The colored notes on-screen correspond to buttons on the guitar and drum peripherals.
Players use these instruments by playing scrolling musical "notes" on-screen in time with the music.
As with other games in the series, the player uses a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of rock music by playing in-time to scrolling notes on-screen.
The pads have colored rings around the edges that correspond to the notes on-screen, representing the snare drum (red), hi-hat (yellow), tom-tom (blue), and crash cymbal (green).
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock retains the basic gameplay from previous games in the Guitar Hero series, where the player uses a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of lead, bass, and rhythm guitar parts in rock songs by playing in time to scrolling notes on-screen.
Users can page through two books at once, or take notes on one screen while paging through a book on the other.
Note on screens: if privacy is important, consider getting a privacy filter.
The game puts you on stage to rock out to classic tunes while strumming along and matching the on screen notes.
One of the product shots implies it has a touchscreen (note the on-screen dialer), but it's a tiny one.
Mr. Davison sent me home with other tips: To prepare to play on the beat, for instance, I was to press down the appropriately colored button as soon as a note appeared on-screen and concentrate very hard on sending a signal to my other hand to strum.
