its way harder than playing a real guitar

Guitar Hero's kind of a paradox. It makes good guitar players seem like they suck, yet those who've never picked up a guitar can be good at it in a few weeks. My friend who plays drums is a Guitar Hero prodigy child. He's so good it's scary, but if I pick up the controller even for a few minutes to play a song, it ends up sounding like crap. The only thing that makes sense for me is to play my real guitar along with the song my friend is playing, just to remind him who's the real guitar hero.