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PS3 Rocksmith

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Folanator

Folanator

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I am 2 years into playing guitar. I learned chords for the first 1 1/2 years, now starting to play some lead stuff. Really enjoying the Rocksmith game I received for Christmas.

Just downloaded the Aerosmith Pack. Enjoying the old Steven Tyler tunes.

Anyone else playing? As a new player, I am finding it is really helping me find my way around the neck. It also helps with me being more precise with the strings I am hitting.

I have been practicing scales for about a year, so the jam mode is fun. I actually can sounds decent playing blues.
 
I thought about checking this out. I've been playing around with an electric guitar I got a few years ago, teaching myself some chords lately and can play a few basic songs. Heard good things about this game, I figured it's probably a better teacher than I am lol
 
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Amazon sent me the 360 setup for review. I had absolutely no guitar experience whatsoever. Indeed, the last instrument I played was piano, and that was when I was 7-8. So, ah, it's been a while.

I'm 3.5 weeks into their 60-day challenge. I'm not going to be confused with someone who actually knows what they're doing, but I'm breaking 70% in a couple songs, and am in the top 100-150 or so in String Saloon and Duck Shoot (16 and 54 million points, respectively).

My left index fingertip is numb as I type this (because of the strings/fretting). That beats the pain that it suffered last week.

I'm completely sold on this teaching method though.
 
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I was curious as to if this game was good or not. Based on the feedback here, it sounds like something I should pick up. I've been teaching myself guitar for about four years now, but I've hit a wall when it comes to scales/leads. It sounds like this would be a good teaching utensil to practice and enhance my abilities.
 
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Clarity, I know that I "should" be spending my time in the arcade for technique but I always seem to gravitate to learning songs.

The String Saloon and Duck Shoot are the two I have used, and they are great for getting familiar with hitting singular strings and also getting familiar with the neck.

Learning chords for the first year is fine, but I am sloppy with my pick work. Basically I could play with a shoe horn and it would sound OK. BUT, to play some of the Green Day stuff with all power chords that consist of 2-3 strings I have to be way more precise.

The main benefits I am seeing (so far after 2 weeks) is string precision, neck familiarity and scale progressions.

The one thing I am not finding is actual technique work. Meaning, if I am playing a pentonic scale should I bar up the neck and hammer in front? Use all finger tips? I would like to know how to be efficient and fast. Maybe this comes thru repetition...I don't really know.
 
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I bought it when I first started to learn guitar (self taught, no lessons, probably bad technique but I am not trying out for the Stones or anything), and it really helped me learn fretting. I don't play it nearly as often now, but will throw it in (the original game) every once in awhile to start learning a new song, or a new part to a song I already know other parts to. For beginners, I think it is a great tool since you don't need to know how to read music, or even tabs.

Folonator, one thing that I have found to help with scales and speed was this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423414357/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Also, when it comes to the pick, I found that not using a pick at all and just using my thumb was much easier to hit the double stops and power chords, and finger picking seems much easier to me than using a pick, but each person is different in what is comfortable to them.

I just recently picked up a pack of thumb picks (since using just your thumb mutes out the sound on an acoustic if you don't grow your thumbnail long) but still needed to modify them to make them work for me.
 
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I've been playing Rocksmith since it came out. Hadn't played guitar at all beforehand. I think I'm pretty good now, but I really have no idea.

I don't get the above argument about pick vs. thumb. I have tried, and I cannot strum with my thumb or fingers for shit. I assumed, because of this, that picking was the easier.
 
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