Not that I can tell. I frequently sing “Painkiller,” but there’s no way I can reach Rob Halford’s range. But people seem to have no problem with me singing it more like James Hetfield. I certainly get a better reception at the bar than the douchebag who always shows up who sings it in a high-pitched squeak.
Also, I enjoy performing “Dani California” as sung by Rob Zombie.
I sing LOTS of songs an octave lower in RB. Sometimes my wife laughs because I have to go so low to keep in the same key. But it’s not really a problem. I don’t remember Welcome Home being that high though, relatively speaking.
I don’t normally do this… but Gamestop is having a music game clearance:
http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/umbs/
I might have to get the RB2 bundle since my RB1 drums are dying more each day and I could use a new guitar. 360: $94.99.
(Online only because the boxes aren’t in mint condition. Chancy?)
Hot damn, that’s tempting. Especially since it’s not used, it’s new, and includes free shipping. I purchased RB2 the game, not the bundle, so I still don’t have the improved guitar and drums. Hmmm.
Shit, I might buy that. I can sell the RB2 game and keep the guitar and drums I need since mine are kinda dropping out. I wish they’d work with the xbox battery packs properly (I’ve heard they don’t at least), but I can get a rechargable battery kit.
Adree
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III is my favorite as well, Turbine Blade was definitely an acquired taste and I’m not as fond of it’s a bit too abstract lyrics. IV might be the best in terms of sound but the backstory is pretty insane and definitely sounds like a case of Claudio wanting to express his real life more than the storyline (the last few minutes of From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is amazing though) .
What got me into Coheed and Cambria was definitely the Maiden inspired guitar work, the vocals I eventually learned to love. Sounding fantastic live is also a plus.
Did Coheed’s grand storyline ever come into focus? I’ve been a fan for a long time, but their lyrics are incoherent garbage and I stopped trying to take any meaning from them by the second album. I still enjoy the music, but any message they’ve been trying to send in the last 5 years has been totally lost on me. I generally get fed up with the words on each album about halfway through each pretentious album title.
I’m sure wikipedia has an exhaustive rundown, but I can’t imagine why you would want to. For me, defining it as pretentious misses what I enjoy about it. Since that’s difficult to define beyond what I’ve said already that’s probably all I can say about it. Conan and Army of Darkness, man.
Adree
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There’s been a comic series but I think it’s only covered the first album so far. Honestly the more I try to “read” the story the less I think of it, it’s much more fun to just interpret it myself. IV definitely has the easiest storyline and it’s somewhat self-contained (but also the weirdest).
sluggo
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There’s a lot of people hanging out in #scorehero IRC right now all waiting for the Maiden DLC to go live. It feels like an old-school shareware release party. :)
RELEASE IT! I WANT TO PLAY ACES &!@HIGH!
Haha, I fired up the 360 this morning to check for it myself. No love, damn.
sluggo
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Pack went live about 5 minutes past 5AM EST / 2AM PST. Took me a while to DL and then just spent an hour playing it.
Wow, these songs are HARD. I knew they’d be challenging, but I didn’t expect to play through 7 or 8 songs without gold-starring any. Almost every solo is a beast. My only gold-star on my sightreads came at the last second during the big rock ending of Hallowed Be Thy Name. I gots some practice to do.
Yeah, I nabbed it just shortly after posting and got a good hour in on it. LOVE IT. I played drums on Normal because I wanted to just enjoy the songs the first time through and not get too annoyed. I’ll move it up to Hard later tonight probably. Tons of fun. “Can I Play With Madness?” surprised me as the drum chart is really fun to play. “Run to the Hills”, well, I gotta work on my 16ths.
Hell yeah. I’m speeding home after work today to gets my downloads on. By the time I meet up with my friends at the bar at 9, I fully expect to not be able to feel my fingers.
Just played through the Maiden stuff on drums, and it was awesome! The rock I just unleashed was so fierce that I’m covered in sweat - though maybe that’s the lack of AC. Run to the Hills still blows, and is easily the hardest song in the pack, but everything else was a lot of fun.
I really liked playing the live stuff even more than the album versions. I guess Nicko McBrain likes to mix it up a lot in concert and there are all kinds of cool fills and alterations on the live tracks. Fear of the Dark was incredible.
It’s very possibly my favorite drum pack. I’m looking forward to trying the guitar later tonight, as I’m sure it’s going to be equally thrilling. And even though I’m not much of a singer, I want to do vocals just so I can go “Screeeeeeamm for me santiaaaaago”.
Run to the Hills still blows
Once I get past the opening bullshit, it’s a lot of fun with some great fills. But that opening part can fuck off.
Oh, and a few small complaints.
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Aces High intro isn’t charted. I guess they don’t actually play that part live, but give me a break, why not just chart it?
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Too many BRE’s, and some are obnoxiously long. I think I racked up almost 40,000 extra points on the minute-or-so-long Iron Maiden ending. Considering my total score for the song was only around 160,000 that’s frickin absurd.
On medium, sure no problem, but man fuuuuuuuuuck that song on hard and expert. I actually did beat it on my first try, I guess thanks to the training Everlong has since given me, but it was a pretty miserable performance.
- Aces High intro isn’t charted. I guess they don’t actually play that part live, but give me a break, why not just chart it?
Haha, I found myself playing it anyway. They definitely should have charted it.
- Too many BRE’s, and some are obnoxiously long. I think I racked up almost 40,000 extra points on the minute-or-so-long Iron Maiden ending. Considering my total score for the song was only around 160,000 that’s frickin absurd.
Is there a strategy to maximizing drum points in the BRE? Is it just counting hits or does is require you to roam the kit a lot or what? Just wondering how to max it out.
I’m not really sure. I bet you can find some post on the scorehero message boards by some geek who mathematically found the perfect solution to this, though. One thing that I found works is lay your drum sticks flat so they each cover 2 drums and just hit them like that so you’re hitting all 4 drums at the same time and also pound the bass pedal. I don’t know if this actually gets you a higher score, but you’re def hitting the max amount of drums.
