Rock Band • The Official Thread

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Consider yourself lucky, I've gone through 4 drumsets so far because of my pedal (the actual pedal, snapping. This fourth one is beginning too as well! Not strongly built.
 
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I also found some videos by an Expert Drummer and I must admit I'm a bit jealous. Maybe if I understood the drums a little better I'd understand the limitations better, but it looked to me that a skilled drummer could apply their skills fairly directly, and might even take away some skills that could be applied to real drumming. So with that in mind, here are a few suggestions for a new bass design:
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I play expert drums and I can guarantee you I cannot play real drums. The only thing I think expert drum teaches you is rhythm and coordination.

BTW, the only true dislike I have with this game is not really the games fault. It's the developers. I don't know why in the hell they release songs that are really really crappy. They've come out with a few goodies here and there, Boston was a great treat. But come on Nirvana's Nevermind album was supposed to come out and now that's gone and what replaced it was The Car's album. Good god! :yuck:
 
Blackbird.
I play expert drums and I can guarantee you I cannot play real drums. The only thing I think expert drum teaches you is rhythm and coordination.
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I'll take your word for it. I'm not all that interested in drumming so I won't have a chance to test it for myself. I suspect the main problem is the huge overhead of learning to play the instrument, a painfully long process that RB conveniently skips. To clarify, I suspect someone learning to play real drums could "borrow" rhythms from RB to use on the real drums.

But I could be wrong, I am surprised at some of the drastic differences between a real and RB bass line. A melodic bass line on RB's expert mode requires fairly precise timing. However, the timing is actually quite a bit early compared to a real bass. I consistently get blunt notes from the RB bass because my reflexes expect to create a sound shortly after the string is released, but in RB the button press is scored when the string is 1st pulled. I'm not suggesting that RB change anything; I'm just describing the strange sensation of trying to make the proper adjustments for the game.
 
Hey if any of you are on PS3 and own some DLC i'd really look forward to playing in a band online with y'all. Hit me up on there.
 
Fixed my Rock Band pedal for free using 16 gauge steel

My pedal broke a few months ago and I finally had a chance to fix it this weekend. Only took about an hour and a little metal fabrication but now it works great. I thought about painting it but right now it already matches the silver vertical bars on the drum set.

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That looks really good, nice one.

I'm pretty sad about how little give the pedal has. Double-hits are so hard, and it seems like there's a threshold there that can never be crossed in terms of difficulty. Unlike the game's guitar.
 
Giancarlo you rock on drums :). CAMAROBOY69 I'm guessing you are playing Rock Band 2 to as I type this :). I'm only getting the 105(includes 20 free) song pack because it has trophy support.
 
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Giancarlo you rock on drums :). CAMAROBOY69 I'm guessing you are playing Rock Band 2 to as I type this :). I'm only getting the 105(includes 20 free) song pack because it has trophy support.
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I bought a copy for myself and a copy for Heather. We played the band world tour online in Rock Band 2 yesterday for 8 hours straight. :sly: I even re-made Ronald McDonald and gave him a Metal personality. lol
 
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I feel soo out of the loop im poor and need a copy of Rock Band 2. i only have 1. oh well its still fun and im working with friends to get inducted into the RRHF. I need those 100 xbox pts. lol
 

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