Guitar Hero

We got together with some of our friends last night for a little food, a little wine...you know, a bisele shmues. So while we were chatting, The Boy and The Girl were playing Wii. The Boy was indulging his love of Metallica (I'll talk about THAT another time) by playing Guitar Hero. Having never tried it, I thought, why not. I was a musician, I can do this.

Well, I can tell you that the exact correlation between playing guitar in Guitar Hero and playing guitar in real life is exactly nothing. Non-existant. That I was ok with, really. But what threw me a bit was that there wasn't always a correlation between the notes you play in the game and even the basic rhythms of the song you're trying to match. Yes, they match up sometimes, but not always, so if you're used to playing an instrument in a band, forget about feeling or intuiting the beat.

Anyway, long story short: It's fun. At times it's frenetic and hectic, but it is fun. My third try, I got 83% of the notes right on Rain of Blood--easy mode, of course. I also ended up with a very sore hand from pushing the fret buttons.

For those about to rock in a computer game, I salute you.