Green grass help - Expert Guitar

[Tyrindor]

Alright i've been trying to pass this song for 2 months now, i've 5 or gold stars basically everything else....

I easily get to about 80% then the 3 notes kick in and the go back and forth between green->red->yellow->red->green back and forth in a 3 note waving line. I cannot get this down.. ive tried practice mode and it just isn't happening.

Any advice on how to do this part?

[squiggerz]

Tried the solo buttons? When you use those you don't have to strum and since they are so closely spaced you can raise your fingers off the fretboard a little so that the fingertips are all that is touching and just rock them back and forth. I can usually hit between 95-99% of those zig zags this way.

[strtfghtr]

I'm in the same boat as you man...I've beaten everything else (Except Ride the lightning :P)

I've made it passed the "zig-zag" patterns a couple times with Overdrive help but I usually die at the end with the Orange->Blue->Yellow they seem to be spaced weird and I cannot get the timing on those either.

[kencarlo]

genius!

10

[davidshek]

Any advice on how to do this part?

Use the solo buttons, and try this tactic:

Hold down the G button with your left hand index finger. Then tap the R button with your left hand middle finger, and the Y with your right hand index finger.

Since you're holding down G, the tapping is just R-R-Y, R-R-Y, R-R-Y.

You can then use the same method on the 2nd set of zigzags, they're just R-Y-B instead.

[Seldomseen]

^ Yeah, depending on your comfort level using the solo fret buttons (I am not as comfortable as others, though), not having to strum the notes makes the task of playing the whole run just a little easier, so long as you hit the first note at the beginning of a run or when you need to recover from losing the run partway through it.

If worse comes to worst, you can always skip the "fourth" note of each quadruplet and treat the run as a series of Y->R->G triplets. You'll miss the middle red note every single time and lose your multiplier, but treating the run in this manner can help improve your accuracy (at least for the "triplets"). Heck, this is how I beat Expert Guitar GGaHT the first couple times I played it.

However, that ^ is only the run found at the 80% mark. The one found at around 95% is a slightly more stressful one. While it's comprised only of triplets, they're very close together, and I've only managed to play the run really well once. It's up to you how you do it. (I did it using the regular fret buttons and the strum bar. It was furious times.;))

[Tyrindor]

I use a xplorer guitar.. so no solo buttons. I don't like the rock band guitar.


^ Yeah, depending on your comfort level using the solo fret buttons (I am not as comfortable as others, though), not having to strum the notes makes the task of playing the whole run just a little easier, so long as you hit the first note at the beginning of a run or when you need to recover from losing the run partway through it.

If worse comes to worst, you can always skip the "fourth" note of each quadruplet and treat the run as a series of Y->R->G triplets. You'll miss the middle red note every single time and lose your multiplier, but treating the run in this manner can help improve your accuracy (at least for the "triplets"). Heck, this is how I beat Expert Guitar GGaHT the first couple times I played it.

However, that ^ is only the run found at the 80% mark. The one found at around 95% is a slightly more stressful one. While it's comprised only of triplets, they're very close together, and I've only managed to play the run really well once. It's up to you how you do it. (I did it using the regular fret buttons and the strum bar. It was furious times.;))


I've tried doing that but it still isn't happening :( Its just way to fast..

[Seldomseen]

Yeah, that's okay. It is a fast passage. You'll get it eventually, if only a handful of times (like me!:p [I've beaten this song maybe about six or seven times total]).

[patmac0014]

Go with the Fender for this song if you can. You can't overstate how much easier it is with the solo buttons.

What I do is hold down the green button with my left index, and use my right index and middle and just do a one-two tap. I always nail it with x8 overdrive. Really gets the solo percentage up and finishes off the gold star.

[squiggerz]

Go with the Fender for this song if you can. You can't overstate how much easier it is with the solo buttons.

What I do is hold down the green button with my left index, and use my right index and middle and just do a one-two tap. I always nail it with x8 overdrive. Really gets the solo percentage up and finishes off the gold star.

^^ If we only had the Strat back when we were trying to conquer Jordan... so many hours would have been saved (at least for me :) )

[MajorYoshi]

One thing that has really helped me (and I have finally beat it a couple of times now): any time you can press the fret buttons without activating anything (like waiting for a song to load), work out that order.. Hold Green, hit and hold red, hit and release yellow, release red, wait a sec then start over with hitting red. I just did pattern over and over while songs were loading, eventually getting faster and faster with it but still watching the colors light up so I could see if I was timing it right. A couple days after I started doing this finger practicing, i beat it.

This was after countless times through the practice mode too. I find that this actually helped me more than practice mode did.

Good luck with it!

MajorYoshi