I am a beginner and this guitar works for me just fine. I think for the price is a excellent deal so I highly recommend this guitar.* The carrying bag is a piece of trash though.

I really like this guitar. But it needs some work and modifications to get a really good guitar on the cheap.First I wanted to mention that the neck is really flat. I did not have to make adjustments to the truss rod.Start by measuring your strings action at the 12th feet and find your sweet spot (around 2/32" and 3/32"). You might need to file the nut at the Low E string. It is a little to high there . Also test all your strings across all the fretboard. Identify the metal frets that are uneven, and sand/file them.Then. Use steel wool 0000 with your favorite fretboard conditioner or lemon oil and clean/polish your fretboard until it is smooth and shinny. Your fingers will thank you.You can sand/file on the sides of the fretboard to make the end of frets smooth as well. This will improve your hand movement as well.Buy a better strings, strap and picks and you are ready to rock. Remember to lube the nut and string trees with graphite from a mechanical pencil. Tune and check your intonation of your guitar. Do modifications as needed.The amplifier is pretty decent, and the tuner as well.Polish and was your guitar to keep it in mind condition.If you want to go the extra mile you can replace the tuning peg for a locking type ones. It will improve your tuning, but they are not cheap.All in all this is a good guitar with room for a lot improvements that you can do yourself.Try Rocksmith, it is pretty cool. Not only as a learning platform, also because of all the pedals and sound effects you can get.I'm left handed so only the red option was available, but I like it.

I bought this for my neice as a Christmas gift. She loved it. The guitar is nice, the amp is smaller than I anticipated and the accesories quality ok. A good starter kit for the price. Had better luck tuning with an I-phone app than the tuner in the kit.

I bought this for my son who is 9 to begin learning guitar. My son has had previous acoustic guitars but not previously really interested in learning with them as he always wanted to learn on electric.The short,He loves the guitar and is now very excited to practice.The guitar shipped fast, and everything listed was including and in new perfect working order.The long,I have been playing guitar for 20+ years and had low expectations for this guitar at this price. My main concern was having bought numerous other starter guitars for my other kids, I have noticed that there are some definite possibilities of issues in the lower end price.Some of the issues I have seen on other guitars were:The tuning Pegs often don't hold, or do not adjust smooth enough that it is very difficult to keep it in tune.The frets often are not precisely set and you get vibration or buzz at some frets.The fret board placement is not exact and the harmonics are off and even when the guitar is tuned as you go up the frets you will see that the 10th fret on the the E string for instance is not an open D string because the spacing is wrong.These are really a upsetting thing to have as it makes people practicing more reluctant to keep going as notes never sound quite right.As soon as I go the guitar in, I tested those three previous issues, and to my happiness this build did not suffer from any of them.It tuned easy, I played hard for about 10 minutes and re-tuned (to get the new strings set) and this kept tune great.I played through all the frets on all the strings an had no buzzing.The harmonics worked, and the fret placement is right and keeps the notes in key as you move up.The guitar is full size (not a min or 3/4) and though typically you might think that may be too big for a 8-10 year old, because its electric and the neck is much thinner then an acoustic, it is quite manageable by a kid at that age, and you don't have to replace it as they get bigger.Now about the electric part, this worked perfect. The Amp is small, but it is plenty big enough to practice with and honesty the settings were surprisingly good sounding for such an inexpensive amp. Don't get me wrong, don't expect marshal quality, but it seriously does work well and sound very nice.Everything was well packed and shipped quickly, all in all I thing this is an excellent guitar that plays great and looks very nice. Definitely recommend.

My 15 year-old daughter bought this with her birthday money. She plays classical guitar and wanted to add an electric. I was a little hesitant because I thought at this price it must be a POS, but she's happy with it. Is it as good as a $500 guitar? No. But for the price, it gets the job done. She's happy with it and I'm happy with it because I haven't had to return it or figure out how to deal with any technical issues. She unboxed it and set it up herself with no help from me. She's also able to play it in her room without disturbing the rest of the house. :)