Rock Band played with a flute, awesome redefined (video)
By Vlad Savov 
posted November 10th 2009 6:32AM
posted November 10th 2009 6:32AM
posted November 10th 2009 6:32AM
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It seems obvious, but a lot of trained musicians (classical and otherwise) are out there playing Rock Band. It's a fun rhythm game, period.
I'm a classically trained professional musician (i.e. performing on my instrument is my full-time job) and I can attest to the fact that Rock Band comes out a lot at parties with lots of classical musicians. Musical training helps with the rhythm (musicians take "musicianship" classes all through college and grad school to practice rhythm and sight-singing), but a lot of it has to do with how similar the plastic instruments are to what the people normally play. String players are pretty awesome at the guitars, percussionists are predictably awesome at the drums. Even new players with training can usually start at the harder skill levels and do pretty well.
I wish the game had a creative facet that made people realize that taking the leap from playing a game to playing an instrument isn't that far. Still, it's a really fun rhythm game that gets people excited about music, and it's hard for someone who makes his livelihood on that to be negative about it. Besides, I enjoy playing! When my students mention they play it I get excited - inevitably their rhythmic intuition (not understanding - this has to be trained) improves.
The other thing that few people mention is how Rock Band and Guitar Hero expose kids to the classics*. My students actually know who Motörhead and Cream are now.
*Classic Rock. If only there were an effective way to expose kids to the ACTUAL classics like Beethoven and Bach.
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Nice!
is anybody else in love right now?
[Raises his hand] I am!
Nice TV.
I'm in love!
Thanks for the heads up, I'll TOTALLY shop there now -.-
Beautiful. I always liked the flute - great and fun way to play an already fun game.
(...also, I thought the girl was pretty...=^^=)
Jazz flute is for little fairy boys!!!!
"Sitting on a park bench"
Anyone else get turned on around 4:24-4:52?
No? Just me? Okay then...
aye captain...turned on i was.
Indeed sir, not at just that point though...
The flute has never been so hot.
I did this first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5fl9D-SLvA
How is this "news"? My students have been doing this for a while with Rock Band. I have like 60+ charts written out for them to play.
Now if Rock Band would just notate the stuff out on the screen, they could have something.....
Dude, where do you have those posted?
I'd be really interested in those as well. A bunch of teacher friends probably would be too.
Well that was pretty damned cool. I didn't know you could do that... O.o
Wow...gold stars...rockband... cute flute player... who could ask for more?
This certainly proves that a flute (or other wind instrument) could be used with another microphone as an input device in a "Rock Band" or "Guitar Hero" game. which can come in handy with songs like Men At Work's "Down Under".