Build Your Own Guitar Hero Top 20

I don't see a problem with the game. I think it's a great game for a person who doesn't really know much about music to discover a few artists. I also think it's great for ear training. Instead of focusing on the vocals like most people do, you focus more on a specific instrument (it's especially helpful with listening to the bass). I used to play Guitar Hero all the time until I got too good at it and it got too easy and boring. I do know how to play real guitar also, though. I mean.. it's just a videogame. No one said that it was just like the actual guitar. I mean, someone who gets really good at a wrestling game doesn't say they're a pro wrestler and no one accuses people of thinking that. But it's just my opinion, I guess.

Anyhoo, to end my rant, I'll list my 20.

1. Panic Attack - Dream Theater
2. It's Like Soul Man - Guided By Voices
3. Amanda - Boston
4. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
5. Wasted Days - The Slackers
6. Soul on Fire - Danzig
7. I Turned Into a Martian - The Misfits
8. Take On Me - Aha
9. Pet Sematary - Ramones
10. Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
11. White Riot - The Clash
12. Moonshadow - Cat Stevens
13. Tom Sawyer - Rush
14. Last Night - The Strokes
15. Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden
16. On & On & On - Catch 22 or Streetlight Manifesto
17. Hey Suburbia - Screeching Weasel
18. Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
19. Rose of the Devil's Garden - Tiger Army
20. Who Killed the Cheerleader - The Nekromantix

Now this would be a guitar hero worth playing.

Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
Megadeth - Shewolf
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Megadeth - Rattlehead
ACDC - Let there be rock
Black Sabbath - Supernaught
Deep purple - Highway star
Iron Maiden - The trooper
Jimi Hendrix - Little wing
Stevie ray vaughn - Voodoo chile ( slight return)
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant song
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free bird
Metallica - Fight fire with fire
Metallica - Ride the lightning
UFO - Rock Bottom
Metallica - Creeping Death
Megadeth - dialetic chaos
Metallica - Fade to Black'

Lynch said:

never played 2 seconds of Guitar Hero (or RockBand). Doesn't interest me in the least. As a guitar player, I find it comical that people consider being good at Guitar Player to equate into they know how to play guitar and quite frankly, I think it makes them less susceptible to picking up on the guitar if they had never played a note of it before spending countless hours on the video game.

I liken it to being good at playing racing games and driving a race car. Not even close to the same thing.

Anyway, I've watched the kids play it, and if they enjoy it, that's fine with me.

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I do agree with you Lynch. Guitar Hero and playing real guitar have very little in common. I can speak from personal experience I have been playing "Real Guitar" for approx 1 1/2yrs and I still suck

I do however recommend as a "real guitar player" to try out Rocksmith. This newer game actually lets you plug in your real guitar and play the game like a real guitar. I have only had the opportunity to try it a couple times,but its really fun and quite good at teaching you how to play guitar and like I said I can plug my Epiphone Semi Hollow or my Fender Stratocaster and it responds in the game!


Anway...check it out if you have the chance you may be pleasantly suprised


Cheers,

I was watching some videos on Rocksmith the other day. Seems like a pretty unique way to teach guitar. I think that it would be good for the GuitarHero generation to pick up a real guitar and with their ability to stare at a TV/computer screen, they'd pick up on real guitar work probably fairly quick.

Game and Lessons?

My cousin has Guitar Hero. It has like three color buttons to sync with the video or something like that. He played until he got bored with it. Same thing happened with a mutual friend. I never even touched it. It appeared hokey to me. Now that Rocksmith would be intriguing as it is not a game and looks like it teaches chords, yes?

It's not a "game", per se, but they present it in a game-like atmosphere. I haven't used it, but I have watched a handful of videos on it and they are definitely presenting it in a distant-yet-similar fashion as the Guitar Hero stuff.

Supposedly the program is smart enough to advance you automatically (and slowly) as you progress through. Such as, run this scale, run this scale, run this scale, etc and as you get more fluid with fewer mistakes and greater speed, it advances you automatically. NOt like "ok, done with that, lets now do this", but it invisibly gives you greater challenges seemlessly.

*shrug*

It's too bad it's so expensive for the PC. I've checked Amazon and other outlets and it's like $90 for the PC, yet you can get it for in the $40-50 range for the PS3 and Xbox