Guitar Chord Presser for Beginners | Essential Guitar Learning Tool

I am not a musician but I have been trying to learn to play the guitar so I could play some songs around a campfire with friends. I was having trouble playing because of my arthritis would not allow me to chord well. So I purchased the the rockdreamer guitar bar. I have had a lot of fun with it. I can play all the chords on it easily. You only push two buttons on the guitar bar and strum the bottom 4 strings and before you know it you are playing songs. If you are looking for something to teach you how to chord by using the strings, frets and finger placement, this is not what you are looking for but if you want to have fun playing and not have sore fingers and sore arthritis fingers, you will enjoy this guitar bar. There are more inexpensive ones on the market (which I did buy first) but this one stays put on your guitar and the buttons are all labeled and facing you while you are playing. There are several adjustments with pads and pegs. Be patient when doing the adjustments, it took me several times of putting the guitar bar on and off until I got it right. I personally am happy that I purchased this guitar bar.

I advise everyone who is considering this item to buy something else. Definitely not worth the $100. It sounds terrible. No matter how much I adjusted it, it always had a metallic buzz to it. I would return it but my dog chewed up the box so now I'm stuck with a $100 piece of junk.Buy one of the cheaper items like this. They at least sound better.

About a year ago, I found this gadget on Amazon called "Rockdreamer guitar bar" that is supposedly good to help beginners learn to play the chords, so I bought it - quite pricey. After it was delivered, I unboxed it and placed it in a drawer and left it there - for months. Recently, I took it out to try to figure how to use it. That's when I noticed something was wrong. There are two "DM F" buttons. The problem I learned is that one of them should be "C." Too late to return it because I've had this thing for too long. So, I'm writing this review to inform potential buyers to immediately check all the buttons so you can return it if you find something wrong. Not being a guitar player, I don't know if the incorrect button was just labeled incorrectly but will still play the right chord if pressed. So, I'm stuck with this gadget that I thought was going to make learning guitar easy for me. Guess I will have to figure out how to play chords on the guitar the old-fashioned way.

Got this for Christmas and haven't had alot of opportunities to use yet. Specifically got it due to severe arthritis in my chording hand/wrist. It is a little wide for women's hand but you can see the thought and necessity put into the design. You do have to have a little patience attaching it and fitting onto the strings, however, once placed it has stayed in place well. No you don't have the ability to do experienced finger pick however it's given me the ability to play again. I was rhythm guitar in several bands so being able to play once more is absolutely, bottom line terrific

Easy to use and works

The guitar trainer came in quickly and with no issues. The Guitar Chord Presser for Beginners is not a guitar trainer. This says essential guitar accessory for beginners which I would disagree with. The guitar learning tools does nothing but allows you to fake a portion of the guitar without actually learning to play guitar. The GuitarBar presses does the strings you need so you don't have to which sounds great, but there is nothing that translates over to actually playing the guitar. I would never give this to one of my students because it actually works against actually learning the guitar, and only the bottom 4 strings at that. I always look into new ideas to see if it will help my students play and this will not. I would not recommend this for anyone actually wanting to play the guitar. It is best to start correctly instead of developing bad habits from the beginning. Put the work in and you will be happier in the long run.

Easier for practicing

I put it on for 2 minutes and saw that the metal pegs might be damaging my fret bar. Took it off immediately and saw it did.