{"id":248,"date":"2007-05-05T11:53:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T11:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/05\/my-guitar-hero\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T11:53:04","slug":"my-guitar-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/05\/my-guitar-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"My Guitar Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Howard, who coincidently is also yours and My Robot Friend<\/a>, turned me on to the Yamaha EZ-EG electric guitar trainer<\/a>. Howard does electronic music and an elaborate live show, so he bought the EZ-EG to customize and hack as a unique MIDI controller (electronic music playing thing). MIDI is a sound interface. The guitar out of the box comes programmed to play sounds very much like the sounds of a guitar string being plucked. You can however program it to play any sounds and thus make something much different. That's Howard's bag and a story for a different post. <\/p>\n

When Howard's arrived at the office, I played with it for two minutes and then ordered one. I have a problem with impulse gadget buying, you see. It's so much fun. I can almost play Take Me Home Country Roads<\/a> already! I'm not sure if this will actually teach me to play a real guitar, but I don't care. It's like playing a really hard version of Guitar Hero. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Guitar Hero, the EZ-EG could theoretically be hacked to actually play Guitar Hero AND teach you to play guitar. I was thinking of doing this for a brief second, but gave it up because 1.) I am lazy. 2.) Someone else will do it soon. 3.) It's not long before the makers of Guitar Hero do it. I'm off to learn the chords for Day Tripper<\/a> now. Wheee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Howard, who coincidently is also yours and My Robot Friend<\/a>, turned me on to the Yamaha EZ-EG electric guitar trainer<\/a>. Howard does electronic music and an elaborate live show, so he bought the EZ-EG to customize and hack as a unique MIDI controller (electronic music playing thing). MIDI is a sound interface. The guitar out of the box comes programmed to play sounds very much like the sounds of a guitar string being plucked. You can however program it to play any sounds and thus make something much different. That's Howard's bag and a story for a different post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}