ddr takes no, strictly speaking, musical talent but a lot of rhythmic aptitude, quick reflexes and eye-body coordination.
and most dancing takes no musical talent, but to be a very good dancer you need a LOT of it. and by "very good" i don't mean "very good at dancing in clubs to techno music" i mean "very good in professional dance performance settings".
No it's not. You need to know where you'll be moving your fingers based on tone. You need to be able to sense where the music is going in order to be actually, genuinely good at it. You can be decent at GH without any musical talent, but to be really, really good, you simply need musical talent. (By saying musical talent, I take into account rhythmic and tonal aptitude.) In DDR, the moves and arrows are essentially arbitrary -- not so in GH.
Playing an instrument is never like dancing.
Yes it is. You move your fingers based on the tempo of the song, not on tone. There are 5 buttons to make up the whole fretboard of a guitar with 6 strings there is no way that 5 buttons can represent tone or actual notes on the guitar. You don't need a good ear, period. All you need is to play the songs a lot and to be able to know the tempo.
You calling GH musical talent is like me saying someone who knows how to use a computer is a computer engineer. You have to know how to use a computer to be an engineer so anyone who can use a computer is an engineer. That's basically how your whole argument looks.
You do need talent, but only if you count rhythm/hand-eye coordination as talents. In some ways they are, in other ways they're not. You don't need great musical talent for this game, just certain traits which will be found in good players will also be found in good musicians. Just because too things correlate does not mean they depend on each other.
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