{"id":7,"date":"2015-01-19T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guitarzero.me.uk\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2015-02-26T00:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T00:43:58","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.guitarzero.me.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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I had a guitar back when I was in my late teens – early twenties. It was a Hohner Viper STii and I loved it. My friends and I had a ‘band’ and we played together.<\/span><\/p>\n

Was I any good?<\/span><\/p>\n

I probably thought I was better than I actually was.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the passage of time this instrument has been lost to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fast forward some 20 odd years later and I now have a family. I never really lost my interest in playing guitar but with more important things like work and bills, this interest got shelved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until last Christmas…….<\/span><\/p>\n

My daughter asked for a guitar. She has been teaching herself to play the ukulele over the last year, and as she hasn’t done too bad a job of it, we agreed. The problem here is that learning the ukulele is one things, but the guitar is whole other ball game. I had heard of Rocksmith from Ubi Soft, but after some research I couldn’t find a definitive answer as to whether it can really teach you to play. From the YouTube videos i had seen, it looked very similar to Guitar Hero from Activision. My daughter has played quite a bit of Guitar Hero and I started thinking would this help her learn?<\/span><\/p>\n

I bit the bullet and got a copy of Rocksmith 2014 through Steam. I then had to get a cable. The cable was \u00a319.99 on its own from Amazon, or for \u00a322.99 I could get the cable and the previous version of Rocksmith. So I did just that.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has spent some time with her guitar hooked up to the PC battering away at various songs. When the Christmas Holidays were over she returned to school.<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess curiosity got the better of me and when she was out one day I decided to try if for myself. I too have played guitar hero and the interface was similar. But unfortunately her choice of guitar was not too my liking. She opted for a semi acoustic and all though it is a nice instrument, the body is HUGE. Way too fat for me and I am not comfortable playing it. I am constantly aware of this and it distracts me.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I decided to get my own. I really needed to keep the budget down, as this IS an experiment and there is a chance of failure. But, not too cheap. I remembered a friend from school who bought a REALLY CHEAP guitar from the back of a magazine. It was very flimsy to say the least. I headed over to eBay and after much browsing I bought one.<\/span><\/p>\n

A B.C. Rich Ironbird. \u00a0\"bcrib\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes metal music is still a part of me after all these years.<\/span><\/p>\n

So now I am awaiting my new arrival, wondering what condition it will be in and hoping its not too banged up and it gets here in one piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will continue to update my progress<\/strong> (Assuming I make any) in the blog so head over there if you are interested in how my Mid Life Crisis pans out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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