Can Guitar Hero make me better at guitar? 

wym drew is so good-en at RU-vid????

congrats on pin dude

Fake

congrats on the pin!

banger so real

Danny learned how to commit fraud (in a fun way!)

@@Anna_Coelhinha so fun!

Eddy: eating at the same restaurant for weeks

theres always that ONE person in the trio 😡😡 /joke

They are expanding!!

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@@smokejcso close…

@@jackkoscak8501gotta be quicker than that 😞

Maybe the guitar villain was inside us all along

ngl "guitar villain" sounds like a fun game

I love this fact. I was about to mention the Neil C connection but you nailed it

I'm convinced that everything in this world somehow connects to Neil Cicierega 😭

@@asphyxia9786 yes

It always come back to Neil Cicierega

Guitar Hero was responsible for Metallica having an album mixed well in some form.

That's actually tragic when put like that.

@@GhostRider-on6bznot really

@@GhostRider-on6bz only for the rest of us lol, if she really wants to, she can probably just stop working at the drop of a hat. They're living the good life, happy for them

& the thought that he probably somehow makes more money for it makes me cry.

i think she's used to stuff like that by now

He’s really like “I don’t know scales, I just know all the notes that work over a particular key”

@@NateTheMeh hahaha exactly. I was dying 😆

He’s probably better off knowing what he already does then actually knowing the pentatonic scale 😂

That's the best way.

Straight up though, this is hilarious to watch someone sit there and not realize they were explaining music theory just by doing 👏

Cyute

I could always beat my cousin who played real guitar but that's probably mainly cus he didn't start playing until guitar hero 2 and my friends and I were already obsessed with the first 1 and could play expert before 2 even came out lol

My husband is an amazing guitarist, pianist and composer. The only thing in music i can win him is every music game lol

I never understood why they don't just... make the instruments but backwards lol. When I first played Guitar Hero I just flipped the guitar and played backwards. It was a lot easier than struggling to move my left fingers lol

I'm left handed and all the people that try to tell me to play a right handed guitar your left is your dominant hand, I'm like; If that is the way to go, why don't right handers play lefty guitars? 🤔

as a cellist and left hander, nothing makes me more conscious how not right handed I am than playing the cello lol. Bowing can be difficult and takes a some strength on cellos (working against gravity + thicker strings) So it goes both ways

@@nomoretwitterhandles left-handed instruments exist but are rarer so lefties often learn to play right-handed regardless

@@nomoretwitterhandlesit’s easier to coordinate your fingers on your non dominant hand than to move your whole arm correctly to play the instrument with your non dominant hand. Trust.

you can memorize scales visually on the neck without really understanding how they work/the notes in relation to each other

@@henryaugust98 ^^ what this person said. it's like looking at a piano and visually being able to memorize what keys to play with no relation to scales or further music theory

He's describing pretty much my experience as a guitarist, only I've been playing for a lot longer. That's not to say that I'm a better guitarist than him, rather that, like him, I never learned my scales nor how to read music beyond tablature. As a result, I too became great at memorizing and playing by ear, without actually seeing how the notes on the fretboard connect. It's really hard to solo or improvise when you have those gaps in your music education, because you get locked into these little regions on the fretboard, unable to freely leap from place up-and-down the fretboard in a musical way. I'm still a decent musician, and I've Co-written albums I'm really proud of and that people respond well to, but I would be a better guitarist if I knew the Scales and all that foundational stuff.

@@gcfournier3386 i think the dude is more refering to what drew said at 4:36 about being able to intuitively improvise stuff for whatever song hes playing once he's learned the song, not about drew just learning the tabs of a song

@@thepoonhound3003 I also wasn't just talking about learning the tab. I was continuing what others were saying in reply to the original commenter.

Damn, you got runner-up

Dammit, I wanted to comment this

it’s so tiring 😔

Yes 👏

Thanks :)

Omg was looking for this comment

dead messages omg..

