| Most American children do not learn how to play | | | | comes with a real looking electric guitar that |
| an instrument at school anymore due to many | | | | attaches to the game unit and has buttons on it |
| schools having to eliminate music programs from | | | | that are color coded. In order to play the correct |
| their curriculum. In recent years, however, a rising | | | | note, you must press the correct color button |
| number of young children and teenagers want to | | | | when it shows up on the screen. For beginners it |
| learn how to play instruments like acoustic guitars, | | | | has some slower easier numbers to get the hang |
| keyboard, electric guitars, singing and drums for | | | | of it and the speed and difficulty increase with the |
| kids. This new interest has been influenced by the | | | | higher levels. This is a fun way for someone who |
| several different video games out there that | | | | does not know how to play guitar to feel like a |
| mimic singing, musical bands and playing guitar and | | | | real guitar playing rock star. Because so many |
| other instruments. | | | | teenagers have liked this game so much, they |
| Some of the first video games that came out | | | | have been showing up for guitar lessons at a |
| that were about performing musically were ones | | | | record rate since the debut of this video game. |
| that involved singing. Many of them requires | | | | The last great game that was created to join the |
| having a special microphone to hook up to the | | | | other musically influenced video games is called |
| game console and then you could pick a song to | | | | Rock band. This takes the same idea as the |
| sing to usually in a karaoke -like technique. The | | | | American Idol one and the Guitar hero game and |
| most popular ones were the kind that copied | | | | put it all together with a complete rock bands |
| popular singing shows like American Idol. You could | | | | with a singer, drummer, guitar player and a |
| create yourself into a video contestant and then | | | | keyboarder. Because so many games only |
| sing before a panel of judges and a large crowd. | | | | accommodate one or two participants at a time, |
| Your performance was then followed by the critic | | | | this has been a great one for a group of friends |
| of how well you did. You actually had to learn how | | | | to do all together. This has made teenagers to |
| to sing on key and to follow the song, or you | | | | want to learn all of the various instruments |
| would perform poorly. Due to these types of | | | | featured in this game. |
| games, more kids than ever now want to take | | | | Many parents do not like the fact that their kids |
| singing lessons because they enjoyed singing | | | | play so many video games but the fact that |
| through their video game so much. | | | | some of these have encouraged many of them |
| The next popular video game that came out that | | | | to learn how to play a musical instrument is a |
| has increased the interest in kids wanting to learn | | | | great thing. |
| an instrument is the game Guitar hero. This game | | | | |