Review: Frets on Fire
You suck on electric guitar. If you are not aware of that now, you will be after playing Frets on Fire -- a cross-platform, GPLed music game from Unreal Voodoo, where your PC's keyboard is the instrument and you play lead.
Game play is similar to the commercial GuitarFreaks and Guitar Hero series. With the backing track to a song playing, notes scroll towards you in real time on a simplified guitar fretboard. When they reach the front, you fret the notes in question by holding down the corresponding keys with your fret hand, and you "pick" the notes by hitting the Enter key.
The default setup uses F1 through F5 as the five fret keys, so if you hold your computer keyboard like a guitar (and I know you do), it is set up for right-handed play. Southpaws need not worry, though -- the keys are configurable. You do need to actually have elbow room and ample cable to play
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