RENO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Father of Shock Rock, Alice Cooper, and the world’s easiest guitar to play, Fretlight Guitar, announced today the launch of Quitters Anonymous™, an online community ...

Fretlight offers a wide range of guitar models, from the inexpensive FG-411 Standard Electric ($329.99) with a single humbucker pickup, a fixed bridge, and a single volume knob to the FG-451 Pro ($729 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 guitar is one of the coolest things you'll ever plug into a USB port. It has 132 LEDs embedded in its fretboard, showing you where to put your fingers for chords, scales, arpeggios ...

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 ...