21st-Century Keytars
Make your own music with Guitar Hero controllers.
The author unleashes “plastic bundles of star power.”
Photograph by Sam Murphy
It’s all fun and games until someone turns those plastic Guitar Hero axes into real instruments. What musical possibilities lie hidden beneath those five rainbow-colored buttons?
Within a few years of the video game’s launch in 2005, millions of its guitar-shaped controllers were manufactured. Sadly, many are collecting dust in closets across the globe. In my closet was one such controller, leaning awkwardly between some dirty hiking boots and a deflated soccer ball. In 2007, I pondered ...
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