Speaking parts in songs.

[Muppethero]

Ok I am ranked pretty high on some songs. 28 on "Heroes" and under 1000 on a bunch of others.
But for the life of me I can not seem to get Speaking parts down.
Not to mention Sabotage I cant get past 90% with a 10 Phrase streak on easy.
Or songs that have a "YAH!" phrase with only that one word. I normally always get Messy or Okay on it.

Please Oh Please help me with this. I have done the practice over and over on the beastie boys song with little improvement. Like I will do really well one time and then really bad the next. I even hooked up head phones to my TV so i could hear the vocals better but its really not helping on speaking parts.


*muppethero* on xbox live.

[Oxyplox]

Amen to that.
The first time I played Sabotage with my buddies I was looking forward to it cause I knew the song, and I sang it just like he did but it'd always give me crap for score.

[Muppethero]

I think they are scored to harshly. Or There is some trick to it that I am not getting.
I know the "speak when they speak" I have tried quite. and Loud and Differnt sensitivites. I have tried not useing words.. just going.. TAH TAH TAH in the form of the words. I hate doing songs with any...I mean any kind of talking part.

[Roxy]

the key to speaking parts is ensuring that your timing is good, that you finish speaking the word at the same time the original artist does. The better your timing becomes the better your score, make sure you arent holding notes too long, you can get away with this in singing portions so long as your vocals are at the right pitch. Fail to break at the right moments on spoken parts and you will receive alot of messy scores. ;)

[Muppethero]

I will try this. All I know is its getting very frustrating.

but one thing on this timing thing.. in Sabotage There is one phrase that is just
the word "WHY" held for a long time. I started and Stopped at the same time and I only got OK. it was an easy way to celebrate what was going on Cu's it was just one long held word.

[Genchi]

I've found the holding the vowel sound, regardless of if the actual singer does or not, works the best. I've also noticed that, depending on how you have your calibration settings, starting words a split second early seems to help. I rarely ever have trouble on the spoken parts unless it's something really short.

[Apples]

I find it strange people seem to have trouble with this... it's about the only thing I can do effectively with vocals. :) Maybe it has to do with pronouciation... my region doesn't have an accent.

[Baxter]

I've found the holding the vowel sound, regardless of if the actual singer does or not, works the best. I've also noticed that, depending on how you have your calibration settings, starting words a split second early seems to help. I rarely ever have trouble on the spoken parts unless it's something really short.


Same here. Ive noticed that I tend to do better if i get all the sharp consonants and
vowels down. Like in the speaking parts in The Hand That Feeds, ill put emphasis on the "t" in bite and make sure i get the long e's down.

[Manda]

I've noticed a few "tricks" that helped, like holding the vowel longer (as was said). But for the most part I just don't get it. I've aced some songs with talky parts, like The Hand That Feeds, but when it comes to Sabotage, I do no better than 3*.

[defmonkey]

Odd, first time I sang Sabatoge I aced it on hard or whatever.

Went to expert and 100%'ed it.

[Lady Siara]

Odd, first time I sang Sabatoge I aced it on hard or whatever.

Went to expert and 100%'ed it.

Well, post a video or something of you doing it, because I just failed it twice on hard and barely passed it with 64%. >_<

[Rock_Starman]

Sabotage is the only song I can do on hard/expert and the only one I can do well on anything (4 stars on all difficulties) as I've said in that other topic in the main RB form. Can't pass Orange Crush on easy but can do Sabotage on expert and that was the second song I tried. First was Run to the Hills on medium and I failed horribly so decided to try the apprent ever so difficult Sabotage since I figured I wouldn't do worse. 4 stars. During my Ballroom Blitz,Enter Sandman and Epic attempts (on easy but tried Epic on expert first) that's the only part I got awesomes on.

I guess people that can rap can't sing and people that can sing can't rap. So where's that Run DMC? :p

[Booyaman]

Maybe we all just suck at rapping and that's why we're getting (relatively) low scores on sabotage. Just throwing it out there.

[Idote]

Some of the songs in rock Band I had heard, but didn't memorize the vocals to. Sabotage, for example. But I went through it the first time and got 97% or so by just sight reading. The talky parts seem easy to me, but it might have something to do with accents people have.

[LadyLaz]

Who the hell knows. I always either get awesome or messy. I just spit my lyrics into the mic and hope for the best. Haha. Later!!;)