THIS IS NOT A GUITAR! - Aeroband 

If you develop a product that nobody asked for, nobody needs and even then don't do it right... well, that deserves a video like this! Well done!

“Maybe a reboot will do it” is possibly the saddest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say about a guitar. 😢

I take it this is the thing being talked about on another channel where the makers are threatening to sue for saying it's not very good.

Thanks for warning people about this one. With more local guitar shops closing, we rely on you guys for honest reviews. All the best.

Can't get much more scammy than a $600 toy advertised as an instrument. I'm glad they're sending it out for youtubers to review so more people will see exactly why they should not buy it.

I found you after seeing TheGuitarGeek channel who REFUSED to review this horrible toy after reading the company email that followed him receiving the toy. He was unable to tell us the name of this toy for liability reasons and if you watch his channel that is titled something about being threatened by legal action, you will understand. The hard part about RU-vid is finding reviewers who are not "product prostitutes" that get paid to review and report only positive responses. As soon as TheGuitarGeek read the threatening email that openly said that if he said anything negative and their toy lost money, they would sue him. Not in those words, but it was clear enough. What a sad, sad way to introduce your product. I appreciate that you gave it an honest try and with your integrity intact, Subscribed! I hope this $hit company does not try to sue to for telling the truth!

It's worse than not being a way into playing a real guitar - it will teach you a bunch of things you would have to unlearn if you wanted to go on to play a real guitar.

I saw a drum video, where the creator advised using heavier drumsticks for practice than you would for a show. He said it was like swinging an extra bat for warmup. I talked to my personal instructor about it and he said "no, as a musician, you want to practice on the exact same setup you play on, or as close to you can get it", because you want your muscle memory to be locked into what you're going to be playing on stage. I would assume the same holds true to guitar. Like, if you're going to be primarily playing an electric guitar, and sometimes an acoustic, then practice on those types of guitars, with the action where you will normally have it, using the same gauge strings, etc... These kinds of products can possibly do more damage to learning, than good. Remember, practice makes permanent. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

When will people understand that there is no shortcut to learning how to play an instrument?

I love how in cooperation Andy covered the legal expose and Pauly mopped up the mess. Like a SEAL team! Mission accomplished. 👌

Good to see someone with morals and integrity 👌 appreciate your HONEST opinion.❤️🇦🇺🤘

Great video! I came over after watching another video talking about legal action via email... seems like this is the company! And appreciate the honesty and authenticity of staying true to your reviews and criticisms!!! Well done!

As someone who has actually bought a guitar based off your recommendation (and yes I loved it), THANK YOU for your honesty and transparency.

I love this video!!! So honest and so funny. Being a guitarist for 36 years made this video particularly comical! You're right, it's very simple: just get a very inexpensive nylon string and progress from there. :)

I really appreciate your honesty and integrity! As a beginner myself, I see so many new products and lesson apps promising what they clearly can’t deliver but I can totally understand how someone could be taken in. I may be off base, again as a guitar newb, but I think there can be fine line between products that do smooth the path and those that just taken advantage of beginners’ insecurity and frustration for a fast buck.

"I will not put links to this below... because I simply can't." LMFAO!! Dude! You are awesome! Thanks for having integrity! So little of that found online these days.

Glad to see these things haven't gotten better in over 30 years. I had one, maybe Casio or Yamaha, and it was an unplayable mess. I left it in my car one day, and the fretboard melted 🪦

Love how the legal action video was suggested back to back with yours. Loved even more how you cut loose at the end. So entertaining. Thanks 😊

I feel your pain with this, this thing really hurts! Thanks so much for warning the world, and for entertaining us. The advice you gave towards the end, to get a cheap nylon acoustic and take some lessons instead, is pure gold!

Hearing you play that "Let it be" was hilarious! I'm not mocking you, I'm sure I'd suck as much as you did. I was also impressed by the expressive plastic box reverb. Thank you for an honest review!

Beside reading what makes an awesome thing awesome, it is also very interesting to see what makes a shitty thing shitty. Thank you for a good review!

Love that you told it like it is. Raw, unvarnished truth. Shame on that company.

Hi Henning, I always value your reviews and this is a great example of why. Thanks for putting integrity ahead of profit. 👍It was also great to have a real laugh after going through a bit of a rough time recently. 😊

"getting into the wrong habbits because no one is guiding you.." YES! Muting strings is sooooo important. This thing is just a toy as far as I can see. Thanks for making this video, I saw another channel of a curly haired guy who didn't mention the name... but I now know what he was talking about. 😂

There is only one game I know of that will give you almost all the aspects of playing guitar without the technicality of knowing scales , notes , and chords. That is Rocksmith. I have a 1000 song library. Over the last 6 years , I've developed great dexterity, a lot better economy of motion , a lot better ear for notes , a lot more calluses , a lot less pain, and a lot more appreciation for many songs from other genres. I do not consider myself to be good, just ok. However for a hour and a half every day or every other day , I'm enjoying music and playing the bass for the love of playing. Thats all I ever cared about.

