When I saw Big Dipper in the announcement, I knew two things:

1) There would be a bunch of people on the forums complaining that they'd never heard of Big Dipper.
2) I would be extremely happy...

No, that's someone else; this is Yngwie F. Malmsteen.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34676

If memory serves, "Outside" by Tribe has some dotted quarter notes in the bass that leave the next kick on "a".

I should try it on guitar. I woke up early to play it on drums before going to work, and it was um kind of hard.

Are these official?

I just relistened to most of "Love Spreads" and I would believe it as a 6 on guitar before on drums. But on the other hand, the drums are mixed very low, and it's possible...

The problem really can't be with easy achievements, as a lot of people are assuming-- RB2 already turns off achievements in software sometimes (if you use the "unlock all songs" cheat); they could do...

Big thanks to HMXAdamA and other HMX folks helping confirm info in this thread. I actually enjoy the current chart more than I would with 16th-note runs on the hi-hat, but the possibility of things...

I've gold-starred it on drums. I believe I had one missed note, even, though I'm not positive.

"Something About You" is a blast on drums (my normal instrument) and "Franklin's Tower" is fun on guitar (which I usually don't like enough to play). Not sure I would recommend either one for the...

I find it totally fascinating that drum complexity has become the battleground for music games. Nobody is trying to innovate on guitar (or not much), but Konami and Activision both feel that making...

I am a huge Pixies fan, and was a little disappointed when I sat down to play through the whole album with friends. We were switching off instruments every few songs, and it seemed like a lot of the...

Scott Pilgrim rules my world. I heard tons of recommendations for it while somehow not hearing about the book's main conceit, so when I read the first book, the, uh, encounter with Matthew Patel at...

After playing Bullets & Guns enough times on solo drums that I could sing along with it, I was sure the lyric was "She showed me how to shake a complicated kind of ass", which I thought was...

All three are fun on drums, though after several plays I dislike the Myriad song so much that I don't think I'll be playing it again. (I like all the bands they're ripping off; something about the...

Even though I've enjoyed a few songs here and there, the last several weeks of DLC have felt... different. Less classic.

So I was thinking about this-- if you count the two DLC announcements...

Well, it's probably the closest we'd get to having any Zappa in Rock Band...

Every time I see the cover of the new Disturbed album, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song runs through my head. Is it just me? Is it intentional? They seem a little too invested in being...

I'm a decent Rock Band drummer (used to be in the top 1000, though in the past few weeks I think I've fallen out), but I just *cannot* play all of the fast bass kicks in Disturbed's "Inside The Fire"...

I can understand musicians feeling like Rock Band cheapens what they do. I don't think they're right, but I can understand it; inevitably, there are going to be a small number of players who think...

Huh. "Girls Who Play Guitars" is a little too ordinary for me-- would have preferred one of the quirkier songs, like "Our Velocity" or most of the first album. But I'm psyched!