Not even adequate to be a beginner guitar
936523
Wont tune. Two strings are on the same peg so by tuning one you untune the other, useless unless used as a stage prop
3758751
It's an awful guitar. It only had one strap button, the strap broke at one end, and it only came with an extra b- string rather than a full set. The tuning machines broke once a string was removed. Terrible workmanship and several paint stains were evident.
The only thing this is good for is learning your first chords. Once you've gone that far, move on to something better. This guitar is not worth restringing or refurbishing. It's barely worth cleaning.
The tuner it came with has served me still. I bought this two years ago and burned it eight months later. I do enjoy the sentimental value of the memories as this was my first guitar. Would not recommend.
1342096
Definitely an entry level. String rubs on one of the frets and makes horrible noise most of the time.
3355916
Great first guitar to serve as a means to learning how to play. Not suitable to experienced players or those who have financial means to buy quality.
2138540
So you are looking for a low cost beginner guitar, right? Well don't click "Add to cart" until you read this. I bought this guitar in mid-November it was three days late and arrived on December 12th. I wanted a cheap guitar to learn on before investing in a name brand. Huge mistake. First, this guitar is cheaply made like on a slightly ridiculous level. The bridge is plastic, the guitar smells of chemicals (most likely the particle board this thing is made of or the cheap finish) It didn't even come in the color I requested. I attempted to tune it and a string snaps, well I used the replacement it comes with and to my surprise that one snapped as well. Finally get a string set and tune the guitar. However, the bridge started to come off the guitar as its a plastic piece that has been superglued. Five minutes in and the guitar is drastically out of tune. I contacted the seller and surprisingly they answer promptly and have offered a refund. Save your self a massive headache and disappointment and look elsewhere. I found a Rogue guitar on Amazon for $10 more, name brand, and many positive reviews. Don't waste your money on this junk. I will end with saying that I am glad the seller responded in a quickly manner.

EDIT: The seller wants me to pay to ship the guitar back. The shipping cost exceeds the cost of the guitar. LOL. After many disputes Amazon foot the bill and gave a me a full refund. I got to keep the guitar but honestly it's junk taking up space. In the trash it goes.
4612240
Terrible guitar.  I actually had to buy my son a used guitar because this one was untunable due to the poor construction of the neck/frets.  Do not buy.  There are far better deals out there.
84214
I'm not sure how a true beginner would rate this book highly. The problem I found with this book is that it seems to presume that the reader is already a musician,moving quickly into discussion of things that seem to be unnecessary for a beginner to be struggling with...  I gave up on the book almost immediately and used Ross Nickerson's Beginner Banjo instead. I will return to this book when I have mastered the basics of technique/method  and I am at a place of being able to comprehend the more complicated considerations.
3054796
I bought this guitar for my 8 year old daughter for Christmas so she could have her own instrument to learn to play her favorite Taylor Swift songs.  I have been playing bass guitar for over 20 years and had a few full size guitars lying around that were just a little too big for her to handle.

Out of the package, the guitar seemed OK, but one of the strings was bent / kinked right between the hole and the bridge.
I bought new D'Addario light strings and started setting up the guitar...I was extemely dismayed that I had a real hard time keeping the guitar in tune for more than a few strums.
I was even more dismayed to find out that I had the top 2 strings (E & A) tuned by hitting the E-5th fret and open A simultaneously, but was way out of tune (~1/4 to 1/2 step) when I played the E octave on the A string (7th fret).  I had the same problem on all strings.

Bottom line - this would be fine if you just need an instrument for decoration, but I would not suggest as a learning guitar.
Why would you subject your child to the frustration of learning to play on an instrument that does not play or stay in tune?
They will have enough of a challenge learning the basics, building their skills, and staying motivated and focused long enough to make progress.

I am now looking at instruments at the local music stores to try to recover the Christmas joy of her getting a guitar to fulfill her musical dreams.
116763
I am disappointed with this instruction plan.

First, it's very boring. It's all about theory, there's no picture (not to sound like a child), and it has you practice with songs from a 100 years ago.

Second, there are a lot of complicated subjects brought up in the first couple of lessons and I don't feel like it gave adequate information on these topics.

