Can Guitar Hero make me better at guitar?

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00:00 - what happened to guitar hero?
03:16 - why I suck at guitar
07:46 - beginning my journey
09:16 - giveaway/ad
10:40 - my journey continues
19:49 - beating the devil
22:44 - a song for lou
23:38 - the dumbest thing I've ever done on this channel

they're a little janky because I don't really know what I'm doing

merch:

follow me:

[scabillis]

i wish guitar hero made you a better youtuber

[patallene]

Have you considered hiring a guitar hero expert and having him sit off camera and doing it for you?

[Yellowtailz]

The thought of Amanda coming home from her day job to her husband who has been playing guitar hero for 11 hours straight makes me laugh

[emily_is_fine]

Drew seems like the most left-handed person ever. To learn that he is not is a total shock to my system

[tayloranderson]

For those like me who wanted to know the songs at the beginning they are:

“Dead Messages” by Hail the Sun
“Safer in the Forest/Love Song for Poor Michigan” by La Dispute
“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” by Radiohead
“Life is Simple in the Moonlight” by The Strokes

[saturnpandora]

8 years ago i worked at a taco shop and the song "in the meantime" came on the radio. i told my coworker "hey i can play this song on expert on guitar hero" and he said to me without missing a beat "wow i didn't know i was working with a loser"

[jazzy-sley]

i love how drew was like "i never learned scales, thats too difficult" and then proceeded to explain how he memorized the notes in the keys of certain songs.

[TimeBucks]

Drew seems like the most left-handed person ever.

[NotOnLand]

A big problem with Guitar Hero's learning curve is that if you fuck up it ends the song and you have to restart. When I took music lessons my teacher always said that if you make a mistake, keep going and don't go back. If you keep restarting that part it trains your brain that the mistake is the "right way" through repetition. So if Guitar Hero keeps making you restart at the same point, you "learn" the wrong thing and it's a lot harder to undo that.

[SeaInTheSky]

Bless you for slapping the new tunes into clone hero. 🤘🏻Can’t wait to force our guitarists to fail playing their own parts.

[tasukovalskia]

Kurtis: learned magic
Danny: “learned” speedrunning minecraft
Drew: learned guitar hero

[_Kinetic]

Your "why I suck at guitar" portion of the video also rings true to myself as well. I spent most of 14-19yrs just learning how to play new songs via tabs, eventually peaking at Blackbird by The Beatles. Eventually got to a point where I would rarely pick it up, and if I do, was just to try and re-memorize songs... as I slowly began to forget how to play them and just stop altogether. 10ish years later I've decided I'll be taking a new approach to learning (but no via Guitar Hero), by just learning music theory, scales, triads, etc. Hopefully this guitar journey becomes more fulfilling to me this time around!

[synnibear]

As someone who was awful at rhythm games as a child, guitar hero was the perfect anxiety simulator.

[marchingham]

Listening to Drew explain music theory without knowing he's explaining music theory might be my favorite thing ever.

[Burritopizzasauce]

I love him accidentally learning scales without realizing it by learning solos first and working backwards.

[MaggieDrennan]

I’m a music education student and the way drew talked abt never properly learning the basics like scales and basic music theory, and how that really held him back as a performer, just made me happy to know that he can atleast admit to himself that proper education in music is so so crucial to being a good player. I’m not saying he isn’t, but he could probably be phenomenally better if he just sat down and learnt the basics—they’re boring, I get it. But if you have the right fundamentals you’ll be set if you ever want to learn to write out music, learn a new instrument, improve on your own, etc etc.

[surefire]

You’re kidding me, I have to hear this guys voice for the SECOND time in two weeks?

[brutalmoose]

i'm pretty sure watching this video taught me how to play the guitar.
thanks drew.

[setoGabes]

i like how you went from being the guy that would drive to a closed Wendy's at 4am because he was too shy to do a silly vine joke in public, to the guy that would show up to an open mic night just to play guitar hero in front of actual bands

[seisage]

I'm under no impression that Drew will ever see this, but I want to thank him for getting me into Intervals (the concept of a sax solo in a guitar piece was intriguing, ok?). Like him, I don't think I'd say they're really one of my _favorite_ bands, but their albums The Shape of Colour and The Way Forward are just really nice to listen to. Fantastic for early morning commutes tbh. Definitely gonna check out Hail the Sun and Sea in the Sky!