Free Guitar Playing Game – Frets on Fire
Posted on 22. Mar, 2008 by Ben @ Learn To Play The Guitar Free in Other Guitar Stuff
 Frets on Fire – A Free Guitar Playing Game |
I stumbled upon this great, fun and FREE guitar playing game called Frets on Fire the other day, and have been hooked on it! That’s right – you didn’t hear wrong…it’s really free! (Download Frets on Fire!)
For those of you who know the wildly popular PS2 game Guitar Hero, Frets on Fire is like the free version of it! In addition, unlike Guitar Hero, you can import your own songs into Frets on Fire, and its built-in editor lets you tab any song. Learn how to import songs into Frets on Fire.
You start by choosing a song, then begin the game. You’ll see a guitar bridge on the screen with 5 blocks of different colours at the bottom. Every block represents a different key, and you have to press the right fret keys at the right time, while pressing the pick key (enter) to play the sound.
The notes scroll down the screen pretty fast, and the challenge is to play the notes right. Played correctly, and it’ll be as if you were listening to the real song. However, if you play the wrong note, you’ll hear a mangled noise.
Frets on Fire is pretty user-friendly, but selecting songs can be awkward if you have a large playlist. I highly recommend this game – hearing your song being played correctly is pure satisfaction! (Download Frets on Fire!)
Features:
- Unique inverted keyboard gameplay style
- Support for guitar controllers and generic joysticks
- Includes a song editor for making your own tunes
- Compete with others on the World Charts
- Hundreds of songs composed by the community
- Supports importing Guitar Hero™ I and Guitar Hero™ II songs
Frets on Fire (guitar game) video
The great thing is that it’s multiplatform! Frets on Fire runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
For you techy, geeky, programmer cum guitar lovers out there, you’ll be pleased to know that Frets on Fire is a guitar game that is open source, with its full Python source code available.
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jimmy