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AeroGuitar, when you play guitar but hate yourself for it.
Lmfao
Damn, I might need one
Thats just regular guitar tbh
😅
I play the AeroGuitar, but I got mine for free. In fact, every time I play the AeroGuitar, it's a different guitar with a totally different tone. Also, it's an older model, so it's actually the AirGuitar™.
This seems like the sort of product that you'd see on an infomercial, with an Esteban style pitch man telling you how it's a great gift idea for your grandkids for 3 easy payments of $49.99. Sending this out to actual guitar players with strong opinions was always going to be the wrong plan for a product like this. And thinking that the threatening emails weren't going to get out is pro level ignorance.
Esteban has integrity compared to this product's marketing; sure it's cheese but you are not being deceived, it's openly cheesy, they embrace the cheesiness and maybe even celebrate it a little. And that's okay.
Yes! Except in this case it would be 12 easy payments of $49.99
It seems more like a QVC product.
Tbh when I got one of Esteban's guitars as a kid, sure it was no PRS or anything but it wasn't...bad. It was actually really neat. Les Paul inspired body shape, glossy black. I thought it was pretty damn good and what expectations was 13 year old me going to have lol.
Looks like a Chinese mafia shakedown to me, Andy the GuitarGeek is even too frightened to name the company in his video and he's got automatic filters running on his comments section to delete anyone who mentions them. 時代革命.
i hate the whole mindset of “learning an instrument sucks, our product helps u skip that as much as possible” that people use as a marketing thing. i learned several instruments when i was younger playing in orchestras and now i started self teaching bass this year and the process of getting the hang of it is some of the best feeling stuff. of course it’s not easy but there’s this wonderful sensation of each time i pick up an instrument feeling more confident and better sounding that time than i did before and i think skipping that, aside from just not being how learning works, would make it a worse experience.
It's also huge in the fitness community - how to get ripped fast? Put in the work. There's no shotcuts even if using substances.
The moment of truth is simply being delayed. My buddy crushed drums on Rock Band…went to play real drums, and was great minus forgetting the kick drum. Lol.
He didn’t have a screen to tell him ‘kick’ so never internalized it. He said ‘f this’ lol.
Probably the same kind of people as the ones that cheat in video games. People wanna be good at stuff, but they don't want to put in the effort, which is sad, because learning an instrument has been one of the most rewarding and fulfilling things I've ever done.
Reminds me of some alleged interaction between a musician and a fan.
“I would do anything to play like you.”
“Have you ever picked up the instrument and practiced?”
“No.”
“Then you wouldn’t do anything to play like me.”
That’s a bad paraphrase, anyway.
But I'm pretty sure that most people find practicing an instrument to be a boring activity, I once saw a statistic about music students and 80% of them are at a beginner level and most of them never get to a higher level cause for them practising sucks. I think most of those who get to higher levels get there cause they really enjoy the physical activity of playing an instrument, Steve Vai was once asked that he must have been very disciplined as a teenager cause he played the guitar 10 hours a day but he said, No I just loved it so much and when I was doing other things I thought, I could be playing the guitar now.
Back in 1998 I started practicing on my sister's nylon string without any guidance. I then got some chromatic exercises from her guitarist friend and just sat down and practiced them for hours. That burning feel of my fingers and seeing how I started taking control of my fingers was the best feeling I have ever had in my life. When I see these kinds of products, I'm immediately turned off as these completely ignore journey and the pleasure. No thanks! :)
This video really shows why your channel is a very needed thing on RUclips. As you stated, for $600 you could actually buy a decent, even gig-able rig. Especially if you buy used gear. I don't remember my sore finger tips being a big issue when I was 9 years old and learning my first chords.
Hell I got one of those Squier anniversary jazzmasters brand new for €350 last year. Definitely needed a lot of set up work but that’s still not much more. Almost twice that for this weird thing is mad
Totally agree here. The sore fingers stage is very short and just not a big deal unless you’re playing some cheap acoustic with thick strings and inch tall action.
