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Guitar Wizard: Like Guitar Hero with a Real Instrument
  by Joel Johnson

Although the initial press email was slim on details, the "Guitar Wizard" game to be shown off next week at CES aims to be a Guitar Hero that actually teaches you how to play guitar. (Sort of like a Rock Band for drums!) The software will ship with a Washburn electric guitar with a MIDI pickup...



Learn your way around a six-string with Guitar Wizard
  by Griffin McElroy

Think your ability to five-star "Green Grass and High Tides" means you can actually handle a real guitar? We're not talking about a five-buttoned plastic peripheral, mind you, we're talking about the real thing, steel and strings.... Luckily, the Music Wizard Group has developed a system for Guitar Hero-spoiled technophiles like us to learn how to shred on a real axe. ...



Guitar Wizard coming for Mac
  by Mat Lu

The guys and gals over at our sister blog Engadget were keeping busy at the recent CES and have turned up some interesting products with a Mac angle. In the video above they're checking out a new music instruction software package called Guitar Wizard which works a lot like the Guitar Hero game (our coverage). The key difference is that Guitar Wizard uses a real guitar and actually teaches you something about playing. ...



CES: Guitar Wizard for the guitar-challenged
  by Ellen Lee

Guitar Hero and Rock Band may be two of the most popular video games today, letting players play and perform music on a toy guitar or as part of a band.

Now the Music Wizard Group is hoping to teach people how to play a real guitar.

It plans to debut Guitar Wizard this fall, a computer game that teaches users how to read music and strum an acoustic or electric guitar. ...



'Guitar Wizard' -- Like 'Guitar Hero' With a Real Guitar
  by Terrence O'Brien

'Guitar Hero' may be fun and cool, but one thing it certainly can't do is teach you how to actually play guitar. In fact, the connection between playing 'Guitar Hero' and actually playing guitar is tenuous at best. Just ask Slash.

That's where Music Wizard is hoping to one up the gaming phenomena by taking the basic concepts of 'Guitar Hero' and applying them to an actual guitar. 'Guitar Wizard' should...