The built in features are the real selling point especially for beginner as this has a built-in tuner (still a great idea to eventually have a chromatic tuner, even clip-on tuners are handy especially if you have acoustics too), a drum machine with enough options and built-in tap tempo adjust to create drum backing for just about anyone's needs, effects like reverb and echo and 4 channels from clean to some pretty screaming metal.

A very good drum machine