Rock Band 3 Comes With a Real Guitar. Will Video Games Someday Take the Place of Guitar Teachers?
I looked at the reviews of video games such as Rock Band 3 and Power Gig. Apparently,on the difficult level, these games do really teach a person to play all the right notes and right chords in real time. It is realistic. Some guy reviewing the game never played guitar before and he learned Bohemian Rhapsody in a few hours. Do you think a person would be able to take their knowledge of all of those cover songs and just pick up a real guitar and just play the songs on the real guitar? I mean, they would already know all of the notes and the timing because they played on a realistic guitar on the video game. I’ve been playing real guitar for a long time and I am starting to think the way I learned (by books that taught me scales, arpeggios, chords, and technique) will be phased out real soon. I mean, kids that play this video game will be able to learn many songs in a very short amount of time if they practice. I can imagine many more females playing real guitar now too because of video games like this and that’s a good thing. I suppose the only thing these games don’t teach you is how to create- they don’t tell you how to write a song.
kagulya, i don’t think you understand. rock band 3 is very different then the two versions that came before it. a real guitar is included with it.
No, though it may seem that way, this is not a way of learning and they will pick up bad techniques from this. This, in my opinion would be more of a controller for those who can already play guitar. This controller won’t teach all the techniques capable on the real guitar. It won’t teach you bends, theory, expression, slides, etc. This is definitely not a good way to learn an instrument, contrary to popular belief… and it pisses me off.
of course not.
I play guitar and it doesn’t help me to play rock band. I suck at that game.
and I don’t it will re-place guitar teachers or music teachers. and there is more to guitar than chords.
No. I play guitar and I suck at video games and therefore suck at rock band. I have friend’s who kick butt at Rock Band but can’t play a guitar to save their lives. The "instruments" for Rock Band are just controllers shaped like instruments.
I can see how Rock Band 3….or a similar technology….could be a useful learning tool. I can’t see it replacing flesh and blood teachers in the near future. What a real teacher brings to the table is interactive feedback. Until a computer game can see your hand and tell you that you’re holding your pick wrong or to rotate your wrist a little more, it’s no substitute for a guitar instructor.
For the people who insist on self learning, a well designed program using Rock Band technology might replace a lot of the lessons you find on the web. Web lessons lack the same personal interaction, so I see RB 3 as more of a threat to them.