Comments on: Real guitar + guitar hero

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:31:37 +0000

If it were merely Simon on a stick, I would likely agree. However, from my limited experience with guitar games (as opposed to my much larger experience with Simon games), the Guitar Hero-esque games add a factor to Simon: namely, they add familiarity. If you could get a Simon to synchronize with one of your favorite music tracks, wouldn’t you enjoy it more?

And, of course, there’s probably some aspect of multiplayer that Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band also implement, which seems to be all the rage these days.

Now, someone should take apart a Simon game and put it in a guitar controller. Or vice-versa.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:42:08 +0000

Seriously, give the pink guitar back to your little sister!

By: john

john — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:23:28 +0000

Pointless, utterly pointless.

By: slaedkaste

slaedkaste — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:29:36 +0000

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By: нapминa

нapминa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:03:18 +0000

Автор, посты у вас, конечно, интересные. Но вы не думали заменить дизайн?

By: fenwick

fenwick — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:54:14 +0000

@Decepticon

Sorry, but vocals in guitar hero & rock band aren’t hard. Anyone who isn’t tone deaf can get at least 95% on hard if they know the song.

By: Serge

Serge — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:45:36 +0000

Guitar Hero and Real Guitar… a real guitar is completely different than guitar hero.

I, myself, can play on Expert (the hardest mode on guitar hero, for those who don’t know), easily, but can’t play a lick of real guitar.

And I have friends who are great at real guitar, but can’t play a round of guitar hero to save their life.

I give credit where its due. I might occasionally take a bit of pride in my hand-eye coordination skills in that game, but no matter how hard you can make guitar hero, its nothing to a real guitar and a real guitarist.

..and what kind of person would dis real guitarists just because they can play guitar hero? Thats just wrong.

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:31:22 +0000

Guys Guys, this is priceless:

http://www.retardhero.tk

By: jagraham

jagraham — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:11:03 +0000

Same here evilmarshy, except with Powertab instead of Guitar Pro (only because it was free). It is pretty much the same idea as GH/RB, but real.

I’m still waiting for someone to make a guitar where you can play songs in ‘easy’ mode, rather than the ‘expert’ we’ve all been using so far.
:)

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:35:04 +0000

@all you GH/RB haters. to say you’re missing the point would be a gross understatement. The beauty of GH/RB is you can literally just pick up a guitar-shaped controller and have fun with it. No skill? You guitar players out there (myself included)completely take for granted that you have independant hand coordination – watch any beginner on the game to see that it’s not just ‘Simon’.

By: EvilMarshy

EvilMarshy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:59:10 +0000

I just use guitar pro, thats my guitar hero/rockband. I sit down with my friends choose a tab and click play, and I play the notes/chords etc it tells me to as its happening in real time (I’ll also wack on the mp3 in the background). If we make mistakes we lose, if we don’t we’ve learned and played a new song without realizing it. On reaaal instruments. its no bloody different to guitar hero, but guitar pro does actually help you play guitar.I think the only thing guitar hero did for me was train my pinky finger a little.

By: static

static — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:47:45 +0000

I guess I never have been thoroughly seduced by video games, as I never understood guitar hero. A new decent acoustic guitar, is reasonably priced. With the same amount of time invested in playing a GD video game most people can learn to play a guitar well enough to be able to play recognisable tunes. Then there’s that risk a real talent might be discovered? :)

By: supershwa

supershwa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:11:14 +0000

@patrick

Yes, simon…this is totally simon from the 80s.

wonder if they’re going to invent “rubik’s cube hero” next.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:15:47 +0000

Thanks for all the comments, everyone. Yeah, the ultimate goal is to have something where it looks and works just like a regular guitar too. For now, the goal with this project is a controller where you can play actual gh/rb with a real guitar, without having to have some laptop in the middle, so that’s the angle I’m coming from.

Oh, and check out the instructable, .x, you’ll need it to be a little more complicated than that if you want to be able to play the notes with your fingers between the frets. But I hope you do build this or something simmilar; if you do, let me know!

By: .x

.x — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:31:51 +0000

Damn someone beat me to this lol. All the electronics on my $100 Behringer guitar got destroyed, so I was going to simply add most of the RB controller internals into it. Its really simple, just run a wire for each button to the appropriate metal fretbar, and have the strings as common ground. I figured after doing this it would be more worth paying ~$300 to replace the pots and do an active EMG setup lol.