From Alfred Music Publishing, the worldwide leader in music education products since 1922, comes Alfred’s Kid’s Guitar Starter Pack: Everything You Need to Play Today! This award-winning, bestselling, complete starter pack includes a high-quality ¾-size Firebrand™ acoustic guitar with nylon strings, deluxe accessories including a gig bag carrying case with straps, a Firebrand™ portable electronic tuner with batteries included, a set of Firebrand™ guitar picks, and Alfred’s Kid’s Guitar Course (Book, CD, DVD and Software), the world’s bestselling multimedia instruction series for kids. Alfred’s Kid’s Guitar Starter Pack includes:High-quality Firebrand™ 3/4-size Acoustic Guitar that features:Spruce wood top, Mahogany neck, and Linden wood back and sides for a full, rich tone Rosewood fretboard with nylon strings make playing easy for kids’ hands Beautiful, gloss finish Deluxe Firebrand™ Accessories include:Custom-fit Firebrand™ gig bag carrying case with straps and zippered pocket for carrying sheet music and accessories Firebrand™ portable electronic guitar tuner with batteries included for tuning up your new guitar right out of the box A set of 3 Firebrand™ guitar picks Alfred’s Kid’s Guitar Course (Book, enhanced-CD, DVD): Alfred’s Kid’s Guitar Course is the #1 best-selling guitar method for kids! This award-winning (“Best Product of the Year” – Disney’s iParenting Media Award) method is the easiest guitar method ever for kids ages 5 and up. Using plain language that’s easy for kids to understand, three irresistible guitar experts guide students along – a clever classical dog, one cool jazz cat, and a friendly alligator who loves the blues – they focus attention by pointing out what’s important on each page and make learning music fun! Kids will learn to play chords and melodies, read music, and perform lots of fun songs. The book comes to life on your stereo and your computer with the enclosed enhanced-CD. The disc includes beautiful recordings of all the music in the book and can be played on your CD player or downloaded to your iPod® or other mp3 player. Play the same disc on your computer (Windows/Mac compatible) to instantly access an interactive guitar tuner, digital guitar chord dictionary, and play-along songs! Kids can see and hear the music, and even adjust the tempo of songs for practice or performance! The enclosed companion DVD to this best-selling edition features a live instructor to make learning the guitar even easier! Hosted by renowned guitarist Janet Robin, this DVD demonstrates the fundamentals of guitar playing including how to hold and tune the guitar, strum chords, read music, and play lots of fun songs! Also included are live on-screen notes for an easy introduction to reading music, live performances demonstrate how the music should sound, and bonus mp3 audio tracks of all examples for listening and playing along!
J**R
Okay for the price, I suppose
Found the guitar to be okay, it is as expected, nothing fancy - probably between 3 and 4 stars since the price was decent. Shipping was super fast, which was greatly appreciated. The tuner provided was different than advertised (photo one is what I expected, photo two is what was received). It took about an hour to tune the guitar, not necessarily the result of the tuner, just the guitar was really out of tune. I wouldn't have been able to get it started without our piano. I can't say as to how the guitar will hold the tune. I bought it for my 8 year old daughter and it seems to still be a bit big for her. We haven't started her lessons yet so I don't know about the quality of the intruction book, fingers crossed that she will keep with it, with my help. As a side note, it's silly to have a strap included when the guitar doesn't have the pegs to which it attaches on the guitar. Since it's a beginners guitar, there's no reason that the pegs couldn't already have been installed.
D**W
I decided on this one since it had some really good reviews, and her sister is using Alfred books ...
