Rock Band Hitting iPhone, iPod Touch

Tap tap taperoo!

Music-themed applications for the iPod Touch and iPhone? Sounds like a very good match, given that people do use them for playing music. But what about playing with music? We're not so sure.

EA and Harmonix yesterday revealed that Rock Band would be coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch. That's right, the game that requires plastic guitar and drum instruments (along with a real microphone) is now being ported to a platform where no instruments are used to play the music.

You and up to three other iPhone players can use Bluetooth to all form up a band. The version of Rock Band for iPhone/iPod replicates all four instruments, but all are played by tapping on the screen as the notes come down the "highway."

While we feel it's a definite dilution of the whole concept behind Rock Band, screen-tapping games such as Tap Tap Revolution have done well on the Apple platform.

20 songs will ship with the software, but you can bet that there will be DLC. Those songs are:

Attack-30 Seconds To Mars
Girls Not Grey – AFI
Move Along - All-American Rejects
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
All The Small Things - Blink-182
Hanging on the Telephone – Blondie
Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Bad to The Bone - George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Hymn 43 - Jethro Tull
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ace of Spades '08 – Motorhead
Debaser - Pixies
Ladybug - Presidents of The United States of America
Give It All - Rise Against
Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Take The Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
We Got The Beat - The Go Go's

Check out the video below from Touch Arcade for a sneak peek.