4 Star’d a couple of roadrunner songs

Well my new drum set didn’t come today so I decided to to try my old broken drum set (yes I have broken drum sets) and was pleased to realize that it wasn’t near as broken as my newer one. The yellow pad is broken as well but the pads don’t drop hits near as much. i am not sure if it was the set working better or I am getting some muscle memory on Constant Motion because my score increased by about 18,000 and I got 4 stars and 91%.

Constant Motion hard Drums 4 stars 91%

I decided to give Clouds over California another go with this set and i did much better. I didn’t get 90% (89%) but did get 4 stars and raised my sscore by about 21,000.

Clouds over California hard drums 4 Stars

After seeing the better scores, I decided to move up to expert and see what I could do.  I played a bit with nothing special and then gave Indestructible a run. I did improve my score but only by 4,000 or so. i am very happy with note streak and % increase though. BTW that streak was not in the chorus.

Indestructible 88%

I finished up with Life is Beautiful by SIXX A.M. this song was awesome on hard drums so i decided to see if I could pass it on expert and i did pretty well. 86% on my first run isn’t bad considering it had some parts that tripped me up and confused me at first.

Life is Beautiful expert drums

Keep on Rockin’,

Mr. Mediocre

Growling my way through some vocals + Flawless Singing!

So last night I decide to try the Roadrunner songs on guitar. I started on expert (mistake) with Constant Motion. I know it is one of the hardest songs in the game but I thought it would be fun to see what I could do. The result wasn’t pretty. I have arthritis which was acting up pretty bad last night. It hurts but I can get through the pain. The problem was that I was having a real hard time moving my fingers fast enough. Anyway, i ended up failing Constant Motion and Clouds over California pretty badly. I decided to drop to hard and proceeded to fail both on hard as well as Sleepwalker. Hopefully my hand feels better by this weekend because i am pretty sure i can pass these on hard at least.

So after that disaster I decided to give the vocals a try. I started with Aesthetics of Hate by Machine Head. This song is all talkies (where you only have to talk instead of singing) except 2 pretty easy phrases. I was pleased to see that none of the talkies were broken. I decided to have a bit of fun and growled my way through the song, much like the real singer does. I did pretty well with over 176,000 points and gold stars on the last phrase. Also you will notice at the bottom of the photo that i got the Flawless Singing achievement for getting 100% on expert. This achievement has alluded me for a while so that made me pretty happy. My score put me in the top 50 on XBL but I doubt it will stay that high since I am 20,000 below first place.

Aesthetics of Hate 100% Gold Stars

Next I decide to give Clouds over California a try. I did OK but the song is broken and that sucks. there is a phrase that just doesn’t work at all. It also has only 2 places to use Overdrive which means the only way to increase my score is to squeeze, which I don’t care to with the broken talkie.

Clouds over California 5 stars

Next up was Constant Motion. I failed it a couple of times on expert since I don’t know the song very well yet so i dropped to hard. i beat it without a problem although I was pretty annoyed that it has several broken talkies as well. I can’t wait till Rock Band 2 which is supposed to fix the talkies.

Constant Motion hard vocals 3 stars

I stayed on hard and decided to work on my career score a bit. I worked on Maps and was pretty successful as i almost doubled my score and got 5 stars. not bad at 97% I could full combo it but didn’t really want to play it any more to work on it.

Maps hard vocals 5 Stars

I finished up the night by singing Disturbed’s Indestructible. I love singing this song and did improve my score a decent amount. I think I can get 5 stars with another  4 or 5 run throughs.

Indestructible Hard Vocals 4 stars

Keep on Rocking,

Mr. Mediocre