Interestingly this popped up exactly one day after I saw the letter video on the other channel. Never before. Strange, eh? At least I found your channel this way. As I find you're an honest guy, you got a new subscriber.

I watched all the way through to support your integrity. Thank you for the opportunity to have 2 more mixed drinks.

No pain, no gain. It's part of the learning experience. I'm teaching the 8yo daughter of a friend and, of course, she complained about the strings hurting.So she was told that this will only go away with time spent practising and building up callouses. A few weeks later she came to me proclaiming very proudly: "look - It doesn't hurt any more"

A friend of mine sent me a promo video of this and I laughed. I said "this is not a guitar. She asked "then what is it?", and I said "it's a toy". She's not a guitarist and she likes technology, so she didn't really get it. This is one the most awful products for guitar I've seen, especially in this price range. Your review was entertaining! I love the honesty and your integrity.

Holy Scheiss! I feel bad about this whole thing. And not even just for anybody who buys into it; but also for those in the design and development of this thing - who somehow managed to miraculously avoid anyone or anything that could tell them it just wasn’t going to work. 😳

I'm actually genuinely impressed with its ability to keep up with your playing. I'm guessing it sounds better over RU-vid than it does in person, and I agree with your points in general, but it's actually impressive to me as a technological demonstration. It seemed to respond like a guitar being played by a guitarist.

I'm right there with you about the whole thing. The only advantage I really see is never having to tune.... but that's something any guitarist should know! love the video!

Finger pain while learning guitar 🎸 is a rite of passage

Watched this yesterday after watching the clickbaitgeek and learning nothing at all. forgot to say I enjoyed your review and your honesty in naming the product. Well done.

I've watched 6stringtv's video and now I've watched yours too. I have ideas how to fix it: Change the target audience to the guitar-synth people - ditch the educational stuff. Replace the mute sensor with a tactile button. Move all buttons and knobs on the front like on most electric guitars. Map them to their expected midi CCs. Add the 5 pin midi and use standard AA batteries and USB for power. Make it a class compliant device - NO app, NO phone, NO Bluetooth! Both 5 pin midi and USB-C must send midi. Remove the amplifier, speaker, internal sound electronics, lights and non-removable battery. This should save on cost. Remember it must be only a midi/usb controller! Price it at 150 and be competitive with other controllers. Heavy marketing as a synth controller, like: "You can only play guitar, but you want to make other sounds - use this midi controller to play these amazing synths with your guitar skills! Etc." Ensure it's a good controller for rockband and guitarhero games and market to these people too.

I aplaud you for saying what they would have paid you for the review, gives an interesing insight to the workings of the business. Even more respect for not taking the money when the product seems like absolute trash and the company seems sketchy. Love your content, keep bringing the heat!

