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At CES 2008 the Music Wizard Group showed off their newest innovation, the Guitar Wizard. Guitar Wizard, which will work with real guitars and computers, is an educational game designed to teach people to play a guitar. The item shown at CES 2008 was a prototype, as the official product is scheduled to be released in Fall 2008.

Guitar Wizard allows people to use their own accoustic or electric guitar with the game. The package will come with the SoundTech Ediface Digital Guitar Interface, the Guitar Wizard program, labels and an attachment for a guitar the user already owns. Users simply install the two programs on a laptop or desktop and follow the on screen instructions on their real guitar. The Guitar Wizard program teaches how to play the guitar and the SoundTech Ediface Digital Guitar Interface digitizes the music. A price for the product has not yet been announced.

The Guitar Wizard program will most likely be very successful. Especially with people familiar with the Guitar Hero games. It seems like initially the instruction will start out relying on the user’s hand-eye co-ordination to follow the on-screen cues, until the user becomes familiar with the necessary motions.

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Read [SFGate.com] Also Read [Engadget]  Site [Music Wizard]