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According to a USA Today report, Rock Band 3 has "more innovations than the music game universe has ever seen".

Most obviously, they've added another musical instrument: keyboards. Rock Band 3 will include a 25-key, two octave range MIDI keyboard controller that's perhaps not quite enough like a keytar to be that exciting, but kinda cool nonetheless. I couldn't help noticing, however, that playing this thing standing up will be absolutely impossible if you're one of those super special, super awesome people [citation need - Ed] who do stuff with their left hands.

There's also a new "Pro" notation mode, that apparently includes support for two new controllers that have actual strings, the game's official Fender Stratocaster and Madcatz's Fender Mustang replicas. "You can go from plucking single notes to power chords and bar chords, we have crazy stuff like tapping and slides," said Harmonix's Sylvain Dubrofsky. "If you ever had any aspirations of connecting with the music in a deeper way ... you are really going to like Rock Band 3."

Not to be left out, drummers can now add three cymbals to their kits, while vocalists are getting Rock Band: Beatles-style harmony play.

The game will feature 80 original tracks, with the following already outed:

2000s

• Combat Baby — Metric
• Dead End Friends — Them Crooked Vultures
• Get Free — The Vines
• Lasso — Phoenix
• Me Enamora — Juanes
• Oh My God — Ida Maria
• Portions of Foxes — Rilo Kiley
• The Hardest Button to Button — The White Stripes

1990s

• Been Caught Stealing — Jane's Addiction
• In the Meantime — Spacehog
• Plush — Stone Temple Pilots
• Walkin' on the Sun — Smash Mouth

1980s

• Crazy Train — Ozzy Osbourne
• Here I Go Again — Whitesnake
• I Love Rock and Roll — Joan Jett
• Just Like Heaven — The Cure
• Rainbow in the Dark — Dio
• The Power of Love — Huey Lewis and the News
• Sister Christian — Night Ranger

1960s-1970s

• Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen
• Break On Through — The Doors
• Crosstown Traffic — Jimi Hendrix

Rock Band 3 is scheduled for a Christmas release, but expect to see it in action at E3 next week.