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A guitar controller is a video game controller designed to simulate the playing of the guitar, a string musical instrument. Guitar controllers are often used for music games such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Um Jammer Lammy: NOW! and GuitarFreaks. The controllers are played by holding down a colored fret button that matches a colored, on-screen ...
Fanned-fret guitars have a multi-scale fingerboard because of "offset" frets; that is, frets that extend from the neck of the guitar at an angle. Ralph Novak (Novax Guitars) was the first to apply this idea to the electric guitar (1988). [2] The frets are arrayed on an angle, in contrast to the standard perpendicular arrangement of other guitars.
The G-Sharp is tuned accordingly, and the standard tuning is identical to putting a capo on the 4th fret on a regular guitar: G#-D#-B-F#-C#-G# As G# and A♭ is the same musical note it would be correct to say that it is an A-flat instrument, but naming his guitar and his company Fjeld chose to ignore this fact, and it is not mentioned anywhere.
A Guitar Hero World Tour drum kit (and guitar gameplay) The drum kit controller designed for Guitar Hero World Tour was the first such controller for a Guitar Hero game. It features three drum pads (red, blue and green) and two cymbal pads (yellow and orange), as well as a kick pedal, and a complement of standard buttons.
The updated Guitar Hero Live controller uses a 2 × 3 button fret system in contrast to previous games that uses a 1 × 5 button scheme.. Guitar Hero Live follows similar gameplay to previous installments in the series, requiring players to use a guitar-shaped controller with buttons and a strum bar to match notes on a scrolling "highway" corresponding to notes played in a song.
Power Gig plays similarly to other guitar-based games, with a note display divided into five colored lanes corresponding to different frets.The game ships with a 2/3 scale six-string electric guitar, designed to be usable with Power Gig and other games in a similar fashion to a standard guitar controller.
Fret Nice is a platform game developed by Pieces Interactive AB and published by Tecmo. The game was released on Xbox Live Arcade on February 4, 2010, and PlayStation Network on February 24, 2010. [1] The game was designed to use a guitar controller, but can also be played using a normal gamepad.
Also known as miKro RG series, this model is a smaller scale guitar designed for smaller hands, with a 22 inch, 24-fret neck, based upon the RG neck. These models use a fixed through-body bridge. While normally provided with 2 pickups, a model was made available which replaced the neck pickup with an onboard 2.5 watt amplifier.