It’s easy to see why the game has been taking off. Everytime I see someone insanely “good” at Guitar Hero or a similar game, I ask myself how many more Mozarts or Jimmy Pages there would be in the world if all that focus was put in a musical instrument rather than mashing a couple buttons. WildChords combines the addictive features of similar video games with guitar exercises, so users get hooked on practicing on their real guitars.
“As a guitar dropout myself, I know how hard it can be to stay motivated in the beginning when the guitar exercises are not that interesting yet. And WildChords really makes it easy to practice on the guitar. You pick it up to play one of the exercises, and then you can’t put it down before your fingers start hurting,” tells Ovelin co-founder and CEO Christoph Thür.
To play the game all you need is an iPad and a guitar, and the game can currently be downloaded from the Apple App store in Finland, Sweden, Canada and New Zealand. The free game contains the first 5 beginner exercise packages (26 exercises), and 6 demo version of more advanced exercise songs. Additional exercises can be bought for 3€, and contain 5-9 exercises each (intended to take an average user around one week to master).