As someone whose fingers seem to possess a strange form of digital Down's Syndrome when it comes to pulling off hammer-ons in Guitar Hero expert, this thrills me: a utility that allows you to plug the Guitar Hero DVD into your computer and practice away.

It doesn't actually support the controller — you play along on it without feedback. Nevertheless, it looks like a crazy cool tool for training your fingers on those tough pull-offs: "The Speed control allows you to slow the song down to observe the fast/complex parts in detail. This is done using audio time-stretching, so the overall pitch of the song does not change with the speed... An Animated fret display shows the fret button presses for a given difficulty setting... Optionally, the software can hint early presses for upcoming notes."

Red Octane damn well better be working on a viable practice mode for Guitar Hero 2.

VGS Player

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