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Become An Air Guitar Champion

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How do you become and air guitar champion? Do you know how to play air guitar? Do you want to learn air guitar moves? Here's how to play air guitar

Inside every Dad is a secret air guitarist struggling to get out. He can be spotted in the car at traffic lights, he can be seen at the family barbeque, and at his favourite 60s 70s and 80s rock band concerts (I spotted several at a recent Bad Company gig at Birmingham's NEC in the UK). Some might argue that father's day should be renamed AirGuitar Day. 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, oh and of course a really good rock CD compilation to practice to.

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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Contents at a Glance

Womad Air Guitar World Record
Air Guitar Tweets
Practice Your Air Guitar To This
US Air Guitar Championships
Haynes Dad - Ultimate Guide To Rock
Air Guitar World Championships
Air Guitar Championship Tweets
Air Guitar Championship Rules
Start playing air guitar early
Air Guitar T Shirt
Air Guitar Supplies
Gunther Love
US Air Guitar
Kate Walsh
The Hooded Fingerer
Clay Bangers
Air Guitar Stuff on Amazon
Air Guitar Links

awesome 2,227 people play Purple Haze on Air Guitar

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Air Guitar Tweets

Practice Your Air Guitar To This

Guns 'n' Roses Sweet Child of Mine

US Air Guitar Championships

Haynes Dad - Ultimate Guide To Rock

is your Dad an air guitar champion? here's the ideal air guitar companian

Air Guitar World Championships

The annual Air Guitar World Championships is part of the Oulu Music Video Festival in Oulu, Finland .

Air Guitar World Championship
Air Guitar World Championship Facebook Site
Air Guitar World Championship You Tube Site

Air Guitar Championship Tweets

Air Guitar Championship Rules

the basic idea

Play for two 1 minute rounds,
Choose your own song round 1
Improvise on given song round 2
You play solo
Air Guitar only
No dress code and credit given for interesting attire
Jury mad up of independent judges, musicians, music critics, comedians, the media.
Contests use a 6.0 scoring system
Technical merit - how real playing looks
Stage presence - rock star charisma, rock ability, showmanship
Airness - subjective impression

Start playing air guitar early

Develop your best air guitar move

Check this out! This kid is going places. OK at his age he does need a 'prop' but that'll soon be consigned to history.

Air Guitar Kid: Young kid shows us how to play air guitar

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!

Air Guitar Supplies

everything you need from air guitars to air strings

Dimitris Air Guitars. Be sure to check your goods before buying!

Gunther Love

World Air Guitar Champion 2009

Connect with Sylvain Quimene aka Gunther Love at:

Facebook

The Winning Story

BBC story with video

US Air Guitar

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Kate Walsh

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

Clay Bangers

Air Guitar Stuff on Amazon

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
Dimitris Air Guitar: order your air here

Air Guitar vids

Air Guitar Blog Posts

Magic Cyclops, Colorado Air Guitarist, Talks American Idol Rejection, Jimmy ...: The legendary air guitar champ and hysterically funny live performer that hails from Davenport, IA (you can hear it in his thick Iowan accent), but calls Fort Collins, Colo. his home, recently sat down with Huffington Post to talk about American Idol, ...
Comic Relief: Top Five Air Guitar Songs: The Air Guitar. By Jason Vallee It's only Wednesday, but it feels like the weekend should have been here two days ago. You have a full plate ahead, lots of work left to do, classes at Southington High School or college to sit through or are just plain ...
Guitarist Yang Xuefei reinterprets Bach on a seven-string: The solo pieces are Bach's first Violin Sonata; Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier; and Air on The G String, which Xuefei recorded on a seven-string guitar. Yang used three different instruments for the recording: her Australian Greg Smallman, ...
Making Noise: For versatile Christian band, music isn't the only mission: ... and just shot an episode of the Showtime hit series "The Big C" that will air in April. The Wrecking: Douglas Elder on lead vocals, guitar; Karl Anderson on bass, keyboard, vocals; Chris James on lead guitar, vocals; and Darren Elder on drums.

