A new, improved, G&T One-Man-Band Rock Band Competition! (OP shamelessly stolen from Captain K)
Ever wanted to show how big your e-peen is? Well, that's what ScoreHero is for. This thread, on the other hand, is for rocking out on as many instruments as possible and generally having a great time blasting away at one song for a week. At the end of the week, everyone's scores are compiled and you can see how you measure up against other forumers.
The G&T One-Man Rock Band Competition
1. Everybody plays the same song for a given week.
2. Set the highest score you can for each part individually--guitar, bass, drums and vocals. You choose the difficulty for each part--a higher difficulty means you
can score more points, but it may be easier for you to get more points on a lower difficulty if it means you can keep a streak longer.
3. Add up the score from every part to get your total score.
4. If you've got the highest total score for that week, you win!
5. The winner chooses the next week's song.
6. go back to step 1!
7. If you don't want to play every part, you don't have to. Play the instruments you want and submit whatever scores you have by the end of the week.
Awesome or awesomest?
Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat if I don't like the song for a given week? What if somebody chooses a DLC song that I don't have?
If you don't like the song, or if you're unwilling to pay to download a DLC song, you can always sit out for that week.
Although the winner of a given week gets to choose the next week's song, in practice the winner will often take suggestions for what song to do the next week. If one week's song doesn't tickle your fancy, suggest away!
If you're playing on PS2 or Wii and don't have any DLC, feel free to compete during weeks that we do on-disc songs. There's apparently some issue with vocal scoring being different on PS2, but we choose not to worry about that too much.
What if I can't or don't want to play all the instruments? Can I still compete?
Yep. You won't have a chance in hell of winning the overall contest this way, but you still have a shot at individual instrument awards.
Can I jump in any time?
Absolutely. There's no continuity from week to week, so you can just join in whenever we choose a song you like, or you just feel like it. Similarly, if you are competing, there's no pressure to submit scores every week. Just do what works for you.
How do we submit scores? When is the score submission deadline?
The submission deadline is technically Monday at 5 PM GMT (or 1 PM EST). However, most people tend to post scores sometime on Sunday. If you need to, you can even submit earlier in the week, though please spoiler your submissions if you do so as not to give away your scores to those who would rather not see them yet.
As far as submitting scores, just post them in this thread. The best way to do that is probably like so. You don't have to include the stars if you don't want to.
Guitar (difficulty): xxx,xxx (x stars)
Bass (difficulty): xxx,xxx (x stars)
Drums (difficulty): xxx,xxx (x stars)
Vocals (difficulty): xxx,xxx (x stars)
Total Score: x,xxx,xxx
Do we need to provide proof of our scores?
The honour system is working quite well so far, so that's the method for now. We're not idiots though, so if you post something outrageous, we'll probably call you on it. That said, you don't need to keep meticulous records of your scores. If we ask for it, all we would need is a setlist picture or a leaderboard score.
Is it worth doing this if I can only play up to [difficulty] on [instrument]?
Sure, why not? For one thing, your score on that part might still be competitive--a 99% run on Hard might end up scoring more points than a 90% run on Expert. And for another, you should be really be doing this just to have fun anyway.
I did really well on a song but my score is really awful compared to other people. What's going on?
The other people are probably using Overdrive paths. That is, they've figured out (or read from the net somewhere) the exact spots to activate Overdrive in the song in order to maximize their scores.
A lot of songs have Overdrive paths already made for them, and they are available here:
On-disc:
Drums:
http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8856
Vocals:
http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8091
Guitar:
http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1013
Bass:
http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1014
DLC:
Drums:
http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9018
Vocals:
http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6376
If you want DLC paths for guitar and bass, it's a bit harder. Check out the Technique forum for guitar and bass on
the ScoreHero Rock Band forums. There might be threads around explaining OD paths for some DLC songs (though not all of them have had OD paths made for them yet).
If that fails, check out the
leaderboards on ScoreHero for the song that we're playing. Often, one of the higher scores will have a YouTube video accompanying it as proof. Obtain your path by watching the video and copying the activations.
