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Guitar Hero Camp
by Ian Bogost February 7, 2009
categories: Console & PC Games , Educational Games

Power Chord Academy is a music camp for 12-18 year olds in Los Angeles. This summer, the school has announced a new program, GameROCKERS™.

GameROCKERS™ is our exclusive 3-day cutting edge game-musician program for the new age of musicians who play Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Loaded with competitions and prizes, students play in bands, write songs, record songs, and play a final concert and Battle of the Bands!

It's ambiguous in the press release they sent me, but I'm assuming that this is not a "you like Rock Band so learn to play for real" sort of thing, but rather a "Rock Band is a new way to play music" sort of thing.

Comments (1)

Yes, you are correct. Sounds like the latter. I blogged about this the other day, and in doing so linked to the program on their website. It's "come play rock band for 3 days with other like-minded kids whose parents also have 800 beans to spare.

kpallist on February 9, 2009 6:39 AM

 


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