guitar controller

Plastic fret instrument

A guitar controller is a video game peripheral shaped like a simplified electric guitar, used primarily with rhythm games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

Instead of strings, it has colored fret buttons on the neck and a strum bar or touch pad on the body.

Players press button combinations in time with on-screen prompts to simulate playing songs: I dug out my old guitar controller for the party.

Related
  • rhythmPatterned stress and silence
  • music gameEntertainment testing musical ability
  • plasticCapable of being molded
  • fretsWorries or string dividers
  • strumBrush strings rhythmically

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Categories
Opposites
authenticity/realness

guitar controlleracoustic guitar

Unplugged stringed instrument

electric guitar · Fender Stratocaster · Gibson Les Paul · classical guitar · bass guitar

input device type

guitar controllergamepad

Handheld console interface

DualShock · Xbox controller · joystick · arcade stick

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G