Send your friend's photograph, business logo or favorite phrase to a shop that customizes guitar picks. Select a pick background that most reflects your friend's personality. Some suggestions might be a marbleized purple or a pearlized blue background. For fun, punch a hole in one of the picks, slide a necklace chain through the hole and surprise your friend with a customized guitar pick necklace.
Buy a large 3-foot long guitar clock. Choose a clock that looks like a real working guitar complete with strings. The clockworks should be located on the base of the guitar. Add batteries to the back of the clock if necessary so that your clock is working when you give it.
Customized drumheads make a good gift for drummers. Select the style of drumheads you need and order the graphics that you like. You can customize the drumhead by placing your friend's face or the name of his band on the drumhead. Screen-printing drumheads may take a few weeks so allow for ordering and processing times when placing your order.
Present the music rocker with a new music player. Choose an MP3 player with a touch screen and a loaded library. Tuck a gift card in the gift bag that the rocker can use to download his favorite songs to his new player. Compact, surround sound CD players are a nice gift, too. Give your friend a stylish chrome-finished CD player that plays all types of discs including home recordings.
T-shirts are the music rocker's garment staples. Select a T-shirt that makes a music statement or pokes fun at the musician herself. Images of skulls, wings and cartoon characters are popular subjects for trendy T-shirts. Choose jersey style or regular short-sleeved T-shirts.
Surprise your friend with a pair of concert tickets. Choose tickets for a rocking local band or your friend's favorite group. If the concert is out of town, offer to drive your friend to the concert city.