WARNING!! Extremely addicting!I bought this for my husband who has no musical background at all. He loves it. It's really exciting to watch him accomplish a goal and learn to play along with songs. He gets mad at me because I keep stealing his "play time" by hogging the game. There is so many neat features, it's hard to list them all, but I would definitely suggest this to anyone wanting to learn to play the guitar and to practice techniques. I would say it's one step down from having an actual tutor teaching you in person. I do wish there was a little more song choices with jazz/blues, but I do see you can download additional song packs off the Xbox site for a small fee. I will cross that bridge once I have mastered some songs from the disc. We bought a separate electric guitar and it works just fine with the system. Just be sure to get the Cable that is required for the Xbox. I used to make fun of Guitar Hero and Rock Band because you don't really learn guitar by pressing colored buttons on a toy. It has a similar teaching concept by using colored queues for each of the 6 strings, but you actually play a real guitar and learn cords, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, tremolos, etc. This is like the "Rosetta Stone" of learning to play the guitar.