Side note: I’ve taught over 20 people to play bass over the years; if your fingers are hurting when you’re learning, most commonly you’re pressing too hard. Make sure your bass is set up properly and it shouldn’t take so much force to fret notes. Stay loose, bass isn’t played rigidly - you’re in the rhythm section now!
That is all, as you all were
If you were a real teacher of bass guitar your first lesson would be "don't bother learning bass guitar, you can just pick it up and fill in when the bassist has the flu/is high/girlfriend has chucked him out.
This also applies to drum tutors.
Loose.
Guitar will hurt a bit more than Bass when learning because, while the strings have less tension, they're also smaller and so the tension is less equally distributed underneath your fingers.
@@user-xp1gb3rh5z lol 100% what a guitarist would say… then grab a bass without asking permission, and show me how to play some lead guitar on bass and sit back down like they proved their point… I’m not talking from experience _at all_ there 😂
@@Bobby-wn5yrAll irony being lost on the guitar player. 😂😂😂
Gonna chime in here as a guitarist of 20 years. Pain in the tips of the fingers is something to be expected, not avoided. It helps build calluses, and strength in the hand. If an individual actively goes out of their way to avoid it, they'll never improve, nor gain the strength they need in their hands to be a proficient player.
It doesn't really last long, either. It's been a few decades since I experienced that beginner finger pain, but from memory, it was kinda short lived.
It's unclear if they're talking about building calluses, or if they're talking more about like joint pain. Which some people probably legitimately have. But, in that case I'd probably rather try extremely light gauge strings, rather than that plastic monstrosity.
@@kassemir My brother had a guitar synth years ago that was similar to this, the only difference being that the "fretboard" for lack of a better word, was a piece of molded rubber with the "strings" molded into it about an eighth of an inch tall. You would press the "strings" and strum the strings to play chords or even single notes. It even had a whammy bar that would do pitch shifting. It was neat, but not very easy to play and, like this monstrosity, you couldn't bend (but you did have the whammy bar).
It was marketed as a toy and I don't know what my parents paid for it when they got it for him (this was in the late 80s/early 90s), but it sure as hell wasn't equivalent to $600 in today's money.
This smells like some kind of scam, probably tax fraud.
I don't understand any kind of short cut when it comes to a hobby. Isn't the point of the thing to do the thing?
When I first got calluses it was awesome! I felt like I was really making progress. It's like being sore after the gym. It's your body congratulating you, in it's own dumb way
As a guitarist of 35 years, I concur
I think its funny that people still think there is a "life hack" or a way to bypass practice and learning. As a multi instrumentalist in my early 40s... There simply arent any. Either you enjoy the musicianship part of the artform or you dont. If you dont then I recommend going out and finding another artform that suits you (no harm done really). They all require lots of learning and time spent but one will eventually come along that speaks to you where the labour of learning becomes the "fun" and instead of wondering for how long you have to practice you will wonder why you always seem to lose track of time when practicing.
Peace
In my 35 years of playing, I've only had 1 true student, who was motivated enough to not give up after realizing that it wasn't as easy as I made it look. People shy away from effort.
I will just mention as an aside, on the custom guitar, if the door it was upcycled from is 120 years old and is a solid slab, the actual tree it came from is likely from the 1750's or earlier.
That checks out
Rock music didn't exist in those days. Barock did. Must have been a Bach-door,
Pah. Ben Crowe just made a guitar from 42000 year old swamp kauri from New Zealand.
Another useless product that preys on people that believe there is an extra comfortable way in achieving something by throwing money at it.
If a real guitar is not working out for them, this thing won't either...
Derek Paul Guitar made a glowing review of the Aeroguitar. Which has now conveniently been deleted. Whoops.
I saw some other video that appeared to be positive towards it. I ought to have read some of the comments
@@codychickadee5095 There was an older guy, which I didn't mention, because his video seemed harmless. Seemed like he's genuinely interested in the product and was already backing the kickstarter before this stuff came out, and I think he just wanted to show off something he personally thought was cool. Just a coincidence and bad luck that it's the same product.
