Learning the guitar thread!!!

[The Landslide]

Learning sheet music is the best thing you'll ever do as a musician. Musicians who don't learn sheet music are comparable to people posting on these forums without using numpad notations for character moves, they are still typing back, back, forward, forward and are slower and less informed than everyone else.

 

[lespaulphoenix]

What playing Rockband makes people look to musicians...

 

[Hot Rod Dave]

Damn after reading that last few posts I realize that Im a "guitar playing scrub" cause I dont know how to read sheet music. But I can read tabs and I can rock the fuck outta some major chords. Needless to say I can play almost every green day/ramones known to man.

On the rock band thing. Doesnt rockband/guitar hero at least teach you rythmic fundamentals and finger movement? Thats bout really all I can think of. But at least theres something......right?

 

[Heaton]

On the rock band thing. Doesnt rockband/guitar hero at least teach you rythmic fundamentals and finger movement? Thats bout really all I can think of. But at least theres something......right?

It does a good job of teaching rhythm, and probably does a better job than most metronomes since it gives an easy to understand "right vs wrong" for beginners to recognize - I've seen people play to what they thought was a 4/4 beat, and it sounds like they're switching between 3/8 and 10/4 or something ridiculous.

As for finger movement, music games honestly have more in common with typing than guitar, I think. You're using the same hand muscles but in different ways, and either way you're going to have to build up muscle memory for what you're playing anyway. If your hands are naturally slow then playing Rock Band might help to improve your dexterity and alacrity, but then again so would any hand exercise centered on rapid, precise movement.

 

[Synraii]

Guitar hero actually got me into learning Bass 6 years ago, lol. If nothing else I guess it makes learning a real instrument seem more accesible... =/