 Hey, this is Jake with The Verge, and we're here taking a look at Magic Instruments Rhythm Guitar. The company is basically trying to reinvent the guitar by removing all of the strings along the fretboard and replacing them with different buttons. And by pressing one of these buttons, you program the guitar to play a specific chord, and then you just strum and play. The idea is that it's a lot easier to learn to just press different buttons than it is to figure out the specific fingerings of every individual chord you might want to play. And that's definitely true. It is a lot easier to just pick this up and start strumming than it is an acoustic guitar, but there's still some learning to do. You have to figure out which button to press to make which sound, and you have to learn how to move your fingers along the fretboard, which is a lot like an acoustic guitar. To help you learn, Magic Instruments is launching an app that's basically like Guitar Hero. It'll lead you through popular songs button by button, telling you what to press to make which sound. The hope is that eventually you'll get pretty comfortable with it and be able to go off and start playing songs on your own. Magic Instruments says that the hardware is about 95% done, but the app that we saw still needs a lot of work. That's why they're not going to start shipping until sometime early next year. This is never going to teach you how to play acoustic guitar, but if you want something that's a little bit easier that's still going to let you play around, then the rhythm guitar might be for you. I know you're going to put this on YouTube.
 Hey, this is Jake with The Verge, and we're here taking a look at Magic Instruments Rhythm
 Guitar.
 The company is basically trying to reinvent the guitar by removing all of the strings
 along the fretboard and replacing them with different buttons.
 And by pressing one of these buttons, you program the guitar to play a specific chord,
 and then you just strum and play.
 The idea is that it's a lot easier to learn to just press different buttons than it is
 to figure out the specific fingerings of every individual chord you might want to play.
 And that's definitely true.
 It is a lot easier to just pick this up and start strumming than it is an acoustic guitar,
 but there's still some learning to do.
 You have to figure out which button to press to make which sound, and you have to learn
 how to move your fingers along the fretboard, which is a lot like an acoustic guitar.
 To help you learn, Magic Instruments is launching an app that's basically like Guitar Hero.
 It'll lead you through popular songs button by button, telling you what to press to make
 which sound.
 The hope is that eventually you'll get pretty comfortable with it and be able to go off
 and start playing songs on your own.
 Magic Instruments says that the hardware is about 95% done, but the app that we saw still
 needs a lot of work.
 That's why they're not going to start shipping until sometime early next year.
 This is never going to teach you how to play acoustic guitar, but if you want something
 that's a little bit easier that's still going to let you play around, then the rhythm guitar
 might be for you.
 I know you're going to put this on YouTube.