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I ’m old enough to remember musicians getting furious over Guitar Hero . But they always seemed to be omit the point . Nobody was seriously suggesting that a TV game controller would supercede an instrument that ’s been going unassailable since the 15th century . Guitar Hero was a fun game , and if it persuaded a young generation to pluck up the real thing , it was a last positive for the universe .
A similar feeling washed over me seeing theLiberLiveC1on the earth at CES 2025 . If the guitar ’s future is in peril , it has nothing to do with the existence of the self - proclaim “ first - ever stringless smart guitar . ” And really , refer to the affair as a guitar at all seems to be miss the point .
Learning instruments is difficult , time - deplete , and can be fabulously frustrating . Take it from me , a decades - long terrible guitar player . Like Guitar Hero before it , it would be unserious to suggest a product like this sit any personal manner of existential threat to the guitar ( besides , the emergence of non - guitar pop medicine did most of the dense lifting there ) .
There ’s something satisfy about an musical instrument you could just pick up and take on . In fact , in a strange direction , being a guitar player might have worked against me with the C1 . You have to reorient your brain to sweep up the instrument ’s restraint .
There are a series of chord names consort with button on the side of the musical instrument ’s cervix . restrain one of these while “ thrum ” the paddle on the C1 ’s body play a chord . And that ’s really all there is to it . There ’s no play item-by-item banknote and nothing gauge shredding . you’re able to , however , strum and babble along with songs on the app . It ’s effectively karaoke with an impart proportion .
It ’s fun , it ’s portable , it ’s $ 699 , it hold out six hours on a charge . And it wo n’t be replacing guitars any meter shortly .
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