Frets on Fire

A few years ago, before I could get my hands on my own Guitar Hero, I was looking for some way to download it and play on a PC. Little did I know, there was a free program that allowed you to add a seemingly endless list of tracks from the Internet and use keyboard as a guitar by holding it sideways and using the F-keys as the frets and the enter button as the strum. This game was called Frets on Fire. I downloaded it immediately.

Eventually, I got bored with the 3 custom tracks that came with it so I was in search of new music. I stumbled upon "song packs" for download. Each song pack contained at least 200 tracks. I sifted through it and got a bunch of tracks that appealed to me and soon enough I was jamming out to songs no one could even play on an actual Guitar Hero game. Over time, the game started to get old and I was getting tired of the lack of accuracy and overall bootleg look of the game so I went out and bought Guitar Hero 3 and forgot about Frets on Fire, until now.

I was watching an episode of South Park with Lauren Haley where Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny were playing "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga on Rock Band. I had no idea that a song like that would be on Rock Band so we did several google searches and YouTube searches and decided it wasn't real, it was just for the show. While doing that, I came across this YouTube video of 5 soccer players. In this video, they had to kick balls to hit the fret on a giant version of Frets on Fire. Each player wore the color shirt of the fret they were hitting: green, red, yellow, blue, and purple. At first, they sucked and it seemed like the idea was a complete failure but as time went by, they became a lot better. This made me want to download Frets on Fire again and see if there were any new tracks available considering I haven't played in years. There are tons and I played for a bit before getting frustrated because of accuracy issues. I'm sure there is a way to fix it but I really didn't feel like spending time figuring that out. I guess I'll stick to my real Guitar Hero.