Don't feel obligated to use an OD path if you think it's too much hassle. You probably won't win without one, but that doesn't make you any less of a person.
Okay maybe it does just a little.
If you win... what do you win?
You choose the next week's song.
Also, if you earn any of them, you can proudly display these nerdy (awesome) sig banners (for the following week) to show everyone else how much time you wasted (spent fruitfully) perfecting your scores!
Banners - For Proud Display
(Thanks to Lunker for creating these!)
Here's some thinner versions of the top instrument score banners, in case you need to squeeze a bunch of them into your sig, you incredible badass you.
Past WeeksFor earlier weeks' results, see my second post in this thread.Week 10: Something About You
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
Week 10 results: 11 forumers submitted scores for
Something About YouThis week's winner is MidgetSpy with an overall score of 665,858Top 3 Overall
- MidgetSpy: 665,858
- meteredsection: 559,503
- BlackDragon480: 558,061
Honorable Mention
- Best guitarist goes to MidgetSpy with a score of 155,975
- Best bassist goes to MidgetSpy with a score of 141,668
- Best drummer goes to MidgetSpy with a score of 167,075
- Best vocalist goes to Arikado with a score of 201,272
Misc Stats
- The One-Man Superband score is 665,990
- MidgetSpy was 132 points away from attaining the One-Man Superband score
- Most Points Available: Vocals
- Tightest Distribution: Bass
- The worst domination was MidgetSpy on Guitar (3,658 points away from the nearest competitor)
Top 10 lists
Top 10 Overall
- MidgetSpy: 665,858
- meteredsection: 559,503
- BlackDragon480: 558,061
- JoahW: 556,382
- JC of DI: 497,421
- Omeks: 480,919
- Malyonsus: 444,487
- quovadis13: 428,867
- Santa Claustrophobia: 392,880
- UnbreakableVow: 274,479
Top 10 Guitar
- MidgetSpy: 155,975
- Omeks: 152,317
- JoahW: 148,643
- meteredsection: 146,229
- Santa Claustrophobia: 142,322
- BlackDragon480: 142,229
- Malyonsus: 141,521
- quovadis13: 141,495
- UnbreakableVow: 139,349
- JC of DI: 138,215
Top 10 Bass
- MidgetSpy: 141,668
- quovadis13: 140,122
- Omeks: 139,101
- BlackDragon480: 138,890
- JoahW: 137,833
- Santa Claustrophobia: 136,490
- meteredsection: 136,312
- JC of DI: 136,048
- UnbreakableVow: 135,130
- Malyonsus: 134,681
Top 10 Drums
- MidgetSpy: 167,075
- JoahW: 165,600
- JC of DI: 161,725
- meteredsection: 153,750
- quovadis13: 147,250
- Malyonsus: 145,575
- Omeks: 137,650
- BlackDragon480: 131,050
Top 10 Vocals
- Arikado: 201,272
- MidgetSpy: 201,140
- BlackDragon480: 145,892
- meteredsection: 123,212
- Santa Claustrophobia: 114,068
- JoahW: 104,306
- JC of DI: 61,433
- Omeks: 51,851
- Malyonsus: 22,710
All Results
Week 11: Highway Star
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
Week 11 results: 7 forumers submitted scores for
Highway StarThis week's winner is MidgetSpy with an overall score of 1,129,564Top 3 Overall
- MidgetSpy: 1,129,564
- JoahW: 1,104,607
- Arikado: 1,054,458
Honorable Mention
- Best guitarist goes to MidgetSpy with a score of 276,939
- Best bassist goes to JoahW with a score of 332,663
- Best drummer goes to JoahW with a score of 247,017
- Best vocalist goes to Arikado with a score of 298,901
Misc Stats
- The One-Man Superband score is 1,155,520
- MidgetSpy was 25,956 points away from attaining the One-Man Superband score
- Most Points Available: Bass
- Tightest Distribution: Guitar
- The worst domination was JoahW on Drums (11,441 points away from the nearest competitor)
Top 10 lists
Top 10 Overall
- MidgetSpy: 1,129,564
- JoahW: 1,104,607
- Arikado: 1,054,458
- quovadis13: 990,637
