Rock Band & Guitar Hero

I’ve played Guitar Hero a few times, and thought that it was a great game. You get to use a fake little guitar, jerk it around and listen to good songs.

There’s even a competition in which you can win money for being the best ‘guitar hero’ on stage. Sort of a 21^st century battle of the bands.

Just for the record:

BEING GOOD AT GUITAR HERO DOESN’T MAKE YOU A MUSICIAN!!!!!!!

I have heard on a few independent occasions of people believing that they were going to take up an instrument, believing that their Guitar Hero skills would be transferable. Reality check, people: the skills are not interchangeable. The only thing about guitar hero that might transfer would be finger dexterity, which is just as easily gained playing Halo as Guitar Hero.

I play the guitar, the bass, a little piano and the drums. It has taken me years and years of abject pain and finger torture to get some proficiency. Mental anguish when I can’t nail a song in time for the next campfire session. Thousands of dollars in gear.

See how many people sing along when you try to crank out Sweet Child O’ Mine around the campfire with your Guitar Hero guitar.