Derek Paul's video was him taking the bait and shilling. That's the type of youtuber we need to watch out for, because they have no problems lying to their viewers to get paid.
@@MrBrian-fq4lr fair enough, thanks for the insight there I didn't know those details!
This is the third video I've seen about this stupid product. I think it's important that these videos are made to warn people about scam products. Apparently there's a Kickstarter involved. Their aggressive tactics show that the product is nothing more than a very expensive($500) gimmick. Thanks KDH
Even worse, targeting Henning who some might say can be agreeable to the point of exploitable (Guitcon anyone?) to run PR errands for them seems particularly sinister.
@@richardlaiche8303Capitalism is based on trade, value for value.
I've just watched another follow-up video from somebody that gave it negative reviews and they actually had more contact with the company. It seems they made a huge mistake giving this thing to actual guitar players. They are actually looking to do consultant with actual guitar players now. It seems they are looking to improve this product and make it viable for the beginner and not just a toy I guess we'll see in time
And since he showed that the kickstarter is in Hong Kong dollars, it probably costs about US$20 to make.
That guitar belongs on the shelf of (The now defunct) Toys-R-Us for $39.99🤣
MACY'S BOUGHT TOYS R US...TOYS ARE BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!
Tyco made something like this in the late 80's with a name like Hot Lixx.
@@1978garfield I had one when I was a kid. The neck was all blue buttons that took up the width of the neck that you would press and fire off some "Kill 'Em All" Kirk Hammett licks, lol.
@@gregmize01that shit is trash for real. It’s nothing like the standalone store
(Um, Geoffrey would like to have a word...)
I bet Stevie T LOVES the thing.
Nah....there's something else he LOVES more.
They should do a Stevie T Special Edition that comes in Hard Candy Pink.
Yes butt were do you think steveie sticks it.
Stevie t looks like a woman who likes other women
Leave Stevie T alone
Jesus man! For that price I bought a second hand Boss Katana 2x12 and an Epiphone Les Paul Custom!!
The e-mails they sent to Andy (Guitar Geek) were probably the biggest mistake they could have made. They must be kicking themselves so hard right now. They've highlighted their own crap product 10 fold, probably more. What, did they think that you guys weren't going to talk with each other?! Anyway, well done all of you for hanging on to your integrity and telling it like it is.
However, Andy has also shown his true colours by deleting my comments for him to reveal the company or product. It's unethical to talk about a scam but refuses to tell us who the scam artist is.
@@jamessmithurst6011 Yeah, wisely, to avoid any further possible legal action by them, especially as they were already threatening legal actions. You want to see him get in trouble for the sake of your curiosity? I don't. Anyway, it wasn't hard to find out, was it, - we're both here on the same page, less than a day later, eh?!!
@@jamessmithurst6011 "Unethical"? I don't think so. You might reasonably be miffed at having your comment removed but I can see why he doesn't even want to say their name given that there is no such thing as bad publicity...except of course there is 😂
Terrible PR doing that! Also the feedback on the Kickstarter page re delivery is not great
@@jamessmithurst6011 people tend not to mention the other party because of the threat of a libel suit. TBF in this case I think he could've just shared it but still I can imagine he wants to avoid legal risks as much as possible (you can probably imagine he doesn't have a legal department... )
I tell learners that if their fingers hurt, they're pressing too hard.
If a guitar has been well set up, the very action of fretting a string WITHOUT applying pressure is what a learner should strive to achieve.
I don’t know man I think the pain is always part of the process. When I started I got blood blisters on my fingers and I wasn’t doing anything wrong
F barre chord? 🎸💀😊
I like whenever there is a product release and all the channels I watch all have the same video featuring said product. It’s almost the same script as well, like they’re reading a press release. I get it, gotta pay the bills. It’s pretty transparent with minimal thinking skills so I don’t see an issue.
Most guitar RUclipsrs are just salesmen doing infomercials.
@@j_c_93 I like the guys who have no pretense as to the contrary. Basically Andy Demos.
LOL! What a joke! I told Andy they had NO legal leg to stand on!
I don't THINK they even know HOW product reviews work!