Third, the "jam along" sessions are stupid and pointless. I've tried to play along with a couple of them and I don't feel like they help at all.

Fourth, this program is very expensive for what it gives you. All that comes it a fancy box with a 100-some page book and come CD's. Waste of money.

and finally fifth, this program is really more designed for people who have a basic foundation on how to play guitar.

**For all of you looking for a decent guitar program for beginners, check out the book "Justinguitar.com Beginner's Guitar Course". Awesome book and he has a YouTube channel where you can watch demonstrations for free.**
3622150
Pros -
1) It is a real guitar you can play with an amp
2) the fret edges are comfortable and smooth

Cons -
1) the guitar is way overpriced: the fg-621 wireless fretlight guitar sells for about $400 USD and has two upgrade options ($100 each) with progressively better pickups known as they "players" upgrade and the "pro" upgrade. I bought the "pro" upgrade for $600 USD and received a guitar that is on par with the most basic entry level guitars sold at chain stores.
2) It is a cheap Chinese guitar with abysmal quality control. The "pro" model had neck issues (warped and incorrectly set), there were glue and tool marks at the nut and on the fingerboard. The bridge was not a strat style fulcrum tremolo as expected, it was an incredibly cheap pot-metal fixed bridge.
3) i immediately returned it before even trying it out, and the specialist on the phone said i was "picky" and admitted that all of the guitars were "sadly" made in China and were entry level.
4) so after i initiated the return process,  i decided to try it out since i had it... and it did not even work! The app downloaded beautifully on my Galaxy S8 and ran smoothly. I had no issues connecting the app via bluetooth to the guitar, but (and this is a big but) the fingerboard would not light up! Despite the phone and app telling me they connected to guitar, and telling me the lights were on, they never worked.
5) the app has wrong theory and is therefore unreliable.  The app seemed cool even if i could not light up the guitar because it shows numerous scale and chord shapes on the fingerboard. But, as i went through familiar shapes, i noticed huge errors. The A major chord/arpeggio showed notes ABC#E, which is an A major(add 9), not an A major. Further, all other scales and appegios in A, inclduing A minor, dominant, minor 7, 9 and more, all showed only the notes AC#E.

In all, this guitar is only a great buy for those with an obscene amount of disposable income who want to gamble $400 to $600 on a $100-$200 entry level guitar that (maybe?) lights up. Established guitar players with any standards ay all will be sorely dissapointed.
192148
Sounded like someone just learning to pay the guitar.....II actually threw it away I hated it so much.  I was looking for something soothing to help me sleep.  This grated on my nerves!!
3823579
I bought the Gibson Maestro flattop acoustic guitar at a yard sale for $5.  How could I lose???

Here's a rundown:

Garbage: soft rosewood saddle actually has sawdust around the strings at the pinholes.  The worst string pegs in the world.  Cheap plastic bridge set too high.  Cheap plastic nut.  Horrible 'enclosed' style tuners . . . one was stripped and would not tighten (Hence the $5 price.)  Strings are good enough quality to tie up your trash in newspapers for the trash can.

In other words, just what I was looking for!

Nice Stuff: well-built body and neck, no twist or cupping of the neck, so is something to work with.  Top, sides, and back appear to be fairly good wood.  Good neck attachment to the body. Plus it has the distinctive Gibson pegboard, and has "Gibson" at the top. It means nothing, but hey, it looks cool to tote a Gibson!

I concluded that the box and neck are fairly decent - wood species and fit and finish - but with hardware made somewhere in the upper Amazon by the Yanomami indians.  So, I bought a set of Gotoh locking tuners that happen to fit perfectly in place of the original tuners.  Bought a new oversize rosewood saddle to replace the existing saddle. Bought a new bone bridge to fit the new saddle.  Bought a new bone nut to replace the old plastic one.

I tied up some trash with the original steel (yuk) strings, and put on a new set of Dean Markley bronze strings in size 11. I did not want to push my luck with the heavier 12s, as the greater tuning tension might have warped the guitar top.  If a person only put on the Dean Markley bronze strings, they would be amazed at the sound. I have heard it said that there are two types of strings, Dean Markley is one and the other is every other string you could buy.  I have used about every other strings out there, and after 10 or 11 years tried the Dean Markleys and never looked back.  Sorry to gush - I have no affiliation with any guitar or strings makers.

