"Real" guitar players look down on Guitar Hero?

**joker** · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject:

I'm the lead singer in a local heavy metal band, and I have played guitar for 13 years now. I'm not great, but the guitarist for our band is one of the best I've ever heard. As far as people who play guitar knocking GH goes, the only reason they insult it is because it encourages average people to play guitar. The guitarists (especially those who hang out in music stores...those guys aren't REAL guitarists, otherwise they'd be with their bands) worry that when people actually start to understand the concepts of guitar, their listeners will realize every mistake they make and be able to recognize talented players and posers out there trying to sneak by with mediocre playing. GH is only doing justice to music, and people that don't like it know that their days of faking it through music are numbered.

Amen...
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**achat** · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 123 Location: Long Beach

well i guess you could equate that to the increase in average poker players the last few years. the pros - and really just good players in general - hated that. so i guess i can see that side of it.

**Fly1ngV** · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject:

**Maelstrom** · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 30

Yeah this kind of crap gets on my nerves. Those who like it do so, and those who do not, well, don't. There's no point in arguing over something so trivial, lol. I just hate that all the internet has become is a place for people to go and mindlessly bash anything.

**achat** · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 123 Location: Long Beach

**Namu** · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 331 Location: Leuven (Belgium)

Wow, would you look at that?
19 replies!

That's the most replies I've ever had on this forum. (Only made about three topics yet though...)
Excuses for my absence on this topic, been busy the last few days. Concerning the "GH topic" on the guitar site: Still no positive replies...
My guess? Two major factors:

1) People that don't understand videogames will always label them as "childish" or "just games".
2) Real guitar players all have big ego's. Not necessarily anything wrong with that. With great ego's sometimes come great ambitions. Sounds logical, you have to have some kind of ego to want to become a guitar player, right? To perform on stage and impress a lot of people?
But when those ego's get threatened... You'll get agressive reactions.

In a way, they're trying to defend their ego's.
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**MeleeChamp** · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 39

I think people who look down upon this game from any angle have it all wrong. Guitar Hero has given me a great appreciation of "real" guitarists. I think music games teach rhythm, not the ability to play any specific intstrument (or dance, for that matter).

Then again, I could just think that because I'm a drummer.

**malictus** · Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 994 Location: Bloomington, IN

GH may not really be very much like playing real guitar, but I think we can all agree it's a heck of a lot more like real guitar than Guitar Freaks ever was....

**KetchuponEggs** · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 864 Location: Scott AFB, IL

I forgot who brought this up, and forgive me for not looking you up, but that person hit the nail on the head with "GH is visual, guitar is audio"...
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**achat** · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 123 Location: Long Beach

**p41** · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 439 Location: Boston, MA

That's odd... I'm a musician and attended Berklee College of Music for bass. Friends of mine that are musicians introduced me to the game.

It's just a game, no one says they're a "guitar player" because they just play GH, haha.
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**BlackRain** · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 18

The guitar jocks who make these kinds of statements are probably kids who can play all of three power chords and therefore think they're "real" guitarists

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