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The Nerevarine
207,631
Achievement won on 21 Jan 08TA Score for this game: 1,904
Posted on 15 November 08 at 15:04
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This solution has 34 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote. |
Practice sticking and get familiar with 1/32 notes... Missing snare, crash and bass hits is bad news, but you can get by if you miss a few yellows and blues... knowing this, during faster sections play a slower tempo version of the beat but be sure to hit the snare and crash in time. The game can be fairly forgiving, and for those who really have to work at playing fast giving your right arm a break once every few measures can help you get past some tougher songs.
Skipping overdrive fills is also a cheap way of avoiding tough fills, but can mess with your timing.
The sock-mod (look it up on YouTube, basically elastic-bands and socks wrapped around your drum pads) will help you get your rolls tighter, since the Rock Band drums are so-so, and will likely improve your scores a touch. Viewing other player's sticking patterns in YouTube videos for trouble songs will also help more than you might realize.
Above all, knowing the song by heart will help you a lot. You don't need to know the drum part, but being familiar with it will make things a lot smoother.
And when all else fails: practice, practice, practice! |
austex360
72,866
Achievement won on 13 Oct 09TA Score for this game: 2,134
Posted on 14 July 10 at 06:10
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This solution has 9 positive votes and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
A tip to getting through longer, painful songs, is never, ever use your overdrive. This will allow you to get drum fills often. this will:
1) give you a small rest
2) allow you to skip a few notes
3) you will have overdrive ready whenever you're in trouble
With songs like Run To The Hills, I used the drum fills as an opportunity to pause it and give my arms a rest, then went back to mashing the red note for another few mintues.
As a tip for "Dont Fear the Reaper", I played it probably 6-7 times, failing at the fast red notes and everything after that. To overcome this, I just made more and more runs at it until I went into those hard parts with full overdrive and a full crowd bar. |
Knuckx117
16,819
Achievement won on 10 Jul 08TA Score for this game: 1,641
Posted on 07 October 09 at 21:49
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This solution has 10 positive votes and 5 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
| One of the songs that will probably get alot of people new to Expert Drums is Run to the Hills. Constant stream of snares, coupled with the fact that the RB1 kit isn't as good as it should be can make this achievement hard to get. If you have the RB2 kit, use that. It makes life alot easier. Otherwise, just keep playing it and you'll eventually build up enough endurance to pass the song. |
Maelstorm95
170,836
Achievement won on 30 Oct 11TA Score for this game: 1,367
Posted on 01 November 11 at 20:02
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This solution has 2 positive votes and 0 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
My tip for Run to the Hills.
Put rubber bands on the ends of your drum sticks for more bounce. PAUSE!!!! It doesn't matter if you are in the the middle of the fast red notes, when you resume, you know what will be coming up. Relax too. IF you don't get it first try, play something else and try again. |
SchiZoPHreNiikz
166,637
Achievement won offlineTA Score for this game: 1,662
Posted on 11 September 12 at 00:09
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This solution has 0 positive votes and 0 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
This is going to sound somewhat sad, but for some of the harder songs such as Fear the Reaper and Run to the Hills, you should have a friend play the foot pedal and have him play the green note.
This leaves you to focus on the red rolls without having to worry about those annoying stragglers.
Using this method I went through both Fear the Reaper and Run to the Hills on my first try. |
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This solution has 5 positive votes and 6 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
| If Run To The Hills is the song your stuck on try only hitting red and have a friend do the foot pedal for you and you can pause and switch if you get tired and try getting overdrive in the start and don't use it so u can have breaks throughout the song. |
SLiiK ShoT
Achievement not yet won
Posted on 05 October 09 at 02:14
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This solution has 1 positive vote and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
| I just beat the tour and the only song I got stuck on was (Don't) Fear the Reaper, so instead of practice, practice, practice, I just had my little brother do the bass pedal for me and I handled the rest. So if you have a little brother and a few bucks to spare I'd go with that strategy. |
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This solution has 1 positive vote and 4 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
| You pretty much have to play the song offbeat in order to beat Run to the Hills, at least with the RB1 kit. If you play the song correctly you'll fail. Also, make sure the sound is calibrated perfectly otherwise you're really screwed. |