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Video: Rock Band on iPhone

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 8th 2009 7:40PM

Touch Arcade has been jamming out to Rock Band on iPhone and it has the finger-tapping video to prove it. Revealed yesterday, Rock Band for iPhone takes the rhythm series and converts each instrument -- including vocals -- into a tapping title, asking players to hit the notes at the proper time.

The game features a quick play mode, but players can take their bands to glory in the tour mode. It also includes online and local bluetooth multiplayer. There is no announced price for the full game, which comes with 20 tracks and could release as early as next week. Touch Arcade notes there was a Smashing Pumpkins pack of two songs for $1. We've contacted Harmonix for more pricing details and will update if we receive them. Check out the video after the break to see how you'll tap, tap, tap along to the music.

Update: Check out the full track list in the iPhone Rock Band fact sheet "thingy." Yes, that's what it's called.

Rock Band iPhone / iPod Touch

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Tags: Apple, harmonix, iPod, mtv-games, rock-band, rock-band-iphone

Reader Comments (35)

*imagines all the strange looks one would get for holding the phone close in front of your face and singing into it while walking down the street/sitting in Starbucks*

You would would definitely get strange looks considering that is not how the singing portion works. (That part is near the end of the youtube video)

I think the more important question is - why isn't that the way the singing works? I guess if the iTouch doesn't have a mic (does it? I can't afford one to find out) then it kinda makes sense, but it'd be nice to have that option for the iPhone.

Google is free. At least one generation of iPod Touch's are sans microphone, so that would segment early adopters there (there are millions).

none of the ipod touches have built in mics.. you can buy external ones for real cheap or use 3rd party headphones with a mic (i use my blackberry headphones).

i actually got excited when i realized you could do vocals in this game.. then watched the video and felt meh again.

The finger at the top is freaky.

Kinda like tap dancing with your fingers? Tap fingerancing?

Kinda like this?

http://www.katzenjammerstudios.com/personal/chris/music/forgemmil.mp3

blink-182 in any music game = instant fail.

@ChuckBartowski

Better than blink-182? Yes, it is better.

Anything's better than blink-182.

Funny how people here in Joystiq think that I'm actually a Jazz fusion guitarist.

Nobody sees the Mighty Boosh reference in my name.

I guess I'm the only Mighty Boosh fan here on Joystiq. :[

But jazz fusion is actually a lot better. Blink is fun to play on drums, or vocals if you have a particularly whiny friend, but other than that, no dice.

They're better than Turk-182

his dying mother gave him drumsticks when he was nine alright
wow. losen up a little guys.

I have never been a big fan of Music games, but I always saw them as being fun for when you have a party and you a guitar and all the other stuff, but this and the psp one don't seen all that fun to me.

I would imagine singing is VERY optional. Otherwise they'd be excluding the Touch crowd.

Well, the singing is just putting your finger on in four sections for as long as the note lasts, not singing into the mic, so the Touch crowd shouldn't be excluded

I'm really disappointed.

I wanted to be able to sing INTO my Phone for the vocals.

Other than that.......sound quality is pretty damn good.

Sweet.... buying it.

Hells yeah. I doubt I'll get more than the songs included, since I put so much into the collection I have in RB2, but it'll be fantastic. Very glad for multi-touch.

Rudy van DiSarzio, Jazz fusion guitarist. (I go by many names...) in any music game thread = instant fail.

Rock Band is officially dead to me. This is ridiculous.

Oh, right, because releasing a game on a phone is a sign of the end. Just because it's on a phone doesn't mean it's the end of Rock Band being an awesome series. In fact, I doubt too many people will even know about this for a while...

...

You're not Bobby Kotick.

Bobby Kotick has betrayed Joystiq! Where are his dulcet tones?

Of course, I'm not. The real Bobby Kotick kinda put a bullet to himself after getting banned from Joystiq. Pride issues, I guess...

No, I'm the bastard offspring of Bobby Kotick. But never fear. I've learned everything I know from my father, and I'm willing to pass on what I know to those willing.

So Bobby committed suicide, Tom committed seppuku...Peter, I'd look out if I were you.

looks better than i expected. that's not saying much, but i'm alright with it.

I don't get it, where do you plug in the peripheral? I want to add to my pile of garbage plastic instruments.

want to add to your pile of garbage?
its the thing that you're playing this on. :)

It looks cool, and I'll probably buy it...but I was hoping it'd be like Rock Band Unplugged.

i want this, but then i would have to buy an ipod

The main issue with having a game on my iPod/iPhone is that I want to be able to listen to my music. If I have thousands of songs in my library, I don't want to be restricted to just a few select ones. I have Phase on my iPod, which isn't nearly as complete as this game (no tour, no specific instruments, no professionally created charts, no multiplayer obviously), but what bugs me the most is that I don't get to just listen to whatever I want, which is what I use my iPod for. Even if I had my whole library converted to be playable in Phase it is much more inconvenient to switch artists or playlists. As a result I end up playing games that don't specifically involve music so that I can listen to my library in the background.

The other problem here is that I (and my friends) play Rock Band for the group party atmosphere it provides. The best part is listening to great music, really loud, with a group of people who are into it. Tapping out colours isn't that great by itself even if there is still good music.

What's this 2 for $1 thing? I don't see why these songs would be so much less than the ones available for 360/PS3/Wii. I guess we'll know when the final pricing is announced.

i think they're less because of note charts and amount of effort it goes into producing them.

definitely gonna check this one out. I own Rock Band 2 for PS3 and Rock Band Unplugged for PSP, I will buy it and probably do a comparison between this and rock band unplugged

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