Optek Music Systems has announced the release of Fretlight Lesson Player software for the Mac. It’s designed to work with Optek’s Fretlight learning guitar. Fretlight Lesson Player for Mac and ...

Quality instrument, genuinely innovative functionality, accessible at all skill levels, continually upgradable via additional lesson packs. Optek's innovative approach to musical education is ...

In 1993, Radiohead assured us that "Anyone Can Play Guitar," but, as that band is composed of admitted creeps and/or weirdos, this supposition is suspect. The guitar-based rhythm game explosion of the ...

I’ve been trying to teach myself to play guitar for the past few years, so when I came across the Fretlight Interactive Learning System, I jumped at the chance to renew my so-far fruitless efforts. I ...

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 ...

I have to admit to a tinge of sadness as I report that both of the LED learning sleeve for guitar projects we featured back in April have so far failed to appear. Development of each is said to be ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. PRESS RELEASE: Optek Music Systems, makers of the Fretlight guitar and Arobas Music, creators of ...

The learning system includes the Guitar Tunes app, which runs on a smartphone paired to the Fretlight Traveler over Bluetooth. When songs or lessons are launched in the app, the respective LEDs light ...

The Fretlight FG-421 and its sister models are solid electric guitars that can actually show you how to play your favorite songs, thanks to their light-up necks. I'm not a guitarist. I took lessons ...

Early in July, Rusty Shaffer, the founder of Optek, a small music company in Reno, Nev., visited Salon’s offices to show me his invention, the Fretlight guitar. Though it looks and feels like a ...

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 ...