Fake it, until you make it!

For a generation of guitar and drum players, watching kids and young adults bouncing around with plastic guitars with big colored buttons should be depressing. The future of instrument playing is ruined, right? Well, it turns out that game play actually generates interest in the 'real thing.'

Research from one of Britain's largest music charities, Youth Music, has shown that up to ‘2.5 million children have picked up real guitars and drums after playing music-themed video games like guitar hero.’

The report conducted by Youth Music found that of the 12 million young people aged from 3 to 18, more than half played music games. A fifth of those gamers said that they now played an instrument after catching the musical bug from the games. So it appears that many of us start out faking it and then decide that we should have a go at the real thing.

So what might be the lesson here, when education is mixed with entertainment everyone wins. Capture my imagination and you capture me.

(Source: timesonline.co.uk)