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Posted: Feb 11 2009 11:45 pm

username wrote:

does it help to use the mini buttons at the base of the neck of the guitar?

In Rock Band/Rock Band 2 I don't really even use those buttons even during the solo sections like they are intended to be used. You can normally just tap them but having to shift between them and the upper ones is a pain. Also if you mess up and miss a note in a solo you need to strum and get the next one and then you can tap away at the rest. It just gets to be too much when you mess up and have to strum again when you are using the smaller buttons on the lower end of the guitar. I just use the normal buttons and strumming for the solos.

I only use the bottom buttons for the closing free form sections where you can just mash buttons and rack up some bonus points, I use these because you can hit whatever you want and don't have to strum with those buttons. But using them in the the actual song and when you have to hit the proper ones is a lot harder with those buttons.

Posted: Feb 12 2009 12:20 am

Lottel wrote:

What my buddy does is the has a rubberband around the Green button and just keeps his fingers below that. It works well.

My problem is my pinky doesn't work perfectly so I cannot play pass easy usually. :/

You would miss every chord that doesn't have a green note in it.

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

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I don't know if you still have problems with Guitar Hero (or if you're still playing), but I finally played again and tested a trick that might help.

Try to play like medium, using your index to press the green and red buttons, and not moving your other fingers. You rarely have to reposition your hand,
and the index is by far the easiest finger to move, so red-green-red-green notes aren't that difficult. I tried it on Paint it Black in GH3, by the way.

It's a bad habit, but when you'll learn chaining chords, it won't matter anymore, because it will force you to move your fingers around.
And hard is much easier to learn when you can at least do 1 fucking song.

Posted: Mar 05 2009 02:17 am

I'd say get used to the songs first. Listen to them and then you will know when the riffs are coming or not. Along with that, I use the pinky on the orange and the index on the green,but you can shift them around so that you take your middle finger out of the equation, unless you get a triple note. Practice mode helps alot... Oh and get used to freaking out on the Whammy Bar alot Razz

Posted: Mar 08 2009 11:50 am

That rubber band shit doesn't work. A kid at school told me about it and it sounded like it would work but it fucks up any of the parts where you have to press two buttons at once.

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

MOGHARR wrote:

That rubber band shit doesn't work. A kid at school told me about it and it sounded like it would work but it fucks up any of the parts where you have to press two buttons at once.

That's a good thing. If it actually worked it would be really fucking cheap. And ttfaf would be doable.

Posted: Mar 09 2009 12:43 am

I like doing various slide methods on songs with quick hammer-ons/pull-offs. Like in Freebird in GH2 I'd hit one note and slide that finger over to the next note and back and forth. I believe these are called "trills" on a real guitar. It is basically a rapid hammer-on/pull-off done over and over. Instead of actually using two fingers I find it easier to slide with one for these kind of notes.