Is "Guitar Hero" Bad for Guitarists?

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id definitely say it can help your playing.

1) rhythm training. it makes you listen to the song and feel the rhythm and anticipate the patterns visually.

2)sight reading. playing a song youve never heard before with only visual cues? how can that not help you sight read in real time.

3)finger dexterity. no matter what youre doing, if you're fingers are flying in a guitar playing like motion, to music especially, that could only improve your rhythm sense.

4)hear some cool new songs you may never had heard otherwise!

5) fingering patterns. developing youre own fingering techniques to play certain patterns. will you shift into "2nd position" when you see alot of blue and orange notes coming up? or will you just stretch out to grab them and keep your index finger on the first fret? easily comparable to real decisions that a guitar player has to learn to make on the fly.

Adam
 
The problem with guitar Hero is that it doesn't play like a real guitar. That in of it's self drives me insaine. I think I would beable to accept the game if it was actually a little more complicated. For example if the controler had Five frets with 6 buttons in each fret. Versus the 5 frets with one button in each. Then the game would actually mimic a real guitar a bit more, opening the possabillities for bar chords, power chords and ect. Emulating more realistic fingerings.

That, and when I heard Them Bones by Alice in Chains, and it thad a solo at the end that was not in the orginal song, it was like someone took a dump on my birthday cake.
 
guitar hero

my step son got guitar hero a few months ago .... i made fun of him ... called it guitar zero ...... he was doing a allman bros song on it ... i said that sounds pretty good ... now try it on a real guitar ...... now he is realy into learning how to play his guitar .... he is practicing every day now .... his guitar used to sit for months w/ out being played
 
Axle Rhodes, eh?

Is that a Guns N Roses cover band that plays all the songs on Fender Rhodes pianos? :D
 
cusebassman said:
Axle Rhodes, eh?

Is that a Guns N Roses cover band that plays all the songs on Fender Rhodes pianos? :D
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On some of the back roads around these parts we have signs for limiting the size of trucks , they refer to ' 2 axle roads', '3 axle roads' etc I'm pretty sure thats what we are referring to here.
 
marshall409 said:
id definitely say it can help your playing.

1) rhythm training. it makes you listen to the song and feel the rhythm and anticipate the patterns visually.

2)sight reading. playing a song youve never heard before with only visual cues? how can that not help you sight read in real time.

3)finger dexterity. no matter what youre doing, if you're fingers are flying in a guitar playing like motion, to music especially, that could only improve your rhythm sense.

4)hear some cool new songs you may never had heard otherwise!

5) fingering patterns. developing youre own fingering techniques to play certain patterns. will you shift into "2nd position" when you see alot of blue and orange notes coming up? or will you just stretch out to grab them and keep your index finger on the first fret? easily comparable to real decisions that a guitar player has to learn to make on the fly.

Adam
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I can't tell if you're kidding... Guess it doesn't matter... ridiculus either way
Let me apologize right away.... Sorry
 
let me say above all else that it has about as much to do with playing a guitar as juggling does.
 
giraffe said:
let me say above all else that it has about as much to do with playing a guitar as juggling does.
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Then I assume you havent sen my one man show.......playing the one handed guitar solo from ac dc baby please dont go and juggling a bowling ball, a chainsaw and a 2 week old kitten with my right hand
 
Just got GHIII for my girls this Christmas. I felt as some of you do...What a joke....Till at the store I noticed it came with the "Kramer" style guitar! How sweet is that! Ok, not sweet but it intrigued me a tad. So then I watched my oldest daughter play the thing (she plays a ton at her friends house) and after much harrassment by her and her younger sis, about how they can finally mop the floor with me doing something having to do with guitar I've made it my mission to perfect this. Ya know, I've had more fun since learning a bit. NO it really has nothing to do with playing guitar except for timing maybe and it really is frustrating to train you fingers to do something different from what your "playing mind" has been telling you to do since picking up a REAL guitar. My girls yell at me for strumming the bar on the GH guitar too hard. Ya know though.....There's no other way I'd beat Tom Morello in a guitar duel! We've had a blast since the girls got this for Christmas. They complain of their fingers hurting and my eyes have never watered so much from staring at the TV
 
