You'll need friends to handle the drum kit and guitar while you take it away on vocals.

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It includes a drum kit, guitar, and microphone and includes 45 songs, many of which are performed by the original artists.

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In fact, if you want to take advantage of the drum kit, guitar and microphone in the hot-selling Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 title "Rock Band" it helps to have more than a few friends.

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Denmark Street is still a place where pipe dreams (or guitar, drum or bass dreams) are born.

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The pulsing drum beat and brawny guitar riffs in the opening bars of "Feel So Fine" kick off the album with an impressive gusto.

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It's hard to tell when the band is winking at its audience, yukking it up behind epic double-guitar leads and dramatic drum fills.

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Unfortunately, so far it seems to be mainly new types of drum heads, and a vile-looking guitar designed by Bono out of U2.

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The influences of Air and Godrich are easy to distinguish in "The Operation, " which adds a metronomic drive of analog drum machine to the simmer of synth pads and intertwining guitar and piano.

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Rocking out to the blaring guitar riffs, wailing harmonica and gut-rattling drum rolls by house band Kostiza is a great way to kick off a night of bar hopping.

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Thirty seconds later, it might seem more like one guy in a vast room, skidding between machines set too far apart, trying to trigger samples and stab a few notes out of a guitar or spit some unintelligible lyrics into a microphone on his way toward the drum machine.

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