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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>After watching me struggle through Guitar Hero for the first time, my digital friend (Kyle) passed along these Guitar Hero tips:</p><blockquote><p>The jump from medium to hard is the biggest jump you will make in Guitar Hero. When you are making this jump I think that the first two sections are the hardest because you are getting used to the faster pace of the songs and using the orange button.</p><p>If you are losing your fingering during this time, try hard to pay attention to the groove on the yellow button because it can be a lifesaver! At first this is going to be really hard and you will probably just not pay attention to it, but after a while when you have gotten used to it a little more, you will find yourself using it.</p><p>Another important thing when you get towards the end of hard is your star power. This is a very important weapon and helps a ton! The best time to use it is when you find a spot that you just can’t get past. Usually this will be towards the end of the song, so you should have full star power by then. When you feel the time is right just pull up on that guitar and try your hardest to hit those notes! Most of the time this will get you through that part and you should be able to finish up the rest of the song.</p><p>There is no special exercise or some kind of way to get by a song. The only way is to practice! I know you probably practice and are about to throw your guitar against a wall and maybe yourself as well. Trust me, don’t do it! You just have to use practice or play the song a ton of times in a row. Just take it part by part on slow and keep repeating it until you get 65% accuracy. Then if you haven’t guessed already, just do the same on full speed. Once you’re done with that, move on to the next part and repeat the process.</p><p>You will know when you are ready to play the song for real because you can just feel that you can do it. I usually go through the tricky parts in groups after I have gone through the whole song in parts just for a little extra practice. Then I usually end up playing through the song in career mode a few times before I finally pass it, and that is a really good feeling!</p><p>I really hoped this inspired you to keep practicing until you don’t ever want to hear that song again!</p></blockquote><p>And in case you were wondering what happened when I lost my Guitar Hero virginity:</p><p><center></p><p><object
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url="http://blip.tv/file/get/L0ckergn0me-AreYouInARockBandOrAreYouAGuitarHero792.mp4" length="21545672" type="video/mp4" /> </item> <item><title>Who Needs Guitar Hero or Rock Band?</title><link>http://chris.pirillo.com/who-needs-guitar-hero-or-rock-band/</link> <comments>http://chris.pirillo.com/who-needs-guitar-hero-or-rock-band/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:09:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[game]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guitar-hero]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rock-band]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://chris.pirillo.com/?p=7694</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com/who-needs-guitar-hero-or-rock-band/">Who Needs Guitar Hero or Rock Band?</a> is a post from <a
href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Cavinder is a long-time community member, and a self-professed &#8220;casual gamer&#8221;. If you love music, and enjoy gaming&#8230; this email goes out to you!</p><blockquote><p> Hey Chris! I just wanted to see if you knew about this game called <a
href="http://www.audio-surf.com/">Audiosurf</a>. I just found it not too long ago myself, and have been enjoying myself to pieces with it. In a nutshell, it&#8217;s a a musical game much like Guitar Hero and Rockband. But this one is different in that it&#8217;s a puzzle game on a track. Basically how it works is the game sets up random colored blocks down your track, and you have to collect them. To gain points, you have to collect at least 3 of the same color together. The more of the same color you collect, the higher the score.<br
/> There&#8217;s a couple more things that make the game interesting. You know how Guitar Hero and Rockband flow on a straight track? Not this game. This game has a twisting track to really mess with your game&#8230; and make it more fun. Also, if you notice it, the track jumps with the beat of the song. That is also really cool. During a slow part of the song, the track bends upwards. During a heavy, fast part, the track streaks down.<br
/> The absolute best part of this game is the music. You know how Guitar Hero and Rockband have a set list of songs you can choose from? This game will play any song thats on your pc. <strong>Thats right any song</strong>. You pick which song you want to play, it looks at it, determines the difficulty, the traffic(blocks) and how the track will look all within a matter of seconds. The people who made this game did an incredible thing with that right there, and in my opinion did it the right way. You&#8217;ll be pulling songs that you normally wouldn&#8217;t be listening to anymore to play them on this game.<br
/> I have three separate videos on YouTube, showing myself playing this game so you can get a feel for it. Check out <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg6kJVNRiac">Still Alive</a>, <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQL9xJbFRys">Second Heartbeat</a>, or <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXe81xa-2zU">Bark at the Moon</a> to see how the game looks.</p><p>Audiosurf has a demo version that is absolutely free. You can play with five different songs: one is a tutorial of their choosing, and the other four you choose from your own library. The full game costs only $9.99!</p></blockquote><p>This sounds like a lot of fun. The free version is definitely worth checking out. I have a feeling many of you will end up buying the whole thing.<ul
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Cavinder is a long-time community member, and a self-professed &#8220;casual gamer&#8221;. If you love music, and enjoy gaming&#8230; this email goes out to you!</p><blockquote><p> Hey Chris! I just wanted to see if you knew about this game called <a
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/> There&#8217;s a couple more things that make the game interesting. You know how Guitar Hero and Rockband flow on a straight track? Not this game. This game has a twisting track to really mess with your game&#8230; and make it more fun. Also, if you notice it, the track jumps with the beat of the song. That is also really cool. During a slow part of the song, the track bends upwards. During a heavy, fast part, the track streaks down.<br
