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1.) To get set up you obviously need a guitar which can be connected to a 1/4 inch | 6.35mm jack, which is every electric guitar or many acoustics with a pickup built in. As for which one you get is up to you, you might get a cheap one, like the Epiphone Les Paul Junior, which is also part of the bundle version of Rocksmith and should be enough to get started. They should cost you around a 100-150$. If you want to have a few more tonal options down the line and want a guitar of higher quality you might consider spending more.
You'll also need to buy the Rocksmith Realtone USB cable, without which you will not be able to connect the guitar to the game.
2.) Additional songs, beyond those included in the game, will usually have to be bought seperately at 3$ per song. There are band packs for some bands available, which make the songs contained in them a bit cheaper. Sometimes they'll also have larger song packs on sale, which is a good option to pick up a few songs up for a bit less money, but those offers are usually only for a limited time and you'd have to pay attention when they are available and what songs are contained, as this may have songs in it you already bought.
3.) Is it a good learning tool?
Yes and No. I started out as a total beginner and now, after eight months I certainly can do a few things on a guitar that I couldn't do when I started, though I still have a long way to go if I ever want to come close to mastering songs like Hangar 18 by Megadeth (was included in the guitar bundle I bought). There are quite a few things the game makes you practise through guitarcarde game, but never really explains, e.g. you have Scale runner, which teaches you more or less about some of the different scales available on a guitar, but never really explains why or for what you need them or what you can do with them.
In a way I see it more of as a song teaching tool that has the ability to keep your motivation up, as you can see your progress in a graphical display and in a score. You know you are getting good at a song if you can play it finally in master mode with 99-100% note accuracy. But the game is skipping a bit on the theoretical side of guitar play, which is something that you'll have to read up on or look for on youtube.
So in final, if you stick with it, it certainly will help you on your mechanical skills if you don't try to cheat, will give you an option to visualize your progress, but it will teach you almost nothing about musical theory.
You can get pick-ups that you plug into the sound-hole of an accoustic[www.ebay.co.uk] to make it work like an electro-coutic; but that relies on the guitar having appropriate strings and a decent set-up. Ditto for mic-to-jack amplification.
A sound-hole pick-up can be as cheap as £5 ($7.85 USD), but your mileage may vary regarding the reliability of one.
Your best bet is getting a dirt-cheap electric; there are tons of oriental import stratocaster knock-offs that are dirt cheap and will do fine to learn on. You can set up a cheap guitar yourself to get it sounding respectable.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=140659732
A quick look on eBay shows electrics available for £40 ($62USD) including P+P - if you are patient and careful about bidding; or can collect the guitar in person rather than shipping, could probably get one for a fraction of the price.
Remember that you'll want to get a fresh set of strings to go with it, which will add on another £5 ($7.85USD) or so on top.
Any cheap electric will do as long as it has the "standard" jack.
You'll need an official Rocksmith Realtone Cable (available on Amazon, etc) to connect it - some bundles come with it, some don't. If you want to multiplay it (have a friend playing bass, etc) you'll need two cables. The cable will work on any platform, so you can use it to play on a friend's Xbox if he has Rocksmith, or vice versa, etc.
I find it's a good balance between both. I've had it since Christmas, and I've come on in leaps and bounds from a complete novice. With a concerted effort to memorise a setlist I could probably now play my bass in a public setting without humiliating myself.
Yeah, the song prices are on the borderline of being "expensive" - but considering what you get (custom tones, the musical notation, the equivalent of an MP3 of the song, the lyrics, etc) I find the price is reasonable. It does encourage you to be "picky" about what you DL though. Consider that you might be playing a few songs a lot to "master" them, so that can help stagger your purchases over time as you polish off some tunes and move on to the next load.
Lastly - I use my PC's regular microphone (The same one I use for VOIP, Team Speak, Vent, etc, etc) for singing. Not sure how singing works on console, but I guess it might require a spare Realtone cable?
Also does Rocksmith have "Floods" by Pantera? If I could play the intro I would be the happiest man alive.....
How does the first pick up work with the computer? Will the Rocksmith cord plug into it? Or does the pick up plug into the computer somehow?
As for guitar, if it really needs to be cheap, I had a look at that site you posted and they have this http://www.guitarcenter.com/In-Store-Used-USED-EPIPHONE-LES-PAUL-JUNIOR-ELEC-GTR-109086091-i3182997.gc on their page. It's an Epiphone Les Paul junior, used for 70$ and is the same guitar that would come with the Rocksmith guitar bundle. I bought that bundle when I started and while certainly not the best guitar it is a good guitar to get started.
Good point - the Real Tone cable has a male ending to plug directly into a guitar, whereas the pick-ups have a male end to plug directly into an amp. However, I assume there are female-to-female convertors / cables just as there are the male-to-male jacks that typically connect an electric to an amp?