Any of you using Rocksmith to learn guitar?Follow

My partner is. He plays with headphones on, but I get to hear the acoustic sounds the electric guitar makes. Two months in, and his acoustic sounds have gotten really pretty. They improved out of sight after he did many rounds of "Harmonic Heist" and "The Temple of Bends" technical challenges.

I can't believe how far he's progressed in just two months. He had an advantage going in, he knows piano, so he knew about the names of notes and how they relate. But knowing the theory and being able to play the set up of a guitar are two way different things. He's playing 2-3 hours an evening (Say hooray for Asperger's habitual ...habits) so that's helped him progress of course. It's just so nice listening to the bell-like notes he produces, compared to the scratchy ones of 2 months ago. He can actually play chords, and move rapidly in between strings, which he couldn't do if his life depended on it, the first fortnight in.

Edited, Nov 26th 2013 3:02am by Aripyanfar

The Trombone is très cool.

I taught myself guitar while deployed which kind of sucked because of how obvious it was my instructor didn't know what he was doing.

There's lefty guitars too. Or you can just flip the strings and play a right handed guitar as a lefty (which does require some modification).

You wouldn't be in bad company either with Hendrix, McCartney, Kurt Cobain, Iggy Pop and Tony Iommi to name a few.

Edited, Nov 26th 2013 4:20pm by Aethien

I'm not saying you should, just that you can. I don't know how hard it is to modify a right hand guitar to left hand but from the 30 seconds of googling I did it doesn't look too complicated.

I found myself wondering last night if they'll ever do a piano/keyboard version. I've been wanting to re-learn for years(not that I was all that good to begin with), but never got around to it.