

Overall, I found Rocksmith an excellent re-introduction to the guitar. The game very much has a focus on doing things the “right” way (the game’s way) so if you’re beyond the basics and would like to exercise some creativity in your playing, you might find yourself frustrated when it tells you you’re wrong for something that’s pretty subjective. I’m also not sure how frustrating Rocksmith would be for people who already have a decent grasp on playing guitar.


If you want to get the most out of it you’ll probably have to back it up with some actual teaching, or at the very least another course.
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What I will say is don’t rely on this game alone to teach you how to master guitar. There’s also the option to gradually speed the section up, helping you get to grips until you’re playing it at normal speed. This feature allows you to take sections of a song that are specifically challenging you and slow them down to a pace that’s a bit easier to handle. Thankfully, there’s a helpful feature called Riff Repeater. This is fairly good system, but as the songs themselves become more complex it can be difficult to feel like you’re progressing smoothly. If you grasp playing those notes, the game will introduce more until before you know it, you’re playing the whole song.
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Rocksmith’s difficulty is adaptive, starting you off playing only a few notes of a song that’s playing at full speed. Besides, I’ve enjoyed the process a lot more than I enjoyed the guitar lessons of my childhood and that’s got to be to its credit. That’s normal, right? Fight through it.Īfter a few weeks of playing Rocksmith I’ve become significantly better at playing the guitar that doesn’t mean I’m actually good, or even decent by any means, but I’m definitely better and that shows the game is fulfilling its promise. I had the initial frustration of realising just how little I know, followed by the usual overwhelming feelings of failure and certainty that everything I touch turns to ash. It should be noted that I haven’t touched a guitar since I was around 11, so I was essentially going into the game as a complete novice with ridiculously high expectations of how quickly I would pick things up.
