Lord of the Strings!

Ok so last night I decided to do the guitar challenges. I have only played a few songs on guitar so far since I got RB2. I was a bit rusty becasue of this but I was passing songs. I would have to say that the difficulty is ramped up a good bit on this game. I only lacked 2 songs to pass on expert on RB1 game but i was struggling with the last challenge on hard. I actually had to drop to medium to pass Painkiller. I got the achievement but it isn’t very satisfying though since hard on Painkiller was to hard but medium was a snoozefest. I plan on one day working through the marathon challenges on hard guitar to know that I can beat them all on hard. By the time i get to it I hope to be good enough to pass Painkiller and visions.

fun with performance mode!

I was working on 100%ing Rob the Prez-O-Dent when I realized, while I kept missing random phrases I really knew the song pretty well. I decided to try the song in performance mode, which is playing with no visual track. The background band is there but you can’t see any words, pitch indicators or where your life bar is. I only made it to 67% on Expert but passed with 5 stars and 91% on hard. That at least means I was pretty close on my pitch so i will work on expert some more. I enjoyed the challenge of it so I plan on trying even more songs on hard.

4 more gold stars

Played soem more vocals last night and got 4 more gold stars bringing me to 20 combined between DLC, RB1 import and RB2 on disc. I think I am doing pretty well on World Tour as well. I am really glad they made it one player this time around.

Making some vocal progress and new drums!

Well i have been making some vocal progress. i am up to 9 on disc gold stars and I think my career score is around 8 million. Still far from the top but i have not worked on very many songs seriously for score. I have been having allot of fun working through World Tour and beating the tour challenges.

On another huge note, I got my Ion drums the other day and they are AWESOME!. I have having a bit of hard time with the learning curve of using the cymbals but it is allot more fun playing with them.

Rock Band 2!

Well I was able to get Rock Band 2 a couple of days early and have already put several hours into it. i love this game. The different modes they added really add allot of extra gmae play. I love being able to play world tour by myslef since that is primarily how I play. The tour challenges are a great addidtion and with new ones adding when you get DLC this seems like an awesome way to keep content fresh. I also love the battle of the bands mode. I think it is a great idea and will add some interesting gameplay and the idea of always having new battles is a great idea. I was able to participate in a few pre-release battles but didn’t fare too well. I did do pretty well in the All That Remains challenge though. It is not over yet but I do have first place.

I have been playing some drums but am really holding out till next week when I get my ION set before I get serious about scores and try out the drum trainer. I have been spending most of my playing on vocals. I ma not doing too badly so far with 7 gold star’d songs on disc and 1 each from DLC and Rock Band 1. I am also happy to say they were not all talky only songs. By the Way Rob The Prez-O-Dent is the most fun vocal track so far and is a freaking blast to sing!