Turns out that I'm pretty alright at When You Were Young and My Sharona on guitar singing. Yeah, I only got four stars, but with some practice, I could be amazin'!
Also turns out that I'm terrible at Run to the Hills, Highway Star, and Next to You, all of which the game threw at me in the same setlist. Somehow I got through them on expert/hard.
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Just got my first gold star: In bloom, expert drums.
Can someone tell me how to upgrade my offline gamer profile into an xbl account so I can see the leaderboards and get some DLC? I tried making an xbl account with my gamer profile name, and it asked me if I wanted to replace my old profile with the new one. No, I don't! I don't want to lose the stuff I already have unlocked and the scores I've accumulated. I just want to upgrade it to a silver account or something.
So... got my replacement drums and I'm still having the same problem where its sometimes not picking up hits. Honestly, is this normal or not? Because this is beginning to piss me off. Am I suppose to beat the absolute shit out of the drums to get them to register? Because I remember hxmoss saying they tested the drums to be sensitive enough to register from a ping pong ball hitting it.
Just got my first gold star: In bloom, expert drums.
Can someone tell me how to upgrade my offline gamer profile into an xbl account so I can see the leaderboards and get some DLC? I tried making an xbl account with my gamer profile name, and it asked me if I wanted to replace my old profile with the new one. No, I don't! I don't want to lose the stuff I already have unlocked and the scores I've accumulated. I just want to upgrade it to a silver account or something.
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, I'm kind of a xbox newb, but the silver account should be your default. That's what your current profile should be. You'll have to upgrade to gold, meaning pay money, to get to leaderboards and play online and such. I think.
So... got my replacement drums and I'm still having the same problem where its sometimes not picking up hits. Honestly, is this normal or not? Because this is beginning to piss me off. Am I suppose to beat the absolute shit out of the drums to get them to register? Because I remember hxmoss saying they tested the drums to be sensitive enough to register from a ping pong ball hitting it.
Are you missing the center of the pad? My GF hits towards the edge a lot, and (especially with the mouse pads attached) this won't get picked up a lot of the time.
If you have to hit the center of the pad for it to register, then why even bother making the drums as large as they are?
Christ, I barely managed to 4 star Say It Ain't So on easy, with my longest streak being 54 notes. I'd be more than willing to say I suck, but if I can manage Expert guitar, I obviously have the rhythm.
So... got my replacement drums and I'm still having the same problem where its sometimes not picking up hits. Honestly, is this normal or not? Because this is beginning to piss me off. Am I suppose to beat the absolute shit out of the drums to get them to register? Because I remember hxmoss saying they tested the drums to be sensitive enough to register from a ping pong ball hitting it.
My new drums from EA were extremely sensitive. I was finally to 5-star a ton of songs on Medium as well as pull off 2-300 note streaks. I could never have done that with my drums out of the box.
Ugh, I wish I was a good enough drummer to tell if there were anything wrong with my drums....is there an easy way to tell?
If you haven't unlocked all the songs yet, like me, on the start screen for Rock Band press B, Y, X, B, B, X, X, B, Y, X and you'll enter the cheat to do it.
Then go to Train Keeps a Rollin or whatever it's called (near the bottom) and there's going to be a drumroll section. Use that to practice to see if all of your red hits register. Just try to go as fast as possible if you can't do one. I can't do a very good one, but I was good enough to see that many of my hits on my old set were just plain missing. My new set was clearly better.
Ugh, I wish I was a good enough drummer to tell if there were anything wrong with my drums....is there an easy way to tell?
If you haven't unlocked all the songs yet, like me, on the start screen for Rock Band press B, Y, X, B, B, X, X, B, Y, X and you'll enter the cheat to do it.
Then go to Train Keeps a Rollin or whatever it's called (near the bottom) and there's going to be a drumroll section. Use that to practice to see if all of your red hits register. Just try to go as fast as possible if you can't do one. I can't do a very good one, but I was good enough to see that many of my hits on my old set were just plain missing. My new set was clearly better.
