Well Jane, I'll try to describe it as best as I can. Of course, you get to pick your guitar ,what guitar slinger you want to be, and what song you want to play. There is easy,intermediate,expert level on each song. Your controller is a guitar with color coded "button frets" and then you have a strum bar and a whammy bar. So once you pick your song, it starts playing and then a rolling fret board comes at you with the colors of the fret buttons, of which you coordinate pressing the right color and then the strum bar (one time or mutiple times). You can get star power, etc...the better you play the higher your ranking and the crowd also rates you as a player. Of course, once you master a level or levels you get to unlock more songs. There are tricks to the guitar contoller, raising it up makes an exploding like power.........you're playing a game, not reading music...does this explanation help???? Trust me, I'm no expert.....not by a long shot.....I was interested in knowing if guitar players would have a hard time not actually trying to play the thing like a real guitar as you do get caught up in the songs. patty 
"I'm not nice to any guitar!"
Joe Bonamassa 05-03-12
JBLP CHILD #184
