Beatles Rock Band
If you are anything like I am then you probably don’t spend time playing video games. I actually kind of hate video games to be honest. In my opinon they are a complete waste of time. So why am I writing about this video game? Because in my opinion The Beatles Rock Band Game is not just a game, it’s a real interactive musical experience.
I am not really talking about the guitar and bass guitar bit. I actually think the guitar part of the game is lame because it has nothing to do with playing real guitar and little to do with the songs you’re playing. It has nothing to do with guitar because playing real 6 string is about 1000 times harder than simply pressing a few color coded buttons and it has little to do with the music because I have found that the changes in the game rarely change at the same time as any chord changes in the music.
It’s the singing and the drumming aspects of the game that excite me. These aspects have a direct relationship to really doing these things “in real life.”
If you sing in key and with the correct timing then you will get a good score. It’s true that you do not have to sing the real lyrics (you can just hum) but so what? What matters is the timing and hitting the right notes. I think The Beatles Rock Band is actually a really great way to improve your singing ability.
When you play the drums on the expert level you you have to hit every drum hit that is in the actual song! I won’t claim it’s precisely like playing real drums, but it is close enough to be pretty effective for practicing.
So yes, The Beatles Rock Band is a great pick-up for any real Beatles fanatic along with (of course) The Beatles in Stereo and The Beatles in Mono box sets.
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