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.

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!

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.

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