Why do you play RB? Scoring or Band Simulation/Touring?

[The_Future_Soon]

This seems a good enough place to ask. Am I correct in thinking that, no matter what I do, only the activities of the controller linked to my account will count towards my band's challenges? I can't play guitar and have my brother play bass and have both scores recorded for my band, even though we are both playing in my band? That seems to be the case, but I hope I'm just missing something obvious.

[mikeyts]

This seems a good enough place to ask. Am I correct in thinking that, no matter what I do, only the activities of the controller linked to my account will count towards my band's challenges? I can't play guitar and have my brother play bass and have both scores recorded for my band, even though we are both playing in my band? That seems to be the case, but I hope I'm just missing something obvious.

In RB3, everyone's profile has a band and if you're joined in a profile you're always playing in that band, whether you're playing with someone else or not. If multiple profiles are joined and playing, all of their individual bands will record the same band score for each song that they perform, as well as individual scores for the instrument that they were playing. If you look at the band leaderboard for any given song, you'll find little clusters of bands with identical scores for identical ensembles (i.e., guitar+bass, vox+guitar+drums, vox+keys+bass+drums, etc)--those clusters are almost certainly a group of people who played the song together.