Much easier to go to a song like Blackened with a long drumless intro, and whack the red pad as fast as you can, then watch if it picks up all the notes. If it doesn't, you have a pad set.
1. I think something may be physically wrong with my voice. Had a few people playing today, and not one of them had trouble hitting high and low notes. For me, however, the bar doesn't go lower than the starting mid-point. So I can do mid-range and high voices. Comes in handy for Tom Sawyer, but that's about it.
2. Endless Setlist. 5 hours and 50 minutes. Only on Medium because I was playing with overall unexperienced people...Medium Drums, Medium Vocals, Hard Guitar, Hard Bass. But man. Fucking epic.
I was sad when it was over and all I got was 10 Achievement Points.
Just got my first gold star: In bloom, expert drums.
Can someone tell me how to upgrade my offline gamer profile into an xbl account so I can see the leaderboards and get some DLC? I tried making an xbl account with my gamer profile name, and it asked me if I wanted to replace my old profile with the new one. No, I don't! I don't want to lose the stuff I already have unlocked and the scores I've accumulated. I just want to upgrade it to a silver account or something.
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, I'm kind of a xbox newb, but the silver account should be your default. That's what your current profile should be. You'll have to upgrade to gold, meaning pay money, to get to leaderboards and play online and such. I think.
Nope. Even when I try to go to the XBL marketplace, it tells me I need to "join Xbox Live!" to do so, and it asks me to make a new gamer profile .
Just got my first gold star: In bloom, expert drums.
Can someone tell me how to upgrade my offline gamer profile into an xbl account so I can see the leaderboards and get some DLC? I tried making an xbl account with my gamer profile name, and it asked me if I wanted to replace my old profile with the new one. No, I don't! I don't want to lose the stuff I already have unlocked and the scores I've accumulated. I just want to upgrade it to a silver account or something.
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, I'm kind of a xbox newb, but the silver account should be your default. That's what your current profile should be. You'll have to upgrade to gold, meaning pay money, to get to leaderboards and play online and such. I think.
Nope. Even when I try to go to the XBL marketplace, it tells me I need to "join Xbox Live!" to do so, and it asks me to make a new gamer profile .
Take a look at this. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same as your situation, but it should be a similar procedure.
There's got to be something wrong with this fucking song. No one I know can match the pitch on hard. I fail out practically instantly, while other theoretically harder songs don't bother me. I don't sound anything like Molly Hatchet but apparently I'm amazing at that.
How do I open Reptilia in BWT mode?, I don't get to play often enough to go through in solo mode and unlock stuff.
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"Give a man a fire, he's warm for the night. Set a man on fire he's warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett
1. I think something may be physically wrong with my voice. Had a few people playing today, and not one of them had trouble hitting high and low notes. For me, however, the bar doesn't go lower than the starting mid-point. So I can do mid-range and high voices. Comes in handy for Tom Sawyer, but that's about it.
2. Endless Setlist. 5 hours and 50 minutes. Only on Medium because I was playing with overall unexperienced people...Medium Drums, Medium Vocals, Hard Guitar, Hard Bass. But man. Fucking epic.
I was sad when it was over and all I got was 10 Achievement Points.
Alot of this will be learning vocal control. First you want to practice diaphragm control. To do this try breathing in a deep breath, then expel your breath and try to get all the air out of your lungs. Focus on using your abs to get that last bit of air out. Breathing from the diaphragm helps you keep volume while you use your mouth and throat to change tone, you also tend to sing lower from the diaphragm than from the nose. The next rick will be your starting note. You want to sing from the middle of your range regardless of what the song does. You should be able to sing one octave at least. Get a song with a nice instrumental intro(wanted dead or alive works well). Practice moving the arrow up and down. The middle note will vary from song to song since they are written in different keys, but it will help you develop an idea of your mid range. Hopefully this helps, its been a long time since I had formal training, I sing by habit these days.