By the way, I am disabled and self taught on guitar and uke. I have a brain injury, muscle weakness, dexterity limitations, severe chronic pain, hypersensitivity, tremors, etc. This would be a frustrating product for people like me. It doesn’t work and the poor user experience will just frustrate most disabled people even more. In my experience, there are better ways to make guitar and any instrument more accessible and less painful. For pain reduction, I would recommend using extra light electric or acoustic strings, or even using a nylon string guitar. There will be pain until calluses develop and even beyond that. There’s no way around that, but there are strings that will be much better than these weird silicone strings with no movement in the fretboard. Finding the right guitar neck profile is a big deal so the thumb and hand are well supported and cradled in the palm where needed. Gotta make sure the action is set nice and low. Usually it’s best to get a short scale guitar below 25” that’s going to play effortlessly vs. buying one that’s 25.5” with much longer, tighter feeling strings (no matter the gauge) that often require strength and a bit of a struggle for someone with hand issues. There are accessories and products out there that can be used in ways that they weren’t intended to be used by the brands that can be helpful. The Roadie 3 is an amazing way to help me tune accurately and quickly because it’s difficult to turn tuning pegs - plus it also helped with ear training, getting comfortable with alternate tunings, and using the built in metronome. I found a capo that’s easy for me to use. I have a lap pad to keep the guitar at the right angle since I usually need to play while sitting in bed and a strap often is bothersome with neck pain. Sometimes you can get wrist supports for compression that helps with pain and strength. I can go on and on. I used apps and websites to help me learn to play using a curriculum (which I either got free trials, beta tested, or got deep discounts before Christmas), while some are entirely free. Some apps like Yousician and Rockband use a gamification type system, others use more traditional methods like Fender Play and Justin Guitar. Lately, the Gibson app has been killing it. The Ultimate Guitar app is amazing with tabs and a great community. I’ve found using a variety of all methods is extremely beneficial so you gain the skills to be able to read tabs and play without depending on these apps (especially gamification types). RU-vid is great for looking up specific info, but beware of using quality sources and know that you can’t rely on RU-vid to make progress because there’s no guided curriculum on most channels. Point is, even with a brain injury, I learned. I somehow overcame my limitations and learned in a manner that makes me feel confident. I’ve come much farther in 3.5 years than I ever thought would be possible. Learning an instrument is a lifelong commitment. You aren’t going to pick it up and learn quickly even if you don’t have any disabilities- unless you’re a musical prodigy, and most of us are not. Ask any pro musician about their early experiences on guitar, and they’ll tell you about the hours they spent holed up in their room practicing (and this was usually before apps and websites). Some had lessons, others were entirely self taught. But it took time, commitment, and suffering to make it to such a high level. This Aero Guitar wants you to think you can pick up their product and play overnight without any suffering. That’s not how it works. If you’re disabled, there are much less expensive and more productive ways of making guitar and any other instrument more accessible. It takes some trial and error, patience, and yes it’s going to cause some pain and discomfort - but if you love it enough, you’ll be willing to endure that all and may even forget about all those things as you get better on the instrument. Aeroband is trying to sell you some snake oil. And btw, kids can learn on full sized guitars depending on their age. They can also use 3/4 guitars or use a guitar brand like Loog that sells three and six string guitars that come with a free lesson app, flash cards, and lol kinds of other stuff for less than half the price of this Aero Guitar. I’ve even heard of adults buying Loog guitars for themselves. They’re not toys. They play and work like real guitars because they’re real! They even teamed up with Fender recently to make a Fender branded Loog guitar. There are options out there, people. Real options. You can figure it out using real guitars and accessories without buying crappy, WAY overpriced toys that don’t even work as advertised and provide a very poor user experience and interface at that. Rant over, lol. 😂😂😂 Thanks for your honesty and doing the right thing to inform people at your own expense!

There is always implicit bias in any paid review. These tactics take even one step further. Thank you for your honesty.

I'm glad you reviewed this, I was kind of intrigued for something as a travel practice guitar. I have the original Rocksmith on Xbox 360, and I can see THAT being a decent learning tool. Although I hated how it wouldn't let you unlock every note unless you were getting a high score. I kept messing up because I played songs I knew, but not how the game wanted me to play it. Oh well, at least it didn't keep playing a bad MIDI of "Californication". 😂

I'm from Ukraine and my first guitar was a soviet guitar with action about 10 mm, so for me every normal guitar is a painless guitar

That is what we call “a guitar shaped object.” 😐

EytschPi, I very much appreciate your honesty. I've followed the channel ever since I was looking for my first guitar and stumbled upon your Harley Benton SC-550 Paradise Amber Flame review 7 years ago which I bought and was happy with.

Rocksmith 2014 is actually an amazing “video game” that teaches you how to play guitar in a really fun way . All the little side games and playing / learning all the songs is incredibly fun. You just have to get that proper connections to avoid audio latency I used to play it all the time and so did my little brother who had no experience with guitar . I would buy Rocksmith any day over this

What a cogent, lucid, dispassionately thoughtful dissection of a product most would good guitarists & professional axe-gear reviewers would consider beneath their expertise as an object of review. I really like your style, man. ;)

Thank you for an honest review! It is definitely a thing they are trying to sell to people who are searching for easy solutions that in the end does not work :)

Awesome review. I love your honest straight forward no-holes-barred attitude.

Some things are literally perfect and don't need innovation. Like the wheel, or the guitar. Good video. And respect for not selling out.

Imagine having finger pain for a week when learning an instrument you want to play, one that would actually work. This will die a natural death. Thanks for the honest review 👍

A 3/4 scale nylon string guitar is the already existing solution to the problems aeroband were trying to address with this thing.

I stopped learning guitar exactly because it's so much more difficult to even get a sound out of it than keyboards/piano. My barrier was barre chords.. they honestly hurt so much no matter what I tried. I've never had any real pain with Piano unless it was because I played too much or when I was doing stretching to get my hand more comfortable with octaves and 9ths... but I didn't have to suffer though any pain until way WAY later on my journey and only because I wanted to get better. And I could do it for few minutes, then return to playing everything I could already play without any pain, which was a lot. I didn't have to suffer pain for BASICS. But watching your video... this is NOT the way to get people through that barrier.