HTS IS FUCKING DOPE!

THANK YOU I was listening to radiohead and went “wait where have I heard this before,” so your confirmation means a lot 🙏🙏

I was thinking the same thing

His watch is on the left arm.

As a left-handed person I don't know how to describe why he gives off left-handed energy but omg yes I completely agree haha.

As a lefty I agree with this statement

@@kingayy9267 There is a non-zero chance that he buys all of his t-shirts as mirror images, and just flips the video so we can't tell he's truly sinister.

that shit was so funny. i ain’t never been roasted so thoroughly and so quickly. i was literally speechless lmao

This made me burst out laughing, what an amazing coworker lol

Honestly, I would have either started hysterically laughing or just started sobbing from that

The Helmet song? What taco shop did you work at damn

@@drabdadster0790 taco john's. i’m from the midwest & i only said taco shop bc i've talked to non midwesterner's about taco john's before, and they're like "who is john 😭 why" like man idk. it kinda doesn't make sense.

sameeeeee gunna listen to fantastic by intervals when i go to college in the mornings

I would highly recommend Intervals, amazing band

Drew is actually the reason I ever checked out Hail The Sun (never heard of them before his channel); I remember he posted a video talking about how he thought he wrote his own guitar riff, but it was actually similar to a Hail The Sun song (Jane Doe, it's really good). I'm a bit ashamed to say I enjoy metal music and anything similar, yet I've never really sought it out haha. The only place I get music from is the channel MrSuic*deSheep (censored in case RU-vid automod flags my comment), and he posts all sorts of music, but it's rarely anything instrumental or acoustic. He mostly posts a lot of chill, EDM, electronic, etc., which I do enjoy a lot. If there was a similar channel but for metal/rock/orchestral (good lord I love some symphonic metal), then I'd probably have better access to that kind of music. So for now, Drew's recommendations are kind of all I have to go off of haha. If you're looking for more guitar pieces, I recommend "Let's Go" by Stuck in the Sound (the music video is hauntingly beautiful), "G.O.A.T." by Polyphia, "Little Cream Soda" by The White Stripes, "Sabotage" by Unlike Pluto (he actually makes a lot of guitar pieces as well as chill and pop, highly recommend him!), "Goddess" by Cepheid (I think Ceph's featured singers aren't very good but the instrumentals are nice), "Mikazuki" by Sayuri (I THINK she does music for some anime studios? regardless she is by far one of the best), "Self-Destruct" by Origami Angel (or literally anything by them, I have been really into their music lately), and "Satellites" by Periphery. You might enjoy some of these songs, or maybe not. I tried to include some variety in style and language so I hope you can find more artists you like. Cheers :)

@@nomoretwitterhandles Wow, thanks for the recommendations! I'll have to check them out. I do know "Let's Go" as well as other songs by Stuck in the Sound. They're great!

⁠​⁠@@nomoretwitterhandlesdude don’t be ashamed to like metal embrace it. I mean I am a bit biased because really all I listen to is metal. I think to many people think that liking metal is just a phase or you’ll grow out of it. It’s just good to see another metal enjoyer. Also if you want recommendations for metal bands to listen to I think nik nocturnal is a good channel.

oh and btw, you should try rocksmith! its like guitar hero but uglier and using an actual guitar as the controller

character development

Inspirational, honestly.

"I understand that reference"

💀

Smh he should've considered that

Oof

He wouldn't since he already did that with minecraft

Wow this is absolutely amazing

Hahah it’s true

why is this so accurate omg

As a left-handed person, I wholeheartedly agree.

@@4tado Maybe it's because there's a social belief that left-handedness tend to struggle more in life due to every tool being designed for right-handed use. But I also think it's because it's a very easy thing to imagine someone being left handed

Bet you this was Drew's actual end goal for making this video, to get a comment from you.

Your handle kinda reads like "Seal 'n' the sky" and I'm not mad at that.

