Heardle music game is a genre of video games that involves players using musical controllers to simulate the playing of musical instruments, such as guitar or drums. The first music games were simple one-button rhythm games created in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Music games typically allow users to use one button to control which instrument they play and another button to control how hard they hit their instrument. Some can also feature other controls, such as altering the tempo, volume, or pitch of the music being played. Many modern music games are rhythm-based, but other genres exist, such as band simulation and performance games.