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"Give a man a fire, he's warm for the night. Set a man on fire he's warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett
There's got to be something wrong with this fucking song. No one I know can match the pitch on hard. I fail out practically instantly, while other theoretically harder songs don't bother me. I don't sound anything like Molly Hatchet but apparently I'm amazing at that.
You just gotta do the droney type voice like he does.
Except for the "room is on fire" part. That parts fucking insane.
1. I think something may be physically wrong with my voice. Had a few people playing today, and not one of them had trouble hitting high and low notes. For me, however, the bar doesn't go lower than the starting mid-point. So I can do mid-range and high voices. Comes in handy for Tom Sawyer, but that's about it.
2. Endless Setlist. 5 hours and 50 minutes. Only on Medium because I was playing with overall unexperienced people...Medium Drums, Medium Vocals, Hard Guitar, Hard Bass. But man. Fucking epic.
I was sad when it was over and all I got was 10 Achievement Points.
Alot of this will be learning vocal control. First you want to practice diaphragm control. To do this try breathing in a deep breath, then expel your breath and try to get all the air out of your lungs. Focus on using your abs to get that last bit of air out. Breathing from the diaphragm helps you keep volume while you use your mouth and throat to change tone, you also tend to sing lower from the diaphragm than from the nose. The next rick will be your starting note. You want to sing from the middle of your range regardless of what the song does. You should be able to sing one octave at least. Get a song with a nice instrumental intro(wanted dead or alive works well). Practice moving the arrow up and down. The middle note will vary from song to song since they are written in different keys, but it will help you develop an idea of your mid range. Hopefully this helps, its been a long time since I had formal training, I sing by habit these days.
I finally busted out my mic tonight (I got RB the day after release) and I feel really bad for waiting so long since its all kinds of funner than I thought. That being said, for some reason, any song with a focus on mid to low range singing I utterly fail at. I mean, one more phrase and I'd fail more often than not. However, songs focused more on the higher ranges I tend to pass with no problem (Don't Fear the Reaper is a good example). I noticed when I'd take a deep breath with my lungs (puffing out my chest like you'd see actors do in movies when they breathe deep) it'd be harder to hold long pitches or switch up and down rapidly, whereas if I sang from the diaphragm, as you said, the song would be easier to deal with. Still, I need to practice singing lower and whatnot. Here It Goes Again kicks my ass on hard.
Note: My terminology could be terribly off. When I say mid to low range, I just mean when the pitch would be towards the middle to lower ends of the scale.
Oh, btw, if anyone needs needs a guitarist(Or singer/drummer, depending on the time) hit me up. Rhys Numbers is the name, I'm willing to play whenever I'm online.
Lack of Bassically aside, the Sabbath pack is fucking awesome. The new chart for War Pigs is just as fun as the old one (which I loved), and N.I.B. and Sweet Leaf are a lot of fun to play.
Bass on N.I.B. is my new cool thing to do.
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1. I think something may be physically wrong with my voice. Had a few people playing today, and not one of them had trouble hitting high and low notes. For me, however, the bar doesn't go lower than the starting mid-point. So I can do mid-range and high voices. Comes in handy for Tom Sawyer, but that's about it.
2. Endless Setlist. 5 hours and 50 minutes. Only on Medium because I was playing with overall unexperienced people...Medium Drums, Medium Vocals, Hard Guitar, Hard Bass. But man. Fucking epic.
I was sad when it was over and all I got was 10 Achievement Points.
Alot of this will be learning vocal control. First you want to practice diaphragm control. To do this try breathing in a deep breath, then expel your breath and try to get all the air out of your lungs. Focus on using your abs to get that last bit of air out. Breathing from the diaphragm helps you keep volume while you use your mouth and throat to change tone, you also tend to sing lower from the diaphragm than from the nose. The next rick will be your starting note. You want to sing from the middle of your range regardless of what the song does. You should be able to sing one octave at least. Get a song with a nice instrumental intro(wanted dead or alive works well). Practice moving the arrow up and down. The middle note will vary from song to song since they are written in different keys, but it will help you develop an idea of your mid range. Hopefully this helps, its been a long time since I had formal training, I sing by habit these days.
