The upside is that artists who were reluctant to include their music in "fake" guitar games now have less reason to resist.
"It gives us teachers something to work with."īut will it help sales? The demand for an instructional mode in these games has been far louder on the side of the music industry than from fans themselves. "This will not only get you the record score, but the ability to play the record as well, and that's a good thing," Peckham says. Rick Peckham, assistant chairman of the guitar department at the Berklee College of Music and a Harmonix consultant, says using games to teach an actual skill will help establish a baseline of understanding that teachers can then build on.
But it's an option that hadn't been available until now, and it marks an interesting evolution of the category.īoth the music and gaming industries see nothing but upside in these developments. The developers of both stress that their respective games are entertainment and that the instructional modes are simply there to give fans an added option. To be clear, these aren't music instructional titles. Music games coming out this fall, such as "Rock Band 3" and "PowerGig: Rise of the SixString," are taking a decidedly instructional route by providing a more realistic playing experience in the ongoing effort to keep the genre fresh. It's a point of view shared by many artists: that pressing plastic buttons on a fake guitar can diminish a fan's appreciation of how difficult the real thing is, and that it could even stunt interest in learning an instrument. "It's a great vehicle and source of inspiration," he says, "but not a source of knowledge." "I suck," DJ Deadmau5 says about trying the original "DJ Hero" before providing tracks to its forthcoming sequel, "DJ Hero 2." He notes that while the "DJ Hero" franchise is a great way to expose his music to new fans, it won't help those fans develop any real DJ skills. The disconnect between playing music-based games and playing an actual instrument is perhaps best crystallized when the artists contributing the music admit that they can't grasp the games themselves.
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