Agreed. I can barely make it through “Enter Sandman” (or any other song) unless I sing like a choirboy, which is just plain wrong. And I was a choirboy!
Come on, Harmonix! Forgive me my vibrato, or any other such embellishments. Your hard-line vocal purity stance ruined Karaoke Revolution and it’s now sucking the fun out of Rock Band.
I was able to clear More Human Than Human doing a Rob Zombie voice…
The problem with singing like the singer is it may sound pretty good in your head, but it sounds different to all the other people who aren’t in your head. Took me a long time to be able to comfortably sing in my own voice and not try to mimic what I hear on the radio or in the game.
“Folsom Prison Blues,” please.
“Tennessee Flat Top Box” would be fun on guitar.
Solution: Play on a lower difficulty level.
Unless you’ve got some hangup about always having to play on expert, you can get away with a LOT on easy. Most of my friends don’t pick anything else because it provides the most freedom.
I remember one friend singing a RHCP song on easy that he didn’t know. He mumbled like Milton Waddams through the whole thing and never went below green on the meter.
Unless you’re with a group who are all playing on expert and going for gold stars, why go harder than you need to? Unlike the note charts, which change, the singing experience is exactly the same no matter what difficulty level you’re on.
Because acing a song on Expert gives me the sense of validation and accomplishment I so desperately crave?
It’s also the best way to get better at the game.
A reasonable person, wtf? You’re so right, of course. I hardly ever play on expert with others since they usually just want quickplay. And none of them want to try anything past medium.
It’s also the best way to get better at the game.
That’s why I started playing drums on Normal since I could see there was no way I was going to progress playing on Easy.
For the instruments, yeah, but I figure that singing is singing, no matter what difficulty you’re on. Practice will make you better, but progression in singing isn’t quite as straightforward as it is on the instruments.
When I go to Rock Band night at the bar near my house, the singer will make or break your “performance,” but next to no one cares what difficulty the singer is actually on. I guess what I’m saying is pick the highest difficulty level that will let you sing how you want to sing it, without flashing red at you the entire time.
I guess you could consider it a flaw with the game that unlike the guitars or drums, getting a long streak on expert singing looks no more impressive on the screen than doing it on easy.
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Alice Cooper Pack for next week revealed through the newsletter, along with three Taking Back Sunday tracks from their 2006 album ‘Louder Now’:
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (Live)
Alice Cooper - I’m Eighteen (Live)
Alice Cooper - Poison
Alice Cooper - School’s Out (Live)
Alice Cooper - Under My Wheels (Live)
Alice Cooper - Vengance Is Mine
Taking Back Sunday - Liar (It Takes One to Know One)
Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure
Taking Back Sunday - What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?
I guess I’m the only person ever that would actually want Feed My Frankenstein in the game, huh?
Poison by Alice Cooper? Oh my god, that’s one of my favorite music tracks of all time.
I wonder if the rest of the tracks are worth getting too though? I’m not a big fan of “School’s Out”, at least not the studio version. Maybe the Live version will be better. It’s not a bad song though, just over-played. I bet it will be fun to play as a band.
Squeeee! So excited about Poison though!
Your mouth, so hot
Your web, I’m caught
Your skin, so wet
Black lace on sweat
I hear you calling and its needles
And pins (and pins)
I want to hurt you just to hear you
Screaming my name
Don’t want to touch you but
You’re under my skin (deep in)
I want to kiss you but your lips
Are venomous poison
You’re poison running through my veins
No, I’m pissed off that it’s not there. It’s easily my favorite Alice Cooper song.
“Poison” will be awesome though.
You’re definitely not alone on that one. “Let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup” may be the greatest euphamism ever put into a rock song.
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AWESOME. No brainer BUT, like the Thin Lizzy pack, I am not hip to the release of live versions. They really just don’t (for me) seem to work as well as studio versions.
OMG! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Poison! I just heard it on the radio this morning, and now I come home and it’s announced!? Yippeeee!!! Not a big Alice Cooper fan, otherwise though, and Poison doesn’t really sound like any of his other stuff.
I agree about Live stuff. Sticking to studio is a better idea since that’s what people are used to hearing and that’s what they’ve fallen in love with. Live versions can often deviate greatly, for better or worse.
I don’t often notice the difference, considering that the crowd noises in Rock Band make every song sound like a live recording. The AC/DC pack had the only live songs I’ve played that really seemed different, because of things like the horrifically long empty space in “High Voltage” and every song ending with ridiculously long BREs.
I just noticed that Green Day’s putting out a new album. My guess is if we don’t see Green Day DLC to coincide with the new album, we’ll probably never get it.
