Question about notation for Pro Guitar

[jmhard]

I was playing "Crosstown Traffic" on Easy Pro Guitar, and at the Chorus 1 section there was notation I didn't recognize. There was a light blue symbol on the 2nd and 5th strings, with a number 4. What does that mean?

[Derrek42]

Not sure what you mean, but I would assume that you would only press on those strings/frets. Do you have a pic of it? that would clarify.

[grumblevolcano]

You mean like here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLMeF...direct=1#t=77s

[Derrek42]

I just looked up the song, but could not find the "easy" version of it. I found the expert version, and I think I found what you are asking about. First off, easy has very truncated versions of the songs (that is to say, you don't play everything, but only partial chords and some notes). What you are seeing is the truncated version of what is played in the following vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VRff...edirect=1&t=44

Just put your fingers on the strings with the notations on the fret number indicated. You should be able to just strum that without an issue....Don't worry about hitting strings without notes cause the game assumes that the un-noted strings would be muted by your hand and not "sound" (if you were playing it for real and not already muted ).

[jmhard]

I'll take a picture and post it

[Cipher_Peon]

I know exactly what you mean. Out of the whole entire RB3 setlist, Crosstown Traffic is the only song on Easy Pro Guitar to have it. I'm fairly certain that it's a chord, demanding you to play two notes at once. Why Crosstown Traffic out of all songs to have it and nothing else baffles me.

[mikeyts]

Sounds like an instance of arpeggio notation in Easy pro guitar. An arpeggio is a sequence of all of the notes of a chord played one at a time; the notation looks like this (the final illustration of Sylvain Dubrofsky's "Rock Band 3 New Features: Pro Guitar" blog entry). It shows you that so that you can make and hold that "ghost" chord shape and know that all of the strings for the notes in that shaded area can be strummed without moving your fingers to cover other frets.

Seems like that should be prohibited by the charting rules, since it seems pretty likely to confuse the beginner.

[jmhard]

Sounds like an instance of arpeggio notation in Easy pro guitar. An arpeggio is a sequence of all of the notes of a chord played one at a time; the notation looks like this (the final illustration of Sylvain Dubrofsky's "Rock Band 3 New Features: Pro Guitar" blog entry). It shows you that so that you can make and hold that "ghost" chord shape and know that all of the strings for the notes in that shaded area can be strummed without moving your fingers to cover other frets.

Seems like that should be prohibited by the charting rules, since it seems pretty likely to confuse the beginner.

Appreciate the response, but I don't think that's the case. I'll try to post a picture now.

[jmhard]

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I tried to set this so that anyone can see it

[SirDavidTLynch]

The other symbol means that that string goes one fret higher (in this case, 5), and the strings between are muted.

I thought chords didn't appear on Easy. Maybe they made an exception for the final tier, or maybe they just screwed up.