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gaming I Wanna Rock! Can Rock Band 3's new, more realistic controller make me a real-life guitar god? By Nina Shen Rastogi Posted Friday, Oct. 29, 2010, at 12:24 PM ET As rock-and-roll guitar fantasies go, mine are relatively modest. I would just like to be able to play Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" someday, perhaps around a campfire. So last year, I went to my local Guitar Center, bought myself a Yamaha Junior--my elf-like hands being too tiny for a grownup guitar--and settled in with a few teach-yourself-guitar books. I lasted all of two weeks. Sitting alone in my apartment, plonking away in a vacuum--it just felt too much like a chore. Junior has spent the last 12 months on top of a pile of CDs behind the couch. To continue reading, click here. Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, N.Y. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Dickerson: The Three Most Important Gubernatorial Races The Government's Savvy Crackdown on Energy-Hogging Flat-Screen TVs Farhad Manjoo: Watch as I Work on Four Separate Desktops at Once	Advertisement
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