In practice the system isn’t perfect, but it’s probably good enough for casual gamers. The site offers 630 professionally crafted note charts (and their corresponding songs), and last summer it added support for an automated system that can generate a note chart for any song. To play a song on JamLegend, it needs to have a note chart. Gameplay is pretty simple: a series of colorful dots scroll down the screen, each representing a note or chord in a song, and you rhythmically tap the proper keys on your keyboard to “play” each note. He says the site has seen especially good growth since it integrated Facebook Connect.įor those that haven’t used it before, JamLegend takes the music-as-a-game formula popularized by games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and brings it to your web browser.
Co-founder Andrew Lee says that the site is up to around 60 million total song plays, of which 45 million have come from registered members. JamLegend, the LaunchBox-backed ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’, has just reached a fairly major milestone: it’s now signed up over 1 million users.
