No More Plastic Guitars For The Game Guitar Hero
Although I have played all of the guitar hero games and own a fair number of them I cant say it has ever inspired me to play.
On its way is the digital guitar that can not only be plugged into a games console but can be put into an iPod so you can play the guitar to yourself whilst listening to your favourite tunes without anyone else hearing at all. This is the first thing we have really seen to help bridge that gap between players of guitar hero and real guitarists.
Something like this may also start to encourage artists to put more of their songs into the game as currently many refuse to simply because they would rather people play the real thing. As you can now do both the artists really do not have much to moan about anymore.
These guitars never need tuning either because they are digital which means any guitarist can just pick one of these up and start rocking to their favourite tunes and there are so many different modes on this guitar that anything is possible and it can of course be used as a real guitar if you are in a band. Although I wouldn’t go as far as saying this is the future of guitars I would say that it is a huge step forward in the technology and that I would certainly recommend at least trying one out if you ever get the opportunity.
They already do many other digital instruments such as drum kits and they haven’t really kicked off at all, it really remains to be seen if this will kick off a trend and bands will start using these instead of other guitars.
Personally I don’t think it feels the same as owning your own proper guitar and belongs with other electronic instruments like the DJ equipment.