Confessions of a Mediocre Rock Band Player

My Rockers

Elvis — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:49:10 +0000

Some new scores

Elvis — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:55:59 +0000

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.

Lord of the Strings!

Elvis — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:45:23 +0000

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!

Elvis — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:33:05 +0000

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

Elvis — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:27:30 +0000

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!

Elvis — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:00:08 +0000

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!

Elvis — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:20:34 +0000

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!

My singer

Elvis — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:39:27 +0000

I had a week long business trip so I didn’t get to play. I got back and started to work on my scores. I increased a few by a decent ammount but decided to not worry about scores anymore for now. It is 2 weeks untill Rockband 2 so i will work on getting better everyday but am not going to worry about 5 stars or higher scores till then. i thought i would share my singer today though.

1st place on Clouds over California vocals

Elvis — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:58:07 +0000

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)

Elvis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:43 +0000

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