Skip to content

Tag Archives: guitar hero

Improvisation in music games

Monday, April 2, 2012

Joshua Pablo Rosenstock. Free Play Meets Gameplay: iGotBand, a Video Game for Improvisers. Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 20, pp. 11–15, 2010. Guitar Hero, Rock Band and games like them have done a wonderful service to non-musicians. The games give a good sense of what playing an instrument in a band is like. The interface is [...]

Filed in Composition, Improvisation, Interfaces, Music, Software, Video Games | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Real guitars are for old people

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Here’s one of my favorite bits of South Park.  

Filed in Dance, Interfaces, Music, Music Teaching, Video Games | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Jazz Jazz Revolution

Monday, July 20, 2009

It’s no accident that music and games share the verb “to play.” Both music and games are semi-structured forms of social learning. As far as I’m concerned, the most exciting thing happening in the video game world is the explosion of music-based games like Dance Dance Revolution.

Filed in Dance, Improvisation, Interfaces, Music, Software, Video Games | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)