Anyone having problems with Flirtin' or Green Grass Read here.

[BadMrFrosty]

Uh, for like a week i was having trouble beating flirtin' with disaster and green grass and high tides on hard with the guitar the solos were just kicking my ass and then I realized that i was essentially playing the game entirely wrong and I thought maybe other people were to.

The entire time i have been playing rock band and guitar hero 1 2 and 3 I have been hitting each fret button separately like green red blue whatever.

But I noticed if instead of doing that I just slide my finger all wildly across the bar like I have no control over myself i actually do alot better at the game.. who knew!

it kind of feels like the 3 year old technique in street fighter II (i.e. hit all the buttons hope for the best) but it actually works.. so the next time you see a bunch of notes which dont appear to go in a pattern try just sliding your finger along the fret bar....

I cleared both of the songs in the same hour once i figured this out...

BMF

[High_School_Legend]

wow... never heard of hammer-ons and pull-offs? you hit the first note of a close sequence of notes then just tap the rest of the way up like on a run. go look through the tutorials

[BadMrFrosty]

No,

what I was saying was I thought you had to independantly push the buttons on the fret bar, instead you can wildly slide your hand back and forth without any regard for accuracy and without even really knowing which buttons your pushing get 80-90% on the very tricky solos in those two songs.

that was my point.. i realize that you dont have to strum for hammer-ons and pull-ofs, your reply was completely irrelevant.

BMF

[High_School_Legend]

But you're doing nothin more than a lucky hammer-on or pull-off. If you're wildly moving fingers on the fret button you will hit notes in between the one you're supposed to hit and that is totally fine just as long as your finger strikes the corresponding note that the screen shows when the time comes for it.

[BadMrFrosty]

All i'm saying is, in those two songs.. it works great. in other songs that actually have patterns and repeated notes it doesnt work as well.

BMF

[Brane Ded]

Uh, for like a week i was having trouble beating flirtin' with disaster and green grass and high tides on hard with the guitar the solos were just kicking my ass and then I realized that i was essentially playing the game entirely wrong and I thought maybe other people were to.

No, you were playing right before, now you're doing it wrong. I guess you're using the solo frets to do that. If it works and that's how you want to do it, okay. It won't help you improve much in the long run.

[eVan_Diesel]

Yea, I have noticed that finger sliding works quite well!

[BadMrFrosty]

No, you were playing right before, now you're doing it wrong. I guess you're using the solo frets to do that. If it works and that's how you want to do it, okay. It won't help you improve much in the long run.

I'm actually using the guitar that came with GH3 to do it, it hurts my finger after a couple songs but its worth it to 95% one of those 4 minute solos in Green Grass and High Tides on hard.

BMF

[shoombabi]

it kind of feels like the 3 year old technique in street fighter II (i.e. hit all the buttons hope for the best) but it actually works.. so the next time you see a bunch of notes which dont appear to go in a pattern try just sliding your finger along the fret bar....


Are you for real? This has to be a joke.

Do you know what a pattern is?

It's not like the game is randomly throwing you notes. The "hard" part of the solos are:

G R Y R (repeat ad nauseum) - definition of a pattern

followed by

R Y B Y (repeat ad nauseum) - again, another pattern

with some

O B Y R (repeat ad nauseum) - hark! a pattern!

and maybe

O B Y (repeat ad nauseum) - lo and behold. patterned note chart.

The descending and oscillating scales in a solo are by definition a pattern...it's not someone just vomiting notes onto the screen and you have to hope you get through it. Likewise, the parts that sound like a guitar actually playing melodies in the solo will make you fail miserably if you do this "newfound" technique of yours.

edit:

P.S. If Street Fighter II is 3 years old to you, you're behind the times man.

edit 2:

Haha, you meant the technique employed by people of age 3. I left in my original edit for comic effect for those that read it like I did the first time ;)

[Ninjalotus]

have to admit, pretty ridiculous thinking on behalf of the OP. L2P? or something to that 1337 effect.

[tehfl1p]

88% or so Green Grass and High Tides Expert first try, lol.

Oh, hai. I'm new. I've been lurking since about a month before the RB release though.

[shoombabi]

My guitar unfortunately broke before I made it to the last tier, so I was using the XPlorer for GGaHT. That SUCKS. I had some interesting overdrive usage though ;)

New guitar just arrived, so I'll be trying to bump my score up later today.