- BlackDragon480: 982,377
- Omeks: 963,881
- meteredsection: 945,561
Top 10 Guitar
- MidgetSpy: 276,939
- Omeks: 272,741
- quovadis13: 272,491
- JoahW: 266,253
- meteredsection: 258,817
- BlackDragon480: 252,197
- Arikado: 252,036
Top 10 Bass
- JoahW: 332,663
- MidgetSpy: 323,560
- meteredsection: 322,601
- Omeks: 319,209
- BlackDragon480: 317,452
- quovadis13: 306,961
- Arikado: 301,433
Top 10 Drums
- JoahW: 247,017
- MidgetSpy: 235,576
- meteredsection: 218,905
- quovadis13: 216,345
- BlackDragon480: 208,603
- Arikado: 202,088
- Omeks: 180,425
Top 10 Vocals
- Arikado: 298,901
- MidgetSpy: 293,489
- JoahW: 258,674
- BlackDragon480: 204,125
- quovadis13: 194,840
- Omeks: 191,506
- meteredsection: 145,238
All Results
Week 12: Limelight
Winner: meteredsection
Results:
Week 12 results: 5 forumers submitted scores for
LimelightThis week's winner is meteredsection with an overall score of 635,854Top 3 Overall
- meteredsection: 635,854
- quovadis13: 574,073
- Sentience: 573,976
Honorable Mention
- Best guitarist goes to quovadis13 with a score of 145,351
- Best bassist goes to quovadis13 with a score of 159,451
- Best drummer goes to Sentience with a score of 189,319
- Best vocalist goes to Arikado with a score of 158,921
Misc Stats
- The One-Man Superband score is 653,042
- meteredsection was 17,188 points away from attaining the One-Man Superband score
- Most Points Available: Drums
- Tightest Distribution: Bass
- The worst domination was Arikado on Vocals (6,864 points away from the nearest competitor)
Top 10 lists
Top 10 Overall
- meteredsection: 635,854
- quovadis13: 574,073
- Sentience: 573,976
- Malyonsus: 430,203
- Arikado: 297,396
Top 10 Guitar
- quovadis13: 145,351
- Sentience: 143,372
- Malyonsus: 142,179
- meteredsection: 140,770
- Arikado: 138,475
Top 10 Bass
- quovadis13: 159,451
- Sentience: 158,476
- Malyonsus: 156,421
- meteredsection: 155,002
Top 10 Drums
- Sentience: 189,319
- quovadis13: 188,217
- meteredsection: 188,025
- Malyonsus: 131,603
Top 10 Vocals
- Arikado: 158,921
- meteredsection: 152,057
- Sentience: 82,809
- quovadis13: 81,054
All Results
Week 13: Outside
Winner: JoahW
Results:
Week 13 results: 5 forumers submitted scores for
OutsideThis week's winner is JoahW with an overall score of 827,194Top 3 Overall
- JoahW: 827,194
- meteredsection: 772,405
- Arikado: 703,793
Honorable Mention
- Best guitarist goes to quovadis13 with a score of 219,769
- Best bassist goes to quovadis13 with a score of 145,208
- Best drummer goes to JoahW with a score of 275,350
- Best vocalist goes to Arikado with a score of 217,473
Misc Stats
- The One-Man Superband score is 857,800
- JoahW was 30,606 points away from attaining the One-Man Superband score
- The most important instrument was Drums (most points available)
- The most competitive instrument was Bass (tightest distribution)
- The worst domination was JoahW on Drums (41,175 points away from the nearest competitor)
Top 10 lists
Top 10 Overall
- JoahW: 827,194
- meteredsection: 772,405
- Arikado: 703,793
- quovadis13: 599,152
- Santa Claustrophobia: 491,088
Top 10 Guitar
- quovadis13: 219,769
- Santa Claustrophobia: 214,908
- JoahW: 212,649
- meteredsection: 212,100
- Arikado: 181,410
Top 10 Bass
- quovadis13: 145,208
- JoahW: 142,380
- Santa Claustrophobia: 142,260
- meteredsection: 137,565
- Arikado: 137,135
Top 10 Drums
- JoahW: 275,350
- quovadis13: 234,175
- meteredsection: 211,875
- Arikado: 167,775
Top 10 Vocals
- Arikado: 217,473
- meteredsection: 210,865
- JoahW: 196,815
- Santa Claustrophobia: 133,920
All Results
Week 14: Who Are You
Winner: JoahW
Results:
Week 14 results: 5 forumers submitted scores for
