bass peddle help?

[captainjerk]

can anyone help me with this crap, so far all i play guitar cuz i cant get a grip on playing the drums functionally, is there a way to make the bass peddle easier?

[Credge]

Don't hover your foot over the pedal and keep it pressed after a hit, only to re-raise it to hit the next note. Think of how you tap your foot to the rhythm of a song. Like that.

[MJDoja]

just try to get into the groove.. seperation is tough.

starting in easy mode and playing through the game you will start to feel it.

go on medium, youll have a really tough time towards the later stages, but youll start separating your limbs to where the right hand keeps the constant 8th notes.. the kick comes on the downbeats (1 and 3) and the snare on the backbeats (2 and 4)

watch the ingame tutorials they help a bit.. just practice it will take a bit of time and suckage but it will happen.

[captainjerk]

Don't hover your foot over the pedal and keep it pressed after a hit, only to re-raise it to hit the next note. Think of how you tap your foot to the rhythm of a song. Like that.

so what your saying is, when i hit it, keep my foot down til the next note?

[BodhiWolff]

My advice, from somebody who thought he was going to be owned by the drums, and with a wife who failed out at the easiest setting on drums and was worrying about the whole thing?

It is *just* like the orange button on the guitar, for those people who just had trouble making the switch from "medium" to "hard". The problem is that the game asks you to play with it ... just a smidgeon ... at the very beginning. The nice thing is that it doesn't demand that you play with it very much, and it gives you lots of time to recover.

The trick is the "basic beat". Once you learn that, it gives you ample playtime with the basic beat to recover any lost ground from atypical rhythms it throws at you in other sections.

a. Do the tutorials. They're really good! The best part is that they walk you through a basic beat. They add one hand at a time. Sure enough, when my wife went to add the foot, she started messing up, but the tutorial just keeps right on going, giving you time to mess with it and screw up, seeing if you can make your note streak. She tried again, and again, and again, and then on the fourth time she suddenly got in the groove, and *bang* got her 12 in a row. You can revisit it, until you're sure you can do the basic beat. That one beat will come back again and again, so that when you move down on the charts during a new bit in the song, you can move yourself back up during the basic beat section later on.

b. Put yourself into practice mode. Pick a warm-up level song. That way you can mess up and keep going. Just play for fun. You'll start playing along, and it'll get all messed up in your head, and then it'll come back. It'll pop in and out of your head, and then suddenly it'll make sense again. Just keep going. Have fun with it.

c. When you're ready, start an easy drum solo tour. Pick the same warm-up level song. This time, play it "for real". You'll do fine. Trust me.

The thing that I noticed was that there is definitely an "aha!" moment when it comes to the foot pedal and the basic beat. There is another "aha!" moment when it comes to the foot pedal on the off-beats, which is the one I'm having trouble with now. I'm sure it is just a matter of time, and then you move on to the next "aha!" moment.

The thing is, once you start doing it automatically, the big orange bar just seems like another action. Big-orange-bar equals "with foot", and that's okay. You stop worrying, and just hit it. You stop needing it to be with the same drum, you stop needing it to be on the same beat, etc. It just becomes another "button".

I hope this helps. Stick with it. It is a learning process, but the thing is, it is a *fun* learning process.

My wife failed out at easy, and swore she'd never get the drums to work. I told her to do just what I told you to do. She snuck into the TV room while I was on the computer, and I heard the tutorial going. I just listened. Then I heard a song going. I listened. She played it through. Then I heard the same song with an audience. I listened. I heard applause. I knew she'd survived her first tour song, and that she was on her way.

It *can* be done.

So go have a blast!

[Kevhouse]

I've just been trying to do different songs and moving up on the difficulty slowly. I played Easy until I was 5-starring all of them. Then I moved up to Medium, and I'm getting the hang of that. I got 91% on Hard last night, so it's been working for me :D

[Terrance27]

This is what I was told and it helps alot. 1. Remove the closest rod on the bottom of the drum set. 2. Place the pedal on the 1st hump closest to you on the 2nd rod that you didn't remove. 3. Lower the drumset about an inch to a inch and a half from the top of your knee. 4. Push the drumset away from you the same amount. 5. The most important step that helped me out alot was wearing a shoe. Don't hover over the pedal. Now if you can play wanted dead or alive and your foot isn't tired then you know you did it right.

[hardyfoster]

yes.

keep the pedal pressed down.

when a note is coming, raise your foot, press down to play the note AND keep it down until the next one comes.