The Official Rock Band Discussion Thread - Page 18

Quick Question--
Ive been playing for a while now, and played once online a while ago- and remember hearing some schmo on XBox Live singing in a multiplayer band environment.

Last night, I started playing with my friend who picked it up- we were playing across XBox live, and he had a singer there. Instead of hearing the singers actual voice, I just saw the words and heard the track itself.

Wheres his voice?!?! Is it an option somewhere, or did some update remove this feature?

+1

...although I would rather play that then certain other songs. (I'm looking at you, GG&HT.)

You guys are killing me...Epic is a favorite from my youth. Plus I think it's fun to play.

Epic is one of the best songs in the game!

Got the suppressors yesterday. They are alright i guess. They do not totally supress the noise from hitting the pad but i would say it dampens it about 50% or so. Also it does affect the hitting as in light taps on the pads will not register when the supressors are on. But for the most part it the drum kit still responds well when the pads are on.

In my opinion i am dissapointed because i expected the noise to be much less with the supressors. I wouldnt reccomend anyone to spend $30 on these supressors.

Aw, I love Epic. I had a babysitter that looked like the lead singer of Faith No More. Good times. Welcome Home is quickly getting to be a favorite of mine as well--I really want to listen to more of their stuff and see how it stacks up.

I think my personal least favorite song right now has to be Wave of Mutilation by the Pixies. Listening to it just makes me cringe for some reason.

At least it's really short

Mike Patton was your babysitter??!!!!

Faith No More rules....

Electric Version makes me want to hang myself. hands down worst song for me.

Ouch... I love the Pixies/Frank Black. Although on drums I have a hard time with the alternating kick and hits of this and the OK Go song, so I usually skip these two. Maybe I should embrace and practice.

I'm not sure what you guys hear that's good in Epic besides a fun beat... ...but I'm there on Welcome Home... great song!

I don't care for C&C but Welcome Home is not a bad song as long as you don't have to sing it. My two least favorites are the Fall Out Boy song and the Flyleaf song.

I also tend to avoid Sabotage if it comes up in a BWT setlist.

Blasphemy! Although I wish they had chosen "Falling to Pieces" instead of "Epic". Check that one out.

They need to start rolling out some GOOD DLC for this game. The only ones that have tickled my fancy is the Metallica pack.

If they'd ever get to finishing that "Who's Next" album, that would bring a whole lot of DLC joy to me.

only thing you can do is go on the official forums and suggest your wanted songs/artists in "the ultimate setlist" board.

I guess there's no accounting for taste.

I think all of the DLC has been pretty great so far. I've only purchased the Police pack and Fortunate Son, but there are plenty more that I would buy if I needed more tunes right now (but the Metallica pack is last on my list).

Last night I tried out the Police songs on solo drum Hard and they are quite fun. Roxanne in particular is a really fun chart on drums because everyone knows the song so it's easy to anticipate the beats.

Somebody put me together...love that song.

Oddly enough, so far in BWT only one of our band members has managed a 100%, and it was our singer during Welcome Home. I finished the drum tour on medium last night (minus the bonus tracks), but it was definitely an off-night so I'll be redoing most of the songs on the last couple tiers. I'm assuming it's only going to get worse as things progress to hard, so I need to go back and practice...the outro on Sandman gives me problems with all the off-beat notes (my kick winds up falling out of time), and I need to work on Run to the Hills as well. Any pointers/comments on those or in general?

Overall though I'm loving this game--I'm looking forward to the challenge of stepping up to Hard instead of dreading it on some other games.

I found that, like the Guitar Hero games, once you start drumming in the Hard tiers, if you go back to medium the game isn't as fun anymore.

It sounds like you have the right attitude about this game hiko -- it's less about "beating" a song and more about "nailing" each song, so you should really enjoy the Hard mode. As I reached walls in the upper tiers (currently Smashing Pumpkins!), it's still fun to jump back to the lower tiers and turn 3 stars to 4... and try for 5.

I see the tier system in RockBand drums like this:

EASY: introduces the instrument
MEDIUM: mastering the beat
HARD: developing the beat with techniques like double bass, off-beat hits and rolls
EXPERT: similar to Hard, adding speed and accuracy

I've been air-drumming most of these songs for as long as I can remember, so it's a lot of fun (with some frustration mixed in at times) finally putting sticks in my hand and banging around on something.

GrooveRite--before my weekly BWT session on Saturday night I hadn't played for 4 days and was on fire when we all got together--consistently hitting over 96% on every song on medium and some on hard (minus Run to the Hills, that was closer to 92-93). Skipped Sunday and Monday and played again last night and was just totally off (barely 4 starring the last couple tiers on Medium), so from my experience there's no magic number for days off between sessions. Others might have different stories though.

I find it has more to do with your energy level. Even half assleep I can 5 star most songs on expert on the guitar but on the drums It's best to start playing early and keep drinking fluids. YMMV

Please let me know what you think after a couple days of playing with them. I ordered them but haven't received them yet. Hope I didn't waste $30

You are correct. And I have that one!

I was one friggin' note off on the Expert 100% guitar one, and not even close on vocals or drums.

And here I thought the upstrum only on bass was going to trip me up...

i started doing a couple of songs on hard (drums) and i couldn't get my foot to move fast enought to hit the double bass.. any advice..

Hmm...could we see a Rock Band version of Gatorade or Dew in the not too distant future?

Make sure the kick pedal and foot is not under your knee... it should be slightly in front of your knee. You might need to move the set a little further away.

Also... practice by slowing down a section of a song with tricky double kicks and gradually speed it up.

This was brought up in another thread (possibly in the PS3 section)?

The current consensus is to try to kick as much as you can by pivoting at the ankle, but some players (and pro drummers) use both the ankle and raise their knee to get that double beat from the foot. I tried this last night and it's pretty tricky... it's going to take a lot of practice.

You state correctly DaverJ....For drummers it's called playing "heel up".

It's where basically the ball of your foot is in constant contact with the kick pedal and the heel of the foot remains "up" and off the pedal. The "pretty tricky" part is finding the correct amount of pressure to leave on the kick pedal.

At NO time, be it heel up or down (foot flat) should your foot leave contact with the pedal. And I do not mean just for real playing, that goes for the game too as stated in the tutorials I believe).

The heel up method will test your balance, "feel" for the pedal and work out the calf/shin and possibly the whole darn leg.

During one of the loading screens I think they also recommend leaving your foot (flat) and totally compress the pedal. THEN lift up and down to get the notes. But again, it takes mental timing to adjust for the "trip" up and quickly back down to get that note.