Abstract: A self-teaching guitar and entertainment system for use by a user to learn how to play a song on a guitar includes a guitar having a plurality of strings, a fret board having a plurality of illuminatable portions, and a processor operable to illuminate the illuminatable portions of the fret board. The processor and the illuminatable portions are operable to selectively display illuminated fret numbers in the frets and adjacent the strings on the fret board corresponding to fret numbers on strings in a guitar tablature for playing the song.