I finally busted out my mic tonight (I got RB the day after release) and I feel really bad for waiting so long since its all kinds of funner than I thought. That being said, for some reason, any song with a focus on mid to low range singing I utterly fail at. I mean, one more phrase and I'd fail more often than not. However, songs focused more on the higher ranges I tend to pass with no problem (Don't Fear the Reaper is a good example). I noticed when I'd take a deep breath with my lungs (puffing out my chest like you'd see actors do in movies when they breathe deep) it'd be harder to hold long pitches or switch up and down rapidly, whereas if I sang from the diaphragm, as you said, the song would be easier to deal with. Still, I need to practice singing lower and whatnot. Here It Goes Again kicks my ass on hard.
Note: My terminology could be terribly off. When I say mid to low range, I just mean when the pitch would be towards the middle to lower ends of the scale.
Oh, btw, if anyone needs needs a guitarist(Or singer/drummer, depending on the time) hit me up. Rhys Numbers is the name, I'm willing to play whenever I'm online.
Remember how pitch is created, think about your vocal chords as guitar strings. The tighter you pull them the more they'll vibrate yielding higher notes. This is why singing from the diaphragm helps, you can loosen your throat easier producing lower notes. and like I said on rock band if you go high enough you'll loop back around to the bottom. If your really having trouble singing low try going higher, it'll sound strange, but it'll work.
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"Give a man a fire, he's warm for the night. Set a man on fire he's warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett
The opening bass part is missing and that makes me sad.
Red for failure. What the hell Harmonix and/or Wavegroup? :x
Why would you not include the opening bass to that song? It's not everyday that the bassist gets to lead into a song all by his little self. Seems like a huge missed opportunity. It boggles.
I'm waiting for some videos to pop up on Youtube. The Bowie pack came up pretty quick last week, so I expect to see some within the next couple hours. They'll decide whether I just buy N.I.B. or go for the whole pack.
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Hooray, my new guitar finally shipped. It's supposed to be here tomorrow. The UPS guy around here is kind of a dick, though. He has a habit of leaving packages on doorsteps without having someone sign for them and things like that.
The opening bass part is missing and that makes me sad.
Red for failure. What the hell Harmonix and/or Wavegroup? :x
Why would you not include the opening bass to that song? It's not everyday that the bassist gets to lead into a song all by his little self. Seems like a huge missed opportunity. It boggles.
I'm waiting for some videos to pop up on Youtube. The Bowie pack came up pretty quick last week, so I expect to see some within the next couple hours. They'll decide whether I just buy N.I.B. or go for the whole pack.
I went ahead and got the whole pack. War Pigs with a full ensemble must be nothing short of epic.
Add another looking for youtube links to the sabbath pack. I will want to run them by my wife before downloading them. Since they can come up randomly in WBT while we are playing I like to get her okay before grabbing new songs.
I skipped the metallica pack because neither of us are fans of old-school metallica, and then new-school metallica went to the other end of the spectrum and is too pansy. All I really like from them is the black album and Symphony and Metallica is fun as well.
Ozzie is hit or miss, but most of the sabbath tunes are classics. Makes me want some crazy train as well now.
Still can't wait for:
Beetles (this would do a lot to expand their demographic)
U2
BB King
Filter
Modest Mouse
Otis Redding
Billy Idol
Santana
AC/DC
Tool (would be hard to do, hehe)
Republica (guilty pleasure)
More of:
Rolling Stones
NIN
CCR
T. Rex
Whole Albums:
Nevermind
The Wall
The first filter album (second album kicks ass too, but first fits rockband abit more I think)
Joshua Tree
So much music out there. I just can't WAIT until the DLC list needs a whole xbox dashboard mod to allow searches because the content is looking like Itunes. Or Rockband has to release a music browser DVD that works to expedite downloading with a better interface and 30 second song snippets.
