Replacement Guitar received: suggestion

[SpinalTap11]

Hey all I just received my replacement guitar last night, and one thing I noticed was there was definitely more tensions in the strum bar (especially) in the down movement. One thing I would recommend is when strumming it does not require a full on down pressure movement to register. I played Blackened on hard and was able to complete the song with just slightest of movement in the down strum, Like many have said before try using the "holding the pick" method thumb and index finger together. Hope this helps. Also anyone in Northern VA Manassas VA Best Buy has a ton of xbox 360 bundles. I actually bought another one so I can have drum battles when friends come over.

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[RealCheese]

Yeah if you press it too hard... sometimes it won't count it... If you press it a little it counts it perfect... and if you press it about midway it counts it twice which screws me up a lot

[admanimal]

Yep, this is the exact way I have been playing my working guitar so far and it has been perfect.

[stiper327b]

Yeah, I noticed this when I played the demo at Best Buy all those long weeks ago. When I would try to strum my normal GH distance, it just didn't feel right and I was worried that the strum bar just wasn't as sensitive as the GH one. But then I realized it was MORE sensitive. That just a small movement would register, and no longer would I need to go all the way down 'til I heard a 'click.' It's actually closer to what I would imagine playing an actual guitar would feel like. When you hit a string with the pick, you aren't strumming down a good two inches or whatever, but rather just a very small distance. Once I realized this, I was playing faster passages more accurately and better than ever before. I'm not saying that the build quality was perfect, but I wonder how many broken guitars would have been saved had people realized this sooner. But still, HMX should have allowed for people playing the Strat as they played the Gibson/Explorer/Les Pauls and built in a little bit more durability.

But hey, as long as they learn from this and make future revisions sturdier, then I'm happy. I still say the Strat beats the pants off of the GH controllers by a country mile. No click on the strum bar is an instant win for me.

[generalfactotum]

hrmm i will have to try this. i got my replacement and it felt really unresponsive and didn't register all my downstrokes. i'll try smaller movements, tho i preferred the feel of my first guitar b/4 it's down strum broke. flicking the strum bar just feels weird compared to holding it, and seems to make alternating down/up a bit harder (maybe i should just try using a real guitar pick with it, heh).