Rock Band Made Me a Better Musician Written by Benjamin Wiebe Rock Band is one of many plastic instrument rhythm games. In the late 2000s, you couldn’t enter a Gamestop, Best Buy, Future Shop, or Walmart without seeing those cheap peripherals waiting to be sold. Over the course of five years, the giants of the genre, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, would release 25 separate games for the XBOX 360, Playstation 2 & 3, and the Nintendo Wii. Each game would be released alongside new plastic instruments, with new setlists for players to conquer. And for as fast as the genre came into existence, it would disappear even faster.  Rock…