Rock Band - "Ohhh, I've wasted my life. . ."

So, IF you play Rock Band, do you ever have those moments when you are stuck on a song and end up practicing it? While you are practicing, do you think to yourself, "Man, what the $%#@! am I doing!?!?!?"

Heh. . . Well, I do.

I love ROck Band. I think it is a great game. So much so that I decided to "bite the bullet" and up the difficulty level to Hard and or Expert. Now, I will just preface the following with the explanation that I was never an expert at Guitar Hero 1 or 2. I have never been able to play any of these games on Hard at all, so suffice to say my skill level is really poor.

Anyway, I have been playing Rock Band Solo Tours with the Drum Set and the Guitar on Hard and Expert sort of off and on. The game gets sooo hard it becomes frustrating. (Yes I realize that Guitar Hero III is way harder and I shouldn't be whining, but hey. . . what can I say? I like whining.) So now I am at the point where I (think) all I have to do is playthrough the last 4 songs in the guitar solo tour on Hard. The Drums solo tour. . . .well, we just won't talk about that.

So last night I am sitting there and trying to play through the guitar solo on "Flirting With DIsaster" and for the 10th song in a row I find myself in the "practice room" practicing the song, and I sort of stop and think to myself, "WTF am I DOING?!!" I mean really! Here I am practicing the correct combination of button presses over and over again, when I could actually be learning HOW TO PLAY A REAL GUITAR!! Never before have I been so conflicted. (well there was that time when I went out to eat and the waitress gave me a choice of cole slaw or fries. . . but we are talking GAMES here.) I mean, on one hand I just CANNOT admit defeat, and onthe other I could be actually learning a real skill that is far better in EVERY way than completing some challenge in a video game in order to collect "digital nothing".

So, "what did I do?" Like any good gamer I hunkered down and I practiced the damn song.

@#%$! ! !