Perhaps you’ve heard of GuitarRising, the soon-to-be-released (how many times have we been whispered that) guitar play/instruction ‘game’ that, unlike Red Octane, uses a real -gasp- guitar plugged into your computer.

Boing! Disney, very quietly, is releasing their own real-guitar-game, tentatively titled Star Guitarist.
The gang over at GuitarNoize posted the Wired.com video of Disney Star Guitarist. Since I’m a lazy mofo tonight, I thought I’d just post a link to their page, saving myself the backbreaking trouble of embedding the video here.

Please say that there’s more music involved than the High School Musical 2 theme, or a shredding rendition of “Beauty and the Beast.” But think - if you’ve spent hours upon hours wasting time - I mean playing - Guitar Hero, you could’ve actually been learning bonafide guitar skills on something like this. Will this and GuitarRising be the death knell for GuitarHero? Instead of red, blue, and orange plastic buttons that are half the size of a credit card, you have to learn how to play real (colored) strings. The ‘game’ can be used by any regular electric guitar, and the included 3/4ths size guitar is playable as a regular instrument (made by Washburn.)