I can definte say that RS can learn you to play ....To some extent at least. I'm 64 years old and have tried at 3 occations since my teens to learn how to play the guitar and failed miserably! I simply can't read this up from books. But about 7 months ago I stumbled over Rocksmith 2014 at YouTube and decided to give it a try. So I bought it and a cheapo but decent Epiphone, electric guitar. ( I have 3 guitars and a short scale bass now ). :D Now, after have played for an hour every day, I can say that I definite have done some progress. But a couple of weeks ago, I started to feel that I needed another "teacher" as compliment to RS. So I headed over to justin guitar.com And now, I feel I get all the help I need when learning how to play. Rocksmith are good in many ways, but can't teach you everything. And it have some minor flaws. 1. The progession are sometimes a bit too fast for a beginner, when RS thinks you are better than you actually are and ramps up the difficulty over your head. Luckily, the Riff Repeater can fix that though. And you also have Score Attack. 2. You must keep track on by yourself that you actually are playing clean notes! If you just trust what the program says about your playing? You may soon have picked up some bad habits, that will be the pits to get rid of. 3. This is my personal point of view about the arcade games: Most of them aren't that useful. With the exception of String skip saloon, Ducks Redux and Ninja slide. They helped me a lot in the beginning and I still play them as a warm up. As for learning scales? You are better off praticing them in the Session mode, than running the Scale Racer game. And as for chords, I think that justinguitar.com is a great place to learn this. 4. I just wish there where more slow or slower and easy songs to learn in the original game. As a beginner, it's hard to try to keep up in a Metal, Grunge or an Indie song wich there are quite many of in this game. But likely, UBISoft had youngsters in mind first hand and not old geezers like me when they made this program / game :) But luckily, this great forum exist where one can find ones favourite, slower and easier songs. But despite this, RS is a very nice learning tool, that keep you motivated all the time. I just wish that this program / game and to days computers had been availiable some 40 years ago. I might have been a Richie Blackmore Jr. then by now. :D