Auto-recording for musical instrument

An apparatus for archiving music created on a handheld musical instrument selected from a class of guitars including acoustic and electric, the apparatus comprising:

• an archiving device configured to record as well as archive any combination of riffs, songs, and leads created by a user upon a musical instrument selected from a class of guitars including acoustic, and electric, wherein the archiving device comprises:
• a printed circuit board (PCB) that comprises all the electrical connections along with a pair of batteries to power up the archiving device), wherein the PCB comprises:
• a controller configured to detect music played on the said guitar and automatically record the music played upon a memory card inserted into the memory card slot;
• a disc-shaped user interface plate that sits beneath a knob of a potentiometer on the top surface of the said guitar, wherein the user interface plate has a plurality of buttons, a plurality of LED, a memory card slot, and a USB slot.