Evi
02-24-2008, 02:44 AM
I thought it would be interesting if we had a thread which lists the songs and how each of the four pads corresponds to their "real drums" counterparts. For example, which drum functions as the snare, which is the hat, which kind of cymbal/drum the green notes are, etc. My drumming experience IRL is rather limited, but I could probably figure out some of them by giving them a good listen, and hopefully some real drummers can provide input as well, and I can edit them into this post.
I'm not sure if it changes by difficulty, but we should assume everything is Expert, because that's what would imitate real drums most accurately.
Before anyone questions the usefulness of this, look through this forum at the many threads and posts where people have said Rock Band got them into playing drums, or improved their drum skills, or whatever. If we could do this for the Rock Band songs, people who are playing the game would have a better idea of what they are actually playing, and with some practice, even be able to play these songs on a real kit.
Obviously some drummers who have very large kits (Neil Peart of Rush comes to mind) might be difficult, because the same note might be used for multiple drums, in which case we would have to have multiple sections (one for verse, one for chorus, solo, etc), or just make some generalizations and leave the variation up to the individuals.
Anyway, I don't have anything to contribute yet because I pretty much just thought up the thread and decided to gauge interest before starting the research, but any comments/suggestions are welcome, and if you want to contribute, just put an easy song on practice mode and listen to the TV, or watch a video of someone playing a song with audio out recording, and post what you hear.
I'm not sure if it changes by difficulty, but we should assume everything is Expert, because that's what would imitate real drums most accurately.
Before anyone questions the usefulness of this, look through this forum at the many threads and posts where people have said Rock Band got them into playing drums, or improved their drum skills, or whatever. If we could do this for the Rock Band songs, people who are playing the game would have a better idea of what they are actually playing, and with some practice, even be able to play these songs on a real kit.
Obviously some drummers who have very large kits (Neil Peart of Rush comes to mind) might be difficult, because the same note might be used for multiple drums, in which case we would have to have multiple sections (one for verse, one for chorus, solo, etc), or just make some generalizations and leave the variation up to the individuals.
Anyway, I don't have anything to contribute yet because I pretty much just thought up the thread and decided to gauge interest before starting the research, but any comments/suggestions are welcome, and if you want to contribute, just put an easy song on practice mode and listen to the TV, or watch a video of someone playing a song with audio out recording, and post what you hear.
