Open Note on Guitar

[arcusx]

Not sure if this has been brought up before, but has a 6th note on the guitar - no button pressed, or "open" - ever been considered?

I was listening to some Megadeth on my way home last night in preparation for the DLC (that dropped really late in CA, so I didn't get to play it) and it made me wonder; why not be able to play a 6th note by strumming with no fret button pressed?

RB4 maybe?

Who's with me??

[GNFfhqwhgads]

No one, because there's 3,600 songs that wouldn't have it currently, and Harmonix has had many years to implement it if they wanted.

[arcusx]

Pro mode didn't have to be retro...

[GNFfhqwhgads]

And nor did the full set of colors on Easy/Medium. But that still doesn't address the time between Guitar Hero: Metallica and now, which Harmonix has spent not charting it. Their games don't even support open notes.

[mikeyts]

GH had it (at least GH5, the only one of those I ever played, did); it might have only occurred on bass charts in that game. But what's the point? It only adds one to the list of 19 one, two and three fret combos (that's 19 counting the three G-x-O chords that come up on basic keys charts). It wouldn't be worth the effort at this point.

[jibjqrkl]

even though i'm all open for an extra note (doesnt matter that we probably wont be getting it)
do you remember the ones in gh on bass that were pull offs? playing a note by not playing anything is still one of the strangest things i ever did

[bclewis]

do you remember the ones in gh on bass that were pull offs? playing a note by not playing anything is still one of the strangest things i ever did

Hmm. Strange maybe, but it really is pretty closely analogous to pulling off to an open note on a real bass.

However, for some reason while I don't find open notes on a real guitar awkward at all, the GH bass open notes felt really weird to me. I think it may have been the notation rather than the actual motion that threw me.

[Pitch-Black]

Agree with the statements above. It would not at all be worth the effort at this point. Still, it's not outside the realm of possability. If they ever do seriously concider it (and I'm sure in the last four years it has been concidered), I cast my vote against it. GH's use of them in bass charts may have made the charts slightly more realistic than RB's, but I found that small advantage to be completely undermined by how awkward the open notes were to play on a plastic instrument.

[grimripper82]

I personally like the idea of the "open notes." It hasn't been implemented, but still could be in the next Rock Band, if we all really wanted it. They wouldn't have to retrofit the current DLC with it, but could add it in future DLC if they wanted to, just as they did with adding orange notes to easy and medium, for instance. The way it worked in GH was that it only happened while playing bass. Bass in Rock Band has always been seen as sort of "the easy version of guitar," and open notes in GH actually made bass more interesting to play. I would go as far to say that playing bass in GH is harder than guitar because of the open notes. Plus, it just felt right in some songs to just strum with an open note on bass. I will agree that pull-offs to open notes are just too awkward. I don't like the pull-offs to open notes...

[GameMaster439]

No thanks, I thought it was an unneeded add in GHWT and onward. It made songs like Pull Me Under in that game unnecessarily hard on Expert Bass