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Rock Band Expert Drum videos now for download

Tommy Gun — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:31:18 +0000

I put up high quality divx versions of all the drum videos. You can find them all here:

http://crackedrabbitgaming.com/download/Rock-Band-Drum/

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Rock Band Expert Drum videos!

Tommy Gun — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:30:44 +0000

I finally put up some drum videos. There are eight of them; the first three have a separate camera for the bass pedal, the rest are zoomed out to show both hands and feet. The three with the separate bass camera are Chiron, Indestructible (gold stars), and Inside the Fire — I did those specifically for people who bitch “why does HMX put out songs that are impossible to play with one pedal?”

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.

YouTube playlist for my drum videos

I will put up downloadable divx versions later.

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Hayley Williams almost a capella (Paramore)

Tommy Gun — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:14:30 +0000

Why this was done: So you can hear Hayley’s voice almost isolated.

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).

That’s What You Get:

crushcrushcrush:

Video: Tommy Gun’s Rock Band 2 and 3 Manual Calibration Guide (papercraft)

Tommy Gun — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:24:25 +0000

I spent a bunch of time messing around with the RB2 manual calibration settings (I don’t have the new Strat), and decided to make a short video explaining them clearly and simply (I hope). I used this method to calibrate my system, and it works really well. So if you’re confused about exactly what the settings do, and which way you need to move them in order to sync up the game, this should explain all of that. I use the drums as an example, but obviously this also works with the guitar.

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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Karaoke Revolution video: “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” EXPERT

Tommy Gun — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:55:09 +0000

Karaoke Revolution 2, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by The Darkness.
Sung by my friend Amber, on Expert.
Platinum Record score (23954), full combo. Game vocals are off, so the only voice you hear is hers.

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.

You can watch this video at any of the sites below. Please see this FAQ entry for more information on these sites.

Choose a Site: YouTube

Download Hi-Res: Check the Downloads page.

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Donkey Konga video: Four full combos in 4-player “Quartet Mode” — by myself! (Pokemon Theme)

Tommy Gun — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:19:18 +0000

Probably everyone who’s ever played Donkey Konga has had the idea to play more than one bongo at once. I bet a lot of people have tried it. I figured I could do it, and it would make a good video. I realize this is nothing compared to a Pop’n Music video, but keep in mind that DK wasn’t designed for this. In this video I play the Pokemon Theme in Quartet Mode (4-player) by myself, and get four full combos.

Screenshot:

Donkey Konga: Serious Business

You can watch this video at any of the sites below. Please see this FAQ entry for more information on these sites.

Choose a Site: GameTrailers | GameSpot | YouTube

Download Hi-Res: Check the Downloads page.

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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Two Guitar Hero videos! Strutter Expert (GH2 demo), and different playing positions!

Tommy Gun — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:47:04 +0000

Video 1: Guitar Hero II demo – Strutter (expert) with fingering!

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.
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