My soon-to-be 11 year old step-son is getting to that “too cool for parents” stage. So anything we can do to help bridge the gap helps with the attitude. Well, I got GuitarHero III for Christmas and have been working my way through the different levels. I made it all the way through medium and now I’m over half way through hard - but I had to wuss out on both battles.
Anyway, remember that scene in the movie “City Slickers” - when they’re sitting around the fire talking about how they used to fight with their dads all the time. But, the only thing they had in common was baseball - going to games, talking stats, stuff like that. I was reminded of this when Tommy and I were playing GuitarHero the other day. It’s common ground and a heck of a lot of fun.
I think I even get some cool points with his buddies when I go up and smoke them on the songs they’re working through. One day I heard them playing a song and fired up my amp and Strat and started playing the song for real - they got a kick out of that.
Who knew we’d be united in ROCK!
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Update: Two things…
My 4 1/2 year old is fast becoming a rock fan because of this game. He walks around the house singing “Slow Ride”, “Mississippi Queen” and “Rock and Roll All Night” - he loves these songs. It’s really cool to see him beginning to love music as much as I do. Plus he’s got great rhythm, and we’ll keep working on that.
Tommy had his birthday party/sleep over with 6 of his friends last weekend. So, I went and picked up a second guitar for them to “battle”. OMG, what fun that was. It’s also really cool that you don’t have to both be on the same level to battle. So, some of the kids who weren’t too good at the game could play against the others. That’s a really great idea in the game.
The other side benefit of the second guitar is that I let my 4 1/2 year old “pretend” that he’s playing along. It’s pretty cool to watch.