Learning how to play guitar isn’t easy, but if you cannot afford a tutor, and you don’t want to read books about it, today we have a device that might help you learn how to play guitar.

iPad Guitar Simulating Tutor is a guitar-like accessory for your iPad, and it comes with a special slot in the middle that is used to dock your iPad. After you’ve docked your iPad into iPad Guitar Simulating Tutor, you just need to start the dedicated app, and you’re ready to get your first guitar lesson. In order to help you learn, the fretboard comes embedded with 84 LEDs that will light up in order to show you where to place your fingers. As for the app, it allows you to switch between electric, acoustic and bass guitar, and it also allows you to use all sorts of guitar effects such as distortion, reverb, flanger and delay.

Regarding the price, iPad Guitar Simulating Tutor is priced at $150, and it’s available from Hammacher Schlemmer’s website.

[via Ubergizmo]