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GBH wrote:Does anyone here actually play the guitar for real and has also used/played GH/GH2?
I'm a musician of the real kind and I look at GH and it makes me go bleh
I'm not much of a real musician any more but I blame my utter crapness
at all rhythm games down to it. I try to follow various lines and end up
improvising on top and it all goes to shit. I hate them.
I play guitar and find playing it on the hardest setting and it gets easier for me.
It's mostly because you don't play every note on some of the easier ones I think.
Been round this road so many times
Feel like it's skin is part of mine
This taste of milk is almost gone
Still got my shame, but not for long
Been wrong so many times before
But never quite like this
Heard all, in the rain
But the rain all turned to piss
Ouch - I had a mammoth GH2 session yesterday - I played through both easy and medium difficulty levels in one long sitting - and now my fingers hurt!!
I already had GH2 on the PS2 but i've picked it up on the 360 too, mainly because of the prospect of more tracks being made available on the marketplace.
It's sometimes easy to overlook the improvements you make by simply practicing the same tracks over and over again - when I first started playing I used to only manage 60% of the notes even on the easy tracks but i've now got to a point where I can usually nail a good 90%+ on the medium tracks - now - more practice is needed so I can start hammering it on hard mode.
Seems to me that I need to master hammer-ons and pull-offs - oh - and now i've realised that only the highest note played counts it's making life much easier (not sure how I missed that little point whilst playing the PS2 version).
Great game - lovin' it!!
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It's not going to happen (probably), but I would really like a guitar that was, well, a real guitar. The size, body and weight of a real guitar, but with all the magical electronic whackery that makes it work with GH2...
GBH wrote:Does anyone here actually play the guitar for real and has also used/played GH/GH2?
I'm a musician of the real kind and I look at GH and it makes me go bleh
I'm not much of a real musician any more but I blame my utter crapness
at all rhythm games down to it. I try to follow various lines and end up
improvising on top and it all goes to shit. I hate them.
I play guitar and find playing it on the hardest setting and it gets easier for me.
It's mostly because you don't play every note on some of the easier ones I think.
I'm actually worse at the songs I know and can play on a real guitar, than the ones that I've never heard before. My head automatically fills in the notes that should be there in the lick or riff regardless of whether the game wants me to press anything at the time.
I also find myself trying to add vibrato to notes by wibbling my finger around on the button.
Favourites so far: Psychobilly Workout, Rock This Town, Killing In The Name and John The Fisherman
Muttley wrote:Favourites so far: Psychobilly Workout, Rock This Town, Killing In The Name and John The Fisherman.
John the Fisherman was pretty difficult for me. Then the Anthrax track came along and really made my fingers ache.
The Anthrax song was one that really showed up my knowledge of the original. I kept adding notes that I didn't need to play and had to really concentrate to not try and play every note.
Muttley wrote:Favourites so far: Psychobilly Workout, Rock This Town, Killing In The Name and John The Fisherman.
John the Fisherman was pretty difficult for me. Then the Anthrax track came along and really made my fingers ache.
The Anthrax song was one that really showed up my knowledge of the original. I kept adding notes that I didn't need to play and had to really concentrate to not try and play every note.
Likewise with The Trooper.
Muttley
I do this a lot with a lot of the songs, the amount of times i lose a streak because i add a note where it shouldnt be.
I was dreading playing the trooper for this very reason, but it was fine in the end.
I have to say, one of the main reasons GH is such a great game for me, is that they really do put some effort in to mapping the actual song to the keystrokes, and its mostly done very well.
rockwaldo wrote:I have to say, one of the main reasons GH is such a great game for me, is that they really do put some effort in to mapping the actual song to the keystrokes, and its mostly done very well.
Yeah, it is very well done indeed. I especially like the fact you need to learn how to do hammer-ons/pull-offs, just like on the real thing.
Managed to complete Medium first time through, though a few songs were dipping into the low 80s %-wise. Especially that cocking Heart song for some reason. Scraped through the Suicidal Tendencies song by the skin of my teeth too.
Freebird is ace fun though (hell, it's ace fun on the real thing too).
Muttley wrote:Managed to complete Medium first time through, though a few songs were dipping into the low 80s %-wise. Especially that cocking Heart song for some reason. Scraped through the Suicidal Tendencies song by the skin of my teeth too.
It's been aaaages since I played the original, so having just bought the PS2 version of GHII, I'm going on Medium.
Oddly (you'd think), so far, the song I had most trouble with was Message In A Bottle. I expect that to change as I move further into the game.
Whatever gods there are gave me no rhythm and sausages for fingers. Which is a shame - I'd love to be nimble-fingered. I'm good with my hands (I can juggle well) but with my fingers I'm bloody hopeless.
Bill Gates however, gave us achievements.
I've just got the achievement for getting 5 stars on all songs on Easy. (At a low skill level) I rock! \o/
My fingers hurt........
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I've managed to get five stars on all easy tracks now and i've been working my way through medium as well to see if I can do the same there.
I was dead pleased with myself when I got 5 stars on Freebird but i'm currently cursing The Trooper. For some reason I keep hitting 94% accuracy - need more practice I guess.
When I first started playing (back on the PS2 version) I found it hard to use the blue button but i've now got used to it and playing with the 4 buttons is pretty much second nature - but on the rare occasions that i've tried a hard or expert track i've been cursing to high heaven and flailing around like an idiot as I try to relocate where I am on the fret-board. I can see that hard and expert are going to require some SERIOUS practice.......
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