If you want a game that realistic why not actually play a six string guitar?
Because this way I don't have to throw out 11 years of work and practice on the actual guitar in order to play one of those Rock Band games.
New Guitar Game with Real Six String Controller
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#12If you want a game that realistic why not actually play a six string guitar?
You don't actually have to play the entire song note for note to play the song. This would give the player a sense of playing the song and I would bet more people stick with learning the guitar from playing the game then playing the actual guitar.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because if you're a beginning guitarist you don't get any feedback. The game could be more useful for learning guitar than anything else.
What kind of feedback do you need? It just seems to me that console games producers are under the impression that console games are the answer to everything when in fact its much more impressive when someone can actually do something like play a real guitar or cook a real meal then if they do it on an XBox or a DS especially when they charge so much for things like guitar hero. It would be better if they provided an…
Initially it would be "you didn't hit that string cleanly, try again" which would move to "you played that progression well, nice job!" Then it could move to "You nailed 80% of those chords and your timing was AVERAGE." I'm assuming that the game guitar is very close to an actual guitar. I agree that it would be ideal if you could use a normal guitar and get the same feedback.
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#14I think there's an age cut-off where people go from thinking this is cool to being embarrassed to own one. http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/...
No, but there's a middle phase where you're self-conscious about having fun for the sake of fun.
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#15I've thought for a while that the concept of teaching instruments through games is a great idea, and hope this lives up to my expectations. If this piques your interest, you might want to look at the independent PC title Synthesia (http://www.synthesiagame.com/) which is based around a similar idea for piano; despite not particularly polished it has the core concepts down and is improving all the time. I hope that one day someone sees the potential in his and throws money at the developer to give it the time and resources it deserves to turn it into a large-scale commercial project.
I have great hopes for these sorts of products, and think teaching instruments via games is simply the low-hanging fruit of a bigger idea. I think using technology to improve learning is a woefully unexplored area, and that learning is a sector that is ripe for some serious disruption. I don't think textbooks or lectures are an good or efficient way to learn, but we're still using those same methods that have existed since time immemorial without strong emperical evidence simply because it's the status quo. Meanwhile, technology and our knowledge of neuroscience and psychology have improved beyond all recognition, yet they are massively underutilised in terms of helping people learn. I can't help but feel that one day all these dots are going to be connected and it's going to dramatically change how we learn and educate for the better.
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#16This reminded me of the same game concept that was supposedly under development a few years ago when Guitar Hero and Rockband came out. The game was to be called Guitar Rising and was going to allow for the ability to use any electric guitar. Now the game is beginning to seem like vapourware but you should check out the demo video.
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#18I've thought for a while that the concept of teaching instruments through games is a great idea, and hope this lives up to my expectations. If this piques your interest, you might want to look at the independent PC title Synthesia ( http://www.synthesiagame.com/ ) which is based around a similar idea for piano; despite not particularly polished it has the core concepts down and is improving all the time. I hope that…
I really want to pick up a midi keyboard for this game. I dabble at piano and can read music but this seems like the fun factor would encourage me to practice.
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#19If you want a game that realistic why not actually play a six string guitar?
Practicing in the form of a game makes practice more fun, and, therefore, makes it more likely that you will practice. Those of us would-be casual musicians may need an additional motivation to practice other than a pure love of the instrument.
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#20I think there's an age cut-off where people go from thinking this is cool to being embarrassed to own one. http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/...
No, but there's a middle phase where you're self-conscious about having fun for the sake of fun.
Being able to just have fun actually playing an instrument has truly been a blast for me the past 20 years.