Most American children do not learn how to play an instrument at school anymore because of schools having to eliminate music programs from their curriculums . In recent years, however, a rising number of young kids] and teenagers are wanting to learn how to play instruments like acoustic guitars , keyboard, electric guitars, singing and drums for kids . This new interest has been influenced by the encourage singing, musical bands and playing guitar and other instruments .
Some of the first video games that came out that were about singing . A lot of them use a special microphone to hook up to the game console and then you could pick a song to sing to typically in a karaoke -like technique. The favorite] ones were the kind that copied popular singing shows like American Idol. You could create yourself into a video contestant and then sing before a panel of judges and a large crowd. Your you performed . You usually had to learn how to sing the correct notes and to follow the song, or you would perform poorly . Due to these types of games, more kids than ever are now wanting to take singing lessons because they enjoyed singing on their video game so much .
The next popular video game that was created and increased the interest in kids wanting to learn how play an instrument is the one called Guitar hero. This game comes with an authetic appearing electric guitar that attaches to the game unit and has buttons on the neck] that are color coded. In order to play the have to push the right color button when it shows up on the screen . For beginners it has some slower more simple songs to learn and the speed and difficulty rise with the higher levels. This is a fun way for someone who does not know how to play that instrument to feel like a real guitar strumming rock star. Because so many kids have enjoyed this game so much, they have been signing up for guitar lessons at a very high rate since the start of this video game.
The final fun game that was created to join the other rock star like video games is known as Rock band. This takes the same concept as the American Idol one and the Guitar hero game and put it all together with a complete rock bands with a singer, drummer, guitar player and a keyboarder. Because so many games only allow one or two participants at a time , this has been a wonderful one for several friends to do all together . This has caused teenagers to want to learn how to play the different instruments shown in this game.
Many parents do not like the fact that their kids play so many video games but the fact that a few of them, have encouraged several of them to learn how to play a musical instrument is a positive aspect .
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