Monday, May 21, 2012

iPhone-powered gTar shreds digitally





The digital gTar never needs tuning.


(Credit: Incident Technologies)

At first glance, a digital guitar with the brains of a super-powered smartphone and illuminated fretboard seems like a product that could change everything about guitar instrumentation. The digital dynamo by Incident Technologies aims to work as "the first guitar that anybody can play," as noted in description of the gTar on Kickstarter.


To start, one merely needs to plug an iPhone 4/4S in to the digital guitar. After selecting a song in the gTar app, illuminated frets await your fingertips to help you start playing along.



We admit this rocks, but still recommend you learn about music theory, tab reading, and so on. (Click to enlarge.)


(Credit: Incident Technologies)

Selectable modes of difficulty make it easy to learn progressively. For example, budding musicians merely need to pluck the right strings in easy mode, while the medium setting requires the player to press down on the right notes. Both of... [Read more]



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