This made me wonder how bad the reviews could even be just because review channels that accept press instruments to review typically know how to play the system so they can say something’s bad without actually offending the company that gave them a free thing to make a monetised review out of. So I just checked the first one that came up on the algorithm and yeah it’s not favourable, but it’s not that bad really.. basically it would have been a non-event if they hadn’t threatened legal action and drawn a big bunch of attention to it lol
The one I saw by Sixstringtv absolutely eviscerated it, so given what I saw I'd be pretty wary of anyone being diplomatic in their statements about the product.
Except it's not a guitar or realistic sounding or even teaches you anything, more like teaches to hate playing guitar.
Man you always bring it on. Love the way you broke this down.
It’s like they hired a scam call center that’s trying to break into product marketing. 😅😅😅
I mean, if I was having issues with playing guitar and pain in my fingers I'd get a nylon-strung acoustic so when the pain got to much on steel strings I'd move over to nylon, that'd build up calluses slowly while getting in the time learning.
I’m glad you’re covering this. We appreciate your journalistic integrity K.
I totally thought Henning's channel name was some German thing I couldn't figure out. Thank you for translating it lol! Good video
The ShamWow of non-guitars. Well played.😂
If someone at aeroband has the jawline of shamwowguy.. i still wont buy it
The way this product is being marketed is incredible, it’s like they’ve invented problems and are trying to sell the solution. The guitar is already one of the most accessible instruments out there in that you don’t need to study music theory or learn to read music to be a reasonably proficient player, and because of that fact it is one of the most fun instruments to learn. Learning theory and improving your technique is completely up to the player and how far you want to take it. Some people are perfectly happy strumming a few chords and playing a few riffs and that’s cool. At the end of the day, you can’t beat that euphoric feeling when you finally nail the song/riff/solo you’ve been practicing and you actually sound like the record. The finger pain is absolutely nothing as well, you get over that in like 2 or 3 days. The price tag on this piece of garbage is also highly amusing, $599 means they actually think this is a serious product, where it actually looks like a kids toy that should be about $50 max. This product will sink 100%.
I watched sixstringtv's review and yeah I wouldn't give the AeroGuitar a chance in hell. Considering I have been playing guitar for 18 years, there are issues with the device itself shown in the review, and there exists not only better midi guitars(hell just use a Rock Band 3 Pro Controller) but also VSTs that translate your DI's guitar input to midi input if you really wanted a midi guitar. Their methods for collaboration also seemed predatory and borderline harassing from the start. Much love KDH, have a good day and I hope you're doing well.
The Tim Henson signature Ibanez Nylon string electric is $699 the FRH10N the slight downgrade it’s based on is $499. Those are real guitars with little finger pain that you can gig and record with and also be an avant garde cool guy.
I'd say that the one truly useful thing you could buy to help you learn guitar is a good tuner. If you aren't in tune, you'll never even be able to find the note you want and everything else becomes irrelevant.
The six string tv review was very good. Funny and informative. Wow is the company that made the guitar-like thing terrible.
Love your vids bro. I've been seeing this drama unfold. This company has really gone about things the wrong way. Shot themselves in the foot BIG TIME. It's just a dumb product. Even their promo vids show clearly that they have no clue.
I’m a music teacher, and enjoyed this. I enjoy this channel and how your brain works. Glen rocks too! KDH, your stuff is great do not stop making great content! ❤
Strings not the rubber ones
I nearly spit out my coffee when 7:05 I finally heard the sound of this thing at the 7 minute mark.
Exactly- Marketing should be "A fun toy that gets kids interested in guitar" Perfect for that.
Either my fingers don't callous, or they've been permanently calloused for 16 years. Never had any blisters or problems with my skin playing bass, even after months-long breaks.
Making a video sharing what you believe is interesting is working pretty well 🤠
As for overdrives the BD-2 is a pretty nice overdrive into distortion as the Ibanez 850 overdrive is an EHX Big Muff (?) clone and basicly a fuzz. Then there is the RAT, DS-1,DS-2 and then I loose track and interest other than the OD-3...and that is about it.
