We may earn a commission from links on this page. 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 ...

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 ...

Optek Music Systems has released a plug-in for GarageBand users, which allows Mac users to interact with the company’s Fretlight Guitar. The guitar features lights embedded in the fretboard that light ...

STUDIO CITY (CBS) — Kids can finally achieve their dreams of rock stardom with a new guitar that takes wanna be players to professionals! The inventor of the Fretlight Guitar, Rusty Shaffer, visited ...

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 ...

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 "Guitar Hero" series might be all the rage for amateur axers, but those who want to progress beyond five colored buttons and a single strum bar and truly teach themselves to play have another high ...

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 Learning System puts lights at every note on the neck, and now the company has partnered with Traveler Guitar to install the system on a limited run of Ultra-Light travel acoustics and ...

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.