Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Video games, can it help you be a better musician?

Video games today are becoming very advanced. Rocksmith, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band are wonderful games that allow not musically inclined kids to create wonderful music with friends. They all have the same premise, to play along with the songs in the game, the more accurate you are the better your score is. They utilize a scroll sequence in all of these games. That means the notes reach a specific place, on a scroll, and at that time you strum your guitar or hit your drum set. The more precisely you play the note, the more points you receive. This is the same in "actual" music. You count your measures and play your notes right where they belong. This is a useful tool in helping with internalizing the beat, and allows you to become more accurate over time. Not all video games are beneficial to learning music. Guitar Hero for example has 5 buttons, guitars obviously do not have buttons so it is a little unrealistic. Guitar Hero will not get you better at guitar, but it will help with you with accuracy and it gives you the tools necessary to read music (although not music in standard notation.)

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