I'm the first one to admit that playing video games is an incredibly fun way to utilize any personal down time within a person's day. With the onset of video games such as guitar hero, many musician wannabes are actually incredibly close to learning how to play a real instrument.
If you play guitar, or you desire to purchase a guitar and learn how to play guitar good, playing music video games are a great way to help you become a better guitar player.
Let's take a look at three ways that playing a video game music system such as guitar hero will help you become a better guitar player.
1. The Guitar Controller: By isolating the components of the guitar controller being utilized within the video game, we can compare the guitar controller to a real-life guitar neck.
The neck of the guitar has four basic components. The first component is the neck. The second component is what is called the fret board. The fret board is separated by what are called guitar frets. Thirdly, we have the guitar strings that go on top of the fret board, on top of the frets. Lastly, your fingers when placed on the fret board help produce sound on the guitar when your right hand plucks one of the guitar strings.
A video game controller such as a guitar controller is very similar to the guitar neck description just given above. The controller represents the neck of the guitar. The four buttons represent the fret board that you press your fingers on when you play a guitar note. The only thing missing from the guitar controller is the string that goes on top of a guitar neck.
2. Video Game Rhythm: One great thing about music video games is that if you have never had any formal musical training, you can learn basic rhythm just by playing music video games. Most modern music video games utilize real-life songs that are currently being played on the radio. Instead of just passively listening to a song, you can now actively participate in the actual rhythm of the song. If you're off rhythm you'll not receive as high of a score as if you are on rhythm, and getting a super high score.
4. Apply your video game time to practicing: If you are serious about learning guitar, you will want to go from video game controllers to the real thing. When you're ready to own your own guitar, and learn how to play guitar good, make sure that you are not just playing video games during your downtime. Take the amount of time that you play your music video games and divide that time in half. For example, if you play guitar hero on average for an hour every day, then the next step is to only play guitar hero for a half hour, and then practice your guitar for a half hour.
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