Rock Band 2

[Registered_Again]

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Or try WalMart for a price match. It worked for me.

Hell, my Wal-Mart had it for $109 already. No need to price match, lol.

[matt8204]

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Thanks for the info and links, guys!

[auburntigersfan]

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I downloaded "Hillbilly Deluxe" and it was REALLY fun.

[elicoleman]

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I downloaded "Hillbilly Deluxe" and it was REALLY fun.

Get the whole pack man.

I haven't played a song more in the first day than I'm doing with Sin Wagon.

Easily one of my top 5 favorite guitar songs on this game already.

[bjf1377]

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Yeah I broke down and bought "Hillbilly Deluxe" and "Gunpowder and Lead". I'm sure I'll break down and get the rest later.

[Mizzou23]

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For you guys out there who are expert drummer, do you have any tips for making the transition from hard to expert? Right now, I can do the first 2-3 tiers on expert, and almost anything on hard except for a few songs. I know it's just a matter of practicing before it clicks, but is there anything specific I should be concentrating on or staying away from?

Hard is becoming somewhat boring and expert is too difficult.

[Bornindamecca]

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For you guys out there who are expert drummer, do you have any tips for making the transition from hard to expert? Right now, I can do the first 2-3 tiers on expert, and almost anything on hard except for a few songs. I know it's just a matter of practicing before it clicks, but is there anything specific I should be concentrating on or staying away from?

Hard is becoming somewhat boring and expert is too difficult.

Two things will make a huge difference in general:

1. Work on the kick drum. Kick drum speed will get you through

2. Make sure you're holding the sticks properly and practice doing rolls to the metronome. Go VERY SLOW for fifteen minutes, and your hands will pick up the muscle memory like that. For me, the most effective rudiments to get started are:

RRLL
RLRL
RLL
LRR

This vid explains what a rudiment is, and how it's used in drumming.
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Brent, what songs specifically are you finding to be too challenging on Expert?

[Mizzou23]

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Two things will make a huge difference in general:

1. Work on the kick drum. Kick drum speed will get you through

2. Make sure you're holding the sticks properly and practice doing rolls to the metronome. Go VERY SLOW for fifteen minutes, and your hands will pick up the muscle memory like that. For me, the most effective rudiments to get started are:

RRLL
RLRL
RLL
LRR

This vid explains what a rudiment is, and how it's used in drumming.
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Brent, what songs specifically are you finding to be too challenging on Expert?

Well, on expert, I can do some of the tier 3 stuff, but anything higher than that is probably out of my league, but I've only dabbled with expert at this point.

On hard, I actually did Battery, have beaten BYOB, but failed Ace of Spades and get my (butt) handed to me on Panic Attack. What really kills me are the parts where I have to kick fast with a quick sequence of pad notes. I can't pass Epic because of this.

[Bornindamecca]

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You can solve that problem pretty quickly. The bass leg picks up muscle memory very well. Look at Mike's video on bass drum technique. Just the intro exercise for speeding up the bass drum will fix it.

It's not easy with the standard pedal though, haha. I got through it alright, but my leg thanked me once I bought the rhythm maker.

[Hooe]

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Needs some Yellowcard

I doubt we get Yellowcard anytime soon, they're on a "indefinite hiatus", unfortunately.

Plus then they'd be obligated to release a fiddle controller.

[Blzer]

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I know I have a bad drum kit (blue pad simply doesn't register unless you slam it) and I've already ordered for a replacement, but I've still gone and played drums anyway, and I was wondering... I've seen YouTube videos of great sounding drum fills, and I'm not getting that. I'm not talking about my ability to do good drum fills myself (like with the beat), but the sound that comes off the screen is so delayed and it sounds very quiet, and inferior to the rest of the song. It actually sounds much better not doing any drum fills.

Am I doing something wrong?

[jaosming]

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hit them harder, a patch was just released that makes the drums louder so that helps a bit


but there does seem to be a bit of a delay between my drums with fills and freestyle mode

[Blzer]

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Sounds good... it still sounds weird with the delay and stuff nonetheless... but like I was saying, some people post things on YouTube with half the screen showing them play the song as well, and it seems as though the notes are playing at the same time they are hitting, which is why I was concerned.

Oh well, I just hope this is addressed or something. It really does sound awkward (then again, I need to work on my fills as a whole anyway).

[jaosming]

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well it wasnt an issue in RB1, and i dont remember having that issue when i was using my RB1 kit in RB2. Could just be the wireless

[Berliner]

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I doubt we get Yellowcard anytime soon, they're on a "indefinite hiatus", unfortunately.

Plus then they'd be obligated to release a fiddle controller.

I mean songs like "Way Away" "Ocean Avenue" and "Only One"