I did the Fretlight thing when I began. It's a real guitar in all aspects. You plug it into an amp and play it just like a regular guitar. Only it hooks to your PC and there are actual LED lights embedded into the finger board. They light up when you are supposed to play those notes. It's a really good learning tool. But there were issues similar to this. It was all MIDI backing tracks that you downloaded and and to see the lights on the board, you had to hold the guitar at an unnatural angle and that straight away is bad form and technique. I ended up using a normal guitar and placing the Fretlight so I could see the lights and learned chords and songs that way. The bottom line? There are NO free lunches in life. Everyone wants that free lunch and it just isn't happening. My recommendations? Get an electric six string set up with 7 gauge strings, have it professionally set up with low action and if it's a small child, make it a 3/4 scale length. Sore fingers are a Rite of Passage and should not be avoided but instead relished and encouraged. One of the first joys of your journey is the first time you play without pain and you make it thru the song without mistakes. THAT is a shot in the ass that really pumps you up. Don't cheat yourself out of that pleasure

Someone must do a whole album with this.

I own two acoustic guitars but unfortunately I have only had them for a week, I have seen the introduction to this guitar and can learn and play it quickly, if I could own it maybe I would get it with my girl.

I once had an inflatable guitar I won at a fair as a kid. That was about as useful for learning to play as this thing.

I'm so happy that you revealed the name of the company and showed the product. I've seen other reviewers bullied not to do a (bad) review and wouldn't reveal the name. - Consumers really need to know this information. -- I'd have been SO upset if my parents (knowing nothing about music themselves) had bought this for me as a child. By the time I decided to get a real guitar, I'd have learned nothing and would have felt WORSE because of all that time wasted. My figures would then still end up hurting until I built of calluses & I'd still have to learn the chords and names of the strings & notes. Thank you for your honest reviews!

😅 they asked me to review this and I said no thanks!

It’s a unisynth, almost exactly, I had one in the 80’s when I first said I wanted a guitar. I almost never picked up a guitar again after my dad got me one. It was awful to try and learn on, and didn’t sound like a guitar, I can’t believe they are trying to bring this back.

THE STENCH COMING OFF OF THAT THING IS AMAZING ! 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂

I’ve been seeing a lot of ad of this and I’ve been waiting for this honest review video. I kind of predicted this would come.

This isn't just a bad product; it's actually bad for the world that it exists. The bad habits it would form would probably discourage potential guitarists, who think they're hot stuff till they touch a real guitar and get super-defeated.

This is one of those thing your uncle's friend bought you on your birthday when you were a kid but 10 times the price

Be careful brother, see what this ‘guitar’ company have done to Andy. Thank you for the truth, as always. They deserve their losses. Stay true.

I love the summary: "Holy crap it is not good." That's really all I needed to hear. I'll be sticking with the Les Paul Special.

Hi Henning, great video, Whats about the tuning stability? I hope locking tuner are included. 😂😂😂

As a pianist and synth player, (plus someone who secretly wants to learn how to play guitar), I can honestly say that this would teach bad habits that would have to be unlearned to play correctly! That alone makes this a poor/bad product! Thank you for your honesty! Well done!

I was waiting for you to review this thing...I'll get the popcorn out LOL

They offered this to me, but, as a full time guitar tutor, I just could NOT see how it could possibly help! It’s just a revamped version of guitar hero, and I don’t think that helped anyone to play! But that was promoted as a game, which it was. These people are saying it’ll help you become a guitar player! It’s just a, very expensive, game! Thanks for your honesty

$500? Utterly ridiculous.

Funny, I don't play guitar cramping up my fingers, yet all of a sudden I get RU-vid to present me Andy's video about some legal issues he was confronted with. Not knowing what kind of product he's mentioning. 5 minutes later... This comes up whahaaa! Now I understand...!

Great video man, you’re right, aweful product. ..love your ethics 👌. Hope you’re well

Thank you very much for taking the time to do this ,it was very interesting and I would like to congratulate you on your English, you have a talent for expressing things that disappointed you in a non offensive way, must come from Teaching. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Thanks for the honest review! Always welcome

I have asperger's. One of the things my brain can't take is two songs going at the same time. Normally I have to leave the room. I almost turned your video off when you got into their app demos. AAAARGH !!!! I've been playing guitar [badly] for over forty years and it seems to me that all the bits that make a guitar special as an instrument, they've left out. No string bends and you get something that sounds like a cheap DX keyboard ? I've told Santa not to bother. Nice video as usual Sir, thanks.