Modulation I can watch one video after the other...same with reverb 😂
Glad to see you be upfront and honest rather than compromise your integrity for some easy cash. This reminds me of when every guitar RUclipsr out there was shilling the Jammy MIDI guitar, and credit to them because I fell for it and almost bought one myself - but then I came across Rachelf giving it an honest negative review and I'll forever be in her debt for that.
I honestly was looking at the Jammy to have a MIDI guitar, and I may have even gotten one if they were in stock while looking at them. Then I read about them not being sent to buyers. My understanding was that it was pretty good for what it was supposed to be though. That is, not intending to be necessarily a guitar, but not really advertizing itself as one. I ended up getting a jamstik though. I'm not at a skill level where it's noticeably dropping notes or anything, but I could imagine tracking won't ever really be perfect for such a thing, especially for someone who plays real quick or with a lot of subtlety. It certainly seems to work better than the aeroband where reviewers have it sounding notes just by touching the thing.
When I was learning guitar back in middle school, all the guys would show off their calluses to show how much they were playing haha. Fingertips getting callused and hard is a rite of way I feel like. It just comes with the hobby. Luckily, once your fingertips are done adjusting, you never really have to worry about it again. I used to teach guitar to students during covid and they all loved seeing their fingers get used to the instrument.
as a professional air guitar player, this product is an insult
Your comedic timing & all-around flair are fantastic. Rock on, KDH.
For 600 any schecter can last forever and use as a professional guitar, studio guitar, everyday guitar
that iceman in the background is so cool
We desperately need a restring sunday and that golden lyre is a worthy contender
Looks like the one he holds up in the video and says he’ll do a video one.
yeah, wrote the comment before he did that lol @@216trixie
It also seems like they're used to dealing with fake "reviewers" and that's who they're looking for. So they're just email blasting everyone they can find. I have no idea why any true reviewer that saw "promote" in the email ever did anything besides ignoring the email.🤷♂
When I decided to start playing guitar two years ago, I wanted a guitar and amp. Not a toy. BTW, I spent less on my Squier Strat, setup and Orange Micro.
my 2 cts as a guitar teacher:
Complaining about finger pain when learning to play is dumb. The only cases where this is a valid complaint are people with certain skin conditions or some types of physical impairments on their hands. But there's far better solutions to any of that than that aeroguitar thingy. Thin gloves/tape on your hands can make a huge difference for example.
Maybe it’s time to have a collaborative video and debate on this topic with other guitar influencers. I think AeroGuitars motives are suspect but are they really that far off in thinking guitar influencers don’t actually promote the products 99% of the time? Come on, ‘the thoughts and opinions in this review are mine’, ‘I was not paid but…’, etc. these are all classic disclaimers for ‘Trust Me’. Quintessential salesperson tactic.
I feel like its run by somone who haven't seen how any companies market they're products
Like you don't just keep asking someone multiple times to take a look at whatever you're trying to sell
Those who can’t do, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach gym.
I knew immediately sixstringtv would be involved. I love his channel and he’s a brave trooper but he blasted them hard. Which is great cause he told them he would and they still sent him one of those things.
Some belated hour bolts into the magnificent guitar,The recommendation encourages the two classic .Did the debonair sample really explain the note? The untried gear can't question with the clock.What if the acoustic ideal recognises the teacher?
You should see their comments section now on youtube! 😂😂😂 They even deleted a lot of their videos!!
Only silver lining to that product: this issue has led me to several new guitar review channels, including yours. Subscribed!
I see some influencers are acting like they are giving great reviews at gun point….
I think some companies should learn a basic social fact. Never ask for someone's opinion if you can't handle it.
Major respect for not taking money to make a review, videos of RUclipsrs just playing with a product that they are being payed to lie about gets very boring and is flooding guitar RUclips.
I wonder if there's any way to mod this thing to be a legitimate midi guitar or a synth guitar. Too bad its too expensive for anyone to ever find out
God this "guitar" brand is getting decimated by the algorithm. Think they shouda thought about their product a bit more before unleashing it onto the reviewer community and then start threatening folks with legal action for bad reviews.
