{"id":20,"date":"2010-06-17T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-06-17T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:43:57","slug":"how-harmonix-is-tricking-lazy-gamers-into-learning-real-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/2010\/06\/17\/how-harmonix-is-tricking-lazy-gamers-into-learning-real-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"How Harmonix Is Tricking Lazy Gamers Into Learning Real Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few plastic buttons on a fake guitar neck was only the beginning.\u00a0 As a musician, I always suspected these games could do more to teach and promote REAL musicianship.\u00a0 For example, the drum trainer in Rock Band 2 is a very useful tool for beginning drummers.\u00a0 Check out what Harmonix is doing with REAL Fender guitars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5564594\/how-harmonix-is-tricking-lazy-gamers-into-learning-real-instruments\">How Harmonix Is Tricking Lazy Gamers Into Learning Real Instruments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few plastic buttons on a fake guitar neck was only the beginning.\u00a0 As a musician, I always suspected these games could do more to teach and promote REAL musicianship.\u00a0 For example, the drum trainer in Rock Band 2 is a very useful tool for beginning drummers.\u00a0 Check out what Harmonix is doing with REAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,376,1],"tags":[378,377,379,381,380],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-drums","tag-guitar","tag-harmonix","tag-musicianship","tag-rock-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}