Music in Plastic

Being part of the three blogs focusing on music, I feel that I should also follow the other two and post about fake instruments. I'm not going to lie, they are expensive. When they first came out, the Rockband drum set was about 90 dollars. The guitars for Guitar Hero were about $30. I would know because I love music rhythm games. I don't play them too often now, but I still enjoy picking up my plastic guitar and setting down my real one.
I'm not sure where all the hate for these games started. The majority of people who play these games know there is a difference between their instruments and real ones. Most people recognize there are more than five frets on a guitar, or that a drum set has more than four pads. I like to think that the people who hate on these games are the people who are really bad, or have never played it. I remembered when I first played- I thought the game was stupid. I literally spent ten minutes in the tutorial trying to figure out how it worked. At the point in time, I laughed at people who played it and never wanted to play it again. Now I play on expert (even Through the Fire and Flames *gasp*) and I know there is a huge difference between real and plastic. Although I do play the real guitar as well so I guess I never thought they were the same.


Now I would like to the few videos I have of me playing Guitar Hero, but then you will also find the videos of me singing Ballroom Blitz and Pull Me Under, which is bad. So instead, here's a video of a rockband song and the real version of it.







Honestly I think the Rockband chart looks harder.