The finished product is a nice practice guitar, and I would even do some gigs with it.
Complaint Department:  It is really sad to see so many people saying that a cheaply made, badly set up guitar is great for beginners. Yuk.  What a great way to ensure that your kid will drop the guitar in favor of video games!
It makes good sense to give a kid a decent guitar so s(he) has a fighting chance to learn to play.  End of complaint.

I know that not everyone is going to do all the above modifications, but some are easy.  Good strings, for instance.  A set of decent bridge pins that hold the strings in.  Better quality tuners are dead easy to replace as long as you have a small Philips screwdriver.  The bridge ( the white part that the strings go over before they attach to the saddle.)  Getting a relatively inexpensive bone (cow bone, usually) bridge will really help brighten the guitar's tone.  You can get by mail order from Stewart-MacDonald in New York all of the above, and their technicians are great at supporting your efforts.  Check out your local guitar store, too. Most carry what you will need. (Not so much the general musical instrument stores)
3302682
I bought this guitar for my husband who has loved rock band and has played acoustic guitar. He wanted to learn more and I thought that buying this guitar controller would help him learn. It has not. He barely ever uses it because it is so far from playing an actual guitar it feels pointless. It has buttons instead of strings to hold down. He was not what I was hoping to get for the price. I do not recommend this controller. I would say either stick with the old controller or get a real guitar.
4743573
This is mostly text, with few musical examples and almost no pieces for study. It really is for someone who knows absolutely nothing about music, music notation or the classical guitar. I was disappointed by it and if it wasn't such a pain to return, would have. I will end up donating it to some school. I just received Vol. 1 of the Christopher Parkening classical guitar series and it is filled with excellent examples for practice and some pieces in which to apply ones skills. I will be buying additional volumes of the Parkening series and cannot recommend this Aaron Shearer volume unless they are a complete novice and know nothing about music or guitars.
1978717
I got this book on a recommendation, and dove right in, determined to master whatever it was that I was supposed to learn.  The idea of splitting apart chord shapes and their musical counterparts is a good one for helping to simplify the guitar learning process.

However, the book fails to point out that if you just blindly make the chord shapes and strum every string (which the book instructs you to do), you will be creating disharmonic chords that sound like crap.  I am not a musician, but after several days of following the instructions I started feeling like something was seriously wrong.  Upon showing my book to a musician I know, he confirmed that it is simply wrong.  Yes, technically any combination of notes is a chord, but playing the 5th and 6th strings for several of the 'chord shapes' is wrong and this book fails to point that out.  Which seems to me like a severe oversight.  I stopped using it after that.
4358421
This was rather disappointing overall. There are some good things about this, such as that it has a CD that you can play along to and clearly written strumming patterns for that part. But all the initial melodies are done only with picks and not taught from the beginning with both finger picking and with a guitar pick. Also, because there is percussion with the CD tracks and no clear indication of what strumming patterns you might use for some of the songs in it (although chords are marked) it could be very confusing to a beginner. This is NOT for teaching yourself guitar, but then I don't recommend anyone who is serious about performing music to rely only on self teaching as a trained teacher can always help you along the way and prevent you from developing bad habits.
2147422
Read the reviews on amazon and other sites and decided to give this guitar a try. Figured for around $100 the quality of construction and sound would be decent for a portable instrument. When I received the guitar, I could not get it to stay in tune. I've been playing for 15+ years, so, it's not as though I've never tuned a guitar before. I also noticed rust all over the strings and wear on the tuning keys. Returned the guitar and got another. Although this one stayed in tune, the quality was absolute scheisse. Sounded terrible and still rust and wear as described previously. And the thing that makes this "instrument" even more undesirable is the lack of balance in weight distribution...neck is far heavier than the body creating the complete opposite dynamic that one would want. I cannot stress enough how much I recommend you NOT buy this product. Returned both of the ones I received for a refund. Cancel your order if you can!

If you're looking for a real guitar that is in the same price range (relatively) and is actually decent quality, I would recommend you look at the Luna Safari Muse.