1Up reviews the 'guitar in a box' Jam Session for DS:
"Chances are you had or currently have a friend in high school or college who "knows" how to play the guitar. And more often than not, this knowledge translates into the first 20 seconds of a handful of popular songs...and that's about it. The first four chords of "No Rain" (Oh, I love that song!), and it's quickly on to "Stairway to Heaven." And under the right circumstances, that dude is totally awesome.
Jam Sessions is kind of like that friend, in videogame form. Don't go into this expecting a handheld Guitar Hero: There's no "game" to speak of. Rather, Jam Sessions is part of the same software family as Electroplankton and Traxxpad -- nifty little musical tools that, while short on bells and whistles, offer a fun diversion or a little flexibility to a home recording setup."
JonTron: Videogame commercials can really make or break your will to play a game, let Jon and his robotic parrot Jacques take a countdown of some of the most memorable eh?!
NoBSGamers writes: "One of the biggest arguments against games is that you are just following a set path, you don't create anything. While one could make the same argument against watching TV, or even point out that at least games help you with your path planning and logic skills. That does not mean that you can't directly refute the claims that games don't let you flex your creative muscles. Here are some games that let you create your own music."
good list, for the people with CFW on their PSP I highly recommend PSP Rhythm.
http://www.psprhythm.com/
Hmm, Electroplankton is also a good DS game for just messing around but it's rare and expensive, luckily enough it's being rereleased on the DSiware!
Jam Sessions looks interesting enough. What's funny is that I was thinking of getting Guitar Pro for the PC. I might as well go for Jam Sessions. Looks like all the important chords are there.
You should seriously get guitar pro. Jam Session is a game and GP is a program, and if you want to learn how to play the guitar you should go for the latter. That you're even considering Jam Session is incomprehensible. GP has TONS of free tabs for download for almost every song you could think of
You're right. The tabs and MIDI interpretation might be worth my time. Thanks man, I was weak. (and cheap). I'll swing by my music store sometime this weekend while I pick up some more loose sets of strings. Bubbles for ya.
If you have an inner musician inside of you then you would actually pick up a real instrument. You cant be a musician from playing games..
Okay… so he also uses a Midi keyboard, and a theremin (which is by far the coolest modern instrument)… but the whole thing is being controlled by a DS playing Jam Sessions that's hooked into a computer running Ableton Live . Pretty impressive if you ask me.
daaaaaaaaamn, that's pretty impressive.
Never really liked daft punk.. but still really cool.
