Strumming To hard?

[pereira2k5]

THe first complaint I have with rock band is defiantly the repetitive strumming. I find it nearly impossible to hit every single one. I think there is way to many repetitive notes in rock band, I want more solos and less strumming. The strumming bar on the guitar is far from conferrable, I feel the old guitar hero guitars were much easier with strumming. It seems like you really have to push the strum in order to strum. It takes a hurting on my wrist, far more than guitar hero. Does anyone notice this, or feel the same way I do about it?

[Slinky826]

If you are having to really press down hard in order to strum, there may be something wrong with your guitar. If you have another guitar controller beside the RB one, try that instead and see if it's any easier. If it is, then it's definitely your RB guitar. Hit up the EA support website and have it replaced.

[pereira2k5]

WEll honestly I have no idea how a normal rock band guitar is suppose to feel like, IF I knew some one with rockband, I would have compared it... If you were to compare it with a guitar hero one, would u say its the same or harder or much harder to strum?

[SoKGiX]

i use my thumb and just tap it, its pretty dam sensitive off of 0

[pereira2k5]

im not talking how the sensativity of the key registration, im talking about how (physically) sensitive it is, i have to push harder on the strum than on the gutair hero one...

[pereira2k5]

and what do you mean off by 0

[SoKGiX]

and what do you mean off by 0

0'd like where it sits without you touching it. if you are hitting it harder than the GH guitar, i'd say your strummers bad or u jus haven't quite figured out how slight of a tap it requires to register.

[iron_city_ap]

Its definately different. In some ways, I think its easier, but in other ways its harder. It definately doesn't make the 'click' that the old guitars do, but I find the bar easier to grab ahold of. It did take a little time to get used to, but it could just be that you simply prefer the feel of the old guitar. I agree that if you are really having to press hard something is wrong with the guitar most likely.

[capitalfn9]

i found that just strumming in one direction i harder than alt strumming if you are using the strat. since i like alt strumming anyway i love this.

[WiseOldUnicorn]

You shouldn't really have to strum very hard. I find that my Strat responds very well to just barely flicking it.

It could just be that you're not used to the different strum bar. The GH guitars have a strum bar that's like a switch, that you have to press all the way down on. The RB guitar feels more like an actual guitar string, and responds well to being plucked like one.

On the other hand, like others have said, it could be that your guitar's broken.

[KazerX]

You might want to get a replacement for your guitar. My old guitar had a busted downstrum. At times it would require for me to push down on the strum hard to get it to register.

With my new guitar I just have to lightly tap it to register notes. Much easier on my thumb/wrist.

[Zach Attack]

If you don't want to wait weeks by sending your guitar off, try this.

Open up your guitar by unscrewing all the screws on the back, except the neck and those below the stickers. You should be able to pop it open. You'll see this.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c37/Eddieh1979/RockBandStrummerSensorFix.jpg

Those small screws adjust how sensitive your strum bar is. Play around with those, put it back together, and you should be good. While you're at it, if you want a more "clicky" strum bar that resets to neutral faster, while you've got the case open you can add some rubberbands to the hooks on the strum bar. Rock Band's guitar was originally designed to be clicky like Guitar Hero's, but they changed it at some point. The hooks for springs/rubber bands are still there, though. Just adding some tiny rubber bands really makes the strum bar "pop" more. I did this on mine, and I can hit long note sequences a lot easier now. Unfortunately, it also makes the click sound the GH controllers do now, but it's a small price to pay. And besides, I can't even hear the click over my brother playing the drums.

This thread has the details: http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?p=774206

[Kingfish]

Man o man...I wish now i had taken pictures of the guitar i just sent back.

Anyone that?s opened their guitar have seen the globs of glue(hot glue gun?) tacking the wires down. The guitar i just sent back...used regular masking tape(that tan stuff for painting)! The strum bar was the type with the 'clickers', little plastic tabs that stopped working in about 3 hours of playing.

It was a total PoS!

My other guitar is like the one from your pics...I loosened the nut and used a thin shim of cardboard to wedge the upper contact back toward the lower one and then tightened the nut back. Now it works like a charm...never misses.

I know it will prolly eventually stop working again but, right now...it's good.

My replacement (btw, i got it in 4 business days), hasn't been opened yet as the strummer is perfect so far. It does 'feel' like the second one i had (the one i shim-fixed)...but i am hoping its the new magnetic type strummer.

All that said, the two working guitars i have now...NEITHER of their 'overdrive' sensors work as they should. They will just spontaneously go off whenever they want to...and that sucks.