The birth of the new guitar players

According to a news report Guitar Hero is inspiring a new generation of guitar tragics.
“Guitar Hero and similar games such as Rock Band have guitar-shaped controllers with five color-coded fret buttons. The player presses the corresponding buttons as colored “notes” stream across the TV screen with the music. The better players get bonus points - the bad ones are booed off the stage.”
“Guitar Hero and Rock Band do take a certain level of skill; it’s just a different one than playing the actual guitar. A video clip circulating on the Internet captures real-life guitarist Scott Ian of Anthrax trying to play his own song, Madhouse, on Guitar Hero II. He fails. Repeatedly.”
If a new wave of people learning to play the guitar doesn’t grow out of the Guitar Hero craze, we can imagine guitar playing remaining rooted in the genres of decades long past!

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