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Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by indigochill »

School-Cotton wrote: post #8
orf wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No? I hope you have a problem with the name "Guitar Hero" not being called "guitar being", "guitar person" or "guitar object" instead?

"Hero" is not gendered in modern colloquial English, at least according to my intuition.

I still hear heroine in colloquial usage occasionally. The implication (as with actors and actresses) that hero is the masculine form and heroine is the feminine form even though the masculine form can work perfectly fine for both (for both actors and heroes).

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by spraak »

codefined wrote: post #9
School-Cotton wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Hero" is not gendered in modern colloquial English, at least according to my intuition.

Are you sure it isn't? "Heroine" exists as a term specifically for a female hero.

I think in colloquial English, you'd hardly find use of 'heroine', and that any gender is called an hero.

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by notgood »

spraak wrote: post #12
codefined wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure it isn't? "Heroine" exists as a term specifically for a female hero.

I think in colloquial English, you'd hardly find use of 'heroine', and that any gender is called an hero.

Indeed, http://grammarist.com/usage/heroin-heroine/

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by aequitas »

Nice, but a little hard if you don't yet have chords associated by name and I'm missing background music/tempo to keep track.

Personally I'm really fond of the Rocksmith game for learning guitar. It's like Guitar Hero, but with your own real guitar (and interactive lessons). I have no real ambition (or talent) for playing musical instruments, but somehow it lets me enjoy music interactively at my skill level while also giving the gratification of game progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDQ_U3lukAQ

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by gus_massa »

If you don't have a guitar, you can use a use a piano (or a virtual piano in the phone) or even sing.

I think it's not clear enough when you hit the note or when you miss it. It has some animation, but it's confusing.

Anyway, I need more lives :( Can I have a sandbox mode where I can try forever?

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by tudorw »

gus_massa wrote: post #17

If you don't have a guitar, you can use a use a piano (or a virtual piano in the phone) or even sing. I think it's not clear enough when you hit the note or when you miss it. It has some animation, but it's confusing. Anyway, I need more lives :( Can I have a sandbox mode where I can try forever?

I found humming worked pretty good, or making a 'kazoo' sound, I found B at 12 bpm easiest, now, did I give permission for you to keep the samples ')
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