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spoco2 says...

Well, yeah, but you'd have to think the interest would drop off considerably if people have to actually hold the correct chord patterns.

Still, I guess if they do it such that the easy difficulty levels has less chords and just strumming, progressing up to all the chords and full fingering where applicable... that might grade it enough to make people enjoy it.



In reply to this comment by bamdrew:
... its just a matter of engineering a more realistic guitar to play the game on.

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Guitar-Hero-ic-Game-for-Real-Guitar-from-CES-2009

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Ha, brilliant.

I have never... ever played guitar hero, rock band or any of the games, I've never a) had the wish to spend that much money on a game, and b) What you do for the guitars is so far removed from real playing, I saw it as kinda silly.

BUT.

Both the singing and the drums intrigue me a lot because, well, look at this, the drumming is the same (more or less). It's a really FUN way of learning the drums. Spend a while on rock band with the drums before starting any drumming lessons would get you over that initial 'man, I suck, I can't be bothered doing any more' part of learning an instrument, and straight into the 'man, look how good I am now'.

If only they could make the guitars the same... if only.

Issykitty says...

You're very welcome. Thank you for all the yummy links.

In reply to this comment by bamdrew:
Thanks for the promote. I just sent an e-mail of Andrew Bird youtube performances I like to a friend; thought I'd share with you in case you hadn't caught some:

"
Here's a song that's much better live than on the record, performed at the Fillmore with a fun audience... fun lyrics, and lyrical presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Buxc-CNfLM

Here he is again on the violin, and also playing guitar and glockenspiel, with a band backing him up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmKGPyYcf8g

Here's a slower song from a CD coming out Jan. 20th called Noble Beast (that album title is a David Attenborough reference):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYwUVSUd3Ko

Here's a strange one of him walking around Paris singing and playing for a popular French music blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsR0uyPxqxI

Here's a song I really like,... he supposedly got the lyrics from a letter he found on the ground (he said the letter started 'Dear Dirty,' and then went on to describe in a simple caveman dialect what it was like being a caveman):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnjsRvsyGQ

Finally, here he is first playing a song he wrote for a children's show he appeared on, then rolling into an intense performance of a pretty wild song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ0-HVPl4xg
"

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
*PROMOTE

NicoleBee says...

I was busily trying to dig up the video on Apoptosis to show you because its my absolute favourite of these, and then realized you were the one who sifted it. Thanks!

In reply to this comment by bamdrew:
i like these visualizations better when they put in the 'noise' of other chemicals and proteins and enzymes all banging against each other... this is so clean that it makes things look very miraculous and directed when they're usually not.

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