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nice

cool

I want this so bad. Sooooo bad.

Bloody Fingers ahoy

Dear god.

Enough of this BS. GIVE ME POWERGIG.

Interesting, I think I'm in.

Rigolopolopolopolous!
 
And the ubiquitous Drake.

Power gi... Oh..

Solos!
 
Holy fuck. Want.

Yes, please!

" Dear god. "

so basically you can pay more to get pro guitar and play in pro mode, or you could just stick with your regular ass guitar and play regular ass rock band? sound familiar?

 ROCK IT REA-oh wait... 
 
Anyways, how in the holy fuck are you supposed to read off the numbers for some of those solos? I really hope they put in a no fail mode for the real guitar part of the game.    

As cool as this seems, I don't like the way they display the information with the same "scrolling down" style as the regular plastic instruments. This is pretty much a vertical way of showing tabulature, as opposed to the standard horizontal tabulature (that "scrolls" right to left as regular sheet music does) that can be found anywhere and everywhere.
  
I understand why they chose to do it this way, since that's what everyone has come to expect from these games, but it's NOT an efficient way of showing the fret information you need to know. I'm no expert on licensing issues and such, but if that's what kept them from using the superior horizontal tabulature then I guess I can forgive them. Granted, if they had gone that route they would've had to do drastical changes to the overall technical and visual presentation of the game.

Finally a why to ern achievements with my 16 year experience on guitar...bring it on! |m|

I really want them to explain clearly why my synth-guitar won't work. It already has a divided midi pickup attached to the body, so it should be able to work the same way as this does.

This looks cool, I guess. I do play guitar, so I'm not sure why I'd really want this.

On the pro guitars do you always have to strum for it to register or can you fret tap?

As a guitar player this looks so fucking awesome.. 
but it's so bloody expensive :(

Day one. Can't wait to hate myself for this.

I can't read that fast...

"  ROCK IT REA-oh wait... 
 
Anyways, how in the holy fuck are you supposed to read off the numbers for some of those solos? I really hope they put in a no fail mode for the real guitar part of the game.     "

That looks confusing as shit, why not just have a scrolling  horizontal tablature? That vertical setup is unnecessarily complicated.

yup I agree. I got a drum kit. I play it almost every day, and have been for 2 years now

sweet jeebus that looks complicated.  wish i had the time to learn it.  maybe just pro drums for me, then.

" As cool as this seems, I don't like the way they display the information with the same "scrolling down" style as the regular plastic instruments. This is pretty much a vertical way of showing tabulature, as opposed to the standard horizontal tabulature (that "scrolls" right to left as regular sheet music does) that can be found anywhere and everywhere.
  
I understand why they chose to do it this way, since that's what everyone has come to expect from these games, but it's NOT an efficient way of showing the fret information you need to know. I'm no expert on licensing issues and such, but if that's what kept them from using the superior horizontal tabulature then I guess I can forgive them. Granted, if they had gone that route they would've had to do drastical changes to the overall technical and visual presentation of the game. "

Yeah I don't think you're going to be sight reading the Crazy Train solo in that setup.  But then I'm not sure you really could anyway.  I'm not that bothered about their notation since you'll only be using it as a reminder.
 
Again, if only they let you plug in a real guitar and fuck their left-hand positional technology.  Not buying another entry level guitar to play with a video game, and I may not buy the game at all as a result.  I love pro mode, but buying RB3 without being able to utilize it with their instruments seems like a tease.
 
I guess if you don't have a guitar and want to learn this sounds like a good deal, but otherwise it seems like a huge waste of money to play on (in many cases) an inferior guitar to whatever else you're already playing on.
 And if you want to play a real guitar along with Rock Band songs you can already do that, as long as you don't care that you're not being scored on it...

Love me some Rock Band, but every day closer to release it looks less like a game and more like work.  With all the effort that has clearly gone into this, is there going to be anything fun for us groups of dorks who play on medium or hard, either solo or in groups of 2-3?

ROCK IT REAL?
Oh, Rock for real, okay.
Anyway, I really want that pro guitar now.

" @Tordah said:

" As cool as this seems, I don't like the way they display the information with the same "scrolling down" style as the regular plastic instruments. This is pretty much a vertical way of showing tabulature, as opposed to the standard horizontal tabulature (that "scrolls" right to left as regular sheet music does) that can be found anywhere and everywhere.
  
I understand why they chose to do it this way, since that's what everyone has come to expect from these games, but it's NOT an efficient way of showing the fret information you need to know. I'm no expert on licensing issues and such, but if that's what kept them from using the superior horizontal tabulature then I guess I can forgive them. Granted, if they had gone that route they would've had to do drastical changes to the overall technical and visual presentation of the game. "

Harmonix has stated that they have explored multiple ways of displaying the tabulature, and that this was the most effective way from what they worked with. Also, the highway would be more constricted horizontally than vertically in the multiplayer setting. Plus, from a personal standpoint, it'd really eff me up to be drumming, and see one track scrolling horizontally in the midst of the other three vertical note tracks.   
 
I believe that in order  to display any horizontal tabulature effectively, you'd have to essentially add another vocal-type track. Furthermore, do you place the horizontal guitar track at the top or the bottom of the screen? Really, it becomes a big mess. "

This shit looks scary as hell.

Why did they pick that Filter song?  There's so many better ones.

" Why did they pick that Filter song?  There's so many better ones. "

now I can rock for real?

will buy
 
..oh wait i'm broke from my real guitar :(

that thing is freaky dude THE FUTUREEEEEEE

Can't wait to buy the stringed guitar. Hate and like that its coming out later. I really wanted to play it on Tuesday but my wallet is crying right now anyway. 

" As cool as this seems, I don't like the way they display the information with the same "scrolling down" style as the regular plastic instruments. This is pretty much a vertical way of showing tabulature, as opposed to the standard horizontal tabulature (that "scrolls" right to left as regular sheet music does) that can be found anywhere and everywhere.
  
I understand why they chose to do it this way, since that's what everyone has come to expect from these games, but it's NOT an efficient way of showing the fret information you need to know. I'm no expert on licensing issues and such, but if that's what kept them from using the superior horizontal tabulature then I guess I can forgive them. Granted, if they had gone that route they would've had to do drastical changes to the overall technical and visual presentation of the game. "

is the numbers the frets?  
 
I love the power glove its so bad 
 
wait.... 
 
i love the pro guitar its so bad

I think I may finally be able to learn to play guitar.

Price goddamn it! Price! :> 
 
PS. One of the achivements in Pro mode should be to replace a broken string during a concert ;p

This looks difficult to read at high speeds compared to tablature.