On Wednesday I received the pro-mustang guitar for rock band 3 in the mail even though I have no idea how to play a real guitar. I decided to get the new peripheral with hopes that I'll be able to learn how to at least play the guitar competently. I have no real desire to be able to play some ridiculous, face melting solo, not at the moment at least, but just be able to pick up a real guitar and string some chords together into a song. So after I opened the packaging and took out the guitar I put in Rock Band 3 to see how this will go. 
 
I went into the training mode and went through some of the levels for pro guitar. Much like the pro keyboard they start you off with basic notes and how to move your hand up and down the guitar as well as some basic finger exercises. They then move on to intervals and octaves, power chords, first position chords and so on. I went through about five tutorial levels before I started to get impatient and by the time I got finished with the lesson on first position chords I just wanted to play a song. 
 
So I decided to jump out of the pro guitar lessons and go learn a song. I went to "Learn A Song" in the training menu where they then let you pick whatever song you want to learn. I wanted to choose a song that was fairly simple, was chord heavy and, of course, that I liked. I went with "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1". At first I decided I would start off with the game set on medium difficulty and while they do have you play more than just power chords, mainly C and G, I thought it was still a little to simple. So I jumped to expert. I mean I wanted to learn the song so why not actually play the full song and not some simplified version, right? 
 
The moment I jumped into expert I immediately thought to myself, "Oh shit." as I saw the note highway light up with chord after chord of things I had no idea how to play. Good thing Rock Band has a pretty good training mode that lets me slow down the song to something I can actually comprehend. Also, I was glad that the game stops the song and shows you how to play a chord, or whatever note, when it notices you're having trouble. After a little while I realized that most of the song consisted of five chords C, Em, Dm, F and G with Am thrown in there towards the end of the song making a total of six chords I had to memorize. Which I was able to do by singing the name of the chord as I played it which probably would of been embarrassing if someone heard me... Anyways, I found this to be much more fun than the lessons that I started out with.  
 
So yeah I guess this is basically the story of how I learned to play my first song on a guitar. I'm still working on transitioning between chords, especially going from F to G then back to F but I can play "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1" on expert and get three stars at about 75% percent as well as play "Living In America" with the same results. That's not that bad for just starting three days ago.