{"id":486,"date":"2008-06-26T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/06\/grok-band\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:59:00","slug":"grok-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/grok-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We bought Max and Ben Rock Band last week, to celebrate a successful and difficult school year for both of them. I had hoped that this would be something that we could all do together, and so far, it is turning out that way. On Tuesday I got up the courage to sing, creating an avatar for myself: Lilia. She looks a little like me twenty years ago. Today I earned enough money to buy her some new, outrageous threads. Suddenly there I was, cybershopping for clothes and wondering if this looked okay or not, while Max, Ned, Hannah, and Ben looked on and laughed.<\/p>\n

Max and Hannah switch off on guitar and drums, and they are both really good already. I find the guitar kind of hard to do; maybe it’s because I play a real guitar and I’m doing too much with this mini one (?) Maybe I just suck. Ned tried some drumming the other day and looked like a hot rocker with his long shaggy hair and ultra-confident attitude. Mm — mm, good.<\/p>\n

Ben plays drums very well and now has gotten up the nerve to share some of my voice solos, especially the freestyle parts. He’s a little too soft or too loud, though. He shouted right in my ear before and it still feels fuzzy. I have tried to entice Nat to come in and play with us, and he obliges, perched on Max’s bed, but I suspect it is just not his bag, man.<\/p>\n

Rock Band is a lot of family fun. I highly recommend it as a way to connect a little with your teenagers. Also, you can pretend to be a rocker, and, come on, you know you want to. Remember the Partridge Family? \"\"<\/a>I was Laurie, my sister was David Cassidy. We played it with our cousins. Rock Band is this generations’s version of Partridge Family. You even get to buy a bus after you’ve earned enough bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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