Do good guitar players play guitar hero?

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I have played guitar since I was 6 years old and am now 42. I've been teaching guitar for 15 years and I can definitely tell you to stay away from guitar hero! It will seriously mess with your sense of real timing as the program has a slight but signicant delay as it processes each reaction therefore you must play ahead of the beat and that is a serious no no! It can only hinder you. Also I might add that playing real guitar well is infinitely more difficult then playing guitar hero as there's no parameters to remotely enter into the world of the virtuosos. You can spen a lifetime perfecting your guitar skills which are limitless in possibilities. Maybe one day the computer will react as quick as the human brain and the speed of sound and only then will it at least eliminate the main problem in its design. No, good guitar players avoid it if they want to remain good players and it's really boring compared to the real thing of course.

im a intermediate guitar player and i find guitar hero games more difficult than playing the real guitar. for one, you have six strings on a guitar, where as the game has 5 buttons. the game actually has you moving your finger further when you play single notes than actually playing real guitar. where a note on a real guitar might have you just fretting a lower or higer string. the game makes you fret a button that further. i like playing chords on the game. in that, it does feel like your actually playing chords. another thing is that you dont really have to look at a screen when playing a real guitar. so you do need more hand eye cordination to play the game. the songs in the game are set up pretty good. its not just random button presses, the game does have repeatable patterns. its defintely fun. its just easier to play real guitar.

I play guitar hero a couple years before I pick up the guitar the only thing that helped me with was by coordinations with my fingers and to build some muscle in my hand and that's about it

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no thats not weird. I'm not a rockstar or anything but I'm pretty good playing the guitar and I rock at guitar hero. None of my friends will play me anymore. did you know in the third one you will be able to steal other peoples starpower. It'll be out in about a month, I'm stoked.

Yeah, it would be weird. My friends all play guitar and they suck at Guitar Hero. Gamers play it better. Guitar players are tempted to play the chords and are so advanced that the simplistic approach sometimes messes them up.

kinda................id be like ricky carmichael riding a bike with training wheels. no offence but once you've advanced to a real guitar why go back. if it feels good do it.

I Love that game and I rock at the guitar, no one cares that I do that.

id have to say no it cheapens the experience. Why play a game they teaches you to use buttons instead of frets.