Guitar
Out of my craze for Guitar Hero 2 (and 1 although I haven't played much of it since I've been playing a lot of 2), I've moved from easy difficulty, to medium, to hard, and now I'm mid way through expert. I've pretty much 5 starred everything in easy and medium, and I've five or four starred half of hard.
The craziness doesn't end there.
I've always really enjoyed rock, and I really wanted to learn a musical instrument so I decided to invest in an electric guitar.
Altogether it cost me in the low 300+ dollars for everything; guitar case, the guitar, the amp, the stand. Considering that some guitars average out to under a thousand dollars, and even go into the several thousand for just the (authentic like Gibson or Les Paul, etc etc.) guitar itself. Mine's just a knock off of a Gibson; Music Research Works or MRW for short; standard 6 string electric without a whammy. The amp is a Line 6 Spider 3 (15 watt); noob effects like clean, crunch, metal, insane, phaser, etc. Has basic elements like chorus and reverb. It's got a plug for a large headphone jack, mini headphone jack for Ipod or mp3 players so you can jam alongside a song which I haven't tried yet. Although I just play music out of my computer anyway.
I haven't played it past notch one however. Anything over that starts making a racket, and even in the mid range I imagine you could probably hear it down the block even over all the cars and Skytrain.
So far, I can stumble through the beginning parts of the Zelda 8 bit theme, parts of the NESkimos Zelda theme, and play a cheapened version of the main melody of Smoke On The Water. Considering that I musically sucked when I was a kid, and I'm self teaching, I'd like to think that isn't bad since I only got my electric guitar a couple of weeks ago.
And yeah, I really need to tear off the labels. :)
The craziness doesn't end there.
I've always really enjoyed rock, and I really wanted to learn a musical instrument so I decided to invest in an electric guitar.
Altogether it cost me in the low 300+ dollars for everything; guitar case, the guitar, the amp, the stand. Considering that some guitars average out to under a thousand dollars, and even go into the several thousand for just the (authentic like Gibson or Les Paul, etc etc.) guitar itself. Mine's just a knock off of a Gibson; Music Research Works or MRW for short; standard 6 string electric without a whammy. The amp is a Line 6 Spider 3 (15 watt); noob effects like clean, crunch, metal, insane, phaser, etc. Has basic elements like chorus and reverb. It's got a plug for a large headphone jack, mini headphone jack for Ipod or mp3 players so you can jam alongside a song which I haven't tried yet. Although I just play music out of my computer anyway.
I haven't played it past notch one however. Anything over that starts making a racket, and even in the mid range I imagine you could probably hear it down the block even over all the cars and Skytrain.
So far, I can stumble through the beginning parts of the Zelda 8 bit theme, parts of the NESkimos Zelda theme, and play a cheapened version of the main melody of Smoke On The Water. Considering that I musically sucked when I was a kid, and I'm self teaching, I'd like to think that isn't bad since I only got my electric guitar a couple of weeks ago.
And yeah, I really need to tear off the labels. :)