Re: Planned Weekend Gaming (withouth Want or Bins, hopefully...)

The Rev wrote:
Aren't you finding easy a bit *too* easy, though? Certainly my
experience of guitar and vocal is that even medium is a little on
the easy side...

I am definitely finding Easy too easy. It's actually not that
interesting. If I get less than 97% it's probably because the cat jumped
on me, or
something.
But unfortunately Medium is too hard. Not for the most part - the vast
majority of songs on Medium are doable, even if some are a bit messy
(I can get through Celebrity Skin with no problem at all and get four
stars,
even though I mess up the chorus completely every time) - but there
are some songs on Medium that are impossible.

Well, one so far. Which is Enter Sandman. Which (a) I hate and (b) we
need to do to complete the current stage of our World Tour. I fail minutes
before the vocals even start, so there's no chance of my wife saving
me.

It is, so far, by some distance the hardest song I've played. I found it
harder on medium than a lot of other songs on hard.

That's why I'm going through the solo mode. Well, I'm going through
because it's ace fun and a proper new Guitar Hero game when you do it
that way, but I'm also going through to try and improve my skills and get
to Enter
Sandman to try and learn it.

The trouble is that on Easy I can keep my hand in the same position,
so I know what colours my fingers are on. I can use my little finger for
the odd blue note, but I haven't got enough strength or control in it
to use it many times in a row, or for bits where I have to press blue
and another colour at the same time. So I have to move my hands
around and my fingers get completely lost and everything goes horribly
wrong.

It was always the move up from medium (one finger per button, no need to
move your hand) to hard (fingers everywhere) that got me. Something clicked
the other night, though, and I just gave up on trying to return my hand to
its usual medium position when playing hard and just winged it. Once you get
away from rigidly associating one finger with each fret, it suddenly becomes
a lot easier.

And! Also! I have no fucking rhythm so long, quick sections of the
same note are impossible for me. I normally get through about five
notes and then start to fail and can't get back on track. (And trying to
strum up
and down instead of just using my thumb to flick the strum bar down
leads to disaster in all cases.)

I cannot, to save my life, manage to strum up and down on quick sections
either. I can't remember the song, but on expert there was one that had a
good minute or so of continuous, tightly packed in notes, and I'm sure that
if I could master strumming up and down it would have been a relatively
relaxed bit of the song. As it was, I was repeatedly tapping down and almost
died of exhaustion by the end of the section. :)

--

Chris

GT: SomethingWitty


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