It’s finally here! With just over two weeks to go til the official start of the Black Friday guitar deals, Guitar Center has launched its full Black Friday sale with discounts of up to 30% off a massive range of guitar gear. With Fender, Gibson, PRS, Boss, Yamaha, Ibanez, Epiphone, Taylor, and many more seeing discounts, it’s a great sale to pick up some serious reductions on gear.
The sale runs from now until December 2nd, and it features some of GC’s lowest prices of the year. Alongside the main sale, Guitar Center will also be running doorbuster deals every Thursday through Sunday, with big savings while stock lasts.
Taking a look through the sale over a cup of coffee this morning, the first deal to catch my eye was over $200 off this Fender Player II Telecaster. I reviewed the Player II guitars a couple of years ago when they launched, and for me, they really hit the spot if you want a classic-looking guitar but with modern playability.
With proper rosewood ‘boards, Alnico V pickups, and ClassicGear tuning machines, you get the more vintage side of the guitar. Rounded fingerboard edges and a modern ‘C’ neck profile add contemporary playability. The Player II is one of the best-selling guitars of the past few years, and it is a great middle ground between a beginner guitar and a more advanced one.
If you want something a bit more dangerous, have a look at the Sterling by Music Man Majesty. Signature guitar of John Petrucci, this 7-string beast has got a ginormous $450 reduction, bringing the price down to a couple of hundred pounds north of a grand.
Dual DiMarzio humbuckers add fiery tones to go with the stunning blood orange burst finish, while a proper ebony fretboard with 24 medium jumbo frets gives you a stable platform for the kind of guitar acrobatics Petrucci is well known for.
Finally, for those picking up guitar for the first time this year, the Squier Sonic Strat pack has a cool $50 reduction. Giving everything the burgeoning guitarist needs in one handy package, it features a guitar, amp, strap, case, picks, and a guitar cable.
I got my start on a Squier Affinity Strat pack back at the turn of the millennium, and I still have the guitar to this day. Since then, Fender has changed to the Squier Sonic range, which offers an excellent platform for beginners with great-sounding pickups and a comfortable neck profile that will give them the perfect platform for a long career playing guitar.
Shop more Black Friday sales
- Amazon: Shop all instrument deals
- Positive Grid: $99 smart amps
- Sweetwater: Early Black Friday sale
- Guitar Center: 30% off Black Friday
- Guitar Tricks: $99 annual sub bundle
- Thomann: Find all the Hot Deals
- B&H Photo: Score discounts on pro audio
- Guitar Tricks: $99 annual sub bundle
- IK Multimedia: Amplitube 5 only $29.99!
- Musician's Friend: Up to 50% off sale
- Plugin Boutique: 100s of software savings
- Reverb: Shop used gear
- TrueFire: All-access annual sub only $79
- Waves: Huge plugin bundle deals
