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Introducing Classical Guitar Hero
Posted by
timothy
on Thu May 08, 2008 05:15 PM
from the step-one-remove-your-speakers dept.
from the step-one-remove-your-speakers dept.
Alex writes "I've just uploaded the video of a piece of classical electronic music I wrote for 2 Guitar Hero controllers and software (which I created). More information about this piece, its software, and the notation involved in playing it is at alexwroten.com/works.asp and alexwroten.com/excuses.html.
I just figured people might be interested in finding new ways to use their Guitar Hero mastery ... especially with the hot debate over whether or not it hinders people's musical instruction."
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Robert Fripp Took Thorazine! (Score:3, Informative)
God. Such racket!
Re:Robert Fripp Took Thorazine! (Score:5, Informative)
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Holy shit (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Holy shit (Score:5, Funny)
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Then don't post it (Score:5, Interesting)
If there is no news, there is no news. Don't post stupid news to ruin the reputation of the site. All this is saying is that they are starting to value site traffic more than site reputation.
To be more specific I don't come here to see "BREAKING: NES Nudity Galore [VIDEO]!!!" It is the same reason why an investor doesn't expect to see scandalous pictures of Britney Spears on the Wall Street Journal.
Now if Slashdot does want to compete with digg and reddit for the top nerd sensationalist website then fine. People like me will simply stop visiting.
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Classical 'hero' instruments (Score:5, Funny)
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Nuf Said.
Re:Classical 'hero' instruments (Score:5, Funny)
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And if anyone suddenly decides to dig out "Pink Oboe Hero", I am ***OUT*** of there!
Re:Classical 'hero' instruments (Score:5, Funny)
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Piano/Keyboard Hero anybody? (Score:3, Interesting)
Unfortunately, this would only target aspiring (or actual) musicians so wouldn't sell nearly as well as other games.
no (Score:2)
Sounds like shit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like shit (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Sounds like shit (Score:4, Insightful)
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I tried Guitar Hero for the first time just over a month ago, it's way more fun than it looks
YouTube comment sums it up (Score:5, Funny)
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"My ears, the earplugs do nothing!"
WTF is this shit? (Score:2, Insightful)
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take note timothy (Score:5, Insightful)
Classical? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm not at all against using the guitar hero controllers as instruments. Shit, people like Kevin Johansen can even make mouth harps sound cool, so why not?
But calling this drivel "Classical" music is kind of akin to calling Delius a "classical composer".
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So will someone stop saying 'hot debate' non stop? (Score:5, Insightful)
I play the keyboard and guitar. I don't think it's helped or hurt my playing in either. Just as Quake didn't make me any better or worse at hunting dove with a shotgun, or the countless hours of playing counter strike, my accuracy with my 7.62mm sport rifle never changed. It's a game, that's it. Nothing more, nothing less. The 'real thing' in all cases is completely different.
That Guy (Score:5, Funny)
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BTW, Stop with the youtube shit please. (Score:5, Insightful)
For years, if the boss walks by and sees
But go ahead, if you want to turn this into fark and end up eventually blocked by the nanny proxies, keep at it.
I hope... (Score:3, Funny)
Learning (Score:4, Insightful)
Guitar rising (Score:3, Informative)
No matter the outcome of THAT debate, I think no one can dispute that this upcoming game [guitarrising.com] teaches people to play for real. I'm going to get it.
You're Talking to Slashdot (Score:2)
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You "hip young axe hero wannabees" are all well and good but you are also guaranteed to have these three things - a plastic guitar, a surround sound system and your virginity.
I've met a quite a few girls at rock band "parties" actually. Just last weekend the guy hosting the get together hooked up with a girl who came. Maybe someday MY number will be called :P
And btw, the songs played on GH/RB are also played by professionals. The only difference is that at a concert, you are surrounded by a large crowd of very loud, and smelly teenagers.
So no caphice, sorry.
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not that I expect this to matter to anyone, but the songs at concerts are played by people with musical instruments. Who invest actual creative time and effort into making the music.
Well, sometimes. [youtube.com]
Re:To all the "Guitar Heros" out there.... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:To all the "Guitar Heros" out there.... (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, playing guitar hero, having some drinks and some laughs. Who wants that~
So in short, you suck.
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redundant nomenclatures ftw (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Answer me this... (Score:5, Interesting)
It's a game, it's fun. My son and I have a great time playing it. It's like the game Simon, turned up to 11.
My son and I were playing a Black Sabbath song. At the end we both spontaneously threw the horns.
That was fun as hell.
Nobody playing Guitar Hero thinks they're playing a guitar, no one.
We have a good time, This should be a ***REAL BIG HINT*** to you.
Clue, Programming is boring to almost every one, listening to music and playing a game is boring to almost no one.
Considering real Rock Stars ALSO play and enjoy Guitar Hero, I think They get that it's a game to.
