How to Add Songs to Wii Guitar Hero

Connect your controllers to the Wii. Guitar Hero guitar and drum controllers for the Wii are connected by placing the rectangular Wii controller in the corresponding slot on the Guitar Hero controllers. Once locked in, turning the game on will initiate the Wii controllers, which will read the button commands you choose on the Guitar Hero drum set or guitar controllers.

Turn on the Wii, and then initialize Guitar Hero: World Tour. Access the Music Studio by selecting "Music Studio" from Guitar Hero: World Tour's main menu. This will bring up a menu of four options: Recording Studio, GHMix, GHTunes and Tutorials.

Access the "Recording Studio" by selecting that option from the Music Studio menu. This mode allows up to four players to play free form, playing whatever riffs they want without being bound by the necessity of hitting specific notes. Upon entering the Recording Studio, choose which instrument you want to use during your jam session.

Press "Start" to bring up the Pause menu. The Scales menu, accessible from the Pause menu, will allow you to select from a variety of major and minor keys and show a chart depicting what buttons will play specific chords while using that key. Select your key by choosing a root note, and then choose the scale type, which can be major, minor, minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, chromatic or blues. You can also create your own scale. Also in the Pause menu is an Effects menu, letting you utilize a guitar effects kit made available through Line 6, a manufacturer of recording software that has partnered with Guitar Hero. If you want to play drums, but you don't have a Guitar Hero drum set, you may select "Drum Kit" from the Pause menu, which will allow you to choose a variety of preset drum loops.

Return to the Recording Studio by pressing "Start." Once you have selected your key and any effects, play whatever you want. This will allow you to create riffs and come up with ideas for GHMix. While playing Lead Guitar, tip your guitar lower to access a lower octave of notes. If you are playing Drums with a guitar controller, use the Drum Kit menu as explained above, and press different buttons on the guitar to lay down preset drum loops during Recording Studio play. If you have a Guitar Hero controller with a touch strip, move your finger along the touch strip to modify the preset drum loops.

Return to the Music Studio menu and select "GHMix." GHMix is a studio recording and editing system that will be familiar to those who have used recording software, such as GarageBand. In GHMix, you can bring the riffs and chords you were working on in the Recording Studio and play them here. GHMix will line up the timing of the notes you play based on the snap count. Setting the snap count at 1/4 will adjust the notes you play to the closest quarter beat. If you play a note at the wrong moment, press "Start" and scroll down in the left-hand menu until you reach the Note Nudge tool, which will allow you to move a note or set of notes forward or backward in the track. Copy and paste functions in GHMix allow you to copy a section of notes you have recorded, such as a chorus, and pastes them in a different part of the track. You can edit tracks for Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboard and Drums. When you have finished recording your tracks, you can access Save in the left-hand menu to assign a specific name to your song and allow it to be played in Guitar Hero: World Tour's Quickplay mode.