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05-26-2010, 04:33 PM
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Just saw a commercial about doing a rock band game concert. Rockband Live. They want people to bring their gaming guitars to audtion.
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05-26-2010, 04:34 PM
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05-26-2010, 04:37 PM
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05-26-2010, 04:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Chicago, IL | | | The more nitwits this weeds out from attending live events, the better. I would gladly see a smaller market of better music, with people that appreciated music. How big of a dope do you have to be to go to watch some bozo play Rockband?
This is one of the reasons I went with playing blues exclusively. It's music for grown-ups.
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05-26-2010, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by sleepytime The more nitwits this weeds out from attending live events, the better. I would gladly see a smaller market of better music, with people that appreciated music. How big of a dope do you have to be to go to watch some bozo play Rockband?
This is one of the reasons I went with playing blues exclusively. It's music for grown-ups. | with luck they might have to drop the price of good basses to sell more of them.
also blues music is for grandpa rock is for growups 
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05-26-2010, 04:56 PM
| | | | You know the rules Faux...No youtube link, no commercial.
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05-26-2010, 05:01 PM
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had to wait for the commercial to come again so I could get the lik.
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05-26-2010, 05:15 PM
| | | | Ohhh......the bass jedi's are going to feel this one.
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05-27-2010, 02:42 AM
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05-27-2010, 06:57 AM
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05-27-2010, 07:01 AM
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Actually, when I read the ad it made more sense. It's an event at a family-friendly amusement park (Kings Island) so having Junior or Sissy bring his or her Rock Band controller and push those buttons along with the band onstage makes perfect sense to me....
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05-27-2010, 07:09 AM
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05-27-2010, 07:15 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Cave Passive Pedals | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ohio | | Is playing a keyboard/piano that much different than this? 
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05-27-2010, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by caeman Is playing a keyboard/piano that much different than this? | 88 or 72 keys vs. 4? Think so. It's more like working the jog/shuttle wheel on an old school Ipod to trigger songs... |
05-27-2010, 08:58 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Cave Passive Pedals | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ohio | | | I am not meaning to demean keyboard players, but the similarities are striking.
Look at the basic principle of each device: press a button to produce a sound. A keyboard adds other factors like being sensitive to the velocity of the key press, a sustain pedal and the ability to press multiple keys at once. But the basic operation of both devices are analogous.
Currently, the RockBand guitar has very few buttons. But, what is to stop the video game makers from introducing a "game controller" that has a button at each fret position? And 6 buttons for the right hand? Call it the Rocktacular Game Controller. And then gives that game controller the ability to send out a normal audio signal via a head-phone jack? The Keytar on steroids?
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05-27-2010, 09:10 AM
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05-27-2010, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Gio S It is Guitaroke and will go about as far as the singing type - a joke. | No, this is guitaraoke... http://www.karaokewh.com/guitar-karaoke.cfm
...it shows chords with the words and you play a real guitar to it. (my wife is really into karaoke and plays guitar so we own a few sets of these.)
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05-27-2010, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by caeman Is playing a keyboard/piano that much different than this? | Well, you've got to figure out which keys to play, & when...
I seem to recall a keyboard aimed at beginners, that had lights to tell you which keys to press & a library of songs to play that way.
"They" have been trying to replace musicians for years: Disco, DJs, Karaoke, etc. None of it has worked 100% yet.
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05-27-2010, 09:47 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Cave Passive Pedals | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ohio | | Personally, I don't see it as replacing musicians. Each thing has its place, its time, its purpose. A live band will always have a place to play. DJ's will always have a party to play to.
Technically, Disco was music, or so my wife attempts to argue. I have to agree with her, only because it does in fact make use of musical notes. Then she just glares at me. 
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05-27-2010, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by caeman Currently, the RockBand guitar has very few buttons. But, what is to stop the video game makers from introducing a "game controller" that has a button at each fret position? And 6 buttons for the right hand? Call it the Rocktacular Game Controller. And then gives that game controller the ability to send out a normal audio signal via a head-phone jack? The Keytar on steroids? | Hate to break it to you, Caeman... http://www.misadigital.com/
Not available yet, apparently, but 'in development...' and it's not a game controller, it's actually a midi controller (like many keyboards), so you'd need a sound engine with it, but it does have 6 separate buttons at each of 24 different 'fret' positions. Instead of buttons under the right hand it has a touch-sensitive LCD screen, with assignable X and Y parameters... e.g., touch here and get low volume, unphased; touch there and get louder, phased... sweep between the two, use multiple fingers, etc...
And IMO you're exactly right. The manufacturer calls it a 'digital guitar'... I see it as a keyboard controller made for guitar players.
It will certainly have its limitations; no 'open' chords for one, and the LH 'fret' buttons are not going to be touch-sensitive at least in V 1.0... but still (again, IMO) wouldn't it be cool for a 2-guitar band to have the option to throw in some keyboard backups without having to waste stage real estate on an actual keyboard rig? I know, you can do that now with a Roland AX-7 or similar--I have one--but frankly, I'm not much of a keyboard player. (Not much of a guitar player either, when you get right down to it...  )
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