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Via Wired.com- Could Guitar Hero Put Music Teachers Out Of Business?

Written by Chad Criswell

Could Games Like Guitar Hero Be The End of Music Education As We Know It?

When I saw this Guitar Hero headline in one of my many music and tech related RSS feeds I thought it required a closer inspection. It turns out the article is a brief, tounge in cheek, assessment of the very popular Guitar Hero video game for the Xbox and PS2. But even so, maybe we need to think a little bit about where music education is headed. In many physical education classes all across the country (and even in my own school district) students are getting their exercise by working out to Dance Dance Revolution. The monetary investment was fairly great (paid for through grants) but apparently the response has been very good. Could this be where we are going as music educators? I don't see a day where acoustic instruments disappear from our lives, but I do see a day where MIDI based instruments take over in our general music classrooms. All it will take is for someone to come up with a real game that blends real music composition and performance with the fun of Guitar Hero and the same trend that has started in physical education could take root in music education as well.

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Maestro - I don't think so

|24.22.231.xxx |2008-04-13 01:08:24

While this game may get someone excited about music, and may even enhance some
of their rhythmic and reading skills (it's not real notation, but you can see
the rhythms in there!) No one is going to say that it actually teaches
music.

I'll bet there were some pretty skilled musicians that were helping
develop the game though!

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