YAMAHA DIGITAL GUITAR

 (2 customer reviews)

I've had mine for 2 years now, and I really do like it. It's kind of a synthesizer with strings to pluck. I'd say it has most of the features you'd expect from a simple keyboard, but plays like a guitar! The top half of the fretboard lights up to teach you chords to play when practicing the installed midis. The songs that come pre-installed include 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay' - Otis Redding, 'Tears in Heaven' - Eric Clapton, 'Hard Day's Night' - The Beatles. The tracks are in Midi form, of course. But, if you start playing along in 'strum' mode, it will take care of the chords for you, and play the backing track, so can just rock out on the strings, and sound like you know what you're doing. There were downloadable songs on Yamaha's website, but I haven't checked to see if they're still there.

Now, there were a few things keeping me from giving this thing a full 5 stars - The big one for me was not having a power adapter. It's a pain trying to find 6 aa batteries...Read more

I bought it to try out as a MIDI input device to my Sibelius software. I just wanted to enter one note at a time in real time. I thought it would be easier than picking notes out on the piano because I don't play piano. For several reasons it didn't work well at all for that, so I sent it back. Other than that, I have no opinions about this product. It seemed nicely made, probably ok for what it was intended for. It's mostly a toy in my opinion.