When the cats out of the bag, it's almost impossible to put it back in. 😂😂😂😂
There's nothing boring, for me anyway, about listening to a Stratocaster through a DOD 250 or a YJM overdrive, or similar voiced overdrive. In the right hands, it can sound far from boring but I get that RUclips guitar drama is what gets the algorithms cooking. Every popular guitar channel is doing their video of why they didn't review the product in question. That was way more predicable (boring?) than a decent overdrive pedal review, like Elmo Karjialainen and the likes do.
11:14 I see this a bit different: They created expectations (promised things) that might have people buy this product. What the reviewers did was show these promises would not be fulfilled (something the buyers *) would only discover after their purchase. *) A large part of the prospected buyers in my view would have been not-too-well-informed-but-wel-off grandparents, buying this as a Christmas present for their grandchildren.
The most major hurdle when learning is moving from chord to chord. This product effectively bypasses the one thing that requires the most practice. I'd say the biggest hurdle after that is learning legato, then sweeping after that. I think, for anyone struggling, that other things like chord memorization, vibrato, rhythm, and coming up with ideas, are small bumps in learning. This product is worthless and is only one step above air guitar.
Unless they made an agreement to not say specific things that were then said, at least Henny’s video, lawsuits over it would be frivolous
I don't know...since courts accepted the argument of the record labels that their damages equal the number of times a song was downloaded, as they claimed that every person who downloaded the song would have bought it had the illegal way not been there I am a bit skeptical.
As for the product...learning an instrument is fun. this whole marketing of "learning an instrument sucks" is such a negative marketing. There is no better feeling than making something a muscle memory that broke your fingers a week earlier.
Fam, I just bought a PRS SE Custom 24-08 Eriza Verde. I am not remotely interested in playing a keyboard shaped like a guitar when I can have soooo much better. That parody of a guitar is too expensive for what a "beginner" would need to learn the basics. I'd rather just get a bash about acoustic and learn on that.
There are very few effective short-cuts. The price is ridiculous too.
My first guitar was an ibanez gio that my parents bought for me for $250 that came with an amp and gig bag. It worked perfectly fine and was a great starter kit. I can't imagine spending over double that for a learning tool that is not even a real guitar. Silly.
For people who wish to pretend to play guitar without having to learn how to play guitar, I would recommend Air Guitar (the original) as it's cheaper and it works better than the product that is being discussed here but no-one is allowed to talk about objectively. It also lasts forever and you'll never need to throw it out.
What got me wanting to learn to play guitar was actually playing a real electric guitar.
I can see someone coming up with this idea as a high-level concept without thinking it through and deciding it was a good idea. It's sort of like how some e-drum kits have built-in teaching tools in their software. The calluses thing I sort of get (doesn't take long for that to be a non-issue, if it's an issue at all for the player), and a lot of beginner classes do some things that mainly focus no strumming with little fret work so I can kinda see there being a case for having a less/mode like that. And the app could be updated to have full lessons and courses. Depending on how well their sensors work, they could also include things like letting you know if you're muting other strings when playing chords.
That being said, if you think through it even just slightly more, this product doesn't make much sense. Depending on software updates, you could use it to learn some concepts potentially (you could learn scales and chord shapes on something like this) but aside from that it's just an expensive midi controller. If someone wants to play guitar, they're still going to need to buy an actual guitar on top of this and start dealing with fretting actual strings. And it's way more expensive than just buying a cheap beginner guitar plus an amp or audio interface if you want to run into a computer. You could get all three for that price pretty easily. And they remain useful after you learn to play.
You Rock Guitar did this 13 years ago , and the Starrlab Ztar is highest performance version of same technology as the AeroGuitar
I can’t stand any product that makes learn guitar "easier" ,if you don’t want to put the work in than don’t expect to be able to do it. Which I think applies to most things in life
sixstringtv: *chuckles* "I'm in danger"
Andy from TheGuitarGeek raised serious issues about a product or promotion but then refuses to name the company. As a RUclipsr, he has an obligation to his subscribers and those who view his videos. He can't state that there's a dodgy product/promotion going around but then refuse to tell what or who it is. That is unethical. So, he expects unsuspecting people to crowd fund Aeroband? How can a buyer beware? At least Eytsch, KDH and SixStringTV did the right thing. Andy didn't. If he can't give critique, he shouldn't be a reviewer.
