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Gamerace on 12 September 2008
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Soma said:
Gamerace said:

 

Unfortunately, that's not what has been shown so far.  Only the ability to 'play' tunes - which means waggling at any speed and the song will play - correctly - at the speed of your waggling.  And the ability to freestyle the instruments.  How well that works is anyone's guess.  No ability to record or truly compose has been shown.

 

 You're right, but at E3 it was a bit different when Miyamoto was on stage, and was playing alone pressing buttons randomly and creating music. I'm sure that option will be in the game  toy, if not....

Yes it is in there.  On gametrailers you can find all sorts of people doing that with various musical intruments - including a dog...

My concern is - that isn't enough.   For example I give you my family (note: I'm ignoring the function to waggle preset songs here)

I love music and would love to feel like I could play but I'm tone deaf.   With Wii Music I could vertually play some notes but without some sort of instruction I will never be able to put them together into a tune.  If the game gave the correct buttons to push in the correct tempo then I could really actually 'play' a song.   But then it'd be a poor man's Guitar Hero and Miyamoto decided NOT to do that.   So for me Wii Music is a noise maker only.

My daughter loves rhythm games and isn't tone deaf but she's not musically skilled either.  She could play with it until she crudely simulated some song - say Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.  But Wii Music has no way to identify what she's trying to play so it can't score her or provide any sort of feedback.   Without that she'll lack any reason to try again.   She'll stick to DDR and GH where she can see the progress and is praised in-game for it.

My son is musically gifted.  I assure you he could quickly master any and all instruments on Wii Music figure out that A is Do, B is Re, 1 is So, etc and be able to freestyle Twinkle Twinkle perfectly within minutes. So Wii Music is perfect for him right?! Wrong.  He's already self-taught himself real guitar, keyboard and learning to play orcarina (yes, he is a Zelda fan... why do you ask?).  Do you honestly think playing with the extremely crude and limited scope of Wii Music would appeal to him?  It lacks the necessary depth to keep him engaged, nor can he record music with it, compose or any such thing.

Maybe musical instruction, rhythm play, progression and more depth are there but if so why havn't they been shown?  With any of that, Wii Music will be too shallow for any but the youngest of minds.