Being an air guitar expert means you're a true guitar hero
Dedication, practice, imagination and adulation are what turns an aspiring air guitar hero into a real air guitar hero. Forget the computers and plastic air guitar proxies, a true Air Guitarists really plays the air waves! Have you got what it takes to become an Air Guitar hero?
No need for expensive equipment, no need for roadies, and no need for tuning and sound checks. Becoming an air guitar expert means you can become a rock star without massive financial expense. Except of course $investment in clothes and tickets to conventions like the US Air Guitar Championship, and the UK Air Guitar Championship.
You will, of course have to devote hours to developing your routine and your unique stand out style. You'll need a really good knowledge of your rock repertoire and loads of eye catching energy.
How you become an air guitar expert probably begins by picking a proxy such as a tennis racket and rocking away in the bedroom in front of the mirror. You then develop your air guitar skills in clubs and discos. After some dutch courage you'll be on the floor to Steppenwolfs Born to be Wild, The Stones, Honky Tonk Women, a Guns and Roses, Metallica, Queen, or Black Sabbath Track, strumming the air frets and wielding your imaginary axe as you become air guitar lead for the best unsigned rock band in the world.
The bonus of becoming an air guitar expert is of course the fact that you don't really need to know those finger stretching specialist chords like E minor, diminished, seventh, reversed, outer, inverted, open twelfth sharp major. Those special chords that are 'the sound' of the track are no longer a problem. You never have to miss a note or deal with a broken string. You might however be mindful of refrettitive strain injury, a stiff neck, and inadvertent knee tremelo.
So, what are you waiting for? Slam a cd in the deck, or an Mp3 player in the docking station, position the mirror, and air wheel that opening chord, and remember convincing air guitar performances demand skill and energy.
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Practice Your Air Guitar To This
Guns 'n' Roses Sweet Child of Mine
Air Guitar T Shirt
Use this T shirt to start playing air guitar any time any place
This tremendous T Shirt design is produced by Iffyton High Street. Iffyton High Street also has some great Air Guitar links too so check them out!
Gunther Love
World Air Guitar Champion 2009
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The Winning Story
BBC story with video
US Air Guitar
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The Apprentice UK gets its own Air Guitar Expert
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Reality TV gets its own airguitar expert with The Apprentice contestant Kate Walsh.
Kate Walsh turns rock chick with air guitar demo on The Apprentice
BBC The Apprentice Video Clip
The Hooded Fingerer
Britains Got Talent 2009
Air Guitar Stuff on Amazon
How to Play Air Guitar: All the Greatest Moves from Your Guitar Heroes
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Better Living Through Air Guitar
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To Air is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist
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Air Guitar Links
Learn from the best!
- The US Air Guitar Championships
- Welcome to the home of the official US Air Guitar Championships
- THE OFFICIAL UK AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIPS SINCE 1995
- The Air Guitar Roadshow
- Air Guitar UK
- Air Guitar UK Championships
- Australian Air Guitar Champs
- HOST OR ENTER
- French and Italian Champions Revealed - Air Guitar World Championships
- French and Italian Champions Revealed
- Learn How To Play Air Guitar
- Learn How To Play Air Guitar
- RHOG: Air Guitar Techniques: A Beginner's Guide
- Style and excellence
- Air Guitar Nation - In Cinemas November 9th
- It's time to rock and roll - air guitar style. AIR GUITAR NATION is the feature documentary about the year that air guitar swept America - from New York to Los Angeles and then all the way to northern Finland. AIR GUITAR NATION chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships and the personal
- AirGuitar Home Page
- "Learn to play the Air Guitar" , "If it's
a Philson, it's gotta be rock and roll." - Ananova - Students bring air guitar to life
- Finnish computer science students have devised a system which enables air guitarists to hear themselves 'play'.
- Virtual Air Guitar
- Official site.
- Virtual Air Guitar
- Archive material
- Beavis and Butthead Airguitae
- Beavis and Butt-Head: Air Guitar -- Always wanted to be a bad-ass rockstar?
- Air Guitar Basic Technique
- Video from Monkey See
- Origins of Air Guitar
- A worthy heritage going as far back as the 19th century according to this resourceful blogger
- How to Play Air Guitar - wikiHow
- wikiHow article about How to Play Air Guitar.
- How To Play Air Guitar Video | Guitar Videos | Howcast.com
- Sure, anyone can play guitar, but not everyone can play it well. And more free Musical Instruments How-to Videos on Howcast.com.
- *!!@ All The Boys: Women, Air Guitar, Glory
- Porfanity Warning. Female perspective on air guitar. None of us knew anything about the cult sport of air guitar before last night I wonder if it's anything
- A PhD in Air Guitar? - Gadling | travel blog | news, stories, deals, and tips. Go there.
