Rocksmith+ Piano is Okay... but wasn't good enough to save the series! - Rocksmith+ Piano Review
5Rocksmith+ Piano is Okay... but wasn't good enough to save the series! - Rocksmith+ Piano Review
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At last, here is the final instrument review for Rocksmith+. Piano. I’ve done a few Piano teaching app reviews such as Yousician and Simply Piano. How is Rocksmith’s take on the ivory keys? Overwhelming… to be so frank. What’s going on everybody, my name is jack Jenkins and welcome to my YouTube Channel. I do challenges and reviews that are released every single Friday.
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Rocksmith+ has been very difficult to review. While it does have some improvements over the previous entries it’s also missing a ton of content. Content that was in the original game fifteen years ago. For a monthly cost of a hundred and forty dollars… missing content from decades past has zero excuses. However, there is one brand new thing that is in this game that isn’t in any other Rocksmith, Piano.
That’s right, you can hook up any keyboard to your computer through a USB, audio interface, or microphone and play the piano. You can also use your phone but that is way too small of a screen for me. Adding the piano in was very simple for me. I am still new to the instrument with my only experience is doing the above two platforms. With that said, what are the features of piano and how do they compare with the competition?
Well, there are both video lessons you watch, practice tracks to play, and real songs to rock out on. Video lessons do come up short having a way smaller library than bass and guitar. The video quality is crisp and walks through different lessons such as playing scales, octaves, and more. After the video, you will do the practice tracks first with your left hand, then the right, and lastly together. It’s the same video and play technique that both apps mentioned above use and probably every other app as well. It’s a tried-and-true way of learning.
When playing, you will see the notes come down from the top row. You must hit the corresponding key that is highlighted. The colors correlate with the finger and hand you strike with. There are numbers that you can turn on that associate each key to the note to practice. So, you know one on the right side means you hit the note with your thumb and so on. I read online that these fingerings are AI-generated and that kind of makes sense as sometimes they have you stretch your hand across eight keys with your right rather than doing things with two hands. The note pathway doesn’t have a countdown that I’ve been requesting since the original Rocksmith back in 2011 which is a letdown.
You can change the Note Highway to use the traditional staff style in the settings. However, I kept it as it was for the most part. As you can see on the screen the presentation is pretty plain but functional. There are lyrics so you can sing the song as you play. If you miss a note, you will see a dot on the timeline above. Play the section fully and it will have that bubble effect. Keep playing perfectly and the song will increase with difficulty. You can also set the difficulty in the beginning of the song but I never touched this to get the real feel of the algorithm. It did leave things a bit easy for too long but overall, that is preferable to making things hard too quickly.
The licensed songs in the game are pretty good. They are missing a lot of the songs that are available for Bass and Guitar such as the Metallica catalog but what is here is good. The songs range from country to classical to metal to children’s songs. You know I was sitting and rocking out to Elmo. There are thousands of songs to pick from so there isn’t a problem there.
With the basic features outlined, the question remains of whether or not I prefer Rocksmith+ over the other apps. Of course, the answer will be the other apps for a few reasons. First, the lack of content. Simply Piano is by far my favorite of the three and that is because the lessons are so much more in-depth. Ten lessons cover what Rocksmith tries to do in one. They go from first hits to harmony in like six lessons whereas it took me all sixty days to get to that point in Simply Piano. As someone who takes yearlong breaks between instrument reviews, I vastly prefer the slower in-depth lesson structure.
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