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This reminds me of the time they got bands to play Rock Band with their own songs. They put them on expert mode and some of them failed.

The best was when the singer failed despite sounding identical to the track, since he was singing over himself.

I wish I could find that video.

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Rock Band is really nothing like playing the actual instruments though. Wonder how the guitar and bass players would fare in Rocksmith, however.

Only to an extent. Rock Band 3 added a "Pro Mode" which, on the highest difficulty, required playing the song note-for-note. The pro mode keyboard and guitar peripherals double as actual MIDI controllers.

No but the funniest part was the lead singer "failing" when singing his own dang song.

I've always liked this short article written by Krist Novoselic, bassist for Nirvana, about trying to play the bass line to In Bloom in Rock Band 2.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090122035037/http://blogs.seat...

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