Use a real guitar to play Rock Band 2 AND get punched while doing so!

by Ben Gilbert { Oct 28th 2009 at 5:00AM }

Normally when people mod real instruments for use in music-rhythm games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, they don't intentionally include the ability for someone else to play along by punching them. For Norway's Morten Skogly, that choice seemed only natural. On his website, you can see a shot-by-shot breakdown of the process necessary to transform something that creates music into something that plays along with music.

In fairness, the entire (ridiculously intricate) process leads to the hilarious video you'll find after the break. You see, rather than strum on the strings of his guitar, the punching gloves (punching him, mind you) approximate a strum for him. That means that every time he pushes a note, he gets punched. It's like penance!

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Tags: diy, guitar-hero, modding, morten-skogly, music, rhythm, rock-band

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DubiousCow @ Oct 28th 2009 5:05AM

Holy hell, everyone get this immediately without delay.

Morten Skogly @ Oct 28th 2009 6:11AM

Hehe, glad you like it :) It's quite easy to make. I will try to get an English how-to up as soon as possible.

Tiptup300 @ Oct 28th 2009 12:14PM

If you want a really simple way to play Rock band with a real guitar here's how,

You go into rock band, put it on mic. Hook up your guitar thru an amp, (have a stomp pedal for added fun), put the mic up to the amp. Then try to match the vocals. Then if your in a solo, you can go ahead hit the stomp pedal and play the song the real way. it's really fun!

skikunastom @ Oct 28th 2009 5:30AM

that almost defeats the purpose of the whole idea behind rock band -_-

Unknown @ Oct 29th 2009 1:47PM

The idea of having fun you mean? :)

sanryoga @ Oct 28th 2009 5:32AM

I could see this work, in the sense, make a punching bag with contacts on them and you should box in the rithm, that would be very fun and also quite tiresome.

more exercising than wii fit in any fact...