PLEEEAAASE upload a video of that, it would be si fun to watch even if they nail it!

I didn’t even know your new EP had dropped, been waiting on something new from you guys !

it was so awesome to hear something from you guys show up into a drew video, it's so weird when those 2 worlds clash

I still can't beat raining blood on expert! The only song that has stumped me in my childhood and now.

I agree

Yo I watched Ur video about goths like 2 days ago 😎

Oh god it’s a twitter user run

i just thought it was too cool for me

​@@Azurethewolf168coward.

You couldn’t walk until you practiced and fell again and again. Same shit. No one’s gonna live your life for you.

@@TWHowllol weird response

Danny Gonzalez has so much dedication to his channel☺️❤️

It's a south park joke

@@truints First thing that came to mind lmao. Such a great episode. (season 11 episode 13 if anyone is wondering.}

*plays beautiful guitar song* “Idk how to play guitar :(“

Right

This is the mindset of people that develop skills: "I'm not good ENOUGH!" Sadly that means that you never really enjoy what you've accomplished.

Maybe I'm being too negative, but to be fair he's like pretty decent based on what I saw. As a fairly decent guitarist myself, most people can't tell the difference between a competent guitarist and literally Eddie van Halen. Not trying to be condescending, just thought it was interesting.

you could say he plays guitar… very gooden

Nice to see you here moose! ❤

You should do a guitar hero video too!!!!

Thanks Moose

Ian Brutalmoose?

@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChristshut up

and canada

Not obsessed yet

😂 I mean he’s into math rock, it was truly only a matter of time

Just give it some time. Jazz always wins.

Just let Adam Neely enter the chat. :D

This comment needs to be upped lol

@@EmyN it would almost be a funny story if my parents hadn't also spent money on two guitars and an amp 😭

@@spineofthesaurus Oh yeah 😭 you never picked it up? Just for funsies

@@spineofthesaurus everybody sucks at guitar at first, you just have to pick it up an mess around for like 30 minutes a day and you will be guaranteed to get better

dont let that money go to waste man

Hello Jarvis

woah the real jarvis woah!!!! wow!!!

Remember hearing y’all talk about this on the pod!!

Thanks men. Made me take so long to get that. Mom was going off and neevr evem liked it that lol. Bit hey. What are you gonna do? Can't live without em or with em . Ya know. Who me

best wrapped present shape ever

Don't tell drew!!😂

theres also rocksmith which is a rhythm game like guitar hero but you use a real guitar and it's meant to help you learn how to play

they even sold a guitar with strings that worked with this mode

@@lylukklol I used to love rocksmith

but real guitars dont have buttons...

Bass guitar is the easiest of the stringed instruments. 4 strings and you only have to play the root note of any chord of the song once per chord, and it sounds fine. You don't even need to play more than one string for an entire song.

@@kiillabytez it's really, really not. It's the second easiest to me mediocre at, after the ukulele, but once you get past the ultra beginner stages it's just as hard if not harder than guitar

​@kiillabytez playing something at a baseline doesn't translate to how difficult it can be. Bass is massive and unwieldy, as a guitar player I always had trouble managing the bass. Sure you can hit half notes in the right key and it'll work but you can also just hit the bass drum on rhythm as a drummer, so I figured you'd say drums are incredibly easy too?

at my youth group, our bass player doesn't know how to play the base, he just has a vague sense of rhythm

works great for any instrument if you just know the songs chords

I feel like I'd have lost my shit in the audience at the sheet absurdity

ok

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "I know of only one duty, and that is to love" ~ Albert Camus

drew learning about key signatures this way is possibly the funniest way to do it

pretty much how i learned to solo in jazz band not gonna lie

you're telling me by skipping everything else in the song but learning parts of the solo meant i learned music theory? D:

@@ScorchedEclipse by learning the notes used in the song and using those to pick and choose from during a solo, youve just learned what a key signature is! thats music theory, babaaaaaaay

@@kerenk oh no, what have i done D:

Just what I was thinking

If the forums are still active, you can download any song you want and live your wildest dreams. You can even show up drunk like Jimmy Page and leave early.

