Color:Red Product Description Award-winning electric guitar for children and beginners. Designed to make it fun and easy to play music, the Loog Pro Electric comes with an app that gets kids playing songs on day one. From the Manufacturer $358,286 raised with 2391 backers. Play your favorite songs. Today. With the 3-string Loog Pro Electric guitar and its accompanying app, a child can jump into playing songs -not just scales or exercises- on day one. And because Loog guitars use regular guitar strings and standard guitar tuning, everything you learn on a Loog can be applied on a 6-string guitar too. With Loog, kids are playing, learning and having fun from the very beginning, acquiring skills that stay with them forever. Your coolest other guitar Even if you already play guitar, the Loog Pro can still be a nice addition to your arsenal: set it to open tuning and use it as a riff machine or to play slide. Or simply let the constraint of having fewer strings unleash your creativity and take you to new musical places. As Easy As 1-2-3 Loog's slim neck is perfect for little kids' hands, and because it only has 3 strings, chords are reduced to the basic triad -just 3 notes-, allowing for an easier and faster learning process. The Loog Guitar App The free Loog Guitar app has everything you need to play songs: video lessons, a tuner and even a digital songbook so you can learn guitar by playing real songs (Beatles, Stones, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars and more). Chord Flashcards The Loog Pro comes with a deck of flashcards with chord diagrams.This is a simple but quite effective way of learning how to form chords on your Loog, or any guitar. Award-Winning Design Approved By Educators “If you’re thinking of getting your kids interested in music, the Loog guitar is perfect.” — WIRED About the Startup Describe your product in 3 words.Easy. Stimulating. Empowering.How did you come up with the idea for this product?I remember seeing how difficult and overwhelming it was for my 6-year-old niece to play with a standard kid's guitar. That made me realize that there was an opportunity to re-think the instrument. At that time I was also finishing my Master's at New York University, so I decided that this was going to be my thesis: re-design the kids' guitar to make it fun, easy and stimulating for children to play music.What makes your product special?Most guitars for kids are simply cheap, scaled-down replicas of a standard guitar. And because they have six strings anyway, the neck is still too wide for a child to play comfortably - let alone easily. Plus, cheap guitars tend to be cheaply made. It makes sense to avoid spending a fortune on a beginner's instrument, but by going with really bad quality build and materials, chances are your kid won’t feel engaged enough to play. With a Loog Mini guitar and its accompanying app, kids can play songs on day one, feeling rewarded and encouraged to keep on playing and learning.What has been the best part of your startup experience?It's an exhilarating journey that has rewarded us on many levels. Getting emails and videos of families playing together with our guitars; music teachers telling us how much progress their students achieved since using Loog guitars; learning that a 16-year-old from the Netherlands wrote and recorded a beautiful album with her Loog; getting to collaborate with Jack White’s Third Man Records on a special edition Loog Guitar... All those things were very special to us. And seeing a video of Ronnie Wood playing a Loog Mini to his kids was pretty rad too.
S**N
Returned this junk immediately...
Being a guitarist and amateur luthier, I know that you usually get what you pay for with instruments. If you spend a little money, expect that you will need to do a little work to it to get comfortably playable..However... there is a limit..This was purchased for my son for his 5 yr birthday that loves to play with my guitars, so I thought this might be a good way to get him something simple to start playing a little (& that fit his body/hands)...Out of the box:- The volume knob barely worked and twisted in its spot.. Obviously not tightened, and had a loose wire or bad potentiometer...- The frets were also so uneven that all the strings buzzed no matter how high you adjusted the action (even to the unplayable point)...This product is a good idea in my opinion, but it has been ruined by the cheap build quality and poor quality control...It was returned immediately... No way should you spend money this much on what amounts to a beginner children’s guitar, and it need 100’s of $$’s of wiring and fret level work to be playable..
