francric
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Check out who is in this vid...................don't know if this has already been posted
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DrKev
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Interesting, and an appearance from Brian Ball too!
Does this mean we'll have a generation of guitar players who no longer watch their hands while they play, but can't play without a screen somewhere?
Does this mean we'll have a generation of guitar players who no longer watch their hands while they play, but can't play without a screen somewhere?
straycat113
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You know Kev I hated the whole concept of these games and for the longest would not even here of buying Guitar Hero for my sons who are now 19 and 13. My oldest son never showed any interest in playing but the little guy did. So when he was 8 I bought a little guitar which I strung lefthanded as both my sons are lefties, and he took to it but then stopped. Well when I heard they wanted GH I would not buy it, but after two years and all their friends having it I caved in with disgust. I would come home to a house full of kids blasting some great music and playing that ridicules plastic guitar. After about 8 months my little guy came to me and said he wanted to play the real thing, and the kicker was that because he had to play the game right handed he now plays righty.So I changed my whole view on these games as 4 or 5 of their friends also play the real thing and are also going back and looking up songs by a lot of the greats. I am sure there are thousands of kids who now play because of these games.
BartB
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It's like DrKev says, will they be able to play without a screen.. It looks like fun but are you actually learning to play the guitar or learning to play the game with a guitar??
DrKev
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My original comment was as much a playful dig at navel-gazing guitar players as it was to anyone else.
And it doesn't really doesn't matter if people are still playing a game or not. Look at painting-by-numbers - it's not really art and is creative only in a certain sense but a lot of people get a lot of pleasure from that and that's really important! Michael Angelo himself doesn't have the right to take that from somebody. And a lot of people do indeed progress from that to drawing and painting their own compositions.
Where guitar is concerned, back when GH came out, BP was all in favour of it and the first music store to sell the game sold a ton of guitars at the same time! These things do make a difference.
This is good thing. It's still just a game. And commercial product too out to make money for somebody that's not us, but if kids are gonna spend so many hours indoors, not out in the open air, not getting their head caught in the front gate, scraping knees falling off bikes, pulling dogs tails and kiss-chasing the girls down the street, hell yeah, let's put an instrument in their hands!
And it doesn't really doesn't matter if people are still playing a game or not. Look at painting-by-numbers - it's not really art and is creative only in a certain sense but a lot of people get a lot of pleasure from that and that's really important! Michael Angelo himself doesn't have the right to take that from somebody. And a lot of people do indeed progress from that to drawing and painting their own compositions.
Where guitar is concerned, back when GH came out, BP was all in favour of it and the first music store to sell the game sold a ton of guitars at the same time! These things do make a difference.
This is good thing. It's still just a game. And commercial product too out to make money for somebody that's not us, but if kids are gonna spend so many hours indoors, not out in the open air, not getting their head caught in the front gate, scraping knees falling off bikes, pulling dogs tails and kiss-chasing the girls down the street, hell yeah, let's put an instrument in their hands!
JMD
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I think these games are great - there was a waiting list of students at the store I used to teach guitar at as these games gave every parent the idea - 'maybe my kid will be a natural'. Yes, there were a lot of kids that didn't have any sense of the 'work/reward' thing you need to progress.....but I know they had fun and learned something about music...and perhaps themselves. That's cool.
francric
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Kids, what kids, I'm getting it for me................................................................
patpark
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the industry needs things like this, outside the industry, which helps bring new guitar players into stores. I'm all for this and hope it really takes off.
Spudmurphy
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francric
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Even if you've been playing for a while I think it would be alot of fun and help too. Rather do that for a warmup excercise......................and learn a song along the way.
robelinda2
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I watched the video, wish I didn't.
