Guitars for the guitar heroes
The whole guitar hero thing has gone way out of hands because quite frankly it’s dorkish, or maybe I just don’t get it. If you spent half the time you are playing guitar hero practicing real guitar, you have a good chance of actually making a musical career. Especially if you play for severan hours per day.That must have been the same thinking behind Guitar Rising, which have made a software that uses any real guitar and actually teaches you how to play songs. The thing with any guitar sounds a bit shaky, but most definetly you would be able to use .a huge number of guitars, from the Fender Telecaster to the Gibson Les Paul.
According to GameTank’s CEO Jake Parks the connection is done through a guitar-USB adapter, a microphone, or directly to the sound card. The software is going to be released for Mac and PC as well.
So the brilliant idea here is that besides the actual fun of playing, you actually learn how to play the tunes! There will be different difficulties for different tunes and the whole thing will be quite similar to guitar hero. In other words, actually sing, don’t pretend! Way to go! Here’s a demo.
Tags: guitar hero, guitar rising, guitarrising, Rock Band
July 8th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Wow.
This is actually something I’d buy. I’ve been ragging my kid about this concept…. if you spent 1/2 as much time playing a real guitar… blah blah…
I’ve been playing for around 30 years, I guess ( not pro, I just like to play ), and this, if it’s bona fide, will HAVE to be a smash hit with not only gamers, but players.
Bring it on !!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
i disagree intirely all of those are crap minus the les paul and the flying v fender hasnt made a good guitar since 79. go kill yourself
July 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Nice buddy, sure Fender isn’t great but to each his own…
Besides that, I think this game/project is a great idea. I think they should def soup it up and charge a little more. I’d rather have really good quality guitar lessons for more in the $50 range than something that I can rip through in no time.
Either way, I’m very interested in the direction this software takes.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:19 am
It’s just a side scrolling tab with a tuner checking all of your notes. Using this method has no way of checking if you are playing the exact same note on a different string, which could either mean you’ve figured out a better way to play it, or have screwed up badly.
The upside is that because of the technology being used, you could plug in ANYTHING that could make those pitches (including keyboards and microphones), and if the notes were right, then it wouldn’t really be able to tell the difference, leaving for the easy possibility of expanding the software.
The downside is that using something like this prevents you from learning much about music unless you are the kind of person that can piece together music theory based on what you’ve seen in other songs.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Really, no link to the original site? Here, let me help you with that.
http://www.guitarrising.com/
July 30th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Nice post! Guitar Hero IS an absolute crock of shit, and I have been known to spit on the ‘tards that proclaim their guitar hero genius, before ramming my headstick up their anus and ripping out The Attitude Song. And yeah, that software sounds cool, I’d buy it