pay for private tuition. Nowadays there’s a huge selection of online guitar lessons, YouTube videos, and websites available to guitar players, which means learning without a dedicated tutor is absolutely possible.
I had some lessons when I was very young, but after that, it was self-study that powered my guitar playing. I learned my favorite songs via tablature, read up on how to implement the symbol-denoted techniques, and if there wasn't a tab I'd spend hours and hours learning by ear. If I ever had a specific question about something, I could get some light shed on it via forums, but you’d never know whether or not the information was correct.
