One of the first senses children pick up on is sound — both the ones they hear (i.e. your voice or the booming bark of your family dog) and the ones they make themselves (cooing, laughing, babbling).

As the old saying goes, "You have to go back before you can go forward." And that means you should learn the tradition of the instrument to gain greater knowledge and bring more depth to your playing.

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Harmonix is perhaps best known for pioneering the plastic instrument revolution of rhythm games, plucking along on a plastic guitar to popular songs while making the player feel like an absolute ...