The Truth Behind Music Playing Games

How long have you seen great games which took musical activities as their main subject? Making music now can be done in front of your game console or computer along with joysticks or plastics music instrument replicas. This is a phenomena of the musical world.

These games incorporates first-rate music, great game play, wonderful graphics and close-to-life simulations. And above all, they are fun to play with and they sells.

Music playing (simulation) games has broaden the access of many music. Many unknown quality bands are now famous because their music was included and could be played in the games. Many rock bands from the former-days are once again become popular because of their hit list was included in the games.

These games have already become the successful beacon of music marketing, reaching youngs and olds. Songs that were once could only be listened to now can be played by the fans accompanied with full bands.

With five-frets guitar and a switch, you can make a similar music played by 19-frets, six-strings guitar, complete with its solos.

From the entertainment perspective, there is nothing wrong with it. People just play it for fun. But from the musical perspective side, we can see that people are more eager to participate in music making, even try to emulate real musicians producing real sounds.

But also from these games, we can see that music making has become an instant process. Hours and hours in a studio practicing is no longer necessary to make music. Just equip yourself with a plastic gear and you are ready to play anything in your playlist.

Guitar Hero has become a cultural phenomenon, played in bars, instead of karaoke, quoted from wiki. But one still does not understand why this guitar playing games was chosen, rather than the real guitar playing. While singing karaoke is still a real singing, guitar simulation is not real guitar playing.

The real music making process may not be as captivating as it used to be. The real painful process of music training will be defeated by the easier and less tiring controller practice. The instant culture has already invaded the land of music.

There are some claims that this kind of games has boost the interest on playing the real thing and endorsing the sense of rhythm.

One is not interested in arguing whether one of those statements true or not. But one should say that how great you play those simulation games, you are still unable to play the real thing. The controller skills and console technology still cannot replace the true skills of guitar playing and real bands with real instruments.

One can only ask, please try to play the real thing. Don’t get cocky because of the skills of playing these games perfectly, but be proud when we can play the real instruments. However. virtual is not real.

Great in car-driving games never makes you a great driver on the streets. Play the games, grasp the reality. So here’s the question,”Want to sound like a pro?” The only answer “Practice real instrument like one.”

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