Guitar Hero vs the Guitar

Just really echoing what has been said above:

Playing Guitar Hero / RockBand is completely different to playing an acoustic or electric guitar. Either the choice of 5 buttons to press, or 6 strings on a variety of frets... It's just so different.

I would say however, that if you enjoy Guitar Hero that it can be used as a stepping stone onto actually learning the guitar. I really don't believe that it's disuading kids from picking up a guitar and playing away.

I remember the first time I picked up a guitar and started playing, even now, when I finally get that riff I've been practising, or a peice of the song which I've been working on, once you nail that the feeling is immense and isn't matched.

For the record, I'm not a great guitar player or any thing like that and I started playing Acoustic before playing Rockband /Guitar Hero.
 
I use it as an interactive method of listening to music. I don't want to learn to play the guitar or drums. Also there's no fun in learning to play a few sections of a song on a real guitar when I can play from a choice of 1000 songs each time I play.

Yes I'm sure if I spent the time practicing a real guitar the time would be better spent but gaming for me is just a little bit of fun in my downtime. It helps me unwind and shut down to the rest of life.

These guitarists and musicians moaning about the game should shut the **** up and take the royalities as lots of these downloads are outselling itunes and they cannot be ripped off like mp3. The games have opened me up to a heap of bands I'd never entertain before as well.
 
It's a strange old world when playing a mean solo on guitar hero is actually better at getting girls into bed than shredding for real.

Nothing wrong with a big of guitar hero fun, but if you are spending 4+ hours a day on it, I would advise you play the real thing as it is much more rewarding.
 
People play it because it's fun, not because they want to play guitar.

It's very, very simple.
 
yup i agree with that, I believe that people who want to have a bit of fun play GH but if they take it more seriously they buy a guitar and start plucking
 
i love guitar hero for fun, i wish i could play the guitar, who wouldnt, but i havnt the time, money, learning material and patience to learn how to play a real guitar, so i get just as much fun playing guitar hero
 
physichull said:
I've got to say that after reading this article on the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8242749.stm

I find myself totally agreeing with the musicians. For all the time that kids/adults play on Guitar Hero and such like, they could have actually learnt to play the guitar for real.

As a guitar player myself, I find the comments made by Guitar Hero's maker totally deplorable in his "guitar is too hard so give up and play guitar hero instead" type of attitude.

Would you agree?
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Judging by the current amount of poor pop music around, it does seem like less people actually know how to play the guitar these days....
 
Nitefly said:
It's a strange old world when playing a mean solo on guitar hero is actually better at getting girls into bed than shredding for real.
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When would doing that ever get a girl into bed? I'm pretty sure it would do the complete opposite showing that you spend too much time playing video games.
 
I don't see why people are bothered what could have been done with the time when it comes to rockband/guitar hero, I perhaps could have learned something good rather that reading this forum but no one gets on my case about my time management and what I choose to learn, they are fun games, nothing more.
 
I don't want to play a real guitar, I just want to have fun playing a game, what's wrong with that?
 
RoachycaL said:
When would doing that ever get a girl into bed? I'm pretty sure it would do the complete opposite showing that you spend too much time playing video games.
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It probably wouldn't but girls do like these games too, so the last part of your post doesn't really ring true.

Plus games are getting way more mainstream than they were before, there's not really a stigma anymore.
 
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