Does anyone know what the difference is between the two calibration things (A/V Calibration and Lag Compensation)? Currently, I feel like I have to hit the drums slightly early for each note. Which setting should I adjust to fix this, and which way should I adjust it?
I would pay good money for The Beginning of the End and Survivalism from Year Zero. Capital G would be the tits too, but I doubt it's very viable from a gameplay standpoint.
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Also turns out that I'm terrible at Run to the Hills, Highway Star, and Next to You, all of which the game threw at me in the same setlist. Somehow I got through them on expert/hard.
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Can someone tell me how to upgrade my offline gamer profile into an xbl account so I can see the leaderboards and get some DLC? I tried making an xbl account with my gamer profile name, and it asked me if I wanted to replace my old profile with the new one. No, I don't! I don't want to lose the stuff I already have unlocked and the scores I've accumulated. I just want to upgrade it to a silver account or something.
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, I'm kind of a xbox newb, but the silver account should be your default. That's what your current profile should be. You'll have to upgrade to gold, meaning pay money, to get to leaderboards and play online and such. I think.
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Mine seem like they would register a ping pong ball: http://files.filefront.com/Picture+219mov/;9155959;/fileinfo.html
Are you missing the center of the pad? My GF hits towards the edge a lot, and (especially with the mouse pads attached) this won't get picked up a lot of the time.
Christ, I barely managed to 4 star Say It Ain't So on easy, with my longest streak being 54 notes. I'd be more than willing to say I suck, but if I can manage Expert guitar, I obviously have the rhythm.
My new drums from EA were extremely sensitive. I was finally to 5-star a ton of songs on Medium as well as pull off 2-300 note streaks. I could never have done that with my drums out of the box.
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If you haven't unlocked all the songs yet, like me, on the start screen for Rock Band press B, Y, X, B, B, X, X, B, Y, X and you'll enter the cheat to do it.
Then go to Train Keeps a Rollin or whatever it's called (near the bottom) and there's going to be a drumroll section. Use that to practice to see if all of your red hits register. Just try to go as fast as possible if you can't do one. I can't do a very good one, but I was good enough to see that many of my hits on my old set were just plain missing. My new set was clearly better.
Do a drum roll on the pads before the drumming starts on a song. Are they picking up the hits?
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Much easier to go to a song like Blackened with a long drumless intro, and whack the red pad as fast as you can, then watch if it picks up all the notes. If it doesn't, you have a pad set.
1. I think something may be physically wrong with my voice.
2. Endless Setlist. 5 hours and 50 minutes. Only on Medium because I was playing with overall unexperienced people...Medium Drums, Medium Vocals, Hard Guitar, Hard Bass. But man. Fucking epic.
I was sad when it was over and all I got was 10 Achievement Points.
My guitar is currently away for fixage, however.
Nope. Even when I try to go to the XBL marketplace, it tells me I need to "join Xbox Live!" to do so, and it asks me to make a new gamer profile
Yeah, sorry about that. Having not played a lot of BWT I didn't know it wasn't an exclusive shirt to the endless setlist.
Take a look at this. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same as your situation, but it should be a similar procedure.
How do I open Reptilia in BWT mode?, I don't get to play often enough to go through in solo mode and unlock stuff.
-Terry Pratchett
6am (?) - 6pm PST. Not sure about the start time, but pretty confident about the end time.
Rocking is fun. I added you. Folks are free to do the same for me - must... have... more... rock.
