Real guitars for Guitar Hero

Ahmad Jamaluddin | Jul 15, 2008

Now that you have mastered the Guitar Hero and RockBand with the five-button guitar, what next? How about moving on from five buttons to six strings?

Thanks to Zivix Z1, you now can rock-and-roll with Guitar Hero or RockBand on a REAL electric guitar. If you are an amateur, Z1 will teach you to fret and pick on a real guitar. After you master the basics, you can practice your guitar skills with your favorite songs. Selections between playing a drum, bass, lead or rhythm track or turning the track off can be made by dragging your pick on the strings across the upper or lower five of the sensors on the fret board.

The current guitar that is available now makes the player look like a child by relying on the color-coded buttons to play the music. In comparison, Z1 requires the player to strum the guitar which resembles the real guitar thing. Thus, it requires knowledge of chords, timing and fingering which take patience to learn.

Zivix Z1 comes with bundled software to plug into a PC/Mac to play professional-sounding music. If you think you are ready to rock on like a pro, you can also record your own original track and share it online, or better yet, play it live with others online like a true rocker.

Unfortunately, Zivix's Web site neither provides the details of where it is available nor its price for now.

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