50% of Guitar Students quit Saying Guitar Is Too Hard

[MidiVox]

Hi All,
    I started teaching guitar in high school. I have read many articles over the years on why guitar students quit within the first year of playing and have met many people who bought a guitar and then it just ended up in the closet or for sale at a garage sale or since ebay, for sale on ebay.
    Most of the quitters they say guitar is too hard to learn to play. For many people their fingers hurt and they never learn how to tune their guitars, even with the help of electronic tuners.
    What was Gibson's main selling point for their expensive Robot Guitars, they tuned themselves.
    The YRGs features of always in tune, or never needs tuning and the ease of using the touch strings is a big attraction to guitar beginneers and all those ex guitar players out there.
    Then the YRG has all the learning guitar features and music education features for guitarist of all skill levels.
    For the above reasons, I see the You Rock Guitar becoming the Learning Guitar of choice for music educators and for many guitar teachers also. The You Rock Guitar simply offers too many advantages for learning music and for creating your own music.
    Even electronic keyboards do not offer as many features for learning and creating music. Kids, Teens, and Adults do not dream of being Keyboard Heros. They dream of being Guitar Heros.
    Anyone in Music Education or Teaching Guitar should check out the features of the You Rock Guitar.
    Impressive it is.
Happy You Rock Guitars
Timothy Kelly
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[Rejyna]

I whole heartedly agree with Tim based on my experience teaching for the last few decades.  Since the 'action' and grip required to play the YRG is so easy, the stumbling block of insufficient fret hand strength is gone.  Not being able to squeeze the fretting of chords made a large number of my want students to give up too.  They would always want to quit right before their fret hand muscles were even developed.

This is one of the MANY incredible potentials this amazing axe offers teachers and students.

I will warn the experienced player however:  As I went thru testing the prototype, after two weeks of just playing the YRG, I found my callouses and hand grip regressing when I again picked up my Ovation.  So, the word of advice here is to resist the urge to play only the YRG and give your old box or electric axe a spin around the block periodically...

'I call it the Yerg, a cross between Dr. Suess and Stan Kubrick terminology.  The You Rock Guitar reflects the messages of both those two visionaries - think about it metaphorically, I certainly do' 
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[pastorjeff]

Mine is nick-named "GLO" for guitar-like-object.

about 20 years ago I could play 3 or 4 chords, but I was loaned an amazing (and amazingly expensive) acoustic.
When I returned it, I got a $200.00 guitar that was... crap compared to my loaner, and due to the action and strength required to play I quit.

I've been going non-stop for hours a day on the YRG with no problems what-so-ever. I'm even using a cheap loaner acoustic on the side to be sure I can finger all the chords and let them ring true. (I'm careful with the YRG to pretend it's "real" and I'm trying to keep my fingers up against the frets.)

Used correctly, it's an amazing learning tool.

[Rejyna]

Mine is nick-named "GLO" for guitar-like-object.

I like GLO, it's like UFO!  Haha! I can imagine all the 'pet' YRG names folks will come up with!

[MidiVox]

Ok, when is the glow in the dark model coming out.
A neon YRG.
Happy You Rock Guitars
Timothy Kelly

[pastorjeff]

Another added bonus of this guitar vs others:

I watched an entire movie with the family while I practiced all my chords, chord changes and finger stretching / strengthening drills .. just sitting on the sofa not disturbing anyone.

Try that with ANY other guitar! You practice on this more because it's more convenient. No mucking with an amp, just put on the phones and go.
And, if I get "bored" of one sound.. CLICK, now I'm playing a LP! Or a Spanish guitar! or .. or...
This thing wins in so many ways.

[MidiVox]

Hi Everyone,
    Relatives came in today for about a week so I will be headphoning it a lot since I usually play between midnight and 3am daily. Still keep night guitar owl gigging hours.
    So headphones save the day or in this case the night.
Happy You Rock Guitars
Timothy Kelly
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