Being a guitar player, I’ve been sort of reluctant to succumb to the whole Guitar Hero thing. I don’t know whether it’s the years of practice reduced to six colored buttons or the fact that it’s sometimes a lot more fun than actually playing an indie show, but something about it just makes me want to break down and cry. All those wasted years.
After all, in the game you have crowds and reliable gear and awesome stages and… did I mention crowds?
Anyway, I have recently been lured into playing a song or two (cough, cough) and I started wondering if someone had made something like this for the piano. A pianist actually plays keys as opposed to strings, so Piano Hero would be closer to the real thing than Guitar Hero by default. Turn the complexity up a bit more by having your game “controller” fitted with a full 88 keys, and voila: your very own electronic piano teacher!
Enter Synthesia:
The video above is from Sean at hdpiano.com, and it uses a FREE software app that you can get for Mac or PC at www.synthesiagame.com.
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