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matt_mr2t wrote:
Why not start your own thread about computer games you dont like and should be taxed and what not.
No-one wants to know.
"ruining" the thread. I will point out though my initial post simply suggested learning the guitar was the best way to improve playing skills. Since then all I've done is respond to others comments which have themselves focused on the 'green' stuff I initially just mentioned in passing in my second post (with my focus being on the fact that if you learn an actual instrument you can do so much more with it... including being creative and individual). Hope now you're all happy again and you can go back to discussing whatever it was you were discussing. HighwayStar wrote:Only other thing I'll say before buggering off is your view of climate change may not matter to you, I or anyone else reading this but if the scientists are right it will matter to my nephews and nieces and any family they may have.
Truth is no-one knows for sure no matter which side of the fence they sit on. As for myself, I quite like to think that humanity is pretty good at inventing things when it needs them to survive (like fire, the wheel, sliced bread) so even if climate change is all true then we'll simply have to invent something that creates a new atmosphere for the planet. Sorted. 
I bought myself a drum kit on the strength of how much I loved the drums on RB and I don't regret it for one second. That kit now sits alongside my guitars and basses that I owned before I ever picked up a plastic guitar with coloured buttons and without RB I would never have bought it. Truth it, the GH/RB series is encouraging kids to pick up an instrument when they might never have thought about it before. &***(^ quite frankly. Climate will change if we were here or not, it did that, we know it did that and it will do that.- any more useful tips on me shredding those solo's?... not a problem mate. I will point out that in the AC/DC thread you just asked for an opinion on the game and I was the first to reply with mine. It's a bit out of order asking for an opinion on a forum then slagging the first guy to reply for having his and expressing it but I'm basically an easy going bloke so no worries eh?.. you want to tell me which other threads I've ruined so I can reply? You can PM me. Used to know a guitarist who carried an old fretboard off some ancient guitar round with him so he could practice fretting certain sequences of chords/notes at work or wherever but I was never sure how that helped. How would he know he was hitting the correct notes properly without hearing them? That said many guitarists do practice finger 'exercises' to improve the muscles and ultimately I guess the dexterity. Then i realised it was totally unrealistic and boring so moved up to medium. For a little while my little finger with like a lifeless appendage. It just didn't seem to have any life in it. Then medium too got boring and easy and unrealistic. So i cracked on with hard. It is bloody hard on guitar hero 2 & 3 where as i found rock band much easier. One day i will get a real guitar but the fact is, even if i do and even if i get good at it all i'm gonna play is the guitar part of the song. I'm not going to get the full music which is why i like the games. I don't just like guitars, i like music.sheppy wrote:matt_mr2t wrote:I have completed nearly all of GHII and GHIII on hard.
I think I need to do 3 more songs on each to finish them but just can't bloody do it.
On III it's Slayer, Metallica and Iron Maiden.
Any tips on how to roll these notes off without my fingers freezing solid and not getting them?
What doesnt help is that the star power activates when I dont want it to and when I'm in trouble I dont have it any more
make sure you're doing the hammer on and pull offs correctly, you won't need to even strum if you get it right!!
One strum, get the hammer on's right....4-5 notes played with ease! 
HighwayStar wrote:Sorry but yes you could play anything.
Bottom line is like everything else nowadays people want instant gratification and the kudos or rewards of a skill without actually putting in the required effort to learn it.
Sorry but Guitar Hero is just air guitar with really expensive as well as polluting air.
R.
A few of my mates (Pistol Pete included) had a shocking state of rhythm (no offence buddy! 
)...but since playing GH their hand-eye co-ordination is far better than what it would be if they had just gone out and bought a real guitar and sat learning some cords...which you do when you nail damn hard solo's on Expert! 
I still contend it will have trouble making you a better guitar player if you don't actually play a guitar though.... I've been talking 'bout one versus the other.... don't think I've even mentioned hand/eye coordination and still reckon to be a better guitar player you should just practice more guitar. Happy for you to disagree though. Matt.... did you ever cop a listen to the guitar work in 'Highway Star'?... sort of!! Don't want to get too off topic again but what are your fave solos? But then I love the Chilli's! I tend to like the faster stuff which I find more exciting. Ever heard Eddie Van Halens 'Eruption'? Mind blowing stuff. His work on Michael Jacksons 'Beat It' isn't too shabby either. For me it's the older stuff, but then I am getting old... Van Halen and Hendrix etc (his 'Star Spangled Banner' from Monterey Pop or Woodstock is just inspired) but Blackmore is still the daddy of the get ready here it comes solo spot. 
HighwayStar wrote:
R.
2 of my favourite solo's!'will' make you a better guitar player. It has me. ....... etc Try expert. hahaha. Even Priestess - lay down. The hammer ons are importent.& COP are quite hard especially if you can't do slayer yet. When you can 4 star them on expert and easily 5 star them on hard you should breeze though slayer with a few tries. Star power to be saved for when you go into the red.- easy!!!!!! use ur thumb to press the strum bar quickly, practice previous songs and 5 star them first 
Soon as you get that intro done, save your SP for the end or if you fail as the intro repeats.- Realy easy till the end, stuck on the hammer ons and hammer offs? Its quite long and go's into another straight after (still same solo, but different pattern) Once thats clear, wuite hard to fail really . etc 360 live GT is - SliCkMiX I bet there is some nerd on here who can finger tap 
That's when my meter starts to dip but I can get through that and stay in the yellow green. Annoying though, no matter what I do, star power goes off near the end and runs out before the next bit which is just insane quite frankly. The speed at which those waves of notes come is too fast for my eyes to read, my brain to act and my fingers to move. ](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall"){kind=small}