Quick Look: Rocksmith

Seems Interesting

Rock on Vinny.

Rock it real!... Oh wait

I've been waiting to see what they were talking about on the bombcast.

First? naw prob not.

ROCK OUT WITH YOUR BLOCK OUT!

Who likes to rock the party?

Who likes to rock the party?

Who likes to rock the party?

New Zealand likes to rock the party.

Who likes to rock the party?

Who likes to rock the party?

Who likes to rock the party?

New Zealand likes to rock the party.

Rock'n'Roll Vinny! Already picked this up because of the positive feedback on the bombcast!

I also had to switch to inverted display of the strings, since the thick E string on the bottom is also how all the tabs I learned on the Internet with are written.

I wonder why they changed it for the default, does it seem so weird for new guitar players...?

I'd love to play Mario Teaches Shredding.

Possibly the most noisy, audibly obnoxious video on the site.

I'd totally get a t-shirt with Super Ducks on it.

Video is amazing just for seeing Vinny rock out.

Muse was in Guitar Hero 3, it had Knights of Cydonia

Bombtastic??? No??? Anyone??? "Shame...

Has Jeff lost weight? If so, good for him!

God vinny is awesome.

@M3rlin: I've wondered that too. My guess is they're going for a perspective as if you were holding the guitar in front of you and the neck was clear, if that makes any sense. I think that might help some people, but I had to switch it almost immediately.

OH MAN, PERRY DID SUCH A GREAT JOB IN THIS QUICK LOOK!

Can anyone tell me what chord Vinny played in the beginning? I want to learn the Quick Look Intro Theme chord!

edit---

hang on... does this game have just regular tab display without showing the guitar neck and the rest of that bullshit? The way this UI is, I can't see it being helpful for anyone.

Vinny and the Vindogs 2011 Tour coming to a town near you!

Jeff has obviously been working on his Matthew Bellamy voice.

@SexyRandal:You're probably right. So for beginners it might make more sense that way.

I actually played for 1 or 2 hours and thought something felt wrong. That's when I found the Invert feature; did so much better after the change!

I would get this in a heart beat if it had bass support.

Blad!!

WHAT??? THIS GAME HAS THE ANIMALS?!?!?!?!?

Just gained 1000000000000000000 respect points from me. Plus it actually looks like a really good learning tool.

@wumbo3000 said:

Can anyone tell me what chord Vinny played in the beginning? I want to learn the Quick Look Intro Theme chord!

I think it's Am7.

Looks awesome. Been playing seriously for 10 years, but I could still have fun with this. I'd love to find a demo station or something, though.

vinny guitar time a new recurring feature?

This gametoolthing actually looks really, really cool.

Jeff and Vinny should form a band and call it Galaxian Jackin'.

This game may have one of the best soundtracks of the rhythm genre.

"That's what you get for hanging out front of Junior High dances."

The tracklist reveal turned me off this product entirely. The songs they have now aren't really my taste and they aren't challenging to play, if they fixed one of those two issues I'd be interested again. It seems odd to put out guitar practice/training software with only entry-level content.

As a guitar player who knows a thing or two about a string or two, even though I have no interest in touching this thing at all, I think it's really cool that it exists and that people are into it.

Watching more now, I find this interface very hard to interpret. They should at least have the standard notation timing (if not the actual notes) running along the screen somewhere. This would be impossible to sight read for me. Is there any actual notation anywhere in the game or do you have to interpret everything from the guitar hero style scrolling majigger?

^ opinion of old man guitfiddler who can't understand how this is supposed to be easier than good old treble clef and quarter notes.

@gladspooky said:

As a guitar player who knows a thing or two about a string or two, even though I have no interest in touching this thing at all, I think it's really cool that it exists and that people are into it.

It's a great idea, I agree. I would have loved to have something like this when I first started. However, I can't help but think that the way they display the notes is too alien from the actual way music is written and read. It seems to me that neglecting to show basic notation is setting up people for a lot of confusion later on.

@rebgav said:

@wumbo3000 said:

Can anyone tell me what chord Vinny played in the beginning? I want to learn the Quick Look Intro Theme chord!

I think it's Am7.

It totally is. Thanks for that. Stairway To Heaven utilizes that chord. Fitting.

This actually looks a whole lot cooler than I expected.

I might pick this up.

actual guitar lessons, or hell, lessons for anything, are more expensive than I can afford.

God I had no idea you could invert the strings so that they follow tab format. This suddenly makes everything make more sense. Thanks Vinny.

FREEEEBIIIIIIIIRD!! 0_0

okay I'm done. :D

Just looking at this game confuses me. I'm sure after playing and such it becomes easier, but that hud is just insane.

I will be getting this whenever they actually release this in Europe. And for PC.

Now I can live out of dreams of being Jimi Hendrix. Viva PC version.

@VisariLoyalist said:

vinny guitar time a new recurring feature?

As an amateur (very amateur) guitar player, this looks awesome. Song selection seems surprisingly solid, and it looks like a valid practice tool. I think I'm gonna get this.

Really interested in this but not sure whether to add a pick up to my acoustic guitar or just get an electric one. The pick up would be cheaper and I can't play for crap anyway so if I don't stick with this it wouldn't be such a waste of money.

Also Muse's Uprising was in Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock or whatever it's called. I'm sure they were in another of the GH games too.

Uhhh, Muse was in at least two Guitar Hero games.