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Because there are so many different things happening, the compression is terrible, so clicking “watch in high quality” is definitely recommended. My drums drop tons of notes, but oh well.

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I will put up downloadable divx versions later.

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How this was done: The video you’re seeing is not what the audio came from. The audio was captured by turning off all sounds (crowd, instruments, etc.), and playing with No Fail mode turned on, with a full band (but not playing). Some tracks can still be heard, as well as some booing, but it’s fairly quiet.

The video was done a second time, vocal only (no fail) just so you don’t have to stare at the full band charts. You can see my Hayley character singing (it’s hard to get an actual likeness with the RB creator).

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Let me know if I made any mistakes, and I can add some annotations to the video.

** Download the high-res divx version on the downloads page **

Edit: I originally made this video for RB2, but it also works for Rock Band 3, The Beatles: Rock Band, and Green Day: Rock Band!

Edit 2: a French tutorial has been posted by Stéphane

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As I wrote at the end of the video, this was her first try, and the game doesn’t like vibrato, so she could have scored much higher. I really just sprung this on her; she was here for the holidays, so I asked if I could quickly record her since I knew she could beat the song on expert. She wasn’t trying for a high score or anything, so she was a little late on some of the phrases, which also lowered her score.

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Screenshot:

A Few Notes About the Game:

Colored Notes: If you haven’t played the game before, here are what the notes mean:

Yellow: Hit left bongo
Red: Hit right bongo
Pink: Hit both simultaneously
Spiky Blue: Clap

Drum rolls: These are the long notes. You don’t get any points for drum rolls, and they don’t count as misses. They’re meaningless, score-wise. In single player (“Street Performance”) you earn coins for doing them, but in multiplayer, nothing. They don’t show up on the results screen or anything.

Even though you don’t get points for them, I still did them in this video. They’re part of the song, and it’s stupid that they don’t give you any points.

Clapping: When I clap, all of the bongos pick it up, as they should. In some spots I have to hit a note and clap at the same time, but I only hit the note, because it’s enough vibration/noise to also trigger the clap sensor. What’s the sound of one hand clapping?

Trophy: At the end of the video you’ll see a trophy appear over P2. All that means is that P2 had the highest combo, but they were all full combos (no bads, no misses), and P2 just had more notes than the rest.

The Song — Pokemon Theme:

Quartet mode is meant for four people to play at once (obviously), and as such, the note charts are designed to overlap. The really hard songs overlap a lot more with more variation, and you really can’t do them alone (well I’m sure some insane person out there could with a lot of practice). If the song is too easy, you’re basically just playing single player but split up between bongos (i.e., notes on P1, then notes on P2, etc. instead of at the same time). The Pokemon theme was just right, which is why I chose it. It overlaps enough to make it fun, and somewhat difficult, but not insane. I wanted to be able to hit all the notes, including drum rolls.

Shortcuts and Exploits:

It’s definitely possible to do harder songs. I can do a lot of the songs this way, but probably not get full combos (despite what people say, I actually do have better things to do than practice stuff like this all day long). Here are some tips for harder songs:

• Ignore claps that are at the same time as notes — just hit the notes and the clap sensor should trigger.
• Ignore ALL rolls (drum and clap rolls). You don’t get points, they don’t matter. Only do them for fun.
• Double hit as much as possible (hit two bongos with one hand). If P1 and P2 have the same notes, hit them both with the same hand. That way it’s just like playing single player. (Which is why I specifically avoided that in this video and used both hands when I could.)
• Use your arm to hit all four drums if necessary. Sometimes there are pink notes on all players — you can get them.
• Diagonal hits — use your thumb on one pad and your fingers on the other, like I did for the very first note. More of a press than a hit.

Update:

pitt_norton commented on GAF: “That’s not how you play a music game…This is how you play a music game” and gave a link to a Pop’n Music video. My answer might clarify it a bit for other people also, so I’m posting it here too:

DK is weird to play this way for a few reasons — the bongos aren’t connected so they slide around and change positions. Reaching them all isn’t exactly easy, as you see I stand at an angle so I can move to the side when I need to hit P1 and P4 at once. Pop’n Music has separate columns for each note, so it’s easier to read, and you can adjust the scroll speed, etc. DK certainly isn’t harder, but it’s weird to play.

I guess my point is that you’re right, that’s not how you play, which is the whole reason I did it.

Update 2:

This was mentioned in NGamer magazine!

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This is a video of me playing the KISS song Strutter (expert) on the Guitar Hero II demo. I did this so people (who haven’t bought the demo) could see what expert looks like. It has a lot of three-button-chords, which are new to GH2. At the same time, I decided to show the live-action part of it (frets/strum on the plastic guitar), and put it at the top of the video. I flipped the video so it’s a mirror image, that way the colors match up, making it easier to follow along.

