| Jam Sessions | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1711
Category: Video Games
Publisher: UBI Soft
Studio: UBI Soft
Brand: UBI Soft
Label: UBI Soft
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
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Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 16358
UPC: 008888163589
EAN: 0008888163589
ASIN: B000MTF04U
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Use the Nintendo DS to make music just as you would with a real guitar, while experiencing authentic, remastered sound modeled after an actual acoustic guitar. | | • | Free-play design allows users to learn and play ANY song ever played using an acoustic guitar. What you play is entirely up to you. | | • | Play and sing songs from some of today and yesterday's most popular artists with accompanying chords and lyrics actually built into the title in Performance Mode. | | • | Not a musician? No problem. Advanced tutorial modes allow novice musicians to learn how to play guitar without paying for lessons! Additional modes will help users understand chord progressions and train them to recognize chords by ear. | | • | Use Jam Sessions as a virtual notepad - write, play AND save original music anytime. |
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Product Description
Jam Sessions is a ground-breaking music experience that transforms the Nintendo DS system into a portable guitar. Players will literally strum the guitar via the Touch Screen and select chords with the Control Pad. Now even the most ?non-musical? person to become an instant rock star! The portability of the DS system makes Jam Sessions a concert-on-the-go, perfect for parties, commuting to school/work and anywhere people can enjoy music. Controls can be adjusted for both left-handed and right-handed musicians, up and down strokes can be swapped to a players' preference. A built-in effects processor lets players add reverb, chorus, low/high pass, tremolo and more to customize the sound. ESRB Rated E10 for players aged 10 and up.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Jam Sessions Rocks August 25, 2008
Jam session is a great way to create your own music as well as learn notes and play other songs.
 a good idea that's carried out poorly March 7, 2008
When I first heard about jam sessions i was really excited. I just recently bought the game from amazon for a cheap price. I started playing as soon as it came in the mail and I literally I was tired of it in about 15 minutes. I play guitar so theres just no point of having this game. You are very limited to what you can do. Theres only 2 modes; free play and song mode. Song mode is pointless unless you know the song, because all it does is give you the chord names and lyrics. it doesn't even tell you how to strum for all of the songs. In free play mode, you choose what chords you want to use to play. Thats the one good thing; there are a lot of chords to choose from. The sound is also pretty good and most chords song like a real guitar. On the other hand, I really hate how there's no sense of accomplishment in this game. When you learn a song on real guitar, it feels really good. In jam sessions, it feels like cheating. In other words, don't get this game unless you're too lazy to learn real guitar
feels more like a cheap tech demo than an actual game.. February 7, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
its sad. this game had a lot of potential, and a lot of potential for sales. a lot more care should have went into making this.
basically you play the ds as if you were playing a guitar. kind of. you can select chords from a huge variety of chords and assign them to the different directional buttons. there is a bar across the touch screen and you strum across that with the stylus as if it were a pick. you can save songs and you can use to mic to record your voice along with the guitar stuff. theres also a few effects that sound awful. its best to leave them alone.
there is no career mode to speak of. theres just a set list of under 20 songs. no difficulty settings either.
theres pretty much nothing to speak of graphically either. you can change the color of the bar in the middle of the screen and you can change the background color.
a career mode, slightly higher quality sound, and more songs just might have been enough to save this title. as it is now, i wouldnt even say its worth renting. just get a real guitar. (dont get me wrong, i love GH and Rock Band)
5/10
Great product January 7, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
My grandson was very happy with the game and it was a great price. Shipping didn't take long at all.
 Great for what it is January 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't expect Guitar Hero out of this software. It is not a "game" It is a guitar software piece. The D-pad acts as a chord selector and your strum to play that chord. It is open ended and you can play any song you can think of that uses straight chords, sorry no picking individual strings. I would love to see someone take full advantage of the software by hooking their DS up to an amp and playing a little show with it.
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