Finally played Wii Music, went in wanting to hate this game...

[MaxwellGT2000]

Alasted said:

Godot said:
As a musician and a music composer myself, I have to say that I don't think this game is really a music game. Sure, you can be creative in your arrangement of the song but you're still extremely limited. It would have been so much better with a music creator mode like there is in Mario Paint. In the end, it helps you to keep a beat and how to make the difference between a few musical genre but it doesn't really teach you music. Just like I thought Guitar Hero wasn't worth (because you're much better playing a real guitar instead) it for a musician, I think neither is Wii Music.

It may be good for children or people that don't want to learn an instrument but what I recommend is to stop playing video games and learn an instrument.

I'm a musician myself, and I must say that I respectfully disagree.  Then again, I also loved the Guitar Hero games.

 

I agree, I know it lacks a bit of freedom in making your own music but really it's a good tool for teaching, I'm going to be a music teacher myself one day, I started out in music classes in school and what did we learn?  Not an instrument, not at all, you learn tempo, notes, how long to hold them, definitions, and some styles.  Wii music teaches those things pretty well from what I can see and every learning experience starts at an elementary level, so it's good for kids and adults to learn a few basics, as well as us experienced music lovers to tool around with and have some fun with things we could play in real life.

I find it obvious Godot that your pleasure from music comes from constructing a song from the ground up and it's a very important part of music, but you have to start somewhere being the basics, which this game gives that I've seen no other game offer, sure Mario Paint has a music creator mode but do you think anyone but people with some musical background could make something really good on that program?  Or better yet could that program teach new people the basics?  The idea of Wii music is totally different from what you seem to want it to be.