More Guitar Hero questions

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: kabob983
Heh, I'll openly admit I'm enjoying the game ALOT more than I thought I would. I always said "with the amount of time people put into the game they could LEARN the actual instrument" and vowed never to get it...until it went on sale...

heh i was in the same exact boat. i had played the drums like 5 songs over a year ago, and gh3 at my friends like 3-4 months ago. i said yea it's fun but not enough to make me spend a lot of $$ on it.

then CC had the guitars for $20 and i picked one up. i was pretty much instantly hooked, and i'm not even that big into the genre of music that are in this game (RB series).

i then got another guitar, drums, and a mic.

i'm still waiting to have my first rb party heh.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: coldmeat
I leave them on 1-4, then when orange comes in, shift them all down to 2-5. It's not the easiest way to learn, but I've found it to be the easiest way to do it.

Word, but I believe it's easier to stay on 2-5. After all I went from Easy => Med => Hard so I obviously come from 1-4. My gf told me to just practice 2-5 even on medium and to learn that switchover because it's easier.

The other thing is think PIANO. For those of you who play piano, when you play a P5 chord, you NEVER use your pinky. In fact you try to avoid pinky usage unless you must simply because its a weak finger. Leave the pinky to orange because it's a LOT easier for you to hit your blue reds or yellows that way.

YoungGun leaves some good tips about hammerons too. I strum a good amount of them unless I know it well and I've experimented with just doing the hammerons. Keeping in beat is more important to me, and my gf does the same.

 

[jdport]

One thing that seems obvious, but took me a while to figure out back when I was learning to play is that sliding is good for more than just getting to the orange key and back. When you are playing on medium, for most people the green-yellow chord is pretty easy to do but the red-blue chord is a lot more difficult (fingers on 1-4)... because your 2-4 fingers (for most people) are much harder to move together than your 1-3 fingers. I had so much trouble playing songs that had a lot of those chords... until one day the obvious hit me like a brick and I started sliding my hand to play them. You can just slide over one and then play the red-blue chord the way you would normally play a green-yellow chord with your 1-3 fingers. Then slide back. It not only helps you play better on medium, but it also gets you used to sliding for when you move on to hard and throw in the orange button.