nosprings
Joined: Aug 22, 2020
Posts: 31
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Posted on Oct 29 2020 09:24 PM
Maybe you remember Guitar Hero, pressing one of 5 buttons at the right time to usually overdone classic rock songs and getting booed off the virtual stage. Maybe you still even have one of the plastic controllers somewhere deep in storage. But did you know there's an active community making custom charts for a free PC clone of Guitar Hero/Rockband style games?
The surf options are abysmal. In terms of official songs, there's Miserlou and a bonus track of a local Boston Band called Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives. Two surfy instrumentals in thousands of songs.
User created surf charts are equally lacking, with only 2 charts under the "surf rock" genre of the Clone Hero database.
Though it's a bit outdated and mostly forgotten in the public eye, a Guitar/Clone Hero chart is a really cool and interactive way for an audience to interact with your music, and as a performer it's interesting to see how your playing can be interpreted visually and rhythmically.
For my recent Halloween-tinged single, I made a simple chart. It was less than an hour of work (being a repetitive song) and it's been a fun and unique take on sharing a song. I found that people online have been pretty responsive to the format.
So here's my call to this forum: make a chart for your band's songs! Or even fill in the gaps of the classics. I'm so tired of sifting through heavy metal sweep-picking.
— No Springs, the premiere lo-fi bedroom one-man surf band!
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Redfeather
Joined: Jul 30, 2016
Posts: 896
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Posted on Oct 29 2020 09:30 PM
What a weird mockery of the art of music creation that game is.
If some little shit wants to interact with my music, he can pick up a REAL guitar and learn it the same way I did. Back in my day we had to learn music by ear and we liked it. WE LOVED IT.
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Posts: 19349
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Oct 30 2020 07:27 AM
Let people like things?
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TheFintastics
Joined: Jul 28, 2008
Posts: 474
Wichita Falls, Texas
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Posted on Oct 30 2020 09:39 AM
Brian wrote:
Let people like things?
Exactly.
Someone needs a Snickers.
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Hi, I'm Gellert, guitarist for The Fintastics.
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martinblasick
Joined: Nov 27, 2019
Posts: 128
Los Angeles
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Posted on Oct 30 2020 12:56 PM
Promo knows no bounds. I like it. Will give it a try in an upcoming track.
— Squid From Madrid - New Single on Bandcamp
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nosprings
Joined: Aug 22, 2020
Posts: 31
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Posted on Oct 31 2020 01:20 PM
Redfeather wrote:
What a weird mockery of the art of music creation that game is.
If some little shit wants to interact with my music, he can pick up a REAL guitar and learn it the same way I did. Back in my day we had to learn music by ear and we liked it. WE LOVED IT.
Eh, all this happens way after the music-making process anyway. I don't think anybody who's playing Guitar Hero is fooled into thinking they're creating anything, or that it's remotely similar to playing an actual guitar. For me it has a big nostalgia factor, and there used to be a social aspect to playing the game with friends that you don't get by learning and practicing a song on your own.
I'd be stoked if somebody liked my songs enough to learn them! Hell, I'd send them tabs even if they wanted.
martinblasick wrote:
Promo knows no bounds. I like it. Will give it a try in an upcoming track.
Anything to combat the plague that is partial track listens (10-80% of the whole song, according to Bandcamp).
Plus I'd love to have more surf songs to play and discover! Maybe someday we can get a SG101 song pack to put out.
— No Springs, the premiere lo-fi bedroom one-man surf band!
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Redfeather
Joined: Jul 30, 2016
Posts: 896
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Posted on Oct 31 2020 09:36 PM
UPHILL.
BOTH WAYS.
LIKED IT.
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synchro
Joined: Feb 02, 2008
Posts: 4563
Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ.
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Posted on Nov 01 2020 11:33 PM
I find the whole phenomenon puzzling. No criticism intended, but I’ve always found it amusing that kids would be more impressed by someone scoring well at Guitar Hero than someone playing the song on a real guitar. There was a hilarious South Park episode about that.
— The artist formerly known as: Synchro
When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar.
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