Activision and NAMM (the trade association of the international music products industry) have teamed up to urge Guitar Hero 3 players to rock for real.
NAMM will link its "Wanna Play?" public awareness campaign, which encourages people of all ages to make music, with Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
"We're trying to take people from the videogame and teach them how to play guitar in reality," NAMM's Morgan Ringwald (No relation to Molly) told G4.
The new teaming is aimed at strengthening the connection between virtual and real-world guitar playing, along with encouraging more people to experience and enjoy both pastimes. So the next time you walk into a local music shop, you may be able to rock out on fake Guitar Hero guitars as well as that Fender Strat you've been eyeing.
"With our program called Wanna Play Guitar, we're providing all the resources a retailer would need to run a Guitar Hero 3 competition in their store," Ringwald said."As soon as you put down the guitar, you'll have someone there to say, 'hey, let me show you how easy it is to play an E chord on a real guitar.'"
Then, two weeks later, you're Buckethead.
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just sayin :)
You know what? No one cares, we are all having to much fun playing the games to care.
TheKei
You know what? No one cares, we are all having to much fun playing the games to care."
So now you're the spokesperson for all who aren't me. Activision wants to give you the opportunity to play for real. That's a good thing. Give it a shot. I guarantee that you'll feel more enriched creating your own music. It's o.k. to still play the game too.
ironically, now, live music will be popular again because kids will want to play music for real because of....a video game. this is a great idea by altivision.
after radiohead's record debuted at #1, this is proof that you don't need the record companies to help you. conceivably, kids who get learn to play music because of a video game can go and make records on a PC with Cakewalk using a $400 Echo Layla box - the same one the ravers used the last decade, and sell their stuff on their myspace sites and market their songs using youtube.
...the revolution has arrived.
let's go out and shoot the remaining record company execs and feed their genitalia to gerbils.