Beatles Rockband and others

[Bill]

So we got Beatles Rockband for the family...lots of fun (with Hofner bass and Beatles logo drums). Drums somewhat musical, but guitar (being a real guitar player) is weird...not connected to actual playing...but it's fun. 4 yr old daughter smacks the heck out of drums.

I know there would never be enough money in a Gordon Lightfoot Rockband, but wouldn't that be fun?! Maybe they could do small groups of songs and animations for a group of people...like 70s songwriters...with an acoustic toy guitar controller instead of an electric one. Sundown would lend itself to this.

[jj]

a beef then a suggestion:

last relative gathering, son, nephew and I were trying to perform a little number using hamronica, nylon mini guitar (really hard to tune!) and mini keyboard..we practiced upon arrival...anyhow, I don't know how I let this happen but we were overpowered by mostly adults and teens unleashing on a new Rockband gift...one of the kids was being heralded as the next Hendricks cos he was basically well rehearsed (hadn't done any actual schoolwork in months, lol) and therefore flawless on the guitar part colour point system...anyhow, he couldn't play a single chord or portion of a scale on the nylon mini guitar when handed it...btw, the mix sounded really muddy

ok, so why don't they make the guitar fretboard go by the same layout as a real guitar (standard tuning) so the skills honed using this game are tranferrable to some degree to actually playing guitar? you would get points for more timing finess and for accurately hitting the right fingering whether playing lead or rhythm/picking...doesn't that make sense?

anyhow, sound fun in the right context, Bill...i think the Rockband drumming must be developing so good habits ...anyhow, somebody must be getting rich on all this stuff...Santa has instructions to not bring any Nintendo or Sony stuff down the chimney (well, unless it's Sony audiovideo stuff for Santa himself:) )

[jj]

Sundown would lend itself to this.

might be fun if members could get a top 10 list going?

I'll go with the Summertime Dream licks

[Bill]

My kids are 6, 4, and 2...interested in guitar, but a bit young yet. We tried a cheapie and it took hard knocks. Bongos would be good -- why are THEY so freaking expensive?! Harmonica is enjoyed.
My wife tells me I can't have a real Hofner bass...too many grown up responsibilities before that indulgence!
Rockband is getting them singing Beatles and that's never a bad thing!