Guess what? Wii tennis, isn't real tennis either! And GTA IV isn't killing real people.
Why can everything else be emulated and extracted out onto a game, but not playing an guitar?
I can play Guitar Hero, AND go to a concert.
As a bonus, my children and I are now talking about music, and I can engage them in a conversation about guitar rifts on the radio, using Guitar Hero as a point of reference.
My children are 10 and 7, both know more about music than I did.
So Guitar Hero: Epic Win
You: Epic Lose
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Now, I sort of look down on Guitar Hero, but I'm a live and let live kind of guy.
But I do want to point out a very real difference between Guitar Hero and most other games. I can't really defend against and alien invasion. I can't really join the mafia. I can't really be a Simpson. I'll probably never fly a jet. But I can do all these things in video games.
On the other hand, for the price of a current-gen console, a couple of "guitar" controllers, and Guitar Her
Re:Answer me this... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, I know that. You know that, everyone knows that.
"Clue number 2 - I program because I enjoy it & because it pays a salary so I can afford to buy CDs, go to concerts to see proper musicians (including Black Sabbath incidentally) and to buy games to play."
So do I, but I recognize most people would not enjoy it at all; which I am grateful because that keeps my salary higher.
"Yep. So by your logic you also treat yourself to the occasional bag of cocaine because Keith Richards does?"
Virtual cocaine would be the proper analogy. However it doesn't matter because you missed my point;which is Nobody thinks it's real guitar.
"Hey, guess what? You could also play them a Black Sabbath CD and end up doing precisely the same thing. Good isn't it?"
Not really. Kids are more interested in thing when they are doing something.
Not that it's a bad thing, but they would probably get bored listening to they CD and wonder off to read.
"Good luck to them."
Thank you
" But your point is what, precisely?"
You really are obtuse, aren't you?
My point is that it was another way to get my kids interested in music. Since my son is now interested in playing the guitar, I think it worked.
"So be it. I personally don't need to turn everything into a competition. Yes, you win, enjoy yourself."
and you just have to whine about what other people do so you can feel good about yourself.
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Re:Answer me this... (Score:5, Insightful)
No.
And why?
Because they are ***NOT QUALIFIED*** to do all those wonderful things with operating systems that we Slashdotters are.
Are you insane, retarded, brain damaged, stupid, or do you just intentionally utter the most idiotic and wrong thing you can possibly think of?
The reason Eric Clapton doesn't play "Linux Kernel Compilation Hero" is because the game doesn't exist and if it did it would almost certainly suck. If you could actually make such a game that made Linux Kernel Compilation into a simple task that was also somehow also fun, then maybe Eric Clapton wouldn't play it, but some real guitar player somewhere would. Just like some of them play Guitar Hero because it's fun.
This should be a ***REAL BIG HINT*** to you.
Yeah, a hint that you're a delusional moron.
I'm PERFECTLY qualified to play Guitar Hero (not that I ever have, but that's not even the point). Why? Because just like your hypothetical "Perl Programmer Hero" isn't real Perl Programming, Guitar Hero isn't real guitar! It's a game!
I mean you're clearly suffering from one of two catastrophic mental deficiencies. Either:
1) You think that plastic guitar is actually comparable to a real guitar, with commensurate skill required.
or
2) You think that you should not be able to play a simple game based on an activity unless you are actually an expert at the real activity, and thus would issue the same tard-rant against racing games, war strategy games, FPS games, sports games, and hell basically every game that isn't "Being a Douche on the Internet Hero", the only thing you are actually qualified to do the real version of.
So which is it?
So put down the plastic guitar, go back to your computer screen, earn some money and go buy a CD or a concert ticket.
So, you've never in your life played air guitar to your favorite CD? Never sang along at a concert, despite not having any business being a professional singer?
Soulless, and stupid. You're quite the prize.
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there really is such a game for easily entertained simpletons to while away the hours just like the legions of Guitar Heroes, it's called Gentoo.
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I've watched 40 seconds of it. (I actually finished to see them get the applause while writing this comment.)
It gets worse.
You make it sound that operating "guitar hero controllers" (designed to be easy to use by children. What's the target age of these things?) is like operating an actual instrument.
Look, I can play a real guitar. I sortof suck
Re:Wow (Score:4, Interesting)
Buh?
They're performing a concert for the public. It's experimental, yes. It's original, yes. Many people will hate it, yes. But that's NO EXCUSE for not having practiced enough where they didn't play the piece properly. I counted at least five times (over the course of six minutes) where the performers fell out of sync with each other, not in a "post-modern atonal experimental" kind of way, but in a "I-have-no-fucking-clue-how-we're-supposed-to-be-playing-this-section" kind of way.
There are lots of valid reasons to justify this piece being performed, but there are no valid reasons to justify not playing it properly. If the classical guitarist and violinist can't hack it, then find people with less (but not no) classical training and more Guitar Hero training.
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