We have seen the future of piano lessons, and it starts with Rock Band 3

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  • Gate28Gate28 Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    Looks sexy. Hope it has a good price, because I'll totally buy it bundled with RB3.

    Also, Bohemian Rhapsody. Yum.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    Sick man. I've been waiting for Rock Band to implement a keyboard. I've had dreams of playing some of the best of progressive metal on the game (i.e. more Dream Theater). This looks fantastic.
  • ObsidianObsidian Michigan Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    Sorry, but doesn't this already exist?
  • coldalarmcoldalarm England, UK
    edited June 2010
    "We saw a staleness"? Well... That is what happens when Activision decide to release 5 versions of the same game, not counting "expansions" and band-editions.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    Oh man... I KNEW I should have kept up with my piano lessons. Now I see the error in my ways.

    There had DAMN WELL better be some Ben Folds on this. Seriously.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    I really hope they include "No Quarter."
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited June 2010
    Keyboard is neat but I'm more curious to see what the pro guitar's look and feel like as well as how they are going to go backwards compatible with the keyboard and if it'll only be added to songs that actually have a keyboard in them.
  • AnnesAnnes Tripped Up by Libidos and Hubris Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    WICKED. Also, I totally agree with Ardi, Ben Folds or GTFO.
  • MAGICMAGIC Doot Doot Furniture City, Michigan Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    Keyboard Hero has been out for a wile.
  • Gate28Gate28 Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    I want to be able to import my characters from RB2 into 3. That would be nice, too.
  • CrazyJoeCrazyJoe Winter Springs, FL Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    After attending the Rock Band 3 event today you most likely will not be able to import RB2 characters into RB3. They said the new RB3 characters will be alot more detailed and have many more options than the RB2 characters had.
  • wahaywahay Cincinnati, OH Member
    edited June 2010
    I demand MAE and Keane.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited June 2010
    Eff all that, give us more Dream Theater!
  • Aaron Stewart
    edited August 2010
    Ahhh Rock Band! <3
  • Dave
    edited May 2011
    Thank goodness! I've been wondering when they would upgrade Rock Band to teach an actual skill. This has major potential.
  • QuadWhoreQuadWhore Toledo, Ohio, U.S. Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    UPSLynx wrote:
    Sick man. I've been waiting for Rock Band to implement a keyboard. I've had dreams of playing some of the best of progressive metal on the game (i.e. more Dream Theater). This looks fantastic.

    You really want to play some of Rudess's stuff on RB? That would be HARD. Any prog would be hard, really.

    Along with DT, I vote Close to the Edge and Thick as a Brick be on there!
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2011
    Rock Band I found has hit the point of diminishing returns on it's entertainment value. They haven't released any music I'm personally interested in for some time now. It still comes out on occasions and my daughter still enjoys it which is the main draw to it. But the keyboard, which I thought my wife would love, she didn't find interesting.

    Perhaps the one area RB really succeeded in was that it's getting me to finally take up the guitar again. Something I hadn't touched really since I was in my pre-teens. I'm of course now curious to see how the new Ubisoft game Rocksmith handles the guitar. Their claims are bold. But now that I'm interested in playing the guitar I don't want to half play the guitar. if Rocksmith actually can teach people to play the guitar - on a real guitar - which is their claim. That really could be something awesome.

    If on the other hand it just teaches people to pretend play guitar then that's a fail for that game. With Rock Band at least there's no real illusion that playing that game translates into really playing a guitar even at the Pro modes of RB3. It's still just playing a game.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    Have you played RB3 pro mode with a real guitar? It actually does translate into playing a real guitar. I played it just this past weekend and was surprised at how accurate it is.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    I can't find that effing guitar! I want to buy to pro Fender six-string, and it's only available at Best Buy (ugh) but I have yet to actually see it in a store.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2011
    I knew they were talking about putting out a real 6 string for RB3 but I've never seen it anywhere around. You can barely find their pro one with the full neck of buttons around here except for the Wii.

    But no I haven't played pro-mode on RB3. However I think they dropped the ball on it. Had they allowed people to actually connect a real guitar through a midi-connector to RB3 that would have been a much bigger win. Something Rocksmith is banking on.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    This is the one I played on:


    <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MF102G/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=icrontic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004MF102G">Squier® by Fender® Stratocaster® Guitar and Controller for Rock Band 3</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=B004MF102G&camp=217145&creative=399349&quot; width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
  • CantiCanti =/= smalltime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K18CGEeiI&feature=related Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    UPSLynx wrote:
    Eff all that, give us more Dream Theater!

    ^

    Also more Muse, Garbage, and GaGa please.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2011
    From my understanding, that is the only one that works with Rock Band. Neat for it's ability to tie into Rock Band. But I find it hard to justify $400 for it given that that guitar would regularily only cost about $125 without the Rock Band electronics. Even factoring the $60-100 you can spend on an analog to midi connector, it's still stupid expensive. Still though it'd be fun to play Rock Band that way as long as I'm not the one having to provide the guitar.
  • CantiCanti =/= smalltime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K18CGEeiI&feature=related Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    If this guitar actually works to teach someone how to play for real without the aid of the notes in game I could totally see that price being justified. By now enough people have all the old toy instruments that I think it would be a great move for them to start implementing real instruments into the game. I know a lot of musicians complain that Rock Band and Guitar Hero deter people from learning to play real instruments but this could turn that completely around.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    The actual price for the guitar is $280. Amazon is a ripoff.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2011
    Ok, well $280 I can see. That's a fair(ish) price based on the guitar, the midi components, controller components and licensing of course. But that $280 is based on actually being able to find one in a store.

    I also agree if it teaches you to play guitar then it's a great step in general. Though personally I'm waiting to see what Rocksmith develops into. Their entire premise is that it's a game, that you can connect just about any electric guitar into and it can not only teach you how to play the guitar but scale it's way up to where you are playing the actual song, not kinda playing the song. But playing the song.

    Again bold ideas for a game, but if they pull it off it could be awesome.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    Thrax wrote:
    The actual price for the guitar is $280. Amazon is a ripoff.

    Truth. It is available exclusively through Best Buy, so Amazon is probably having to do some second hand stuff.
  • RootWyrmRootWyrm Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    I'm STILL waiting for a decent number of tracks with keys. They apparently decided not to add them to any RB1 or RB2 tracks. They also charge an extra 80MSP for Pro Guitar on almost every downloaded track, meaning that instead of being 160MSP per track it's 240MSP to enjoy Pro Guitars, some Pro Drums, and a limited number of Pro Keys. I'm extremely dissatisfied with this new policy, as well as their policy of charging full price for reissues with minimal changes (add harmony only, add keys only, etc.) plus the 80MSP surcharge for pro on top of it.

    We'll see if someone can introduce a real competitor that restores some balance to things. Hopes though, are not high.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2011
    The extra costs for the RB3 tracks mean I've stopped buying tracks that I kinda liked and limited to only songs that i really like.
  • RootWyrmRootWyrm Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    kryyst wrote:
    The extra costs for the RB3 tracks mean I've stopped buying tracks that I kinda liked and limited to only songs that i really like.

    The exact same here. And I don't buy the pro parts when I do buy those few tracks. I've gone from buying entire albums I like regularly, to the very rare purchase of a single track I love to death, and not a penny more.
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