Some new scores

Have made any major progress since last time, but I have gotten up to 21 on disc gold stars. Tha officially makes 25% of the setlist. I decided not to keep track of my drum scores. I need to get allot better so i will just keep playing everyday and wait till next year before i worry about scores. I should be good enough by then (I hope)

I got the RHCP album and it is a blast to sing. I plan on Gold staring the entire album over the next few weeks so look for that soon.

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.

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!

1st place on Clouds over California vocals

so I worked a bit on the broken talkie in Clouds over California and was able to get around 1,000 points (out of the 8,000) still shitty but better than most. This score puts me in first place on Score Hero but only 7th on XBL. There are 5 people above me that look like they either got a glitch or actually got the entire phrase. Perhaps I will try again later.

5 Star The Cars Album (hard drums)

So I 5 stared the entire album by The Cars today on hard drums. to be honest it isn’t much of an accomplishment since they were all sight reads(first time playing through). A couple were of them were close but none were a real challenge. I am a fan of the group and the album so they are very fun to play though. I couldn’t help thinking of Fast Times at Ridgemont High while playing Moving in Stereo though! i finally got my new RMA’d drum set and it has made a big difference as well.

I actually did some other stuff too but I will leave that for another time.

Keep on Rocking,

Mr. Mediocre

Some increases in Drum scores

I worked on a few drum scores and made some nice improvements. It must have been a long time since I played these songs because the increases were pretty big and the songs seemed much easier than I remember them being. All in all it was about 300,000 increase on my total hard score(only about 50k increase in my career score though). Click the pics to enlarge them.

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

A little more drumming fun

So I got home from work and decided to play some drums. First I decided to play Dream Theater’s Constant Motion some more to see if I could get my score up. I may have been a bit premature in yesterday’s prediction but you never know. I played it 4 more times, failing once (just got really off during the really fast part) and ended up increasing my score a pretty good bit during one run. I didn’t get to 90% yet but my set is really not doing well. It makes it really hard to tell if I am missing the note or my pad is missing it. My red pad misses maybe 20% of the time and my yellow pad has a crack in it. I don’t think I will play drums anymore until I get my new set. Of course i said that yesterday, so well see.

I really, really like this song so I can see myself reaching my goal of 5 stars but it might take some time. I normally don’t have the attention span to dedicate to a song and play it over and over. This one is very fun to play though so I don’t get bored as quickly as i normally do. I added over 27,000 points and 5% which is great, but i am very happy that I was able to pretty much double my note streak. Feel free to laugh at my kitchen chair as my drum throne

Constant Motion 3 stars again

After Constant Motion for some reason I decided to give Disturbed’s Indestructible a run on expert drums. Not this best idea on my broken set but I do love playing this song as well. I can pass this song pretty much every time but do have trouble keeping a combo during the chorus. I have gotten a little better since the last time I played this so I had hoped to get a better run, but only increased my score by a few hundred. I don’t know if I will ever be able to 5 star this one but it sure is fun to play, and a hell of a work out to boot.

Indestructible Expert drums 3 stars

I hope to get to some guitar or vocals tonight if the olympics are boring.

Keep on rocking,

Mr. Mediocre (Elvis Lawson)