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AMAZON GUITAR JAM TRACKS SOFTWARE
AMAZON GUITAR JAM TRACKS PC

Yes, I’m coming at this with some experience, and yes, I’m coming at this on the back of teaching myself a lot about how to play – but for anyone wanting to find structure for their practice, or wanting to embrace the Guitar Hero-style grids in learning new songs, there really isn’t anything better. For the monthly price of $14.99 / £12.99 (or $99.99 / £84.99 per year), Rocksmith+ can elevate your playing to the next level – and you need to put barely no effort in. Overnight, my playing improved tenfold I could now actually jam with my mates – not just chug along to songs I’d been listening to ad infinitum since I heard them on Kerrang! I learned some theory – thanks to the deep, knowledgeable roster of lessons available via the service – and I improved my fingering (steady now).ġ1 years later, the same year I’m hardening up my finger pads and trying to do my best Flea impression as I learn bass, Ubisoft has recaptured that bottled lightning.

I think it’s a fair trade-off.īut still, even this rudimentary version of this tool introduced me to playing Arctic Monkeys tracks (not just listening to them) and expanded the way I played – putting down the power chords and learning how to make my fingers do barre chords. The barriers to entry are lower, but the price to play is higher. These issues are gone, now, and you can even use an app to ‘listen’ to you play instead of shelling out for more hardware.

AMAZON GUITAR JAM TRACKS PC

Back then, Rocksmith was more rudimentary: you had to use a RealTone cable plugged into either your PC or console, and there were some issues with lag that were a real headache for anyone trying to nail their timing.

AMAZON GUITAR JAM TRACKS SOFTWARE

I always considered myself an ‘amateur’ (don’t tell my ex-bandmates) until a little piece of software dropped in my lap some 11 years ago and changed my life, and – yes – even my music taste. I cannot read music, but I can read tab and play to ear.

I am a fully self-taught musician I picked up a guitar after accidentally ordering a Coheed & Cambria tab book when I was 13 years old, and I have never looked back. Rocksmith+ has helped me learn the entirety of a song, and course-corrected me en-route, all in about 25 minutes. Without knowing it, I’m now playing along to Electric Feel, note for note. Rocksmith+ sees that I’m nailing all the notes, and dynamically alters my note chart to match. “Hit the lessons and learn how to do it properly”. “Your weedy little guitar-player fingers aren’t sturdy enough for the bass hammer-ons and pull-offs,” it tells me (I’m paraphrasing). Rocksmith+ not only gives me a fun new song to play – all mapped out, delicious, and easy-to-read with a genuinely intuitive UI – but it also identifies areas I might be struggling with and ushes me towards improving.

I’ve only been playing the bass for nine months now, and whilst there are some transferable skills from my 17 years of guitar playing, there’s also a lot of new stuff to digest. Turns out, that riff is one of the most fun-to-play things I’ve committed to since picking up my bass guitar at the start of the year. I was alive in the 00s, I’ve definitely been in some shit Midlands club singing along to Electric Feel – why not plug in my bass, and give it a go. Not until I was browsing the catalogues available at launch on Rocksmith+ and saw it there, nestled amongst things like Snarky Puppy’s excellent jam-rock meanderer, ‘Shofukan’, and The Eurhythmics’ seminal ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’.

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