Air Guitar News

Magic Cyclops, Colorado Air Guitarist, Talks American Idol Rejection, Jimmy ...: The legendary air guitar champ and hysterically funny live performer that hails from Davenport, IA (you can hear it in his thick Iowan accent), but calls Fort Collins, Colo. his home, recently sat down with Huffington Post to talk about American Idol, ...
Comic Relief: Top Five Air Guitar Songs: The Air Guitar. By Jason Vallee It's only Wednesday, but it feels like the weekend should have been here two days ago. You have a full plate ahead, lots of work left to do, classes at Southington High School or college to sit through or are just plain ...
Guitarist Yang Xuefei reinterprets Bach on a seven-string: The solo pieces are Bach's first Violin Sonata; Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier; and Air on The G String, which Xuefei recorded on a seven-string guitar. Yang used three different instruments for the recording: her Australian Greg Smallman, ...
Making Noise: For versatile Christian band, music isn't the only mission: ... and just shot an episode of the Showtime hit series "The Big C" that will air in April. The Wrecking: Douglas Elder on lead vocals, guitar; Karl Anderson on bass, keyboard, vocals; Chris James on lead guitar, vocals; and Darren Elder on drums.

Air Guitar Tunes

Rock your invisible axe to these amazing tracks

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

You are not alone! Step out of the bedroom and into the limelight

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

how many females play air guitar

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Why Women Hate Air Guitar
Pop gaget air guitar stuff for women
Amanda Grifiths Air Guitar Phd
Bettie B. Goode
You Tube of Female Air Guitarists
Boy Named Sue

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

Air Guitar Championship Tweeters

Air Guitar T-Shirts

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ChrisDay May 30, 2011 @ 5:40 am | delete

Hot from a Rod Stewart Concert last night, this is bang up-to-date for me - hilarious stuff.

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karmicchristian May 25, 2011 @ 10:14 pm | delete

Awesome lens. Music to the ears. :)

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Tipi May 25, 2011 @ 3:23 pm | delete

I saw those Air Guitar T-Shirts on a website a few months ago, and thought I would like to try one of those. I just might get one some day for the fun of it.

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raphaelo May 25, 2011 @ 2:03 pm | delete

Love this lens.. It's so cool and enjoyable with a lot of big laugh :D I hope I could be good at playing air guitar in one day :) Lol .. 5 stars for you. Have a wonderful time.. reasonablerobinson ;)

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TeamSTM May 25, 2011 @ 12:58 pm | delete

I am not sure if I should Laugh or take this seriously LoL!!! The Reason being for those who are in to this, its there thing and for those of us who aren't, this is hilarious!!

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vikksimmons Jan 29, 2011 @ 1:13 pm | delete

This is funny. Finding pages like this is why I enjoy Squidoo so much. Love it. And I absolutely know a lot of air guitarists. Who knew?

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JoyfulPamela Jan 23, 2010 @ 4:18 am | delete

LOL! I'll have to trade my guitar in for a tennis racket. Enjoyed reading the page! :)

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reasonablerobinson Apr 22, 2010 @ 1:24 pm | delete

Please don't fret! :)

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Ramkitten Oct 21, 2009 @ 8:37 am | delete

I had NO idea that "air guitar" was such a big thing! Live--and read Squidoo lenses--and learn.

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blimp66 Sep 9, 2009 @ 4:02 pm | delete

Love the lens! Have a look at my "strings"!

http://www.squidoo.com/airguitarstrings

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reasonablerobinson Apr 22, 2010 @ 1:24 pm | delete

yes folks make sure you visit this bit of guitar reality!!

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The Hooded Fingerer Jul 29, 2009 @ 7:10 pm | delete

Nice piece. A good collective and summation of all things Air Guitar. You can read more about the man behind the Hood at http://www.paynebyname.com/page4.htm

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reasonablerobinson Apr 22, 2010 @ 1:22 pm | delete

Fantastic a visit from an Air Guitar celeb. Thanks for honouring us with a visit!

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Sojourn Jul 14, 2009 @ 8:55 pm | delete

You've convinced me - there's a whole art to air guitar I never understood before! I'm just a novice compared to the skill you showcased here. Nice job. :)