page_title: Guitar controller
section_title: Guitar Hero II (PlayStation 2 & Xbox 360)
hierarchical_section_title: Guitar controller / Variations / Guitar Hero II (PlayStation 2 & Xbox 360)
caption_attribution_description: English: These are the guitars bundled with each version of the game Guitar Hero 3
context_page_description: A guitar controller is a video game controller designed to simulate the playing of the guitar, a string musical instrument. Guitar controllers are often used for music games such as UmJammer Lammy: NOW!, GuitarFreaks, Guitar Hero, and the Rock Band series. The controllers are played by holding down a colored fret button that matches a colored, on-screen note, while pressing the strum bar as the note passes through the target. The controllers also feature a whammy bar, which is used to bend notes and collect each game's equivalent of bonus energy. Different games and models of controllers have introduced additional features, such as effects switches, additional fret buttons, and fret touch pads. The fret buttons are colored usually in the order of green, red, yellow, blue, and orange.
  The guitar design for Guitar Hero Live does not use the five colored frets, instead using two rows with three buttons each.
context_section_description: The Harmonix Guitar Hero 2 Guitar Controller has two different variations. The first being for the PlayStation 2 which has the same layout as the previous model, but the guitar's design is different. This guitar was based off a red Gibson SG.
  Guitar Hero II was also released for Xbox 360 and had a separate design and layout. The design of the guitar resembles a Gibson X-Plorer with a layout of the head having the default 5 fret buttons, a Strum bar, and  a Whammy Bar, but now a button with the Xbox 360 Guide with 4 lights surrounding it (which represents which player your controller is), a D-Pad, a Back button, and a Start button.
caption: The guitar controllers bundled with Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock; black Kramer Baretta Special(PS2), White Gibson Les Paul (Wii), Black Gibson Les Paul (PS3), White Gibson X-Plorer (Windows/Mac OS X), and Black Gibson Les Paul (Xbox 360)
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