RP: Well I think as a teacher the number one thing you need to have is the interest of the student - if you can capture the student’s interest everything else will follow. Do you think video games can ultimately teach people to play instruments? For me as a parent, and as a musician that sees people pour hours into video games, it becomes a question of what’s the return on investment for that time.īD: Yeah, you might as well be learning something. I really lobbied for and worked with them in getting chord symbols that made sense. They didn’t want to be teaching stuff that was wrong or teaching bad habits, to let them know if something was off. RP: I was the theoretical conscience of the guitar part of the game. They would ask me what I thought as far as the chord symbols for the game, what sort of nomenclature to use - they used my Berklee Rock Guitar Chord Dictionary as a reference.īD: What sort of input were you giving them week to week? It was amazing to see the differences from one week to the next. They’re intensely creative people, just crackling bright. They asked if I’d be interested in acting as a consultant and every Wednesday I went into the Central Square offices to see what they came up with. RP: Harmonix showed me the new prototype guitar and I was really impressed with it. So it’s been great to see this happen - it’s one of the fun things about being a musician in 2010.īD: What was your involvement with making Rock Band 3? I don’t have a keyboard yet but I want to get one and play “Bohemian Rhapsody.” What I love is that Harmonix wants to involve some real musical knowledge - they’ve always represented a genuine musical spirit. I couldn’t play it before this - the game taught me that song! I gotta get “Crosstown Traffic,” I gotta nail that one.
I’ve been trying to play it on the expert level.
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He was called on early this year to help noted Cambridge video game developer Harmonix Music Systems develop its latest creation: Rock Band 3, and a sweet new Fender Mustang Pro controller with some significant improvements - namely, six buttons on 17 frets (102 buttons versus the original 5) plus six nylon strings that make playing the game more like the real thing than ever before.īoston Daily: The most important question first: What’s your favorite Rock Band song to thrash to? Rick Peckham, Guitar Department Assistant Chair at Berklee, has played guitar for 44 years.
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