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Hello World I'm 47, I'm from Madrid, and I've always wanted to play the guitar. When I was 14 I faced a difficult choice, buy a guitar or a videogame, and the latter option won. So I've still wanted to try to shred for many years. And six years ago I decided it was then or never. I purchased a Washburn Wi200 Pro and had small progress but I had a son and I did not have the time for practicing. Some time later I heard about Rocksmith and I knew it was the way to go. I purchased it and had some fun but no regularity at all. When Rocksmith 2014 appeared I did the review of it in Applesfera, a well known Spanish blog related to Apple where I write (as well as in Xataka Home and Xataka, other blogs belonging to Weblogs SL group). I've been playing for around 350 hours since then. I like it so much that I did a second review of RS 2014 one year later relating how this year has been in terms of learning and fun. Original review here and review one year later here (in Spanish). Apart of the reviews, I've recommended Rocksmith to a lot of folks at work and all of them are enjoying it very much. This December I plan to make some custom songs, a new challenge. The Three Wise Men (equivalent to Santa Claus in Spain) are going to bring my son (now he is five) a Ibanez Mikro (already purchased, waiting for some DR Neon strings for it) on Jan the 6th and I hope to have a lot of fun playing with him. Have fun, keep on rocking and take care / Fernando

Hello again, Today we went to a local shop and they had the Ibanez Mikro in black. I liked how it was built and after playing a little with it and looking at my son's face I knew it was the guitar for him. I've left it at the store because I want some DR Neon 11 gauge strings to make his life easier at the beginning of his journey with Rocksmith. Thanks for your help and best regards / Fernando

Hummm, I think that with these 3/4 guitars you can use an standard tuning as long as you use elevens. What do you mean by positioning? I'm concerned with something that is around 4 kg for a kid that weights around 23 and has a large size compared to him. But then it is a question of going with him to a guitar shop and looking how it fits with him. Thanks / Fernando

Hi flyingturtle Thanks a lot for your well detailed reply. For all I've read the ibanez Mikro could be the best option. I've been told that the ESP LTD EC-JR is only distributed in US, so I guess that the chances of purchasing it in Europe are scarce (and I don't want to pay high shipping costs plus customs). Fender Modern Player Short Scale series could be something to investigate. And about Mustangs, the problem is the weight for my son that I guess would be too heavy for him. My son is always wanting to play with me in Rocksmith and has shown a lot of interest for rock and roll. Its a pleasure to sing him Sweet Home Alabama and other classics like if there is no tomorrow. I hope that he will be way better than me (and it is no difficult at all) in the future :) Take care and thanks again / Fernando

Hi, I'm planning to buy a 3/4 scale electric guitar for my 5 years old kid. I've seen some options on the web, but I can only find a couple of models in local shops here (Madrid). After a few phone calls there are some Ibanez Mikro, Fender Squier Strat Mini, and some other low-quality options. On the web I've seen an ESP LTD EC-JR that I like but I've not seen any reviews yet. So, here is the point. Do you use any 3/4 scale guitar with RS 2014? Any recommendations? Thanks a lot / Fernando

Great idea! However, this is not a feature request thread :). I will set up one shortly when the application is in at least an alpha state. Yes, originally the plan was to write the application in C# and only support Windows, but since I've picked it up as the lead developer I'll be writing it in Java and it will run on any platform with a Java 8 runtime (don't worry though, we'll provide a conveinient installer for those who don't feel like installing the latest version of Java). Excellent news indeed! Thanks so much for all your efforts!

Great idea. Will it be PC and Mac compatible? F.