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The Power Tour Electric Guitar can teach basic guitar lessons. View larger.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: No musical experience required The Bad: Guitar strap difficult to attach In a Nutshell: Toy guitar with easy-to-learn basic guitar lessons At a Glance Ages: 10 and up Requires: 4 AA batteries (not included)

Compact Guitar Lights Up When Played
Made by Tiger Electronics, this miniature electric guitar packs tons of different sounds into compact, 22-inch Gibson SG design. This guitar is constructed with durable plastic with a black body, white pick guard, and a black nylon strap with leather ends. But unlike a Gibson, the special strum and touch sensors takes the place of strings, lighting up when you play, making the Power Tour electric guitar fun and easy to master. Strumming with your thumb instead of a pick, you can learn songs and riffs on your own, with band accompaniment, or with the built-in lessons and famous rock songs. Switching to speaker mode and plugging in your MP3 player, you can even rock out to your favorite tunes with flashing lights.

Easy-To-Learn Lessons and Rock Classics
Even beginners who've never held a guitar before can develop playing skills with easy-to-learn lessons like "Basic Strumming Blues" and "Intro to Hammer-Ons" and "Punkitude." Whether you into metal or punk, the tone knob allows you to switch between four music styles, each with or without its own tone effect, like echo and distortion. But the real fun is playing along to the six built-in famous headbanger classics, including "Wild Thing" and "Smoke on the Water." The Power Tour Electric Guitar firsts shows you how to play the song, then lets you try with lighted notes to help guide you. If you mess up three times, you get booed, but when you master the song, the guitar rewards you with a round of applause.

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3
Musical instruments can have huge learning curves, but the Power Tour Electric Guitar makes playing around fun from the get-go. The only real complaint is that the guitar strap is a bit difficult to attach. And while it's no substitute for a real guitar -- the tones and volume fall short of what could be called incendiary -- this toy guitar teaches you lessons and sharpens basic playing skills that could help lead to a life of rock stardom down the road. The included Power Tour 101 instructional DVD helps you get started. Most importantly, you'll learn that rocking out is a blast.

Features include a strum bar that lets you use a thumb instead of a pick to play.

Designed after the Gibson SG, the guitar includes a tone knob to adjust the sound.

What's in the Box
Electric guitar, cable, strap and instructional DVD




Customer Reviews

Great Kids Guitar Posted 13 July 2008
I bought this as a birthday gift for my 4 year old grandson who is a wizard with Guitar Hero. It is very similar to the guitar used in the video game & therefore felt it would be a good stepping stone to the real thing. He loves it.

Great toy Posted 23 June 2008
I was skeptical that this toy would be worth the money but our 9 yr old and 4 yr old both love it. It has made it past the first 30 days of play and that is an accomplishment in and of itself.

My 2-year-old Rock Star Posted 25 March 2008
My son was almost 2-years-old when he began saying "wanna be a rock star" (he picked that up from Barney) so I found this, and we gave it to him on his 2nd birthday. He loves it! We love it! It is very durable, and easy to use. I would buy this again in a heartbeat.

best toy i've bought in a long time Posted 12 January 2008
this is so much fun. i bought it for my 8 yr old son and not only is he into it, but the whole family is too!

Hasbro Guitar Posted 12 January 2008
The Hasbro guitar was not exactly what I thought it would be. The guitar was purchased for a 9 year old and when the product arrived, it was much smaller than I had anticipated. I would recommend the product for a 5-7 year old. The guitar is very nice and the sound quality is very good.