Salon: <cite>Guitar Hero</cite> Creating Real-Life Guitarists, Kind Of

Over the weekend, the New York Times pointed to a lengthy post over on Salon's tech blog Machinist, which asks the question: is Guitar Hero converting normal people into real-life guitar players? Answer: kind of.

"Personally I've made hundreds or maybe even a couple thousand dollars on it, just because kids see the game and they want to go do the real thing," says Rob Caviness, who teaches at Backbeat Music, a studio he co-founded just outside of Denver. ...[But] Caviness notes that some of his video-game fans who've come to the class have dropped out. "They expect to jump into it and learn it as quickly as they learned the game, and they realize they can't," he says.

How 'Guitar Hero' Saved Guitar Music [Machinist, via NYT]