YAMAHA DIGITAL GUITAR

by Yamaha

Product Features

• 20 instrument voices, including 9 Guitar, 8 Bass, Banjo, Shamisen and Piano
• 6-strnigs for strumming and finger-picking
• Volume, tempo, balance and capo controls
• Standard tuning plus open tuning options
• 6 lighted frets

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 26 pounds
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000MSOBXC
• Item model number: EZAG
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,826 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

The Yamaha EZ AG Self Teaching Acoustic Guitar Delivers the Dream! The world is full of guitar players - and those who want to play guitar. Learning to play means lessons, chord books, learning how to tune, sore fingers, and sounding bad for a long time. What if you could bypass the lessons, books and tuning, and then have the guitar experience of strumming, playing chords and having a band back you up so that you sounded great from the beginning? Until now, it was just an idle dream. Until now. The Yamaha EZ AG has a fretboard with lighted bars to guide your fingers to the proper chord positions, with no strings, no sore fingers. Since the EZ is intelligent, you don't need a chord book and, when playing an internal song, it shows you which chords to play. Perform for friends and family with the built in sound system or practice in private with headphones (or with the built-in speaker).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As far as gadget guitars go, this thing is pretty sweet!, December 26, 2010

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Beliarbane - See all my reviews

This review is from: YAMAHA DIGITAL GUITAR (Electronics)

I've had mine for 2 years now, and I really do like it. It's kind of a synthesizer with strings to pluck. I'd say it has most of the features you'd expect from a simple keyboard, but plays like a guitar! The top half of the fretboard lights up to teach you chords to play when practicing the installed midis. The songs that come pre-installed include 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay' - Otis Redding, 'Tears in Heaven' - Eric Clapton, 'Hard Day's Night' - The Beatles. The tracks are in Midi form, of course. But, if you start playing along in 'strum' mode, it will take care of the chords for you, and play the backing track, so can just rock out on the strings, and sound like you know what you're doing. There were downloadable songs on Yamaha's website, but I haven't checked to see if they're still there.

Now, there were a few things keeping me from giving this thing a full 5 stars - The big one for me was not having a power adapter. It's a pain trying to find 6 aa batteries to put in this thing when I want to play it. I have found an adapter that 'works,' but I don't like to use it too often because I don't want to damage the electronics. Another thing that bugs me a little is that because there are buttons on the frets instead of real strings, you can't do any real fancy finger tricks. No tremelo, no slides. (You can hammer with your fingers though, which is pretty cool.)

3.0 out of 5 stars Not useful for MIDI data entry, October 14, 2011

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BugBuster "BugBuster" (Eugene, OR United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: YAMAHA DIGITAL GUITAR (Electronics)

I bought it to try out as a MIDI input device to my Sibelius software. I just wanted to enter one note at a time in real time. I thought it would be easier than picking notes out on the piano because I don't play piano. For several reasons it didn't work well at all for that, so I sent it back. Other than that, I have no opinions about this product. It seemed nicely made, probably ok for what it was intended for. It's mostly a toy in my opinion.