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If you are anything like I am then you don’t care about video games. In fact, I hate video games. Could there be any bigger waste of time than playing video games all day? I don’t think so. So why am I writing about a video game? Because in my opinion The Beatles Rock Band is something well beyond just a game, it is a great interactive musical learning tool.
I am not talking about the guitar and bass guitar bit. I actually think the guitar part of the game is really lame because it has next to nothing to do with playing real guitar and very little to do with the songs you’re playing. It has nothing to do with playing guitar because playing real guitar is about one hundred times harder than simply pressing a few color coded buttons and it has very little to do with the music because I have noticed that the changes in the game rarely change in time with any chord changes in the music.
So what am I talking about? The singing and the drumming. Both of these aspects have a direct relationship to doing these things “in real life.”
If you sing the song in tune and in time then you will do well. No you don’t have to sing the real lyrics (you can simply hum the melody if you want to) but I don’t think that’s a big deal. What is essential is the timing and hitting the right notes. I think The Beatles Rock Band Video Game is really an excellent to to work on your singing abilities. This is even more true with The Beatles Rock Band than with other Rock Band games because it includes harmony singing too.
When you drum on the highest level you you have to hit every drum hit that is in the real song! No, it’s not just like playing real drums, but it is close enough to be pretty effective practice.
So yes, The Beatles Rock Band is an excellent present for any big Beatles fan along with (of course) The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set and The Beatles in Mono Box Set.