Well done!

Cool and honest video.. we need way more ppl like you.

It looks like something I'd buy for my kid off Amazon for £89.99 as an Xmas stocking filler.

Integrity can still be found in places on RU-vid. I think most Gear reviewers do a great job. So most will not make a video on this thing . Thank You for showing what it really is and saving people a ton of money. $500 can buy You a High Quality Guitar and will be the easiest on the fingers. If this was in a bargain bin for $20 and had a distortion effect, I might buy it, but for more than that, NO WAY!

I love reading bad record reviews. That said, I really enjoyed this video 😉 Thanks Henning!

Thanks for an interesting and honest Video. I just watched another video where the You Tuber was threatened with legal Action. I suspect very much that this is the item in question. Keep up the good work! I`ve been playing for the best part of 50 years and there is nothing like a real Guitar. Even the cheapest Amazon guitar will beat this!

As someone who is comfortable playing guitar, my use case for this would be using it as a way of entering MIDI into a DAW more comfortably that using a keyboard.

Some manufacturers don't understand the rules: You can pay people to review it, but if they have integrity you can't pay them to call a turd a diamond.

This shit sounds like midi from 20 years ago

About 20 years ago I had a friend that started playing guitar hero. I found this out one night when I went over to his house. Him and his girlfriend were playing. She took a break, and he talked me into playing it. I could not play the game, because of all the lag. He didn’t believe me. I tried to tell him the game was not teaching him to play a real guitar. Awhile later he spent $1200 a real electric guitar, and a guitar amp. He asked me and another friend who I jammed with, to go over to his house to play. No matter how many times we counted out 4/4 timing, he automatically reverted to played with the lag the game had taught him. It was burned into his thought process. Here is my 2 cents. All games like Guitar Hero, and toys like the one you reviewed, by law, should have a warning label saying that playing this product or game, may make it impossible for you to play a real instrument. Just saying…

You got one as well 😅 I saw the 6stringstv 'review'

A reviewer with integrity…so rare, but so welcome 👍🏼

I did love seeing your justifiably bonkers reaction to this overpriced gimmick. A brilliant, brave and brutally honest review! Thank you

Judas Priest was highly criticized at the time when they chose to use the new technology of a synth guitar on their Turbo album. Before getting into heavy metal I was totally into techno pop and synth rock so this was a great transition album for me since some of those songs were included on the Priest Live album which got me hooked on their classics.

Ow man, those midi tracks in game mode 😂 they probably mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions

Well done Henning... integrity is such a rare commodity these days

I watched guitar geeks video about the emails he got from this company. Thanks for the honesty, it sounds like this company will get litigious when they don't like the truth.

Critical reviews are the MOST important ones! If the product is good, a review is cool for affirmation but ultimatly doesnt matter. Even if i dont watch a review before buying im still happy. But if a product has a couple flaws a review is especially needed, because then a potential customer at least knows what to expect. Reviews not existing means having to "guess" on a product and leads to potential disappointment. Dont know who was looking for something like this "guitar" but to each their own i guess😂

Imagine your a young kid and you want to learn guitar and your mom gets you this and you attempt to learn guitar on that thing

This is basically like my You Rock midi guitar I got for less than 100$ from a friend but as a 500$ "gateway guitar". It's basically 15 year old technology that has no purpose being sold nowadays. I use my You Rock as a songwriting tool with my synth plugins but I don't even program midi with that thing. At least I can play Guitar Hero with my You Rock XD

Well done sir. Perhaps the scummiest part about this (after the dubbed advert) is telling other youtubers they can't review it without getting the video approved, and threatening legal action if they were even half as rude about it as you have been. Not people who deserve anyone's money. Hopefully they will learn something from this. The technology may have potential if used in a more intelligent way.

A dumb down version of a Casio PG-380 (1988) Which used the same sound engine as my beloved Casio VZ-1. Which I am still am using in 2023!

I watched TheGuitarGeek do not a review of a "similar" product. I then got reccomended your video by RU-vid. Thanks for your objective review. Comment added to appease the algorithm gods.

This is the Fyre Festival of guitars.

Is 'animals at the end' a regular thing? This is the first video I've seen on this channel, but it's getting an instant subscribe for that concept alone.

I applaud your integrity! It's a rare attribute on RU-vid!

If anyone is reading this because they want to buy a guitar, for an 11 year old for example, grab a cheap Squire and have them put super light strings on it that are easier on the hands. Get an iRig plug and you can use an iPad as your guitar amp sim, drum machine, music player, etc. Or better yet just rent a guitar for 3 months and see if they are even interested. As a kid I either did something once or twice and then never again or I got obsessed.