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So You Think You Can Dance Australia – GRAND FINAL: TOP 2 Robbie and Jessie H – 2010.04.21
Posted by Kris Brooks on August 28th, 2010
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21 Comments »Learning to Sing with Beatles Rock Band
Posted by Harold Kenneth Quesenberry on November 30th, 2009
If you are like me then you don’t have any interest in video games. In fact, I hate video games. Could there be any bigger waste of time than playing video games all day? I don’t think so. So then why am I writing about a video game? Because in my view Rock Band is not just a game, it is a real interactive musical experience.
I am not really talking about the guitar and bass guitar bit. I actually think that part of the game is lame because it has nothing to do with playing real guitar and little to do with the songs you’re playing. It has zilch to do with guitar playing because playing a real 6 string is about one hundred times more complex than just pressing a few color coded buttons and it has little to do with the music because I’ve found that the colors rarely change in time with any musical changes in the song.
So what am I talking about? The singing and the drumming. Both of these parts of the game have a direct relationship to really doing these things “in real life” and the relationship to the music is also far more direct.
If you sing a song in tune and with the correct timing then you will get a good score. It’s true that you do not have to sing the real lyrics (you can simply hum the melody if you want to) but I don’t think that’s a big deal. Musically what is essential is hitting the right notes at the right time. I think The Beatles Rock Band Video Game is really an excellent to improve your ability to sing. This is even more true with The Beatles Rock Band than with other Rock Band games because it includes harmony singing too.
When you drum on expert level you are really hitting every single drum hit that’s in the actual recording! I won’t claim it’s just like playing a real drum set, but it’s close enough to be very effective for practicing. There have even been cases of people moving directly from Rock Band drums into playing a real drum set with barely a hitch in the transition.
I definitely recommend The Beatles Rock Band a great present for any Beatles lover along with (of course) The Beatles Stereo Box Set and The Beatles in Mono.
Harold Kenneth Quesenberry suggests reading This Music Blog if you are a fan of The Beatles as it’s got a lot of Beatles related posts.
