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God help us, every single one, if this gets funded...

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I have a guitarist friend who recently had an unfortunate industrial accident (caused, amusingly enough, by the guard that is required by law) In the end, the index finger of his left hand was severed except for skin...this would allow him to continue to play while he's healing up...for THAT, it's a great idea...but I suspect most customers would use it to become hacks...
 
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ShredderMaximus said:
This will go nowhere because, let's face it, a lot of guys learn guitar to get laid, which is totally not happening if you are wearing one of these things.

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Awesome. I guess as long as every song you want to play is in G and only has thse four chords, you're in business!

Also, I can't help but notice how Peavey capitalized on the same colored buttons Guitar Hero uses. Clever.
 
#43
Musicianship will never be an anachronism. Perhaps electric bass guitars will be, but musicianship
smeet said:
I think the design is cool. Will it help people learn to play guitar? Who knows...

But really, I think actual instruments are on the way out. It might take 50 or 100 or more years, but playing an instrument that requires physical skill and practice will start to seem quirky and anachronistic at some point. I can't even say it's a bad thing. The physical part of playing an instrument is just an athletic achievement. True musical creation happens in the brain. If you level the playing field (say with a direct mind-to-computer interface), then EVERYONE can play 25 notes a second. When it's not special any more, the only way to distinguish yourself will be to have brilliant musical ideas. Just as has already started to happen with music, there will a lot more crap out there, but there will also be amazing new creations using the new technology. I'm guessing there are people out there who are potential compositional and musical geniuses, but have trouble developing the physical skills. I can't play amazing piano, but I can hear incredible piano concertos in my head. I wouldn't mind directly transferring that to a computer.
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Musicianship will never be an anachronism. Perhaps electric bass guitars will be, but musicianship will never die.
 
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Nathan RC Warden said:
Musicianship will never be an anachronism. Perhaps electric bass guitars will be, but musicianship will never die.
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What is musicianship? Some would argue it's not the mere physical coordination and ability to play an instrument, but rather having an excellent ear-to-brain connection and the ability to imagine wonderful sounds. When you get right down to it, you will eventually be able to program a computer to make any physical motions that a human can, including playing an electric bass or a french horn. What we as humans can uniquely contribute is the imagination and creativity to come up with new sounds, melodies, rhythms, etc... At least until computers best us at that too. But that's a long way off.
 
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gjbassist said:
"It's also a shortcut for people who don't have time to learn guitar." Really? If you don't have time to learn guitar then just don't pick up a guitar, don't try to learn it in some half-ass way!
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I may sound like an a-hole for saying this, but I feel exactly the same way about Guitar Hero/Rock Band. I find it incredibly pathetic in so many ways. There's even people who have had "concerts" using TVs as their "stage monitors" and doing songs that way. There is no Picard facepalm intense enough to express my feelings on that lol. With the hours that people piss away on that game, they could have actually learned something on an instrument. Even the guy who only knows how to strum 3 chords and go through a whole song is cooler than the guy who can nail Jordan on Guitar Hero 100%. *smh*
 
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KevInDaBassment said:
I may sound like an a-hole for saying this, but I feel exactly the same way about Guitar Hero/Rock Band. I find it incredibly pathetic in so many ways. There's even people who have had "concerts" using TVs as their "stage monitors" and doing songs that way. There is no Picard facepalm intense enough to express my feelings on that lol. With the hours that people piss away on that game, they could have actually learned something on an instrument. Even the guy who only knows how to strum 3 chords and go through a whole song is cooler than the guy who can nail Jordan on Guitar Hero 100%. *smh*
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Hey, I'm OK with people playing relic'd basses, using tabs, and never playing anything other than quarter notes on the first 5 frets. If people have fun playing Guitar Hero, why should that bother me?
 
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smeet said:
Hey, I'm OK with people playing relic'd basses, using tabs, and never playing anything other than quarter notes on the first 5 frets. If people have fun playing Guitar Hero, why should that bother me?
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Well maybe I'm a jerk and that's why it bothers me lol

In all honesty it's that I wish kids were putting more time into learning an actual instrument, which they would find more use with in the future. Learning a real instrument opens more opportunities than playing lots of Guitar Hero. For less than the cost of a console and the game, they could get a Squier or Ibanez starter pack. I'm just glad it wasn't around when I was a kid, I don't know that I'd ever had the drive to pick up a real instrument :(
 
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smeet-

Computer generated musical instrument playing is already here. I think it was Honda, but there was a Japanese company that had a big white robot that
played the trumpet, a REAL trumpet, and did it very well.
There is also a robot trio in the far east that has been programmed to play instruments and perform songs, and does "concerts". Robots can be made with 10 fingers on each hand and
play faster and more precisely than any human ever could. Google and Youtube them up, they are very impressive.
 
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KevInDaBassment said:
Well maybe I'm a jerk and that's why it bothers me lol

In all honesty it's that I wish kids were putting more time into learning an actual instrument, which they would find more use with in the future. Learning a real instrument opens more opportunities than playing lots of Guitar Hero. For less than the cost of a console and the game, they could get a Squier or Ibanez starter pack. I'm just glad it wasn't around when I was a kid, I don't know that I'd ever had the drive to pick up a real instrument :(
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You can lead a horse to water, but if there's a beer trough available, it'll probably drink that instead.
 
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javadog said:
smeet-

Computer generated musical instrument playing is already here. I think it was Honda, but there was a Japanese company that had a big white robot that
played the trumpet, a REAL trumpet, and did it very well.
There is also a robot trio in the far east that has been programmed to play instruments and perform songs, and does "concerts". Robots can be made with 10 fingers on each hand and
play faster and more precisely than any human ever could. Google and Youtube them up, they are very impressive.
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I'll check that out. I've heard some good examples, Pat Metheny's Orchestrion is pretty cool too. Once this becomes commonplace and cheap, it will make musical "virtuosity" take on a very different meaning in our society.
 

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