J**N
Good marketing, cheesy product
As stated, this guitar is very cool in theory and concept, but cheap parts and lousy manufacturing make this product feel like a sham. I bought this for my (at the time) three year old and couldn’t even finish tuning due to one of the strings breaking within minutes of me removing the guitar from the box. Luckily I also play music and have plenty of spare parts and such at home so I threw a new, similar gauge string on and finished tuning.Plugged into the small Loog amplifier, the guitar sounds very nice; punchy and bright from the single coil lipstick pickup similar to a Danelectro. Very cool looking design (we got the red) and looks awesome when my kid is jamming.Within the first month the nut (the enamel string spacing piece at the top of the fretboard just below the tuners) came unglued. Again a quick fix, but not one I think I should have to make within the first month of having this $200 instrument. Poor intonation, fret buzzing, cheap machine heads are added to the list as well.It’s been a little more than a year since purchasing and the guitar still lives and breathes but needs constant adjustments, repair, tuning, etc. My biggest disappointment is in the value of this product because I really admire the design. Small neck, small frets, low action, three close-together strings make it easy for children to start playing guitar and not feel so bummed or intimidated by a big fat neck or hard-to-press wound steel strings.We also have had a Loog acoustic guitar of a similar style for nearly two and a half years and it has held up very well compared to this thing (possibly due to the first guitar having low tension nylon strings and less working parts altogether).My kid loves the guitar because he doesn’t know any different therefore it gets loved. I would feel a lot less sore about paying even $100 or so for this thing but sheesh, the manufacturer thinks highly of these rag-tag little guitars. I don’t mind spending good money for a quality item but the quality is simply not present here.
P**O
Loog guitars are awesome. This seller is not.
These are an invaluable tool to get youngsters interested in guitar. My 6-year old can make chords on the skinny neck. Both my boys are actually bypassing the video game system they just got, in order to rock out on their Loogs.This seller chose to pack this one free-floating in a loose, unpadded box with a few box-shaped styrofoam strips to keep the box shape. No padding on the delicate guitar at all. Unacceptable. All the accessories (the few that were actually included) were floating around in the box, causing scratches on the guitar.
E**N
Great for the musically frustrated
I'm a middle aged guy who has owned guitars but found the process of learning complicated finger patterns a barrier to actually making music. I got the Loog for Christmas this year and in a few short weeks I am rockin' right along.I didn't tune it like they recommend so that using their app I'd be able to make the jump to a six string because, frankly, i don't care.I tuned it to GDG (open G) and searched for Cigar Box Guitar lessons and tabs online (for the three string Cigar Box Guitar) and, voila, I'm making music that sounds like music. With open tuning I can play a ton of chords with one finger (barring three strings is easier than six) but there are all sorts of other chord shapes to learn as well as the muting and strumming and use of a slide and all the other things that go into guitar playing.I'm sure "real" guitarists will turn up their noses but for someone who just wants to make some music, I'd say Cigar Box Guitar or if you don't like that aesthetic, Loog it up!
A**R
Get a real guitar.
This product is very cheaply made and doesn't provide a satisfying musical experience at all. Spend your money on something better.
J**L
Overpriced Toy
This is not so much of a guitar as a fun toy for kids. Does not stay in tune at all. Cheap build quality. 5 stars for 100$, for 250$ it’s an over priced toy.
L**N
Best guitar for kids
Great for kids. Makes learning easy and fun. High quality product compared to “toy” guitars out there. Fun for adults to play with too
A**
if its for a little kid its fine but older than 8 i would suggest and actual electric guitar
quality is okay sound is not great neither are the pick ups
J**E
Posted in actual box - picture of guitar visible
Christmas gift - so not sure how the product is. But just to make you aware the box DOES NOT COME HIDDEN. The guitar is clearly visible on the outside. Not only this the huge sticker ruins the box (making it a much less attractive gift). Amazon please sort this out. You give huge boxes for single books... yet don’t think about ruining an expensive gift with a giant sticker. Perhaps use a postal bag in future.
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