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Rocksmith - Learn to play guitar game..

tzrider said:
You'll have the same issue I do; you'll quickly learn the tune by ear and then it won't be a reading exercise any more.

From time to time I've been practicing some of my son's violin pieces on guitar. It gives me something to read that I otherwise wouldn't and I can play along with him to help with pitch and time. He's already to the point where he can sightread faster than I can.
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That's my main issue, after a while I stop reading the notes and it becomes muscle memory... not that that's a bad thing, but it leaves me wanting to be able to read the notes better.
 
tzrider said:
You'll have the same issue I do; you'll quickly learn the tune by ear and then it won't be a reading exercise any more.
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That's the reason I bolo'd the audition for the Royal Street Bachelors. The panel was happy with my performance...until they stuck a sheet of music in front of me and I just looked back at them with a blank stare.

Guy asks me, "You can't read music? How can a guy that plays like you not know how to read music? How did you manage in jazz bands?"

"Simple...I learned the majority if not all the piece by ear."

Apparently there's still some musicians out there that don't have an ear for music at all and rely entirely on sheet music. I think it really depends on what instrument you're playing. A jazz bass player does not need sheet music. It's more about the root notes and the meter and then the feel of the groove, not the damn sheet music. :p
 
Kornholio said:
It's more about the root notes and the meter and then the feel of the groove, not the damn sheet music. :p
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What I've always said out loud is that music is an aural art, not a visual art.

What I've always felt privately is frustration at not having become proficient with reading. It doesn't seem that there are any shortcuts; you have to put the time in. Playing music was always more fun, so I did that.
 
tzrider said:
What I've always said out loud is that music is an aural art, not a visual art.

What I've always felt privately is frustration at not having become proficient with reading. It doesn't seem that there are any shortcuts; you have to put the time in. Playing music was always more fun, so I did that.
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Exactly. I fail as a classical musician that way, but let's be honest, the majority of musicians don't actually read music.
 
Interesting comments on playing by ear and off sheet music. I play trumpet and ukulele. I learned to read music when I played trumpet in the school band.

I learned to play ukulele using tablature. I can play both by ear (the trumpet much better).

I find that I have two modes of music - stuff I play by ear and stuff I play off sheet music and tabs - and weirdly they never cross. If I learn something by ear I dont need the sheet music and find it a distraction. If I learn something off sheet music, I really struggle to commit it to memory and nearly always need to refer to the sheet music at some point in playing it.

Back on topic, after years of messing about with guitars and never really getting anywhere (even though Uke' chords basically 4 string guitar chords transposed by 5 frets).

So, I just ordered Rocksmith for PC from Amazon. Its scheduled to arrive on Thursday and I have my wife's Fender Strat to work with.

I am interested to see how this works out. :thumbup
 
Kornholio said:
Tablature is the future, Andy. :twofinger
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That's what Songsterr is for... :teeth

Personally, nothing really clicked for me until I found a good teacher for private bass lessons. You can probably teach a circus bear to play the right notes in the right sequence but I think there's a lot more to it if you truly want to learn an instrument. I spend $120/month for a half hour lesson once a week and it's the best thing I've done in 10+ years of being a hack on bass.
 
Well then for sale:

Made in Mexico, Fender Strat. Made sometime in 2005-2006. Comes with case, and Rocksmith game with cord (XBOX version). 500.00

Located in Groveland, but.... will travel. :thumbup
 

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I saw the commercial and the fingerings for the song they were teaching were wrong (F# power chord should be played like an open G). The actual song was played on a guitar tuned down a 1/2 step (like GnR, and Van Halen) but that's no biggy. You'll still learn something.

Just to add some cred, I've been playing for 27 years, got a mus degree and play professionally on a stage in front of an audience 5-6hrs a night and my fingers look the part. I've also give lessons too, if anyone needs some:teeth I practiced 8 to 12 hours a day in HS and up to 16hrs a day in music school. No exaggeration at all. The more effort you put in, the more you'll improve. Guitar is actually a very difficult instrument to learn compared to other ones.

Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. This applies to many things.

Now with that said, learn bass if you want to play in a band there's way too many guitarist out there and all this competition is making it hard for me to make money. :cry
 
Crom said:
I saw the commercial and the fingerings for the song they were teaching were wrong (F# power chord should be played like an open G). The actual song was played on a guitar tuned down a 1/2 step (like GnR, and Van Halen) but that's no biggy. You'll still learn something.

Just to add some cred, I've been playing for 27 years, got a mus degree and play professionally on a stage in front of an audience 5-6hrs a night and my fingers look the part. I've also give lessons too, if anyone needs some:teeth I practiced 8 to 12 hours a day in HS and up to 16hrs a day in music school. No exaggeration at all. The more effort you put in, the more you'll improve. Guitar is actually a very difficult instrument to learn compared to other ones.

Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. This applies to many things.

Now with that said, learn bass if you want to play in a band there's way too many guitarist out there and all this competition is making it hard for me to make money. :cry
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Words of wisdom right there. :thumbup
 
I was about to post this same thread. glad i didn't and read this one instead.

I feel like lessons would be great to actually learn the instrument, while the game would be some cool, fun practice? At least that's what i'm taking from this.

again, thanks guys!
 
Mine arrived and I started using it last Friday. For how little it cost, I'm very impressed.

Its pretty addictive, by Sunday my fingers were numb - actually for us borderline OCD types it has the potential to be catastrophically addictive :laughing

It certainly took me out of my comfort zone and introduced me to scales and styles that are outside of my normal repertoire. :thumbup

Not found any downsides so far - so color me impressed :thumbup
 
OldMadBrit said:
Mine arrived and I started using it last Friday. For how little it cost, I'm very impressed.

Its pretty addictive, by Sunday my fingers were numb - actually for us borderline OCD types it has the potential to be catastrophically addictive :laughing

It certainly took me out of my comfort zone and introduced me to scales and styles that are outside of my normal repertoire. :thumbup

Not found any downsides so far - so color me impressed :thumbup
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Thank you, sir! :thumbup
 
I bought the one for the PC. I'm in the process of installing it right now. The pain in the ass is that the game is not on the DVD. All the DVD does is install Steam to your PC and force you to set up a Steam account and enter the Activation Key there. Only then does it download the software from the Steam server.

So, sadly, I'm on a slow internet connection, and it's only managed to download 4% of the files so far. Fuck!

This would have been a deal killer for me had I known!
 
wannabe said:
I bought the one for the PC. I'm in the process of installing it right now. The pain in the ass is that the game is not on the DVD. All the DVD does is install Steam to your PC and force you to set up a Steam account and enter the Activation Key there. Only then does it download the software from the Steam server.

So, sadly, I'm on a slow internet connection, and it's only managed to download 4% of the files so far. Fuck!

This would have been a deal killer for me had I known!
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Oh... If I end up buying it, it will be either XBox or PS3 then. :)
 
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