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JamLegend - Online Music Game

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JamLegend

JamLegend was Guitar Hero or Rock Band on the Internet, for free.

****It closed to all new registrations on April 18th 2011 and completely on April 29th 2011****

You used the keyboard instead of a plastic guitar and it was a lot of fun.

Notable Songs / Artists

A sample of The All American Rejects song "Gives You Hell" was available on JamLegend. It's become their top performing single so far, reaching #6 on the US BillBoard Hot 100 Chart.

Papa Roach had a sample of Lifelines available to play as well.

Controls

For Guitar
Normal/Easy - focuses on three guitar strings from 5. Usually buttons 1,2, and 3.
Skilled/Medium - adds '4' into the mix.
Insane/Hard - adds '5'.

Press 'Enter' to strum the guitar. Hold it down for long notes.

'Space' bar to pause.

For Drums
Normal/Easy - Buttons 1,2,3.
Press the button when you want to hit the drum.

'Space' bar to pause.

For Left-handed folks, these change:
'1-5' becomes '6-0'

Reviews and Articles

First Impressions - Jamlegend (Paul Stamatiou): "JamLegend is well on its way to becoming the latest online gaming craze. A product of LaunchBox Digital, a Washington, D.C. based early-stage startup incubator, - sorry, they prefer to be called accelerator - JamLegend brings Guitar Hero style gaming to your browser. No need to buy any fancy controller, your keyboard will do just fine. You can even hold it upside down like a guitar if you so please... "
JamLegend turns your keyboard into a guitar | Webware - CNET: Played Guitar Hero before? This is pretty much the same thing, but in your browser. Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Webware.
JamLegend Takes On Guitar Hero On The Web (TechCrunch): "One of the most promising startups to come out of the LaunchBox incubator is JamLegend, a music site with mass appeal. JamLegend takes the familiar anyone-can-be-a-rockstar model made popular by videogames like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and puts it on the Web..."
A New Kind of Keytar: JamLegend, Guitar Hero for the Internet | The New York Observer: "Say good-bye to workplace productivity! JamLegend--a free, internet-based version of Guitar Hero--is totally going to be the new Scrabulous, allowing people to procrastinate and waste time at work and at home by....rocking out on their keyboards!"