Have you watched Andy's video?. It's primarily about the control the company wanted to exert and the threat of litigation if he didn't follow their rules. It wasn't so much about the product itself. It's hardly 'unethical' to want to protect yourself. It was quite clear to anyone watching and reading the comments what the product was. He's a gear reviewer and even though it was paid promotion and that's how he earns a living, he refused to do it. Seems pretty ethical to me.
Andy lives in the UK. Henning in Germany. It is much easier for a company to sue an individual reviewer in the UK. Even if the reviewer might win, the cost of doing to is a powerful deterrent to free speech. Unless you are a billionaire backed news outlet, you have to be very careful.
I don't know if there's some actual logic behind it but for some reason switching to super slinkies (it's probably a gauge thing not a company thing but I cant remember the gauges) for unrelated reasons, I just like how bendy and bright they are has actually made my fingers deal better with newbie finger pain, but also on top of that skin on my fingers doesn't get ripped, you can't tell with which hand im fretting without touching them. So if there's someone here still with that problem you may try it, IDK why should it work but it did for me.
The brand's communication killed itself before it could hatch.
I'm now apparently on the guitar review drama algorithm.
There will always be delusional business men or inventors that think their idea is the greatest ever, and they will never take advice or make correction on this side of the grave. Some of that persistence is a requirement for success, but sometimes the product is just crap and can never go anywhere.
Hey, love your channel; been a sub almost since you began! So as someone who's played guitar for 40 yrs, many of them professionally, I have seen SO many gimmicks intended to circumvent the ONLY things that work: practice and dedication. Like the fret-light thing, or the ridiculous multicolored finger condoms - but at least those require laying hands on an actual guitar. This? This is a friggin' toy, nothing more. And they know it, too, hence the threatening clauses. Imagine the poor kid that puts in 6-8 months on this and then picks up a real guitar for the 1st time...
I have oak benches in my workshop above my office that are about 150 years old. I plan on making stuff out of them when I retire. Hopefully I will have learnt to make guitars by then.
To me playing guitar is staying ahead of the current, I'm good only when the amplifier can't return all the notes I pulled. Namastè.
Excited about the upcoming hufschmid guitars video , Patrick makes some absolutely stunning guitars and plectrums
If they eliminated the useless features such as the learning apps, the drum machine, LED lights, speakers and instead add bend functions, dive functions, increase velocity accuracy options and market it as a midi guitar for recording at a competitive price there would still be hope to salvage the company.
Kind of glad I didn't respond after receiving these same emails now.. I also thought that this product was only teaching you to play their instrument. Not a real Guitar.
I was waiting for this video!
I just self learned. Yeah its rough and still learning everyday, but I just bought a guitar and started playing, everything else just comes along naturally. This product is a waste of money.
I use coated strings for finger pain. 2 bands one of which is iron maiden covers the other is megadeth covers, oh have the fingertips of a baby and literally cant bare to play regular strings. although coated ones have their own drawbacks.
As for that 'played it 'til ma fingers bled...' nonsense occasionally heard in pop song lyrics, alluding to the preposterous notion that we 'paid our dues' when learning to play, whilst it is true that when starting out years ago, some of us had cheap steel-strung acoustics with actions like a cheese grater - which did hurt our fingers a bit - but most of that was down to not fretting chords cleanly, thus not sounding right when strumming, and so pressing down really hard, imagining that would solve the problem.
Even then, we're talking about a few days of sore fingertips, which is hardly some heroic battle wound worthy of a Purple Heart. Or even a mention in a song lyric for that matter, especially these days when there are so many pretty decent starter guitars for not much money and a stack of youtube channels showing people the right way to play so they probably won't experience anything other than a bit of minor discomfort for a day or so. If anyone ever was truly put off learning by potentially having that, they were never going to have what it took to stick at learning in the first place and no psuedo guitar is going to help them get past that either.
