History Main / AirGuitar

* An episode of ''Boomtown'' had an ex-convict whose hands had been broken by his cell-mate. He used to play air-guitar and imagine his favourite song to deal with confinement. The cell-mate, however, did not appreciate this habit.

Making pretend electric guitar playing motions with your hands, placed as though you are holding an invisible guitar and plucking strings while pressing down notes on the imaginary fretboard. Leaning and making dramatic facial expressions is optional. Popular in TheEighties, but still done. There are championships for this. People have sold air guitars ''on Website/EBay'' for a sizeable amount of money. Some argue that the idea has since been replaced with the plastic hit, ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''.

Making pretend guitar motions with your hands, placed as though you are holding an invisible guitar. Leaning is optional. Popular in TheEighties, but still done. There are championships for this. People have sold air guitars ''on Website/EBay'' for a sizeable amount of money. Some argue that the idea has since been replaced with the plastic hit, ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''.

Twin brother of the Air Drums. Less common versions are Air Violin and Air Piano; orchestral works usually elicit Air Conducting instead. Compare to ThatSyncingFeeling. A variant is the "substitute guitar". Tennis racquets and (in the UK and Australia) cricket bats are commonly used for this. See InstrumentalWeapon when this is done with weapons.

* In [[VideoGame/SuperBomberman Super Bomberman R Online]], this is an available emote the player can use.

* The video accompanying the ending theme for ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'' has Yozora doing this...next to Sena, who's playing an actual electric guitar.

* [[SoBadItsGood Horribly]] invoked in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxOyGK1pMk music video]] for Music/{{Journey}}'s "Separate Ways" ... in some shots, the members of the band are shown playing air guitar, air keyboard, and air drums. Yes, ''real musicians'' are pretending to play the instruments they ''actually know how to play''.

* The video accompanying the ending theme for ''LightNovel/Haganai'' has Yozora doing this...next to Sena, who's playing an actual electric guitar.

* One of Nero's more extreme taunts in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Devil May Cry 4]]'' is to strum an air guitar in front of his enemies. And if you stop and listen, [[RuleOfCool It's actually making real music.]]

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* A ''Series/MadTV1991'' skit had an air guitar emporium. Guest star Joe Walsh used one to smack down a thief who tried to steal Music/JimiHendrix's air guitar.

* A ''Series/MadTV'' skit had an air guitar emporium. Guest star Joe Walsh used one to smack down a thief who tried to steal Music/JimiHendrix's air guitar.

* ''Series/RedDwarf''. In "Back in the Red", the Cat not only makes a hanger bay full of Blue Midgets to get up on their mecha legs and dance, but [[RuleOfFunny one of them provides air guitar accompaniment as well]].