Guitar Hero/Rock Band has me concerned
I enjoy it just as much as the next guy whenever I can get my hands on it but I’m worried. Instead of kids hearing Led Zeppelin for the first time and wanting to learn how to play it on six strings, they can go and play it on 5 colored buttons. Instead of hearing Stuart Copeland and being amazed with his high-hat work they can sit down with a plastic drum kit and think they are doing what he does. Just the other day someone came up to me and said they “got a Gibson”. I was so excited for them, very surprised, but excited. I asked what kind and they stared at me. It turns out they got a Gibson model toy guitar for Guitar Hero.
Listen if you’re in your mid 20’s and up…get you rock-star fantasies out on Rock Band and Guitar Hero all day long. If you have kids and they show interest in music, don’t let them play these games. Put them behind a real guitar or drum set. Put them behind a piano or stick them in voice lessons. You may have the next great worship song writer in your house. The next Bono may be your son! We has parents just to to encourage it!!
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That’s a good call, Nate. I’ve been thinking the same thing myself recently.
Blessings to ya man. I agree with your thoughts here. RB is pretty fun. My roommates dig it too. but nothing like the real deal.
It’s a sad day when any person young/old thinks the incredible musical talents of so many bands/individuals can be almost effortlessly replicated through some plastic toy. Sad to not know the difference.
I learned the guitar on my own 6-7 yrs ago after i got saved. i wanted to play worship songs. but if i were younger i’d want to be in lessons as you mentioned. People should get their kids in music somehow. you play?
believe it or not, John Smith has seen a big increase in his teaching because of Guitar Hero. he keeps getting kids in that hear “Carry on my Wayward Son” on Guitar Hero and decide they want to really learn how to play guitar, so maybe it’s actually more inspiring than one would think…
but yeah, that ain’t a real gibson…
Nate, I am so with you!!! I always wanted to be a rocker deep down inside so you’d think this would appeal to me, right? Now is my chance! WRONG! I feel like it’s a cop out! I agree, learn it on the REAL thing. You may never really BE Slash, but isn’t that really ok?
Amen… but lets still rock some guitar hero baby
Nate – RB & GH make it look way too easy… vicarious fun for untalented bums like me. Thanks for checking out my new blog… I now have a RSS feed button at the top of the page.
well, I do agree with you in some of the stuff that you said, but the thing with this game, is that, ok you don’t get to play any real instrument, and (with me being an amateur guitar player) I can see the difference between the game’s guitar and a real guitar, tho a point in favour to the game is the fact that you get somehow your fingers trained to have more reflexes and not for real guitar chords but it can someday be useful for a riff.
on the druids side, yeah they are toy druids, fine, but u still have to hit them, so the principle is quite close to the real thing, also can train your coordination and maybe if ur really interested, u can later try a real set of drums and prolly u’ll learn faster than the guy that didn’t play any of this games.
that is my personal opinion tho, I might be wrong, and 1000 kid psychologists might want to kill me, but I also was a kid, and I begun playing the guitar when I was 6, and I got very frustrated cos my fingers just weren’t big enough to get to the strings
from my point of view, if ur kid will be the next bono, it’s because he’s got interest in that not because u force taught him music