So I did the endless setlist by myself this weekend. I've done expert guitar/singing a couple times. This time, I went a little bit different avenue and tried solo ESL with expert drums and singing. Here are some things I learned along the way:

1. How well you can blindly sing the song determines your star rating. It doesn't matter if you drop a 100% on drums (like I did for a few songs), if you don't put up a semi-reasonable singing performance with it, you are looking at four stars.

2. Lack of unison bonuses in a 2 man band makes gold stars way too difficult. The gold star formula obviously assumes you're going to have that extra overdrive. When you don't, even nigh flawless performances won't help. 99%/99% Dani California with good streaks and overdrive usage wasn't enough.

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