Who Are YouThis week's winner is JoahW with an overall score of 622,867Top 3 Overall
- JoahW: 622,867
- quovadis13: 467,170
- Santa Claustrophobia: 413,140
Honorable Mention
- Best guitarist goes to JoahW with a score of 148,424
- Best bassist goes to Santa Claustrophobia with a score of 110,593
- Best drummer goes to JoahW with a score of 171,325
- Best vocalist goes to Arikado with a score of 229,965
Misc Stats
- The One-Man Superband score is 660,307
- JoahW was 37,440 points away from attaining the One-Man Superband score
- The most important instrument was Vocals (most points available)
- The most competitive instrument was Bass (tightest distribution)
- The worst domination was Arikado on Vocals (32,800 points away from the nearest competitor)
Top 10 lists
Top 10 Overall
- JoahW: 622,867
- quovadis13: 467,170
- Santa Claustrophobia: 413,140
- meteredsection: 385,453
- Arikado: 229,965
Top 10 Guitar
- JoahW: 148,424
- quovadis13: 144,264
- meteredsection: 140,329
- Santa Claustrophobia: 133,370
Top 10 Bass
- Santa Claustrophobia: 110,593
- meteredsection: 107,874
- JoahW: 105,953
- quovadis13: 105,540
Top 10 Drums
- JoahW: 171,325
- quovadis13: 153,925
- meteredsection: 137,250
Top 10 Vocals
- Arikado: 229,965
- JoahW: 197,165
- Santa Claustrophobia: 169,177
- quovadis13: 63,441
All Results
Current WeekWeek 15: Celebrity SkinSubmit scores by 5 PM GMT on Monday, August 18th. Submitting early is acceptable, but please spoiler your submissions. (Any time between Sunday afternoon and early Monday morning is normal.)
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Hmm. Looks like it does. :P
midgetspy can overrule if he likes.
Previous Weeks' Results - Continuation of OP
Week 1: My Sharona
Winner: JoahW
Results:
Week 2: Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
Week 3: More Than A Feeling
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
Week 4: Suffragette City
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
Week 5: The Hellion/Electric Eye
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
Week 6: Dani California
Winner: JoahW
Results:
Week 7: Wanted Dead or Alive
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
Week 8: Hysteria
Winner: JoahW
Results:
Week 9: Cherub Rock
Winner: midgetspy
Results:
This is gonna keep haunting me until I get it.
Also in the OP, no need to put "Breakdown by midgetspy" on every week, especially since it says "midgetspy wrote" inside the spoiler as well.
I have 549 Rock Band Drum and 305 Pro Drum FC's
REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS
In other news. My brother and I have had 1st place on ScoreHero for Hysteria guitar/bass for a while (he FCed bass and I got -1 on guitar in that run I think). We just replayed it today and double-FCed it, the first double-FC for that song recorded on ScoreHero.
But our score was lower than our old one.
Scores are due Monday at 1 EST. You have the entire weekend to Rock out.
I have 549 Rock Band Drum and 305 Pro Drum FC's
REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS
Yep, you can jump in any time. Just submit your scores by the deadline.
Jerk.
(after doing the scorehero league I've kinda gotten to like that aspect of high scoring runs too... it's nice to put energy into something other than just moving your fingers properly)
Do you actually squeeze? I've been trying (and accidentally got one that week I won bass), but it's tough to get the late activation and strum timed right, and then mentally prepare for the early ending strum. I should probably practice on the more forgiving GH3 timing window a bit just to get the motion down.
