Incident Tech, maker of the advanced, iPhone-powered gTar, says it has signed landmark deals with major music publishers Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI Music Publishing after 18 months of negotiations to offer around two million song tutorials within the gTar app, which runs inside a special $400 guitar. This is no ordinary music-teaching app, in other words….
It was only a matter of time until someone built an iPhone into a guitar. We just didn’t expect the very first iteration to be so amazing. I have played the $400 Incident Tech gTar, and it’s not a toy, although it is fun. This thing really turns the “guitar” into an instrument for apps…
If you think of the guitar as a relic of the past, fit only for aging bar blues bands and camping hippies, think again. Observe, as Incident Tech’s gTar, the guitar that has an iPhone for a brain, allows this man to record a song in multiple parts — including a drum machine and multiple…
We’ve seen apps that let you “play” guitar — probably too many of them, frankly. We’ve also seen fretboards that light up, ostensibly to help you learn the instrument. On top of that, we’ve seen tutorials of all shapes and sizes from apps to videos, as guitar teachers take to the internet, the better to…
When a start-up that wants to make an iPhone-powered guitar lights up Kickstarter and gets “Foster The People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’”-level hype all over the web, it might be tempting to write it off as a desperate fever dream. However, we already knew the gTar was real. That’s me playing an early, pre-release version on the right….
It all seemed to happen so fast. Incident’s gTar, a darling of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, raised a bunch of loot on Kickstarter, and then stopped by Evolver.fm‘s Manhattan office to let us play around with the thing and shoot a video demonstration with its creator — part of a cross-country tour that saw an…
In a nutshell, the gTar is a $450 guitar with an iPhone for a brain. We reported earlier this week on how it has raised lots of money. Many early supporters agree that this thing looks awesome, and it’s not even the first instance of a learning guitar, or even one that runs on MIDI…
The electric guitar has thrilled listeners and players alike for decades, without any major technological innovation in the way that it’s taught. Sure, practice books and learning systems come and go, but none has gained enough traction to replace the tried-and-true methods of shelling out cash for lessons or banging around aimlessly until you work…
