Reddit reviews The Heavy Guitar Bible: A Rock Guitar Instruction Manual

I missed the original thread but Richard Daniels' The Heavy Guitar Bible is an excellent resource for rock fundamentals.

I suggest reading The Heavy Guitar Bible. It's the best instructional guitar book that I have seen.

Teach yourself.

You can learn everything that your teacher has taught you on youtube for free. If you actually want to learn the instrument from where you are now, then focus on the C-A-G-E-D method of guitar study for at least a while. Good books to study C-A-G-E-D are:

Fretboard Logic by Bill Edwards and
Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna. Another old school book that is pretty good is The Heavy Guitar Bible by Richard Daniels.

Learn your minor and major pentatonic scales for every key and then get into your chords. When you practice your scales, don't just do straight runs, but do doubles and triplets and make up your own trips. When you learn the "boxes" for your pentatonics, step outside the boxes and tie them together. See your chords when you run through the pentatonic scales. Learn the names of all of the notes on each fret on all 6 strings. Learn how your octaves are laid out.

After you have this wired, go into your major scale modes.

During all of this, teach yourself songs by TAB or learning to sight read or by ear.

My interests in music jump around so much that I'm into Led Zeppelin one day and Joe Pass on another. If that is how you roll, then teach yourself how the instrument works and the theory behind how the music that you like works along with the lingo or dialect for that branch of music. For example, a blues guitarist has a a whole slew of riffs that are not much ever going to be something that a classical guitarist is going to be playing.

If you teach yourself, then you are steering the bus.

A couple things: There's no such thing as a single blues scale (in blues they sort of change depending on what the musician wants to accomplish), but you probably mean the minor pentatonic. I'll assume you do.

I highly recommend a book called "The Heavy Guitar Bible" which is all about theory, scales, and technique specifically for rock players. It's a bit dated (talks a lot about Hendrix and Zepplin as opposed to Jack White or Muse), but what you learn in this book is absolutely amazing for beginning rock players.

There are so many Youtube tutorials on scales and modes (modes are just reframing of the scales you know) that I could list a thousand of them. Try this one to start and explore after that. Honestly, Youtube will have all you need for that specific area of interest.

Just out of curiosity: Why not take lessons?

I love Ted Greene and I love his books, but they're not for beginners.

"The Guitar Handbook" by Ralph Denyer is indeed a great overview of the guitar, and guitar music. But while it is a great reference, I'm not sure that it's the best book to guide a beginner in how to play.

Perhaps it's because I'm an old dude and read his books decades ago, but I always liked the instruction books by Richard Daniels, such as "The Heavy Guitar Bible", "Be Dangerous on Rock Guitar", "Blues Guitar, In and Out", and "The Art of Playing Rock Guitar":

https://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Guitar-Bible-Instruction-Manual/dp/0895240661

Like I said, those books are decades-old, and there are probably more up to date books that younger players will recommend.

EDIT I'm including a link for a post about Ted Greene that includes a bunch of links that allow you to view his material online:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/47b61j/discussion_i_made_a_sub_about_the_jazz_guitarist/

Easy one! Get this book and read it start to finish. Then put it on a music stand and start again. Play each exercise in the book and make sure you understand each concept. If you get through this book and can play every exercise, and you understand every concept you will be a very good rock guitar player. From there, write songs, form a band, play gigs, and record albums.