Designed by Essex guitar teacher Kelvin Pratt, it’s a clip-on frame that helps new starters get their fretting hand in the right position from the off for those all important first-position chords. It forces you to approach the fingerboard from the front to help let notes sound clearly. “Necessity was the mother of invention,” says Kelvin, “because I was always holding people’s fingers up when they go flat on the fingerboard. I tried putting a pencil on there to help, but it kept falling out, so I came up with these.”

Space Trainer is designed for the first three months of learning first-position chords, though you can’t use it for barre chords or anything more involved.
We think it’s a good idea, and well worth a punt for pure beginners at £5.

www.space-trainer.com