Power Gig: like Guitar Hero, but with a real guitar

[Niode]

Yeah, it's already been made and can work with ANY guitar and ANY PC. It's called Guitar Pro.

Simply download the song you want to play from http://www.ultimate-guitar.com, open it with Guitar Pro and play.

Yeah, my PC can't run any good programs at all. That's why i like the concept of a console version.

My only hope is that this Power Gig doesn't abuse DLC as much as Rock Band did. And if you say "but Rock Band has great DLC" I beg to differ. They became overrated when they released a Spongebob track pack. Come on, SPONGEBOB IN ROCK BAND?!

If they can put three Spongebob songs, at least put 3 more by some good bands like Anberlin, TREOS, The Graduate or Thrice?

Now if they allow you to download tabs from the internet or online store and learn how to play by using the game, then that'd be a great concept.

But why would you bother with this? Trust me GTP will play on anything. One of my students has this extremely old toshiba laptop, the damn thing came with Windows 95 for crying out loud and is nearly 2 inch thick when closed, and that can run Guitar Pro. My students all use it as a learning tool, it's good because it gives me a way of turning the tablature side of it off and help improve their sight reading skills without me having to turn pages for them. I can concentrate on what their hands are doing.

Seriously, Guitar Hero and Rock Band are fun games, they're neat little score attack games and if you don't take them seriously they're a lot of fun. This is a step too far, if you want to play this 'game' then it's time you went out and bought yourself a guitar. Learning an instrument is single handedly the most enriching and rewarding hobbies you could ever have, playing this game won't make you a good guitarist, it can't. All this game will do (if it ever gets popular which I really can't see happening considering the cost that this game will have) is generate a tonne of people who can play this game, but give them a real guitar and they won't know what they do, they won't have feel, they won't know how to play. Simply hitting the right notes in the right order is only half the battle, playing the piece is something entirely different. The amount of students I see that think they can play anything but have terrible and sometimes appalling technique are so common it's silly. This is just going magnify that problem tenfold.

[Josh]

Hey, Guitar Hero, to me, is a fun game to play. It's not serious, and I know for fact that I could never play a real guitar from it. I understand the whole Guitar Hero vs Real Guitar argument, since it's been around since it first came out. I would buy this game because it seems fun, not because it could be used as a learning tool. I know well that I wouldn't be able to learn anything about playing a real guitar from Guitar Hero, but in a way it gives people the general understanding of how to play. It's those bigots on the internet that think they can just walk into a class with a real guitar, saying they played Guitar Hero, and make your ears bleed with how bad they play. It doesn't matter how good you are at a plastic toy, it matters how good you are with a real instrument.

[Niode]

I have no problem with RB/GH, I love rhythm games, ever since Beatmania. The difference between GH/RB and a real guitar is huge. The difference between this and a real guitar isn't that far. So why not just get a real guitar? I mean it would be like getting one of those huge 911 simulators (which cost around the same as getting a real 911) instead of getting a 911... Just does not compute to me.

[BlackDS]

Sweet, That thing looks better than my shitty guitar!

[slowslow325]

Has anyone said anything about the price??? If a guitar hero guitar with 5 cheap buttons and cheap plastic costs like $150, this must be insanely expensive!

[J T]

Simply hitting the right notes in the right order is only half the battle, playing the piece is something entirely different. The amount of students I see that think they can play anything but have terrible and sometimes appalling technique are so common it's silly. This is just going magnify that problem tenfold.

This problem is common throughout the general development of a musician. I highly recommend watching the first few minutes of this video for a great (and comical) example of how and why this happens:


A game could get you through the first stages of this development. I think a game could do this faster and more effectively than a traditional teacher. I just think, expertise beyond that will require either an expert trainer or somehow learning to play from the heart.

[Niode]

That was really great! Thank you for that link.