This is in no way related to fitness unless you count the calories I burned twiddling my fingers on a fake guitar. After what seemed like ages I FINALLY beat Rock Band on expert with the ol' guitar. The Outlaws' "Green Grass and High Tides" has been my nemesis for quite a while, and after an untold number of attempts to beat it I finally gave up a few months ago. Tonight on a whim I decided to jam a bit to the new Disturbed track and looking through my track list I remembered that I only had one song to beat to clear expert. "Why not" I figured. Worst case scenario is that I get pissed and put my fake guitar through my very expense LCD TV. That's TOTALLY worth it. Anyway, after a few practice sessions and FINALLY figuring out how to play the turns I conquered the beast. With fire blazing in all directions I triumphantly raised my rock fingers in the air and took in the virtual glory (check out the preview of the track in our Amazon player so you can know what I was up against!).
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Are you one of those virtual guitar players that gets into it and can't play sitting down? With the power slides, and the big arm swings? I'd say you could burn a reasonable number of calories playing this way. Doesn't Tony include some kind of rockstar jump and flail in the plyometrics dvd?
Admittedly I do get into playing my virtual guitar. I'm not much of the big jumping, hair metal kind of rocker though. When I'm tearing through the riffs I lean back, tilt the guitar a bit, and show the virtual fans the extent of my fake guitar playing prowess.
I have been known to get my arm every now and then though :)
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