Gonna be a low week...
|Xbox Live Tag: Omeks
|PSN Tag: Omeks_R7
|Rock Band: Profile|DLC Collection
vocals (expert): 77,391 (5 stars)
twit feed
I try to, but I'm pretty terrible at it. I can do it OK on slow/easy songs, but if I'm concentrating on playing the song or it's any decent speed alt-strumming I don't even try. I only started trying it because I'm running through Bass career and most of the songs are easy and boring so I figured it'd be a good time to try it out. I consider it a personal victory if I manage to do one properly, hehe.
Actually the only reason I even ever tried was because the horrible tilt sensor in the strat forced me to learn to hit select, and that's the hardest part IMO. I just find out what note the OD is supposed to end on and try playing it early and hope for the best :0)
I was mostly referring to drums, though, where it's easy to squeeze even by accident.
Also BTW guys I won't be back from holidays until Tuesday night so somebody else will have to figure out who the winner is so they can pick the song... I can post the spreadsheet results when I get back.
Bass (Expert): 222,123
Drums (Expert): 151,675
Vocals (Expert): 118,000
Total: 650,921
I ran out of time and I've gotta run so I only got one run for bass :-|
if I have the PS2 version and a song comes up that I can play, am I allowed to submit or is this a Xbox360/ps3 only thing?
That said, we're inclusive so I wouldn't argue about PS2/Wii people posting here.
but when some regular songs come up I will do my best
When or if we come into a conflict for a spot that is worth an award, we can have that argument if we feel like it.
I'm not winning shit
Bass (Expert) - 112339
Vocals (Expert) - 117000
Drums (Expert) - 57950
Guitar (Expert): 158,220
Bass (Expert): 236,565
Drums (Expert): 151,075
Vocals (Expert): 117,344
Total: 663,204
Bass took me forever to FC, and is the only thing that puts me ahead of midgetspy this week. Still, 4xFC.
Bass: 162,510 (expert)
Vocals: 75,959 (hard)
Drums: 63,475 (expert)
Total: 454,646
|Xbox Live Tag: Omeks
|PSN Tag: Omeks_R7
|Rock Band: Profile|DLC Collection
Bass (Expert): 161039
Drums (Expert): 70050
Vocals (Expert): 117640
Total: 473813
Very disappointed with my drum score.
Bass (Expert): 236,573 (Gold stars)
I had higher on guitar but I can't remember what my score was and the leaderboard never updated, so whatever. It wasn't the top score anyway.
Bass seems to be optimal - 600 points for squeezes, at least judging by its relation to the top scores on the leaderboards.
Bass (Expert): 215,557
Vocals (Expert): 113,156
Drums (Expert): 138,750
Total: 618,623
Meh. I was going to work on them more today, but it's way too hot here to turn on the projector, so these will have to do. I'm not entirely disappointed.
It's all good.
Bass - 208422
Drums - 139050
Vocals - 82648
Total - 576050
My scores are okay. I didnt FC anything even though I know I could have gotten guitar, bass and drums if I really wanted to. I am pretty sure my vocals run is on hard even though I managed to 5-star it on expert also.
Only 1 gold star this week.
I have 549 Rock Band Drum and 305 Pro Drum FC's
REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS
Whats going on this week????
I have 549 Rock Band Drum and 305 Pro Drum FC's
REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS REFS
1: JoahW: 663204
2: midgetspy: 650921
3: meteredsection: 618623
4: Arikado: 473813
5: quovadis: 576050
6: Omeks: 454646
7: Locus: 417669
8: Smug Duckling: 389975
9: the Togfather: 160297
Top Individual Instrument Performances
Top Guitar: midgetspy (159123)
Top Bass: Smug Duckling (236573)
Top Drums: midgetspy (151675)
Top Vocals: midgetspy (118000)
Despite not winning any individual instruments, JoahW wins quite handily in the overall category, the very epitome of the one-man-band.
Pick a song, any song.