Guitar is pretty easy, I only failed the final song twice, but then again, I'm pretty good (currently ranked 140 worldwide). The songs themselves are really fun to play though, especially since they added the 5 frets at the bottom for soloing, which I still haven't mastered/used all that much.
Drums are wicked awesome, but loud, so I can't play them at night...or during the day...anyway, if you played the demo at Best Buy and thought it was easy, the kick pedal throws a lot more difficulty in. I've only played on medium, and I'm only around the 3rd tier, so the songs are kind of repetitive, but I imagine most drum parts in any song are.
Singing is cool, if you like singing, they picked some pretty good songs. Especially "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" in which you get to give Rock Band MORE COWBELL. You actually get to tap the mic to play the cowbell in beat. For added effect, pick up one of the drumsticks and hit the mic with that. Oh, and feel free to explore the space, 'cause I'm telling you, you're gonna want that cowbell.
If you mean completely white, those are star power notes, not hammer ons.
There's a little ring inside each note, if the ring is black, it's not a hammer on, if it's white, it's a hammer on. They don't have much at the lower difficulties though.
There's a little ring inside each note, if the ring is black, it's not a hammer on, if it's white, it's a hammer on. They don't have much at the lower difficulties though.
Note: This is speculation. I am not a guitarist, so I may be wrong.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I disagree. Hammer-ons are present when the guitarist did hammer-ons, and they're absent when the guitarist doesn't do hammer-ons. These two ways of playing fast notes make different sounds. With hammer-ons, the notes flow together. Without, they're staccato. So the beginning of "Take this Life" is YBYBYBYBYBYBYBYBYBYB etc., and the guitarist meant to make each note sound distinct. So hammer-ons were not used.
That's one of the many songs that I don't play on GH3, due to both the song, and chart being awful. I can guarantee you that Harmonix would've made those note hammer-ons, and that Neversoft only made them regular notes to try and make the song harder (see also: 3 note chords on single string notes, playing parts for instruments that are not guitars.)
The equipment used for the demos are pre-production models, not the final product. Combine that with the fact that people treat demo stations like shit (ever noticed how controllers at Wal-Mart never seem to have working analog sticks?) and you'd probably be lucky to find a demo station that actually had fully functional controllers.
From what I've read, you have to sing somewhere in the general ballpark of the word, but it can't guarantee that you sing the exact word. You can't just hum or anything.
Well, it's not that I would hum. I'm just trying to see how it compares with Karaoke Revolution. In that game you could sing "la la la" at the right pitch and get it just right. I didn't know if they had improved voice recognition technology or if it was exactly the same thing.
My fingers are all tingly and excited. It's been my barrier to the Battle with Lou for more than a month, and I haven't really been doing too much with it... and today after work, I picked up Guitar Hero, warmed up with some favorite songs, and played Raining Blood again and again for about an hour.
By the end, I was finally able to get through Mosh 1 without using Star Power and used it to get through the very end (which I have trouble with for some reason. Maybe my fingers are just too fried).
So hooray! Now I have to beat Lou. And yes, that does suck, but at least I like the song.
I'm on the bandwagon, I bought it for Wii. It took me long enough, but I was busy with Elder Scrolls and Hellgate. Well, I still am busy with those two. I'll find time somehow.
I'm on the bandwagon, I bought it for Wii. It took me long enough, but I was busy with Elder Scrolls and Hellgate. Well, I still am busy with those two. I'll find time somehow.
You should have waited until they put out the new version of the game, right now it outputs in Mono sound.
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Guitar is pretty easy, I only failed the final song twice, but then again, I'm pretty good (currently ranked 140 worldwide). The songs themselves are really fun to play though, especially since they added the 5 frets at the bottom for soloing, which I still haven't mastered/used all that much.
Drums are wicked awesome, but loud, so I can't play them at night...or during the day...anyway, if you played the demo at Best Buy and thought it was easy, the kick pedal throws a lot more difficulty in. I've only played on medium, and I'm only around the 3rd tier, so the songs are kind of repetitive, but I imagine most drum parts in any song are.
Singing is cool, if you like singing, they picked some pretty good songs. Especially "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" in which you get to give Rock Band MORE COWBELL. You actually get to tap the mic to play the cowbell in beat. For added effect, pick up one of the drumsticks and hit the mic with that. Oh, and feel free to explore the space, 'cause I'm telling you, you're gonna want that cowbell.
So, I still don't really get the hammer-ons and pull-offs. I can do it sometime.
Is it that you can only do them on the glowing notes?
There's a little ring inside each note, if the ring is black, it's not a hammer on, if it's white, it's a hammer on. They don't have much at the lower difficulties though.
Wait, really? I always just did them by feel...
The white rings, they're glowing, I think.
I guess as a rough estimation, it works though.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I disagree. Hammer-ons are present when the guitarist did hammer-ons, and they're absent when the guitarist doesn't do hammer-ons. These two ways of playing fast notes make different sounds. With hammer-ons, the notes flow together. Without, they're staccato. So the beginning of "Take this Life" is YBYBYBYBYBYBYBYBYBYB etc., and the guitarist meant to make each note sound distinct. So hammer-ons were not used.
Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, how are the drums? My dad said he saw a demonstration today, and you could hardly hear the game over the guy hitting the drum pads.
Also, put some rubber tips (or tape some soft foam onto the tip like I did) on the drum sticks, and that should dampen the sound they make by a lot.
I've been to a few Best Buys and each one has had the yellow drum pad broken. Is this a persistent problem or do people just really not like that pad?
I BEAT RAINING BLOOD ON EXPERT!!!
My fingers are all tingly and excited. It's been my barrier to the Battle with Lou for more than a month, and I haven't really been doing too much with it... and today after work, I picked up Guitar Hero, warmed up with some favorite songs, and played Raining Blood again and again for about an hour.
By the end, I was finally able to get through Mosh 1 without using Star Power and used it to get through the very end (which I have trouble with for some reason. Maybe my fingers are just too fried).
So hooray! Now I have to beat Lou. And yes, that does suck, but at least I like the song.
Assuming he doesn't have the Wii/Ps2 version of the game.....*grumble*
It really does piss me off that you can't practice that beast.