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Jack White and Jimmy Page diss 'Guitar Hero' video game

The renowned guitarists say it's not an ideal way to be exposed to music

Mon 22 Jun, 2009

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I completely agee. I've been playing guitar since I was 13 and it was hard work. It took me six months to be able to play anything that resembled music. But I stuck with it because I was passionate and at the time, wanted to be able to play along with Nirvana and Oasis albums. This was in 1995 I should point out when there were no such simulation games to cut out the hard work. More to the point, I can't play Guitar Hero / Rock Band for toffee. I'm utterly useless. It's nothing like playing a real guitar at all. However, I know people that can't play guitar but are "masters" at playing Slayer on the hardest setting of Guitar Hero.Don't get me wrong, technology is a great thing but you do start to worry that with everything getting easier because of it, it's going to make people more and more lazy. Why bother spending months trying to learn Green Sleeves or months in a rehearsal room trying to write songs when you can just plug in your PS3 and rock out online with your friends, eat junk food and get fat?It won't kill music completely because people will always want to be musicians but speaking for myself, as someone who can be very lethargic, would I stick with guitar lessons if there was a more fun way to play guitar (albeit simulated)? Probably not. Musicians are lazy enough as it is.

Tue 23 Jun, 2009

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