- A PhD in Air Guitar? by Erik Olsen
- Air guitar comes out of the bedroom - Times Online
- When I was a teenager growing up in the late 1960s, the act of playing air
guitar was considered to be a solitary and shameful vice. - The Triumph of Air Guitar
- Controversy about Air Drumming
- Justin Theroux Brings Air Guitar to the Masses
- Theroux has signed on to produce Paramount's Air Guitar, a story centered around the self-consciously ironic world of air guitar championships.
- Air Guitar from Film School Rejects
- Thoughts on Air Guitar Nation
Air Guitar
Playing air guitar is a form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play rock or heavy metal-style electric guitar, including riffs, solos, etc. Playing an air guitar usually consists of exaggerated strumming and picking motions and is often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching. Air guitar is generally used in the imaginary simulation of loud electric guitar music.
Air Guitar Blog Posts
- How To Play Air Guitar
- Your first step when you learn how to play air guitar is finding out what air guitar is. It's not just pretending to play guitar there is a lot more to it then that, try to think of it as expressing technique through your movements and ...
- Sangent » Free Air Guitar
- Free Air Guitar · Images · Free Air Guitar. Posted by Sang @ 5:00 am. Tags: free, guitar, signs. Leave a Comment. Name. Mail (will not be published). Website. Please note: Comment moderation is enabled and may delay your comment. ...
- CocoPerez: Air Guitar Is A Thing Of The Past
- Air Guitar Is A Thing Of The Past. guitar_shirt_e.jpg. Rock Band and Guitar Hero have some new competition. The creative minds over at Think Geek have created the Electronic Rock Guitar T-Shirt with a fully playable guitar built into ...
- Unicellular » Archive » #215 Air Guitar, Air MP3 Player
- Unicellular is a comic about single celled organisms. It is updated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. I hope you brought your microscope.
Air Guitar News
- Tech the halls, with these gifts for gadget-lovers
- Forget Guitar Hero. Put down that air guitar. Here comes a T-shirt with the image of an electric guitar on it that, when strummed with the included magnetic ...
- Thomas Eaton's Weekend Quiz – the answers
- 6 World Air Guitar championship. 7 Ashmolean, Oxford. 8 Little Eva. 9 Men's and women's singles trophies at French Open tennis. 10 Cities formerly named ...
- The greatest guitar riff of all time
- And why not - listening to it again I was obliged to play surreptitious air guitar beneath my desk. Like all lists, this one is painfully predictable, ...
- Guitar Hero 6 Could Have Project Natal Gracenotes
- Imagine performing the duck walk or the windmill to get the competitive edge over your friends in a solo battle, or even competing on straight up air guitar ...
Air Guitar Tunes
Rock your invisible axe to these amazing tracks
Best of the Best Air Guitar Albums in the World Ever
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The Best Air Guitar Album in the World... Ever, Vol. 2
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Best Air Guitar Album in the World... Ever!
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Best Air Guitar Album In The World 3
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The BBC on Air
Articles, videos and radio clips about air guitar
- Womens Hour
- Britain's leading female air guitarist Amanda Griffith, Professor Sheila Whiteley from Salford University and Lucy Kaplansky join Jenni to discuss air guitar.
- Starting young!
- 14 year old Harley Kohn from the Isle of Wight is getting ready for the annual Air Guitar championships.
- Air Guitar Phd
- Doctor Doctor, gimme the news I got a
Bad case of lovin' you
No pill's gonna cure my ill I got a
Bad case of lovin' you - BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Air guitar T-shirt rocks for real
- Australian scientists create a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play real music - without resorting to a real guitar.
Air Guitar on Facebook
Join air guitar communities
- Air Guitar World Championships
- Air Guitar World Championships is a registered trademark and an annual event of Oulu Music Video Festival (www.omvf.net).
Mission:
The purpose of the Air Guitar World Championships is to promote world peace. According to the ideology of the Air Guitar, wars would end and all bad things would disappear, if all the people in the world played the Air Guitar. This is why the whole universe is invited to play the Air Guitar at the end of the competition. - Austin Air Guitar Championships | Facebook
- Air guitar in Texas
Women and Air Guitars
Favourite Air Guitar Tracks
- Popular Air Guitar Songs
- Contest favourites
- Chucks Weird World Top 10
- Bloggers top 10
- Vanity Airs top songs
- Blog commenters give their lists
- Top 10
- From a Deep Purple fan
Air Guitar Nation
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- Good info. Currently, I'm almost as poor on Air Guitar as the real thing ;(
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