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And if there will be a lefty compatibility mode.

AND if this will be something you could learn to play the bass with?

Yes, I am seriously interested in all of these things. I have an electric AND a bass in both right and lefty, and have been trying to learn, but can't keep up on the training. And with a mangled right pinky finger, but being naturally left handed, I still haven't decided how I'll play.

I currently am playing GH I and II as both a righty and a lefty. I would love to learn how to play electric and bass as a righty or a lefty.

]]>Feb 4th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
Those people annoy the hell out of me...]]>Jan 3rd 2008 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/

... and I wonder why no-one invites me to parties anymore :(


:P]]>Jan 3rd 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
Turnabout is fair play, no?]]>Jan 3rd 2008 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/B. I can play a guitar.]]>Jan 3rd 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
Should we tell people who play Army type tactical games (what is the short name for these games?) to join the armed forces and go kill real people.]]>Jan 3rd 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 9th 2008 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/I was wondering when someone was going to come up with this.

Does it have a Mac and/or Linux version?
]]>Jan 3rd 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/> Well that's one company CEO who clearly doesn't watch South Park.

Actually, Music Wizard Group's CEO, Chris Salter, gets the point of the South Park video quite well. The point, I believe, was that in the end playing GH offers no value (other than it's fun) to the player.

With Guitar Wizard it's actually not that way at all. The whole point of GW is to teach you to read music and play the guitar. Once you've "reached 1,000,000 points" on GW, so to speak, you will be able to play any song on the guitar for which you can find music.

]]>Feb 28th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
If anyone wants a real MIDI guitar, I'd suggest one of Brian Moore's iGuitars or the Gibson Ethernet guitar.]]>Jan 3rd 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
You have quite a good sense in quality I see. Gibson Les Paul guitars are not toys, they are instruments for pros and enthusiasts. The sound and quality of a $400 guitar vs a les paul is so huge it is amazing. I wouldn't have belived it if I haven't heard a friend play his old $400 run of the mill guitar and then the les paul on the same amp. He had the les paul on loan from a shop, but returning it and going back to his old guitar would be like giving back the keys to a porsche (or whatever is your dream ride) when you can afford it.

And then you take one of this us$1500 or so les paul guitars and jam a lot of technology into it. no wonder it gets expensive, but the same goes for everything high end. ]]>Jan 4th 2008 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
get out of mommy's basement and learn to play the damn guitar!]]>Jan 3rd 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 3rd 2008 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 4th 2008 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 4th 2008 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
http://fretlight.com/]]>Jan 4th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
That being said, I fully support your decision to play it. It just isn't for me.]]>Jan 4th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/ I thought of this a few months back, but it required way more programming then i am capable of. it would be a sweet way to learn how to play songs. i would jump all over this if i had the chance.
]]>Jan 4th 2008 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
Guitar Wizard will be on shelves mid-2008. We get asked about it constantly! :-)

The screen shot on this page shows Step 1 before the game is started. You are holding a real MIDI guitar with colored stickers on the frets. Start the game and you'll see colored objects floating up the screen towards the guitar neck up top. When an object reaches the matching colored fret, you play the correspondingly-colored fret on the guitar in your hands (think DDR). You completely control both tempo, and even which and how many strings you're playing at once. Practice one string, practice another, practice both together, etc. Then go a little faster.

Step 2 turns the screen 90 degrees to correspond to the horizontal orientation of written music. Step 3 turns the colored objects into floating musical notes on a real staff. At Step 4, the color is removed, and you're actually reading black notes and playing a song on a real guitar! (We've had people do this in about 10 minutes on Piano Wizard.) (Really.)

We'll be showcasing Guitar Wizard at the CES show in Las Vegas next week. Please come by our booth and say that you learned about us here at engadget. (I personally will be doing demos in the Disney booth.) Then you'll see why we're so excited!

More info? Contact me at jan {at} MusicWizard {dot} com. Happy New Year, everyone!
]]>Jan 4th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 4th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
Check out http://www.EvenYouCanPlay.com. It's never too late to bring music into your life.

Jan :-)

]]>Jan 4th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marenpete/2166357065/

]]>Jan 4th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/All the more appropriate for our game, eh?

Our designers tell me they got that stock image through their ShutterStock membership. But, maybe we should approach Pete for an endorsement as well!]]>Mar 12th 2008 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
The site is blocked for me, or I'd look for myself.]]>Jan 4th 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Piano Wizard runs about $200 for keyboard/cable/software, not $630. Perhaps you were looking at Academy Package upgrades which include videos and sheet music.

Now let's compare apples with apples:

JNoel,
The Fretlight is "cool", not doubting that. It's great for learning how to play chords and scales. But it does not teach you how to read, nor can you play a song in real time.

Guitar Wizard is not a Guitar Hero/RockBand wanna be. Guitar Wizard (and Piano Wizard) translate a "game" into a REAL musical experience - and that is the difference. At the time of this posting, Guitar Wizard is still under development so the screenshot above may or may not reflect what the final version looks like. Nor does the graphic above show all the levels and capabilities of what it actually does.

But based on the success of the Piano Wizard method, you can be assured it will be revolutionary.]]>Jan 6th 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
Heres hoping I can pick it up for more than dusting around soon

Got it so I could play/learn in an apt. (headphones no bothering with nasty noises) ]]>Jan 5th 2008 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 9th 2008 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Jan 7th 2008 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/
Until you experience this companies method of music/instrument teaching (piano wizard) it will be impossible to understand why it is such an amazing learning system. It opens the door for more people who want to lean to read and play music.

I have watched a zero music/piano knowledge 8 year old sit down with the piano wizard and become entranced with the "game" and play and read simple music pieces withing 10 minutes.
]]>Jan 14th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/Please email me at pianowizardqueen {at} yahoo {dot} com.

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