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Re:“World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat by maratc on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:57AM (#30856961)
I agree it's not 100% the same thing but it's much closer than playing a plastic guitar.

Being an excellent GH drummer might make you (a mediocre) drummer IRL. Being an excellent GH guitar player won't make you even a beginner guitar player IRL. It's not "an entirely different skillset", it's a relevantly close skillset as long as drums are affected.

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Re:“World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat by hnlmorg on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @12:02PM (#30857067)
My point is that being a drummer, even a mediocre one, is all about technique and that technique differs on a real drum kit vs Guitar Hero drums.

While superficially it might look the same, drumming isn’t just about hitting objects in time. How you hit those objects is what really matters but GH doesn’t train that skill.

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