Anti-boredom and Day 02

Anti-boredom

The jury is out on if this game IS genius, but it does have a few brilliant ideas.  I'm not a complete beginner, so there's a few things in the lessons and videos that I already know.  The genius thing that Rocksmith 2014 does is they never turn off your guitar.  While your points are being totaled up, while you are watching videos, while you're waiting for something else to begin, you can be playing.  I don't feel bored at all, because I can always be noodling around while things are happening inside the game.  Not that the wait times are long for loading screens, they are very tolerable.  While I was watching how to work a strap... I was practicing my E minor scale.  While I was waiting for my score to total in a mini-game, I was practicing Brain Stew(song not included in game).

There is hardly a time where I'm not making noise.  I really think I'd be appreciating the game less if this was not a feature.

Day 02 No songs... ok, songs too.

I started out the day deciding not to try and play a song.  I am a long way from songs being very fun right now.  I started out going to the lessons section.  I watched a few without skipping, and as I mentioned above, thank goodness they let you play around while the lessons are going on.  I worked on getting the lesson's practice track down to memory, and then I moved on.

Looking at the menu, I decided to finish out a mission about setting up a jam band.  Apparently I did it wrongly yesterday for completing the mission.  Paying more attention to it, I loaded a pre-set band like they tell me.  The pre-sets have a lot of variety, and you don't have to dink around with little sliders if you don't want to.  I really appreciate how this game has obviously powerful control over things, but has perfectly usable pre-sets.

After a few jam missions completed, I decided I wanted to try the Guitarcade.  Yesterday I payed a visit to the Guitarcade as part of a suggestion that the game gave me(not a mission, songs will suggest things to help you play the song better).  I obviously was not ready for it,  I sucked at the game and so stayed away from that.  Today I loaded up the first game, Gone Wailin'.  All these games have a retro 8-bit look to them, and I really like it.  Gone Wailin' is a guy that rides on top of a whale.  You make more noise, the whale spouts water, elevating you.  There are bananas to grab as the characters move along the scrolling background.  It is pretty fun actually.  What does it teach?  Well, you have to mute a lot, which is something good for beginners to practice, also it will build up hand endurance.  While neither were something I really needed to practice, I am new to using a pick.  I have this bad habit of my index fingernail raking the strings, leaving me with a sore finger nail later in the day.  I'm using this to help me keep in the habit of holding my fingers more correctly.

At the end of my session, I decided to go ahead and look at playing a new song.  The Arctic Monkey song is pretty good even though I"m not a huge fan of theirs.  I also played some more of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks.  Still not fun to learn songs yet.