Cyrano
1741
If it seems like you’re playing in time but it’s not registering, try adjusting the calibration. It makes a big difference.
Exactly. I just can’t fathom how he gets the control he does while screaming. I’m decent, for an untrained singer, but if I scream, it’s got one setting, and no control whatsoever. So it impresses the hell out of me, even as it makes it frustratingly difficult to do well on one of my favorite songs. As far as the new NIN pack goes, the track selection is fucking baffling. They took one of the most boring songs off Year Zero, a movie soundtrack piece, and Last? I mean, really? From the entire fucking catalog? Those three songs? What the fuck, Harmonix. How about you hit us up with some Closer, or Mr. Self Destruct, or, shit, if you want to do a song from a soundtrack, give us Dead Souls.
I really wish I had an insight into what criteria goes into their selection process. Surely it’s more than just “easily censored song with four parts? Out it goes!”
Admittedly, not his best work. Then again, Withaaa Teethaaa was not much of an album to begin with.
Kadath
1743
Calibration helped on the long stream of single notes, but I can’t seem to go from red to green and back fast enough, keep failing out at 40%
practice goes a long way Kadath, and if it’s one thing this type of game requires it’s patience.
Are you holding green and tapping red? If not, you really need to be doing that, so that it’ll be a technique you can use later. Just strum the greens and finger the reds.
Kadath
1746
Wait are you saying I dont have to hit the strum bar on the reds?
Funkula
1747
I actually had to go check, since I hadn’t played the song on Medium. But yeah, the reds in the GRGRGRGRGR section are hammer-ons on Medium. Notice how the note is about half as wide as usual? That means that you only have to finger it on the fretboard assuming you hit the strum on green.
Any sequence of notes that are narrower than usual can be fingered without strumming, although if you miss one it breaks the chain and you have to re-strum.
There’s a tutorial that explains hammer-ons, if you haven’t run through it yet.
Personally, my big problem is still switching back and forth between rapid fire chords - like GR YB style. I have trouble preventing one finger from being all recalcitrant and refusing to either release or press right on cue.
Reldan
1750
We were watching the VH1 Who tribute and during the Pearl Jam performance my fiancee noted that Eddie Vedder’s ability to scream in pitch was impressive.
Who the fuck are any of those people? Is this more of the madden stuff?
Reldan
1753
Scars on Broadway and New NO2 I have no idea.
Testament is like old school metal though, and Staind is a newer hard rockish emo-y band.
Scars on Broadway is apparently the guitar player and drummer from System of a Down. I wish they would actually put SOAD in the game instead.
Yeah, Testament is a big band in the metal scene actually. Their new stuff sounds really good to me, but I’m not familiar with this particular song. Souls of Black will be in RB2, which is a good song. I also like the Ballad and Practice What You Preach. Testament would be a much better band if they got a different vocalist, IMO. Their guitar player, Alex Skolnik is REALLY good.
Funkula
1756
I’d class them more with nu-metal. I also fucking hate them with the passion of a thousand blazing suns.
ZekeDMS
1757
I’m not sure they’re really nu-metal either, that’s more toward Linkin Park’s end.
Staind is…some unholy metal alternative emo combination, I suppose, with two songs I like, and a ton I loathe.
But I loathe most songs, in all fairness.
No dude, they predate emo by a good three years. If you’re going to define nu-metal as synonymous with shudder rap-metal, then sure they’re not. But I think it’s useful to describe the Linkin Park/Limp Bizkit stuff as well as stuff like Staind, Godsmack, Static-X, etc.
I actually liked Staind’s first album quite a bit. I was of course an angsty teenager back then…but they did seem quite a bit more genuine when they first started. The problem with these nu-metal bands is they all got famous and became millionaires. Now they’re well into their 30’s and still trying to convince us how depressed they are. Give me a break.
Bizkit, definitely. Godsmack and Static-X I wouldn’t consider nu-metal. Blame Mike Patton for it all!
Predating emo doesn’t mean they can’t get some influence from it later. Also, emo did exist in 1995, though not in the same form as now. The lyrics though, for Staind, pretty emo. But so are nu-metal lyrics so…aw fuck, I don’t know. Too many subgenres, can’t we just call them mediocre and move on?
