Air Guitarist’s Rock Dreams Come True
Some of you know that the reason I learned to play guitar was because I am an avid air guitarist, which caused no end of frustration to my girlfriend (now wife) back in the day. “You don’t know how to play guitar! Stop that air guitaring, it’s annoying!”
Well, I wasn’t about to give up air guitaring, so I learned to play guitar, thus ending her reasoning for being frustrated. (I later found out that the air guitaring is annoying, regardless of one’s ability to play.)
Well, today I read an article that gives me hope for the future.
Aspiring rock gods can at last create their own guitar solos - without ever having to pick up a real instrument, thanks to a group of Finnish computer science students. The Virtual Air Guitar project, developed at the Helsinki University of Technology, adds genuine electric guitar sounds to the passionately played air guitar.
Thank you Helsinki. What will you think of next??
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