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 Send to email | Can Rock Band Really Teach You to Rock Out? [The Rock Band Experiment] in The Rock Band experiment Feature Music Original Rock band 2 Video |  By Brian Crecente
el 09-Sep-2008 |  I've always wanted to be a drummer. I wanted it so bad that I managed to convince my parents to buy me one of those cheap-o drum sets for kids. A Kiss-themed one. (Well in my head they were Kiss-themed. In reality they sported Snoopy.)
Thing is, I have no rhythm. Well I have some, but not nearly as much as I thought I did, back when I got that drum set. That discovery, coupled with my enthusiastic drumming, managed to destroy the Kiss drums in a mere month, with ever head punctured... on both sides. When Rock Band, the original Rock Band came out I was fascinated with the drums. More so when Harmonix told me that when played on expert the notes are one for one. One for one? Doesn't that mean if I was able to master Rock Band drums I could master real ones, I thought? So I started bugging Harmonix about helping me come up with some sort of lesson plan to let me use their game to teach myself drumming. And I was stalled, stalled until Rock Band 2 was announced and the guys told me it would include a drum trainer. Now it's time now to put theory to video and see if Rock Band 2's drum trainer can really teach me how to drum on real drums. Before launching on this little experiment I spoke with Harmonix front man John Drake about the trainer and my theory. Drake, a drummer himself, said the trainer was put together by the game's audio team with some help from some of the programmers who play drums. "Some of the rhythms (in drum trainer) were drawn from songs or iconic beats," he said. "A lot of them are really core vocabulary beats that you would find in songs." But can it make me a drummer? "I think its totally doable," Drake said, "It?s the core of what Harmonix is about." So here's the deal. I currently suck at drumming, there's even video proof. My goal is to master expert on Rock Band 2 by the end of the month with the help of drum trainer . And we'll make another video to show you if it happens. In the meantime enjoy the video proof of my suckage and a quick tour of Rock Band 2's Drum Trainer.
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| Export 55 Rock Band Songs for $5 [Rock Band] | | An update that hit Rock Band today will allow gamers to prep most of the songs found on the original Rock Band disc for play on Rock Band 2. The Rock Band Disc Export update will show up as a tab under the extra options in the Rock Band menus. For abou [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Sep-2008 by Brian Crecente in Rock band Music Rock band 2 Top
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| Yep, Yngwie Is Coming To Rock Band [Rock Band] | | The rumors were true, Yngwie Malmsteen is shredding his way to Rock Band and Rock Band 2 next week. The Swedish guitarist will bring three tracks to Harmonix's band game, joining new songs from Soundgarden, Lamb of God and a three pack from the Killers. All tracks ar [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Nov-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Rock Band Dlc Harmonix
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| Rock Band M.I.C. Review: The Cost Of Convenience [Review] | | Mad Catz continues to pump out innovative official Rock Band peripherals with the Rock Band M.I.C., which combines the functions of a microphone and an Xbox 360 controller into one. M.I.C. actually stands for Microphone with Integrated Controller, and that's exactly what the Rock [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Dec-2008 by Mike Fahey in Review Hardware Mad Catz Rock Band M.I.C. Original Top Xbox 360
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| Rock Band Going Country? [Update] [Rumor] | | If Country Music Television can be believed Rock Band is about to add a little bit country to its rock and roll. CMT blogger Alison Bonaguro writes that on December 16 Rock Band will be adding five country songs to its 400-plus repertoire of mo [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Dec-2008 by Brian Crecente in Rumor CMT Country Mtv Rock Band Rock band 2 Top
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| Some Third-Party Rock Band Alternatives [Rock Band] | | Love Rock Band? Don't like the instruments included? Read. On. A bunch of officially-licensed, third-party Rock Band peripherals briefly appeared on Amazon the other day, before being quickly taken down. Luckily, RockBandMods were on the scene, ctrl+print scree [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Jun-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Rock Band Gallery Mad Catz Media News
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| Possible Rock Band 2 Box Art, Release Date [Harmonix] | | In another case of EA, Harmonix and/or MTV Games looking for consumer opinion on the next Rock Band, Joystiq has posted a pair of box art concepts for Rock Band 2 that are being focus tested via an online survey. As it did last month, when [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Jun-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Mtvmtv gamesRock BandRock band 2
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