I have to admit to a tinge of sadness as I report that both of the LED learning sleeve for guitar projects we featured back in April have so far failed to appear. Development of each is said to be ...

With Guitar Hero on extended leave and no new Rock Band title coming out this year, now is the perfect time to trade in our toy guitars for something a bit more substantial. Going from five colorful ...

Quality instrument, genuinely innovative functionality, accessible at all skill levels, continually upgradable via additional lesson packs. Optek's innovative approach to musical education is ...

The Fretlight FG-421 and its sister models are solid electric guitars that can actually show you how to play your favorite songs, thanks to their light-up necks. I'm not a guitarist. I took lessons ...

RENO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Father of Shock Rock, Alice Cooper, and the world’s easiest guitar to play, Fretlight Guitar, announced today the launch of Quitters Anonymous™, an online community ...

In 1993, Radiohead assured us that "Anyone Can Play Guitar," but, as that band is composed of admitted creeps and/or weirdos, this supposition is suspect. The guitar-based rhythm game explosion of the ...

Author Malcolm Gladwell said it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a creative genius, but who has the time for that? Rusty Shaffer has a guitar and a digital tool kit that can turn you into the ...

The Optek Fretlight combines a standard Stratocaster clone with a light-up LED neck, making it easier to learn how to play the guitar or learn new songs. The Fretlight happens to be a MIDI guitar, too ...

Optek Music Systems has announced the release of Fretlight Lesson Player software for the Mac. It’s designed to work with Optek’s Fretlight learning guitar. Fretlight Lesson Player for Mac and ...

As a 10+ year guitar player, I'm always ways in search of products that can help me learn difficult guitar scales, chords and fast riffs. Enter Fretlight—this company makes software and guitars that ...

Years ago I thought I could be in a rock band (right around the same time I thought I could make money writing poetry) but I eventually resigned myself to the fact that I’d never be a great guitarist.