Re: Guitar Hero For Drum Playing
Originally Posted by
pastor_bob
If I read John's post correctly, he is using the game just like a CD, and he's just jamming to the music (correct John?). I would agree that it could get you started with jamming, but I think it would be very limited because the nuances of the music are lost in the game. Eventually, you'll want to start listening to "real" music, and learning and jamming with that, or you'll want to find other musicians to play with.
Ultimately, this discussion brings up the very painful question - for all musicians - could musicians be replaced by a processor that simulates the sound. This question will always produce "lively" debate.
I think we've made a mountain out of a molehill because of two words: "Guitar Hero." IMHO, a serious drumming student would wear out the game in short order--I saw at least two GH drumkits get trashed at Walmart in the time from the AC/DC "Black Ice" CD came out to the end of the Christmas season. The drums may be closer to "real" electronic drums than the guitar controllers are to real guitars...
but for the money you could spend on the game (complete with drums and accessories), you could make a partial payment on a good new drum set or, with a little probing, a killer used kit. That's why I was never too crazy about "Guitar Hero" from the get-go.
PB, excellent point about how it might help you start jamming--and I agree you would be better off listening to "real" music. I have posted on this before and I'll continue to post this: If you want music to jam to, get your favorite kind of music on CD, tape, MP3, what have you and use that. It's less expensive than buying Guitar Hero just because you dig the music in the game.
Johnj10mm, I've even jammed to what's playing on the radio (we have some jazz and rock stations in the St. Louis area that gives me some great stuff to jam with, and I hope it's the same with you). In some ways, playin' with what's on the radio comes closer to a live concert experience than anything just short of jammin' with live musicians, because you don't know what's comin' up next! It may be a slow groove first, then a hard rocker, then something else altogether different.
And don't apologize for starting this thread. You don't owe anyone an explanation--and rest assured if you hadn't started this thread, someone else would have!
keep the beat goin' ... Don't keep it to yourself!
Charlie
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
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