Electric guitar that teaches you how to play!

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Hasbro and Tiger Electronics have come out with the Power Tour Electric Guitar, based on a Gibson design. With touch sensitive pads instead of guitar strings, shredders can easily learn chords by simply following the light patterns in the frets. This means that kids won’t be turned off right away by the need to built calluses on their fingers before it stops hurting.
Lessons are built right into the guitar itself and will teach kids to play six different rock classics, including “Wild Thing” and “Smoke on the Water,” plus six original songs. In ‘learn’ mode, players advance by segments until the song is mastered. Once the player is able to correctly play the segment, the next segment of notes is introduced. If the player gets the segment wrong, the Power Tour Electric Guitar will play back the example a little slower. When the song is finally mastered, the guitar’s ‘band’ mode let’s them rock out to the song with a built in track. As players learn, they can select from rock songs of increasing difficulty, and even change the guitar’s sound to ‘metal,’ ‘punk,’ ‘rock,’ or ‘indie.’
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