So while this was just meant to show a new song, it’s a pretty good video to send to friends who have never seen the game before, or people who are having trouble with chords and finger positions, and want to see a good shot of it. As I mentioned in the intro, I only got the demo two days ago, so I haven’t had much practice, but I did all right and still got a five star review at the end. Hammer-ons/Pull-offs are much easier now, so I need to actually do them more often. Oh, and if you don’t know what “CAG” is, it’s this.

UPDATE: This video got posted on Kotaku, where I was described as “a strangely listless boychik,” haha. So, sorry for…that. ^_^ I filmed this at 5am, and just how excited should I be over an issue of OPM? :P

UPDATE 2: Things are going crazy over on the YouTube page for this video (lots of comments. Guitarists vs. GHs! Ready? Fight!). Someone asked how many tries it took, and I meant to post that anyway, so I figured I’d add my response here:

Three, I think. I got the demo, played the song twice, went to bed, played it a few times the next day, then the next day played it twice, started filming, and got it on my third try. So it was around my 10th time total playing the song, which is why I tanked on the solo. :\

And by “got it” I mean a “good enough for me” version. I actually did better on the solo on some of my other tries, but my score was higher on this final one, so I quit.

UPDATE 3: On YouTube, this video ended the first day with around 40,000 views, and a bunch of “honors.” Here are a few of them (this is the last I saw, it may have gone higher):

#1 – Most Viewed (Today) – Video Games – All
#1 – Most Discussed (Today) – Video Games – All
#26 – Most Discussed (Today) – All
#17 – Most Viewed (Today) – All
#50 – Top Favorites (Today) – All

After all the negative comments from real guitarists, I wrote an article about why we play Guitar Hero.

Video 2: Guitar Hero Playing Positions

Summary:
A video demonstration of some different playing positions for Guitar Hero. Included are positions such as “flat,” “upright bass,” “cross arm,” and more, all done during a single song (You Got Another Thing Comin’ – Hard)! Finished with a five star review.

Note: In response to some comments, let me state for the record that this isn’t supposed to be really impressive! I know it’s an easy song, it’s meant to show people some new ways to play, if they haven’t done them already.

UPDATE: Now this video has also been posted on Kotaku (it says it’s GH2, but it’s not, as corrected in the comments).

I’ve been obsessed with music games for a long time, and bought Guitar Hero right when it came out. I’m sure many of you who play it as much as I do have gotten tired of playing the same songs over and over again. While we’re patiently waiting for the sequel, here are some different playing positions you can try. You may have tried some of these already. In fact, I believe some people play “flat” exclusively. Some of these aren’t very hard at all — “behind the head” and “upright bass” are pretty much standard, although playing an entire song behind your head gets really tiring, and reaching the whammy bar is a little awkward.

I really haven’t practiced these positions very much, so the video isn’t perfect. Originally I was going to make a separate video for each style, but I realized that would take a while, not be as interesting, and it would be cooler to do them all during a single song, so I completely changed it after I started filming. I actually had to figure out where to switch positions, and what order to go in as I went along! I missed some cues a few times, so I had to restart a bunch. Finally I got a pretty decent run.

I started doing “cross arm” one day because my fingers were really hurting on my left hand from playing so much, but I didn’t want to stop. It’s actually really fun, and my favorite other position. It didn’t take me long to get pretty comfortable with it.

You probably wouldn’t think it at first, but “flat” is (for me anyway) the hardest position to adjust to. The reason is that with the other positions, your index finger is still on green. Flat reverses everything, and your pinky is now on green. Even cross arm is more in line with standard playing, since your index is on green, even though it’s your other hand (same with cross arm flat). In the video I missed a few notes after I switched to flat because I kept strumming down with my thumb at first, whereas (playing flat) I prefer to strum up with my finger. So I switched from thumb to finger, and messed up.

Another obvious thing to do, that isn’t shown in the video, is playing left handed and turning on “lefty flip.” The reason it’s not shown is for that reason — you have to switch options. Oh, and I can also strum with my foot, which is kinda fun, but I didn’t put it in the video.

During “upright bass” I activated star power by hitting the select button. Normally you would just tilt the guitar, but it was already upright!

For the curious:
Yes, both of these videos were filmed “live” with two cameras, so what you’re seeing on the right (or bottom) really is what I was seeing/playing; it’s a direct feed of the video and audio from the PS2. You’re hearing both audio tracks, which is why the music sounds great (direct feed), but you can also hear the clicking of the strum bar (camera mic).

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