One of my five year old daughters wanted to learn guitar, but the ones I had around the house were too big for her. After doing A LOT of research, I decided on this one since it had some really good reviews, and her sister is using Alfred books for her piano lessons.The guitar works pretty well, although it does require tuning every time we use it. My daughter loves playing it, and she has already learned several of the chords and songs in the book. For us it didn't really work as a "lesson" book where you could assign her pages to work on, etc., but we've managed to figure out a way to make it work. We tried a few of the videos, but it was much easier for me to show her and work with her than for her to try to make sense of the videos.The tuner works great for our frequent tuning needs. The simplicity of it makes it easy for her to know how she needs to adjust the strings to get the green light to go on to the next string. The kit came with a strap, but there is no place to attach it to the guitar. It was a nice thought though.All in all a great starter kit. Glad we bought it for her!
D**D
Defective Guitar
I bought this for my 6 year old daughter for Christmas. Tried tuning it several times, sounded horrible. I knew something was wrong, took it to a guitar repair place locally. Apparently the strings were too close to the neck and were buzzing or vibrating against it when strummed. It was $20 to try and adjust the neck, but that wasn't enough. $50 more to attempt repair. Guitar package as a whole was around $100, so I'm guessing the guitar was maybe $80-$90. I managed to return it 3 days past the return date (repair shop called several days after dropped off). Obviously no quality control at the factory or by company, because they would have detected defect immediately according to the guitar store. My daughter was crying tonight when I told her it was too much to repair. Fortunately, with the refund, I can get a another brand.
S**H
bummer...
Bought this guitar for my 6 yrd old son but I never got a chance to even take it out of the box. My son is a lefty and I did not think of this when i purchased the guitar. I had to go back and read the product description ( I know nothing about guitars) to see if there was anything in there about being compatible or not for left handed people. There was nothing. I contacted Amazon and was "guaranteed" that this would work for a left hander. I also e-mailed the seller and they said no it will not work. Conflicting messages, quite annoying. Anywho, Amazon was awesome at getting me a refund immediatley and sadly, I had to send back the set. I am bummed beacause I really liked that it came with a bag, DVD, book, etc. I bought a left handed guitar (there are not many out there) and I bought all those things separate. So, it is part my fault for not thinking of the left hand factor first, but it would also be helpful to have something listed in the description about right/left handed capability.
K**N
... this guitar would stay in tune and was a great learning guitar
Read reviews that this guitar would stay in tune and was a great learning guitar. I haven't found this to be true....must be retuned often. Can't play on it without needing to be tuned. So it isn't good for trying to learn how to play guitar. It was given as a gift and I was very disappointed to learn that it isn't really what I expected or wanted.
J**E
Great guitar for kids.
Bought this guitar for our 6-year-old son, as our full-size guitar was a bit unwieldy for him. This 3/4 guitar is still a smidge big for him to get his right hand around to strum comfortably, but I imagine within the next year, it'll be perfect. And I was very impressed with the quality of the guitar/woodwork and love that it comes with the case, tuner, and book/CD, too. It's the perfect all-in-one starting kit for a kid. My only reason for giving 4 starts, instead of 5, is that the electronic tuner was not useful for initial tuning of the guitar. Not only were the instructions less-than-obvious, but because the strings were so far from where they needed to be, the indicators on the tuner were useless. I had to tune to a keyboard and then once I did that, I was able to use the tuner for fine-tuning. I'm sure from here on out the tuner will work well, but some instruction that it might not be helpful for first tuning would be nice. Otherwise, happy customer.
C**S
Eh...
Expensive for what I got. Came with a strap BUT there are NO strap pegs to attach them to. No tuner included. CD and instruction book is nice. My 6 yr old boy is learning well. All in all, it would have been cheaper to buy a fancier guitar and instruction CD separate.
D**E
My son loves it.
We got this for our 6 year old son for Christmas who is very musically inclined. He loves it although it is still a bit too big for him (our mistake not yours). The guitar needs frequent tuning in the beginning before the strings "set" but it seems really well made for the price. The only reason I did not give this 5 stars was due to the DVD. We had a hard time getting it to play and once we got it going, my son started watching it and tried to follow the lessons but quickly got frustrated and lost interest in it. We will probably end up getting lessons for him. Other than that it was a pretty good deal at a great price and I would still highly recommend it.
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