The Cambridge, MA based company which brought the gaming world Guitar Hero is coming up with an extension of the idea of game-based music making with Rock Band. In the game, four players will play the parts of vocals, guitar, bass, and drums along to tracks in order to win points according to how closely they can follow a song.
It sounds like fun, but I'm more interested to see if experiencing something which resembles actual music making pushes some people to upgrade from plastic controllers to the real things. Pushing a button which sounds a guitar chord on your TV is one thing, making a real guitar crunch out chords through a humming amplifier is something else. I agree with what one of the company's founders had to say in a Wired article about the upcoming release: it will change how some people experience and appreciate music in that they'll be excited about 'playing' a song. Hopefully, that will help the real musicians who have dedicated a large part of their lives to learning their instruments gain new respect and appreciation for their talent and dedication and perhaps give some people the push they need to create their own music.
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