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Rock out on your keyboard with online music game Jam Legend photo

If you know me, you know me -- I like to rock. Hard. Usually with plastic instruments.

And what if that instrument were a keyboard? Better than nothing. In fact, Jam Legend -- an online music "gaming platform" -- is actually pretty fun. Essentially, it's a browser-based music game with a Guitar Hero-like interface (it's actually closer to Rock Revolution ...), where you the numbers on your keyboard as frets and the "Enter" key to strum. 

The music selection is not quite up to Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour standards; many of the artists I've never heard of it. But a few known acts have signed on to include their music on the service, starting with Interscope's Rev Theory who've recently made its songs "Light It Up" and "Hell Yeah" available for play.

It's not perfect, but it's a fun diversion, especially if you're chained to a desk all day and have a jones for pretending you're a rock star. The site features leaderboards and head-to-head duels, so if you're looking for something to do, I think you've just found it in Jam Legend.


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Orionsaint's Avatar
Orionsaint at 12/16/2008 21:25
numbers and enter? why not just numbers?
whatisdelicious's Avatar
whatisdelicious at 12/16/2008 21:30
why not just play frets on fire then?
Orionsaint's Avatar
Orionsaint at 12/16/2008 21:32
My first music game ever! I did pretty good.
Vedicardi2's Avatar
Vedicardi2 at 12/16/2008 22:21
I used to like it, and I actually made charts for it, but then they changed the GUI and let ANYONE make charts, and completely ruined it.
vonneuton's Avatar
vonneuton at 12/16/2008 22:31
Wow... it's actually pretty fun.
MEE's Avatar
MEE at 12/16/2008 22:31
i love the game, its pretty good.
Leviticus's Avatar
Leviticus at 12/16/2008 22:42
yeah, I'll take frets on fire anyday...
lazyhoboguy's Avatar
lazyhoboguy at 12/17/2008 00:44
wow this is cool, just get a guitar shaped kb and guitar hero is matched! lol
brainpower4's Avatar
brainpower4 at 12/17/2008 00:50
That is a lot of fun. My keybord doesn't fit that well though. The mute and play buttons are too wide to fit my hand around.
dontstaylong's Avatar
dontstaylong at 12/17/2008 13:20
@whatisdelicious - this is way easier than installing FOF, though. especially if you're "chained to a desk all day" like me, hah.
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 12/18/2008 17:17
I like it.
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