/> The absolute best part of this game is the music. You know how Guitar Hero and Rockband have a set list of songs you can choose from? This game will play any song thats on your pc. <strong>Thats right any song</strong>. You pick which song you want to play, it looks at it, determines the difficulty, the traffic(blocks) and how the track will look all within a matter of seconds. The people who made this game did an incredible thing with that right there, and in my opinion did it the right way. You&#8217;ll be pulling songs that you normally wouldn&#8217;t be listening to anymore to play them on this game.<br
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXe81xa-2zU">Bark at the Moon</a> to see how the game looks.</p><p>Audiosurf has a demo version that is absolutely free. You can play with five different songs: one is a tutorial of their choosing, and the other four you choose from your own library. The full game costs only $9.99!</p></blockquote><p>This sounds like a lot of fun. The free version is definitely worth checking out. I have a feeling many of you will end up buying the whole thing.<ul
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Nik recently wrote in to remind us that while playing Guitar Hero is fun, it still is just a game. Here are his reasons for why you should learn to play a real guitar&#8230; instead of pretending to on a game.</p><ul><li>First and foremost, playing a real instrument is much &#8220;cooler&#8221; than playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Which one is better to impress people with&#8230; being able to play the drum part to Tom Sawyer on Expert level in Rock Band, or being able to do it in real life? You&#8217;re not going to be impressing anyone with your digital-rubber- pad-hitting skills. While Rock Band can somewhat teach you how to develop rhythm and coordination, it can&#8217;t do much beyond that.</li><li>Does being able to beat a really hard song on Expert level accomplish anything other than giving you bragging rights? No, it doesn&#8217;t. While playing a real guitar seems to accomplish about the same, you have to look a bit deeper. Playing Guitar Hero involves you pressing buttons whenever a colored square comes up on your TV screen. Playing real guitar requires much more concentration and skill. Besides that, it is also very intellectual in the sense that it has you thinking a lot more. Guitar Hero is based on reaction time. Real guitar is about actually learning a song instead of relying on colored squares.</li><li>It&#8217;s not like playing a real instrument is all that hard. If people would put the same amount of time and effort into learning a real instrument as they did practicing Guitar Hero, they would become good and have fun in no time. Sure it seems harder, but all you have to do is put your mind to it.</li><li>You could actually buy a guitar package complete with books to teach yourself how to play guitar for around the same price as the Guitar Hero package. So why not pick up a real guitar and learn something useful? In the process, you&#8217;ll be able to learn a new language&#8230; the language of music! Once you can read music, you&#8217;ll be able to learn to play any other instrument that exists.</li><li>For my final point, I&#8217;d just like to say this: why pretend to do something when you could do the real thing? Go and buy a guitar or a drum set, practice really hard, try and meet some other people who play instruments, and form a real band! Then, instead of sitting in your basement tapping some plastic buttons, you can take the stage and play <strong>REAL</strong> music for a <strong>REAL</strong> audience! You never know how far you can go if you put your mind to it!</li></ul><p>Check out these great deals on guitars and Guitar Hero:</p><p><ul><li
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href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a></p><p>Nik recently wrote in to remind us that while playing Guitar Hero is fun, it still is just a game. Here are his reasons for why you should learn to play a real guitar&#8230; instead of pretending to on a game.</p><ul><li>First and foremost, playing a real instrument is much &#8220;cooler&#8221; than playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Which one is better to impress people with&#8230; being able to play the drum part to Tom Sawyer on Expert level in Rock Band, or being able to do it in real life? You&#8217;re not going to be impressing anyone with your digital-rubber- pad-hitting skills. While Rock Band can somewhat teach you how to develop rhythm and coordination, it can&#8217;t do much beyond that.</li><li>Does being able to beat a really hard song on Expert level accomplish anything other than giving you bragging rights? No, it doesn&#8217;t. While playing a real guitar seems to accomplish about the same, you have to look a bit deeper. Playing Guitar Hero involves you pressing buttons whenever a colored square comes up on your TV screen. Playing real guitar requires much more concentration and skill. Besides that, it is also very intellectual in the sense that it has you thinking a lot more. Guitar Hero is based on reaction time. Real guitar is about actually learning a song instead of relying on colored squares.</li><li>It&#8217;s not like playing a real instrument is all that hard. If people would put the same amount of time and effort into learning a real instrument as they did practicing Guitar Hero, they would become good and have fun in no time. Sure it seems harder, but all you have to do is put your mind to it.</li><li>You could actually buy a guitar package complete with books to teach yourself how to play guitar for around the same price as the Guitar Hero package. So why not pick up a real guitar and learn something useful? In the process, you&#8217;ll be able to learn a new language&#8230; the language of music! Once you can read music, you&#8217;ll be able to learn to play any other instrument that exists.</li><li>For my final point, I&#8217;d just like to say this: why pretend to do something when you could do the real thing? Go and buy a guitar or a drum set, practice really hard, try and meet some other people who play instruments, and form a real band! Then, instead of sitting in your basement tapping some plastic buttons, you can take the stage and play <strong>REAL</strong> music for a <strong>REAL</strong> audience! You never know how far you can go if you put your mind to it!</li></ul><p>Check out these great deals on guitars and Guitar Hero:</p><p><ul><li
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