The AeroBand Guitar without the app is an excellent guitar: turn it on, play through the built-in speaker, done. But the app is where it gets its second life. Because we often get the question ("what can you actually do with it?"), we've listed it all—honestly, including what the app doesn't do for you. And to start with good news: the app is available in English.
Two ways to play
The app broadly has two modes. In automatic mode, you strum freely with your right hand, and the app fills in the accompaniment—you'll be playing along to a complete song within minutes, even if you've never played a chord before. A neat detail: tap the twelfth fret three times, and a drum loop starts, at the tempo you tapped. In manual mode, you play like on a regular guitar, with sheet music at multiple difficulty levels—from a visual slider display to actual tablature. This way, the app grows with you from "I want to be able to do something tonight" to serious playing.
Listening lessons
The difference from a YouTube tutorial: the app hears what you play. The interactive courses correct in real-time, for both your left and right hand. No guesswork, no rewinding—you know where you stand note by note.
Simplified chords
The feature that beginners will benefit from most: chords like E, D, C, G, Em, F, and A can be played with one or two fingers, and you can set your own fingering for each chord. This way, you can play real songs from day one and disable the simplification once your fingers are ready. You can read about which songs are suitable for this in 10 easy guitar songs for beginners.
Targeted practice
Are you stuck on a tricky transition? Select precisely that passage and practice only that part. And with the staccato mode, it's reversed: the music waits for you instead of the other way around—you literally can't be too slow. We previously wrote about why persistence is so important in learning guitar as an adult.
Sounds, tuning, and lighting
The guitar has 8 built-in sounds, and you can download more via the app. Under Special Tuning, you can fully adjust the tuning—capo up or down, or create and save your own tuning per string as a preset. Without a tuner, without turning strings. You can also set the guitar's lighting here (high, medium, or off—for those who want to practice discreetly in the evening).
For those who want to go further
The settings contain more than you need on day one, and that's precisely right: you can enable techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides when you're ready for them; you can adjust the sensitivity per string (useful for tight MIDI work in your DAW); some sounds support string slap; and if you connect the separate AeroBand microphone, microphone effects are added. You can also record, audio or video, directly from the app.
What the app doesn't do
Practice. That's still up to you—fifteen minutes a day is the engine; the app ensures that those fifteen minutes are productive and that you'll do it again tomorrow. And you need a phone or tablet; you can always play without the app via the built-in speaker, but the lessons and feedback live in the app.
Curious about the guitar itself—silicone strings, built-in speaker, MIDI? Check out the AeroBand Guitar, or read why those silicone strings make such a difference for sensitive fingers.