TMatt142 said:
Just got GHIII for my girls this Christmas. I felt as some of you do...What a joke....Till at the store I noticed it came with the "Kramer" style guitar! How sweet is that! Ok, not sweet but it intrigued me a tad. So then I watched my oldest daughter play the thing (she plays a ton at her friends house) and after much harrassment by her and her younger sis, about how they can finally mop the floor with me doing something having to do with guitar I've made it my mission to perfect this. Ya know, I've had more fun since learning a bit. NO it really has nothing to do with playing guitar except for timing maybe and it really is frustrating to train you fingers to do something different from what your "playing mind" has been telling you to do since picking up a REAL guitar. My girls yell at me for strumming the bar on the GH guitar too hard. Ya know though.....There's no other way I'd beat Tom Morello in a guitar duel! We've had a blast since the girls got this for Christmas. They complain of their fingers hurting and my eyes have never watered so much from staring at the TV
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Yep, its a game. I think it should be viewed as such. Even with my questioning of the whole concept and agreeing with both sides of the discussion here, I still get a kick out of watching my 4 boys enjoy themselves so much........just got a phone call from 2 of them, they just bought themselves 'rockband' on sale. My god. Thats the one with the drums i believe. here we go again
 
Ok, those of you who have guitar hero III check this out. Unlock "Through the fire and flames" by Dragon Force, Go to practice, and expert and check this tune out! Holy crap!!! It is like real guitar in one sense....practice, practice, practice!!!!
 
Big Kenny said:
I can't tell if you're kidding... Guess it doesn't matter... ridiculus either way
Let me apologize right away.... Sorry
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i really wasnt kidding. but oh well thats just my opinion of the game.

Adam
 
I think it helps, as far as timing is concerned. I was the only guitarist in a band for many years, and in doing so, you tend to get a little sloppy. Not that I sucked, it's just that since I'm the ONLY dood there, then I get to horde all the 'screwin around' time...... especially from one measure to the next.

But now i'm in a band with another guitarist. I don't get the headroom anymore cause it sounds like ass when I come in with a note or chord a bit early (for other dramatic reasons), and then he comes in on time.

Another thing - I don't think I've used my pinky this much EVER when playing guitar. So, yeah.... it's helped a lot there.

Besides the technical garbage and anal retentive freaks here on this thread, you've got to admit one thing - Any game that brings back the 'rock', is ALWAYS good! ;)
 
If you have real guitars, why on earth would you play guitar hero? I can see 10 year olds getting boners for it, but not anyone that can actually play a guitar. Stupidest game ever for a musician to play.
 
Greg_L said:
If you have real guitars, why on earth would you play guitar hero? I can see 10 year olds getting boners for it, but not anyone that can actually play a guitar. Stupidest game ever for a musician to play.
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BAM! Exactly! For amusement, fine. For practice, better off with tequilla.
 
Guitar Hero is a video game, plain and simple. It's for amusement like any other video game, and has nothing to do with playing real music. So asking someone why they choose to play Guitar Hero instead of playing a real guitar makes no sense.
 
my sons just brought over ROCK BAND . If you dont know what it is, it is the guitar hero thing with a drum kit , bass, and vocal. They talked me into being the vocalist while they played drums and guitar. First song PARANOID ! I had a freakin ball. 97 per cent on the expert division on the 2nd try! I showed their old man's still got it.
 
L mandrake said:
my sons just brought over ROCK BAND . If you dont know what it is, it is the guitar hero thing with a drum kit , bass, and vocal. They talked me into being the vocalist while they played drums and guitar. First song PARANOID ! I had a freakin ball. 97 per cent on the expert division on the 2nd try! I showed their old man's still got it.
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Fun game for sure. Drums are where the action is with this one. Great party game.
 
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