Product Description

I Can Play guitar is the new learning system that makes learning to play the guitar as easy and fun as playing a game. A hardware software system that plugs into your home TV, the I Can Play Guitar software is designed to have the look and feel of a real video game. Kids learn about fun methods of guitar-playing that eventually translate into them being able to play a real guitar. There are four levels of play for each song. Players advance through these levels based on their performance, earning collectibles along the way. Measures 2.75" x 9.15" x 27.5". Requires 3 "LR44" batteries, not included; and 4 "C" batteries, included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6406 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Fisher-Price
• Model: K7357
• Released on: 2007-08-15
• Dimensions: 30.10" h x 12.50" w x 3.30" l, 5.10 pounds

Features

• The Fisher-Price I Can Play Guitar System is kids #1 instrument of choice!
• I Can Play Guitar makes learning to play the guitar as easy and fun as playing a game!
• It uses the same proven color coding method as the popular "I Can Play Piano!"
• Just pop in the song & game cartridge, plug the guitar into the TV and you¿re ready to rock!
• Includes a guitar, strap, pick, one song and game cartridge and cool sticker packs for customizing your guitar! Plug & play chords also included. Requires 4 "C" batteries; not included.

Amazon.com Product Description
Your child can learn how to play the guitar -- and have fun doing it -- with the Fisher Price I Can Play Guitar System. Designed for children ages six and older, the guitar plugs directly into your TV and teaches your child to play with fun and exciting video game tutorials.

Makes Music Lessons Fun!
Fisher Price's special Music Wizard method uses color codes to teach such skills as strumming, chords, and finding notes on the fret board, as well as basic rhythm and timing skills, all while learning to play fun songs.

Guitar plugs directly into your TV and comes with its own game cartridges.

The guitar is perfectly sized for little hands, and comes with a set of stickers.

In the video game tutorials, your child moves through each entertaining lesson, earns points for completing them, and is rewarded with neat accessories for his or her game character. Once your child masters a level, he or she moves onto more challenging games, learning and improving -- and having fun at the same time. You will never hear complaints about practicing! And what's best, the skills your child will learn transfer easily to learning how to play a "real" guitar.

Perfect for Little Hands
The guitar is perfectly sized for little hands, and your child will enjoy customizing the guitar with the included set of cool stickers. No computer is necessary; the guitar plugs directly into your TV and comes with its own game cartridges. Simply insert the cartridge, plug in the guitar, and your child is ready to play... and learn! The guitar comes with a game cartridge that features eight familiar family songs; additional game cartridges, featuring your child's favorite characters such as SpongeBob and Barbie, can be purchased separately. Four C batteries are required.

What's in the Box
Guitar, strap, pick, 1 song and game cartridge, sticker packs, and plug and play cords.

From the Manufacturer
I Can Play Guitar makes learning to play the guitar as easy and fun as playing a video game! Just pop in the song & game cartridge, plug the guitar into the TV and you're ready to rock. The color-coded system teaches how to find notes on the fret board, chords, strumming, rhythm, timing and more. As you get better and better, you'll beat your high score and move on to the next level and earn cool rock accessories for your on screen character! Includes a guitar, strap, pick, one song and game cartridge and cool sticker packs for customizing your guitar! Plug & play chords also included. Requires 4 "C" batteries; not included.

Customer Reviews

Perfect for the little (or big) rockstar!
This is a great product that stands apart from the other kids guitars in the marketplace right now in that it's a real learning product...and it's also FUN! For parents, it's very easy to get to work with a television, and has volume control.

Features on the included cartridge include a song play mode, which teachers you to play along to well known songs, and the finger positions learned will translate to a real guitar. The song mode is broken down into three separate levels, and allows younger children to just strum along to the music too.

After the song mode, the cartridge features a game and tutorial that will help you get a feel for the system and is fun. Another feature on the cartridge is the 'jam session' mode, where you can play anything you like on the guitar to a background track. Also, you can unplug the guitar from the TV and let your rockstar play on their own.

In a market currently saturated with musical toys, this stands head and shoulders above them all. Not only is it a whole lot of fun and easy to set up, but it provides real learning that can later be translated to a real guitar. Highly recommended!!

Not bad, but not perfect either...
My 7 year old son got this for his birthday. It is definitely a hit. He's been playing with it constantly. However, it's a little beyond his ability, especially the fret based games. My 11-year daughter likes it to and has done much better with it.

Initially my son had problems getting it to work that required parental intervention. It turns out the strings are a bit anal about where they are strummed. You have to strum it on the right side of the strings. Any other location will only intermittently register during the game. The other issue is that the video cable is placed in a very bad location. It is located right below the strings and is knocked out regularly when playing the game. Neither of these issues is a killer problem, but was very frustrating initially.

I also bought this locally at a large chain and paid about twice what the Amazon price is. Makes me wish I'd checked with Amazon first.

[Update] My son received several cartridges for Christmas. He's tried several and it's clear that the real educational value is in the additional cartridges. The Hot Wheels cartridge focuses on scales; the Nashville cartridge focuses on cords. I'm sure other cartridges focus on other skills. So be sure to pick up a couple of additional cartridges.

[Update 2] We recently got a copy of Guitar Hero for our Wii. Guitar Hero is a rhythm game -it makes no attempt to teach music skills (other than keeping the beat). It's mostly about synchronizing the (fret) button presses and strum rhythms with the music on the screen. That definitely is more fun and gives you more of an immediate feeling of accomplishment. However, it doesn't give you skills that are useful to playing a guitar. That's the biggest difference between Guitar Hero and "I can play guitar system". The Fisher-Price toy tries to teach skills to play a real guitar. So, yes it's more complicated and not necessarily as fun. But that's not the point.

Great way to play
My grandson received this for his birthday, and loves it. He is 7, and still has a ways to go yet, but it holds his interest, and he enjoys it. I would recomend this toy.