Apple's iPhone powers digital guitar

A California company says its iPhone-powered digital guitar will make it easy for anybody to play music, regardless of experience. Users can dock their iPhone to the gTar, made by Incident Technologies, open a song in the gTar phone app, and the appropriate frets on the guitar light up to guide your fingers in playing the song, CNET.com reported Monday. Incident Technologies call the gTar "the first guitar that anybody can play." The guitar offers different modes, including a beginner's setup that requires the user to only pluck the right string to have the right note play without have to press down on the string at the correct fret location, to a medium setting where the user learns to do so. Both modes utilize a feature called SmartPlay, which automatically mutes incorrect notes the user plays. Hard mode turns off SmartPlay and only illuminates the frets associated with playing a song, while free play lets the user play the gTar as a conventional guitar. "The great thing about the gTar is that it lets people have a hands-on immersive experience in music, even if they've never picked up anything like this before, or never even thought about playing music," Incident Technologies founder Idan Beck said.