THE Wii Music game lets you transform your entire family into a sensational band even if none of them knows a single note.

Simply execute the instrument controls using the Wii-mote, Nunchak and the Wii balance board (for drums only) to the rhythm of the song, as if you were playing the real instruments.

For example, when hitting the drums, swing your Wii-mote and Nunchak up and down. For the saxophone, hold the Wii-mote lengthwise and press the 1 and 2 buttons. To up your sax sounds, move the Wii-mote upwards, just like how Kenny G would do it on the real thing.

If you have the Wii balance board, you can access a more advanced drum play by combining your virtual drumsticks using the Wii-mote and Nunchak with footwork for the bass drum and the high-hat cymbal control.

Up to four players can 'jam' at the same time from a repertoire of 50 songs and over 60 different instruments - from the piano to acoustic guitar and electric guitar and saxophone to the uncommon ones like the the sitar to maracas and the marimba.

When you are done, simply save a music video of your performance and share it with other friends - they must be Wii Music owners - over the Internet.

Want to go solo? Play in multiple parts. Record your performance using one instrument, save the music video and then load it.

Choose a second instrument and combine that with the first. Repeat for a maximum of six different parts.

My daughters, aged three and six, took to the game like fish to water. Within minutes, we were swinging the Wii-motes and Nunchaks in the air and producing MTV videos to call our own.

If, like me, you play with your kids, you will find child and adult jostling to play anything from Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and My Grandfather's Clock to Madonna's Material Girl and Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.

You won't find much rock numbers here though.

Three mini-games add an extra dimension. Particularly, Mii Maestro in which you play the conductor by waving your Wii-mote baton.

Certainly, Wii Music is great for kids and I give it an 8 out of 10. However, serious adult music gamers who have been wowed by the advanced scoring system and expert levels on Rock Band and the Guitar Hero series will not find much to be really impressed with.

My issue with the game is that it does not really create a competitive atmosphere - like Wii Sports for instance or provide challenge for solo plays.

After jamming around for about three hours, I found myself getting bored but my kids, on the other hand, were simply screaming for more.

This story was first published in The Straits Times Digital Life on 5 November 2008.

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