How to Configure a Roland TD-9 Drum Set for Rock Band 4 (including Open Hi-Hats)
I have a Roland TD-9kx2 kit, and have been using it to play Rock Band for about five years (before that I had a Yamaha DTXplorer). There are other guides that walk you through every step, but here is a quick guide for the MIDI notes, and more specifically how to play open hi-hat for…
“Tommy Gun Rock Band Drumming” DVD out now!
Click Image for Large Version – Huge iPad Version Here I kept cracking up at Ricky Gervais’s “Learn Guitar with David Brent” image, so I decided to do one for drumming. I looked at a bunch of dvd covers and tried a bunch of poses, but was ultimately inspired by this: One thing I learned…
Rock Band: Expert Pro Drums 100% flawless scores
Here are some of the more notable 100%s I’ve gotten playing expert pro drums so far. Most of them are FC’s (full combos, no overhits), especially if I’m high up on the leaderboard, but I don’t remember for sure. I have tons more FCs, but I’m only posting the harder songs, or ones where I’m…
Rock Band 3 achievement progress: pro drum trainer!
Finally! I waited months for the MIDI adapter so I could use my Yamaha DTXplorer drumset, and then it took me a couple more months to figure out how to calibrate it properly for the game (guide coming soon!). I was able to complete most of the pro drum trainer without much trouble, but a…
Green Day: Rock Band achievement progress
Today I tried for the “get 400,000 points in a single song” achievement in GD:RB. I tried to do it on drums previously, but even on the longest songs (“Jesus of Suburbia”), I couldn’t get more than around 340k. I read online that guitar was maybe the easiest to get it with, so I tried…
The Beatles: Rock Band achievement progress!
Aside from playing lots of Rock Band 3 (love the new keyboard, still waiting for the drum MIDI adapter and the Squier guitar), I’ve been trying to get more of the achievements in Green Day RB and Beatles RB. After playing through one of the album challenges in GD:RB, I played Beatles to see if…
Rock Band Expert Drum videos now for download
I put up high quality divx versions of all the drum videos. You can find them all here: https://crackedrabbitgaming.com/download/Rock-Band-Drum/
Rock Band Expert Drum videos!
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…
Hayley Williams almost a capella (Paramore)
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…
Video: Tommy Gun’s Rock Band 2 and 3 Manual Calibration Guide (papercraft)
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…