Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Beatles Re-Mania

I just watched the trailer to The Beatles Rock Band again.
And yes, i do think its awesome. It looks literally like they just animated photographs and movie reels of exact moments in the beatles career. And oh yeah, it comes out today!! I just read how Bill Wyman, former bass player of a little band called The Rolling Stones, thinks rock band is a bad thing. He thinks it encourages kids to not play real instruments. I must disagree with Bill. As a guitar teacher, i have actually gained many new young students specifically from Rock Band and Guitar Hero. What it really does is not really about the video game at all. It takes music, in this case the beatles catalog, and exposes it to a new generation. Where else are these 9 and 10 yr olds gonna hear this amazing music? And the kids who are motivated to learn an instrument, were going to go ahead and do it anyway. I can't imagine a driven kid who would get the game, who might be musically inclined , getting good at the game and then having it end there.
This is the future, get with it, or get left behind.

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