Guitar Hero vs. Real Guitar

[Fritzo]

It's no where near close. It's like saying you can dance if your play DDR.

In fact, GH is just DDR for your hands.

 

[Nutdotnet]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
It's no where near close. It's like saying you can dance if your play DDR.

In fact, GH is just DDR for your hands.

I disagree.

GH builds up finger dexterity does it not? It's not like playing a guitar but I can see where playing GH can help a person play the real thing.

Maybe not so much with chords but straight picking....sure....why not?

 

[PepePeru]

ive found it helps your right hand, ( if you play guitar right handed), ive played GH and picked up my guitar right afterwards and it seemed i was a bit more rhythmic and my right hand felt looser.

left hand...not even close. other than both hurt your hands after a while.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Fritzo
It's no where near close. It's like saying you can dance if your play DDR.

In fact, GH is just DDR for your hands.

I disagree.

GH builds up finger dexterity does it not? It's not like playing a guitar but I can see where playing GH can help a person play the real thing.

Maybe not so much with chords but straight picking....sure....why not?

Not really...you're not moving your fingers with any sort of accuracy- you're just pushing buttons in the right squence. Guitar playing involves teaching your hand to conform to certain shapes and to memorize patterns. About the only thing that GH will teach you is how to hold a neck in your hand.

 

[vi edit]

I could see it helping out with rythym/timing, but that's about it.

It really doesn't scratch the surface of dexterity/muscle memorization required in forming chords, changing between chords, recognizing notes/chords by sound, musical theory, ect.

With GH you have 5 buttons at the top of the neck that you hit. That's it. With a real guitar you are looking at 6 strings and ~22 possible positions(frets) to play those strings. And then playing any number of those strings at a time in virtually infinite number of positions. And to further confuse you have different techniques you apply to get different sounds that you really can't do with the GH controller (hammers, pull on/off, palm mute, ect). You just can't compare really.

Same thing with Wii sports. Does bowling on a game console with a remote that I swing make me a better bowler in real life? No freaking way.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Not gonna teach you how to play guitar but it may help you w/ rhythm and counting beats if you struggle with that. but it sounds like you've played before so that should be an issue

That's exactly it. There are really no parallels between Guitar Hero and Real Guitar. It's just a rhythm game. If anything drummers are better at it than real Guitar players.

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: TheNinja

Originally posted by: JDub02
Playing GH can help your real guitar skills. It'll help improve timing and finger coordination. It's absolutely nothing like playing a real guitar, though.

FWIW, picking up rhythm guitar is not that hard. The difficulty comes in with lead guitar.

I agree. At the very best, GH will help your timing but that's it. I remember on old Nintendo I used to play Track and Field (just hit a,b really, really fast) yet for some reason it did not make me run fast in real life.

But if you played Nintendo Track & Field with the mat controller (similar to a DDR pad if you don't remember it) it might help you run faster because of the exercise necessary.

 

[Vortex22]

GH too easy for you? Some people with modded consoles added custom songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFU5hm89c4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH9GH4UjJXg <- oh my god
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_29IFMJNt7s <-- jeebus

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Vortex22
GH too easy for you? Some people with modded consoles added custom songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFU5hm89c4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH9GH4UjJXg <- oh my god
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_29IFMJNt7s <-- jeebus

reminds me of this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-9fm5GM-E
only easier

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Kev
That's like thinking counterstrike will prepare you for shooting a gun

actually that does. the eye-hand coordination you get from those kind of twitch games is good for improving your aim with a real firearm, and the practice recognizing targets over civilians/ teammates is very handy. why do you think simulated training is so prevalent?