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If you play Guitar Hero four hours a day the same old strumming can get a bit tiring. Here are some ways to make the game like new again.
Piano Style or Dobro Style, as I call it. Hold the Guitar flat on your lap and play it like that. It's the best of these three to start with because it's easy.
Violin Style. Hold the guitar like a violin. I like this a lot... makes me feel sophistimacated. Sometimes if I'm feeling really gutsy, I'll use the Whammy Bar as the bow. Otherwise I just hold it like a violin and play it like a guitar.
Wii-Mote Only. I don't know if you can do some variant of this with XBox or PS2/3, but you can do it with the Wii for sure. It's the most challenging if you've played with the guitar for a long time. B=Green. Right Arrow=Red. A=Yellow. 1=Blue. 2=Orange. Up Arrow=Star Power. Shaking the remote=Whammy. It can get pretty complicated. I've been too much of a chicken to try it on anything higher than Medium.

I was playing Guitar Hero online and it got me thinking: How long will it be until there's absolutely no one that owns Guitar Hero and wants to play online? Tomorrow? 400 years from now?
I got to picturing myself forty years from now: /cue dream sequence harp chords/ I'm cleaning out the basement. I pull out a box marked "Nintendo". At the bottom of the box I find a strange looking Guitar. I consider hopping into my hover-car to bring it to the pawn shop, but I pull something else out of the box: a case marked "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock." It all comes back to me. I pop it into the dusty Nintendo Wii. I play Cliffs of Dover on Expert. I click "Nintendo WFC." I search endlessly for an opponent - nothing. Then I create a game of my own - nothing. After fourteen hours someone finally appears, but it's clearly some four year old who found this "antique" in his grandpa's attic. /end dream sequence/

I've become addicted to online play - mainly on Guitar Hero. I've spent the last five and a half hours destroying people on Guitar Hero... and, yeah, I may have been beat a few times... technicalities.
I have some stories about my online play:
I tend to lean towards Expert most of the time. I'm not like one of those people who's too big for his britches. I can handle Expert... except for three songs - Holiday in Cambodia, Helicopter, and of course Through the Fire and Flames. So Anyways, I'm creating matches like nobody's business, and I'm creaming people - mopping the floor with them. Then this one guy comes along. He selects easy... I laugh a little, and then select Expert. So the first song he picks is Through the Fire and Flames. I consider going back to change my selection to medium, but that's when it hit me- If I did that, I'd become everything that I hate in the world - a quitter, a sap, a loser. So I went with Expert and said to myself, "No guts, no glory." Needless to say, I made a fool of myself - but who was the real fool? Someone who actually challenged himself or someone who is a quitter?
So the very next match, I choose Expert, and my opponent chooses Expert. He picks Through the Fire and Flames. I couldn't believe it. It was better though because we both made fools of ourselves.
Note: If there's a song that you hate, and you hear it enough times... you still hate it.