Practice for drum fills/solos?

[Shags1978]

After playing this game for nearly 6 hours straight on Thanksgiving with my brother-in-law and his 3 bratty youngters I've come to love this game. I only have one question/complaint. Is there a way to only practice drum fills/solos? If there isn't do you think there should be one?

The reason I ask is because many of the times I'm playing drums the fills/solos I play don't match the tempo of the song. The songs with a lower tempo like "Creep" don't need a blistering fill in the middle when it doesn't belong. Just a question to ponder and maybe this could be added to future installments of the game.

I must mention that if you have a crappy bass player it becomes harder to keep in sync with drumming. My 7 yr old nephew was playing past his difficulty level on hard with the bass and I was suckin big time!! My brother-in-law thought it was rubbish so he took over drums and I played bass. I purposely botched up some really easy rythym sections and he admitted it was definately hard to keep in sync, just like in a real band.

Just some thoughts. Take them as you will.

[vidwiz]

Drum fills have lag and I have unfortunately been just leaving them out because of that.

[Shags1978]

That's interesting that you mention that because I've heard the same thing. I don't notice any lag at all with the drum fills/solos when I'm playing.

[DorkmasterFlek]

It depends on your audio options. I believe some people said that when they turned off the surround mode the lag went away on the fills, or something to that effect. Also, if you have large audio/video lag and it's calibrated, the fills will have lag because it's impossible for the game to predict what you're going to hit.

[Malev0lent]

Audio lag from the drums is usually the hardware audio setup itself. If your TV has laggy audio, or your going through a few devices to get your audio, it will create lag between when you hit the drums and when the sound actually comes out of the speakers. Most TVs are between 0-10 ms, but some have large amounts of lag.

You can either replace the TV, or have your XBox 360's audio output going directly to a surround sound system. This will fix any drum latency.

As for the original topic, if you want to practice drum fills, go into practice mode and practice the parts where the drum fills are, and play with what sounds best. Typically a slow decending drum fill will work best on slower songs, but the general rule of thumb is if you keep the bass pedal going to the same beat of the rest of the song, you can pretty much throw whatever else you want on top of it.

Also, you'll pretty much want to just flat out avoid the crash until the end (there's a few exceptions, you'll know which ones).

And another funny thing I've noticed is you can screw around on the drums all you want until close to when the drum notes come down the track. It can be a lot of fun to mess with that but it tends to just throw off everyone including yourself. But, if you know the song you could possible set the tempo with the crash.