I don't think guitar music's dead. Guitar centric music may not be popular anymore, but you'll find guitars in a lot of places these days. There's also a trend

I don't think guitar music's dead. Guitar centric music may not be popular anymore, but you'll find guitars in a lot of places these days. There's also a trend towards guitarists that play with samplers and loopers and perform live that way. I see plenty of new guitar music on youtube in a huge variety of styles and genres. I also frequently hear guitars, albeit hidden under layers of effects, in hip-hop and electronic music. I think guitar music is a long ways from dead. Rock and its derivitives and the typical 4 or 5 piece drum, bass and guitar ensemble may be dead, but guitars are doing just fine and I think if anything, there's so many more avenues available for incorporating guitars into music with a lower barrier of entry than previously. Someone can actually sound pretty decent strumming a few chords, looping them and playing with the sound without needing to learn as much. It's not the same, but guitars are everywhere and these days they're even being incorporated with midi technology or other things to let you do some crazy stuff with them. Also, trends come and go at some point you'll get a group of young people who wanna rebel against the 'digital electronic sounds' the older people like and suddenly discover acoustic instruments and stuff again, they'll be new and cool, the even older people will shake their fists and say things like 'those darned kids, we used to play real instruments before any of that electronic stuff came along' and the cycle will continue.