{"id":412,"date":"2007-12-13T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=412"},"modified":"2007-12-13T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T00:12:12","slug":"in-rock-band-actually-play-drums-and-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/12\/13\/in-rock-band-actually-play-drums-and-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"In Rock Band, actually play Drums and Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted some time ago on the difference between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=312\">playing and performing music<\/a>, with <em>Guitar Hero<\/em> being an example of how you perform the role of being a guitar player rather than actually playing guitar. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigwise.com\/news.asp?contentid=35678\">Slash professes to not being that good at Guitar Hero<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Rock Band<\/em> things are a little different: Drumming is actual drumming (your physical actions map to being an actual drummer), singing is actual singing &#8230; but the guitar is still about <em>performing <\/em>the role of a guitar player.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/rock-band-game-2.JPG\" alt=\"Rock Band\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Why is that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems to boil down to the different parts to play &#8211; almost everybody can sing, if badly.<\/p>\n<p>It is very simple to be a bad rock drummer (bass drum, snare drum, bass drum, snare&#8230;) that still fills the part of a drummer, if badly.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, guitars have pretty high barriers to entry &#8211; if the song has a fast riff, you can&#8217;t get away with only playing every other chord. And then even playing guitar chords takes a while to learn (and makes your fingers hurt).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the instrument. (Perhaps that was obvious, I just needed to write it down.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted some time ago on the difference between playing and performing music, with Guitar Hero being an example of how you perform the role of being a guitar player rather than actually playing guitar. (Slash professes to not being that good at Guitar Hero). In Rock Band things are a little different: Drumming is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/12\/13\/in-rock-band-actually-play-drums-and-sing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Rock Band, actually play Drums and Sing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}