Alot of this will be learning vocal control. First you want to practice diaphragm control. To do this try breathing in a deep breath, then expel your breath and try to get all the air out of your lungs. Focus on using your abs to get that last bit of air out. Breathing from the diaphragm helps you keep volume while you use your mouth and throat to change tone, you also tend to sing lower from the diaphragm than from the nose. The next rick will be your starting note. You want to sing from the middle of your range regardless of what the song does. You should be able to sing one octave at least. Get a song with a nice instrumental intro(wanted dead or alive works well). Practice moving the arrow up and down. The middle note will vary from song to song since they are written in different keys, but it will help you develop an idea of your mid range. Hopefully this helps, its been a long time since I had formal training, I sing by habit these days.
-Terry Pratchett
You just gotta do the droney type voice like he does.
Except for the "room is on fire" part. That parts fucking insane.
And probably vocals, I gotta try that out
N.I.B
Sweet Leaf
War Pigs
I played N.I.B. before posting and going to sleep. The opening bass part is missing and that makes me sad.
I finally busted out my mic tonight (I got RB the day after release) and I feel really bad for waiting so long since its all kinds of funner than I thought. That being said, for some reason, any song with a focus on mid to low range singing I utterly fail at. I mean, one more phrase and I'd fail more often than not. However, songs focused more on the higher ranges I tend to pass with no problem (Don't Fear the Reaper is a good example). I noticed when I'd take a deep breath with my lungs (puffing out my chest like you'd see actors do in movies when they breathe deep) it'd be harder to hold long pitches or switch up and down rapidly, whereas if I sang from the diaphragm, as you said, the song would be easier to deal with. Still, I need to practice singing lower and whatnot. Here It Goes Again kicks my ass on hard.
Note: My terminology could be terribly off. When I say mid to low range, I just mean when the pitch would be towards the middle to lower ends of the scale.
Oh, btw, if anyone needs needs a guitarist(Or singer/drummer, depending on the time) hit me up. Rhys Numbers is the name, I'm willing to play whenever I'm online.
Bass on N.I.B. is my new cool thing to do.
I was actually kinda worried about singing that at first. It's the last song on easy vocal solo tour.
100% first try. :shock:
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Remember how pitch is created, think about your vocal chords as guitar strings. The tighter you pull them the more they'll vibrate yielding higher notes. This is why singing from the diaphragm helps, you can loosen your throat easier producing lower notes. and like I said on rock band if you go high enough you'll loop back around to the bottom. If your really having trouble singing low try going higher, it'll sound strange, but it'll work.
-Terry Pratchett
Why would you not include the opening bass to that song? It's not everyday that the bassist gets to lead into a song all by his little self. Seems like a huge missed opportunity. It boggles.
I'm waiting for some videos to pop up on Youtube. The Bowie pack came up pretty quick last week, so I expect to see some within the next couple hours. They'll decide whether I just buy N.I.B. or go for the whole pack.
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I went ahead and got the whole pack. War Pigs with a full ensemble must be nothing short of epic.
I skipped the metallica pack because neither of us are fans of old-school metallica, and then new-school metallica went to the other end of the spectrum and is too pansy. All I really like from them is the black album and Symphony and Metallica is fun as well.
Ozzie is hit or miss, but most of the sabbath tunes are classics. Makes me want some crazy train as well now.
Still can't wait for:
Beetles (this would do a lot to expand their demographic)
U2
BB King
Filter
Modest Mouse
Otis Redding
Billy Idol
Santana
AC/DC
Tool (would be hard to do, hehe)
Republica (guilty pleasure)
More of:
Rolling Stones
NIN
CCR
T. Rex
Whole Albums:
Nevermind
The Wall
The first filter album (second album kicks ass too, but first fits rockband abit more I think)
Joshua Tree
So much music out there. I just can't WAIT until the DLC list needs a whole xbox dashboard mod to allow searches because the content is looking like Itunes. Or Rockband has to release a music browser DVD that works to expedite downloading with a better interface and 30 second song snippets.
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Beatles.
I would pay good money for The Beginning of the End and Survivalism from Year Zero. Capital G would be the tits too, but I doubt it's very viable from a gameplay standpoint.