I love that thing! I learned a lot on the RB3 guitar with this plastic guitar. Don't judge it by his head, the RB3 requires you to play it exactly like a real guitar and a friend of mine gave me a real guitar so I could practice. Well, if you REALLY want to learn something, you need a real guitar to transfer what you've learned from RockBand, but I think this is the best way to start. Before that I didn't know anything about playing guitar, but now I know a few chords, as well as standard scale