Regarding marketing of this thing, they probably should have gone for contacting light and fluffy 'influencer' youtubers/tik tokers and pitched it as an interactive 'guitar hero-esque gaming device with a nod to some learning', rather than youtube music/guitar channels, because the thing is certainly more of a toy as opposed to a learning tool. But as either of those things it's taking a serious conceptual nose dive between two stools, because it's way too expensive to succeed in either role. When it inevitably flops, that'll be nothing to do with 'bad reviews', it'll simply be because it isn't a financially viable product. Frankly, it's a shit idea which would never have got backing from a serious investor, which is exactly why it had to get going with kickstarter, because to be honest, that place is all too often the home of pipe dreams and wishful thinking.
When it finds itself in the bargain bins or on ebay for not much money, at a stretch it might just conceivably be worth a punt if you want to control a VST synth via a MIDI guitar interface.
I saw that item come across Kickstarter and I took one look and said "no". Part of that was "I am not a guitar player, I am an audio engineer", and the second was "why are we trying to learn real instruments on fake instruments?" One thing I did notice on observation was "probably no way to do alternate tunings and no way to bend notes". Your point is quite valid because you can buy a real guitar for not just a little, but a LOT cheaper than this thing.
I had a funny feeling we might be seeing you today for some reason!
Anything on kickstarter is just so ridiculous.
For the same money you could get something like the Squire starter package and a Zoom R8, and be well on your way to making your own music
Regarding overdrives being boring: I agree... Except for that insane new Old Blood Noise Endeavors thing. But nobody's making a video on it.
This is why you're the best bro! No pulling the wool over your eyes. It's futile to even try
they should spend money on improving (or rethinking) their product rather than on litigation
I'm closing in on 70 years old. My first guitar at 6 years was an f-hole arch top huge bodied . . . SILVERTONE?? Some brand like it. Black Dismond coat hanger gauge strings 3/8 inch off the neck at the 12th fret. Finger killer. A pharmacist my mother worked for gsve me TINCTURE OF BENZOIN to seal up my bleeding fingers. Pain didn't stop me from learning. Point being, if you REALLY want to play, you can. My story of woe ended when I was 8-9 and sister (oldest siblings, I was youngest of 4) bought me a Fender Duo Sonic 2 and a Vibro Champ amp. I put Black Diamonds on it, still kinda hurt my fingies. Complained to clerk at music store about the only brand that makes strings should make lighter strings. Asked what am I using. STEP OVER HERE . . . A wall display of brands and gauges. He tossed a set of Fender Bullets "TRY THESE ". My complaining stopped. I see bad reviews on guitars that cost between $75 to maybe $150 that by standards aren't as good as the big companies but would sparkle like diamonds as a first guitar for someone determined to play. This Aerofart product is plain ridiculous.
That thing is one step up from a Guitar Hero controller. When that game first came out I remember friends who don't play guitar telling me "you could actually learn to play from it." Then I saw it.
I had to disappoint them by pointing out that there are 6 strings, not one; and there are more than 6 or 7 frets. It's akin to saying that Duck hunt from the original Nintendo would teach you to hunt and shoot.
It's a dumb f'cking product.
I can sort of feel for the company. They seem to think they have this great amazing product that they probably put a lot of time and money into and then to see it demolished publicly must hurt BAD. KDH hit the nail on the head when he said they were looking for promotion of the product, not a review. To them this probably looks like hiring an advertisement agency that then makes an advertisement for TV that ridicules the product. That said : that thing is seriously useless. Also, there have been countless MIDI guitars (Casio anyone?). So hardly anything new.
I always watch your videos for your non-BS point of view. I like how you don't take sides and just tell the story. If you did a review on something I know it would have no bias and that is a good feeling
Never allow yourself to be bought.
This is a pathetic toy that you end up seeing for sale at a garage sale for a dollar😳