I used it for bass! It's annoying getting it to work depending on hardware lol but it is fun

Yeah thats what I thought of too. I remember seeing those dumb promos for that shit everywhere.

This game is great

Guitar Her-NO

based guitar sigma leaves acoustichuds seething

based

Deserved

Sry :(

What a thoughtful comment to leave!! I hope he sees it ☺️

this is so sweet

As someone who became incredibly good at guitar hero before playing real guitar, I can confirm Guitar Hero does in fact... not help in any of those fields you listed outside having better rhythm, which isn't the most helpful aspect for learning guitar. Even if you have good dexterity with your hands, that'll quickly go away the moment you pick up a guitar for the first time. The sightreading one got a chuckle from me. It'd be nice if that were the case, but GH isn't helping no one on that front. Sightreading is about instrument mastery and understanding the format the music is being present, which is typically sheet music. It's a specific skill that takes time and GH doesn't help with either front.

This comment was so nice it legit made me emotional lol

This is so sweet

Really, I have been lied to

"Conservatories hate him!"

agreed!!!

yes!

Yes!!!

i didn't even realize my brain is so used to them

Ii don’t understand what this is saying i might be having a stroke or something

He’s ass

It’s like a skateboarder who can land a varial heelflip but can barely Ollie or ride without falling off. Sure, they’re good at landing varial heelflips, but are they really a good skateboarder? Nonetheless being able to play like him definitely shows some decent skills and he could definitely be a great guitars if he worked more on the fundamentals(chords, scales)

@@fromthebackseat4865😐dude

South Park did it.

Prouda ya

@@NobodyNobodytrustNobody it was hard but I managed now I gotta get off meth

The 4th try guy if you will

kind of a jenna marbles-esque era? "i’ll do whatever i want and you’ll watch it because you love me" vibes and he’d be so right

His “nobody’s gonna watch this” videos are my favorite videos from him

I would label Drew as a commentary youtuber

this is a really sweet way of looking at it🥹

I remember I frequented an open mic in my city before the pandemic and this little old 75 year old lady decided to get up and do stand up and fucking crushed it

It’s quite literally Drew doing his once a year Gooden thing.

Omg you sweet soul what a wonderful perspective ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

It makes the mic even more open.

What's the name of your band? Also do you got any songs I could check out?

I’m having a panic attack just watching

Is this a thing for drums? I legit loved playing the drums on rock band and I would honestly like to learn like that.

I was so surprised to not see him use this tool to track his progress

@@nox1839 speaking as someone who's main instrument is the drums, Rock Band works just fine already tbh, it's how I picked it up in the first place.

Where's the online community? My family plays Rocksmith pretty frequently but I had no idea there were Rocksmith spaces online

My friend was in the very first advert for Rocksmith many years ago - it was such a weird shoot we were convinced the game wouldn't come out. I'm so pleased it's still sporting a community!

Brown alec spotted (knew you'd be here)

acai drew gooden collab when

omg acai haiii - I knew a clone hero enthusiast would comment on here 😈

I was waiting for you to show up!

yoooooooo alec

Yeah when he explained that you can take a solo and just play those notes however you like, THAT’S JAZZ

Genuinely hope he continues to get more into music with this perspective.

YES I love this comment!!!! Making stuff up and still managing to sound good is a talent!!!! entire genres are built around that!!!!! It's so endearingly frustrating how drew accidentally stumbled into having a great capability for jazz music, and just doesn't realize it!!!!!

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721You can’t ignore the important of music theory and reproducibility though

@@mrbanana6464may be true but you’re not gonna get very far into the theory without passion, and that comes firstly from having fun

Love Rock Band

Dude unrelated to the video but I love your channel 😊 great character design tutorials.

Wasn't expecting to see you here lol