Engadget found
this slick little gem over the weekend for your jailbroken iPhone. It's a virtual guitar (
a lot like Jam Sessions if you've ever played that, actually -- reaffirming my thought that the iPhone is the
best handheld gaming device ever made), where you can put your fingers over the strings at the top, and then strum on the bottom to play notes and chords. Not only can you play your own songs, but you can even play along with any stored music you have on your iPhone, too. And every song, I tell you, can be improved by
throwing in another guitar solo.
Pocketguitar for the iPhone and iPod touch is available on the ModMyiFone.com Community Sources packing in Installer under Toys. Load it up and strum away.

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autoy said 2:11PM on 1-21-2008
It even sounds surprisingly good!
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jesse said 2:19PM on 1-21-2008
The only problem is that there is virtully no room for all of my fingers. It's hard to play chords because everything is squeezed together so tightly.
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tj said 2:28PM on 1-21-2008
IPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak update
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/
Its software based now , no hardware modding
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airmanchairman said 2:37PM on 1-21-2008
What next for version 2?
Flamenco "rasgueados" for advanced users?
MacBook Air Guitar?
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Rae said 2:40PM on 1-21-2008
wow its been around for awhile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FFHFQvFAaE
says the video was posted a year ago....shouldnt it say 7-8 months?
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Rae said 2:42PM on 1-21-2008
nvm im dumb, joined a year ago
Jim said 2:41PM on 1-21-2008
But where do you press your finger for more cow bell?
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Pete said 3:21PM on 1-21-2008
carpal tunnel is calling...
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Shawin said 3:22PM on 1-21-2008
Waouwww. I know monsterandfriends are making a drum kit app (mpc500) for the iPhone. And now there's this.
We just need a keyboard(piano) app and something like garageband or ableton live on the iPhone and then we could be iPhone producers.
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michael said 3:25PM on 1-21-2008
BUT... can you make it for left-handed guitarists like myself, Paul McCartney, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and more?
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Gus Jenkins said 9:00AM on 1-22-2008
I don't think Kobain or Hendrix will be using this.
Michael said 3:28PM on 1-21-2008
This is SUPER!!! I'm dying to see the updates. :-P
If there was one only who could translate the KORG KAOSSILATOR to the iPhone. That would tilt the iPhone up to the Professional studio level!
Just check this KORG out.
It has a similar touch pad as the iPhone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ss6chIgz3s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTpYmALR6Q&feature=related
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Rae said 5:19PM on 1-21-2008
this owns that (at 0:40)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYARs7gXcc
PSM said 5:39PM on 1-21-2008
I thought the iPhone's multi-touch could only recognize two individual touches at a time. This sounds like it would require a lot more than that to work properly. So how many is the hardware capable of?
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starkruzr said 8:46PM on 1-21-2008
I'm pretty sure it is technically capable of more than 2 at once.
Dave said 6:23PM on 1-21-2008
No reason it can't remember touches, even if it only sees two fingers moving at a time. Tricky tricky tricky TRICKY!
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Dave said 12:40AM on 1-22-2008
This is pretty cool, and sounds surprisingly good. I'm looking forward to future versions as the programmer states he/she intends to add a control for the number of frets. I have pretty small fingers but it's difficult to not make mistakes since the frets are so close together. I'm having fun with it though.
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superted said 7:01AM on 1-22-2008
i'm awful at this thing.. think my fingers are better suited to a real instrument like guitar hero
;)
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Mansoor Ehsan said 7:30AM on 1-22-2008
whaow!!! this is too good,,, after all such apps are complete like guitar, keyboard, drums and other stuff it will evolve to a new music genere... "ipho-music" heheh...i don know how i got this term
Mansoor
http://www.yourpocketpcreview.com
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