Question about legality of various combinations

**Shashakiro** · Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 1931 Location: Providence, RI

So I'm not too sure which of the following counts as legal or illegal on SH (or in general), and I'm curious. Which of the following is ok for submitting scores, and which is not?

-Solo vocals is being played by one person while another holds the microphone.
-Solo drums are being played with one person hitting the kick pedal and another hitting the pads.
-Vocals and guitar are being played by two people. One person is doing both, and the other is using the controller to hit all the taps.
-Vocals and drums are being played by two people. The vocalist is hitting all the kick pedal notes, and the other player is only hitting the pads.
-Guitar and bass are being played by two people. Each is using the strumbar on one guitar and the fret buttons on the other.
-Vocals, guitar, and drums are being played by two people. One person is hitting the drum pads and singing, and the other is hitting the kick pedal and playing guitar.
-Vocals, guitar, and drums are being played by two people. One player plays guitar and the other plays drums, but the two players switch off when singing so that one player sings some parts and the other player sings other parts.

I could probably think of more, but yeah, I'm just curious. I'm pretty having someone hold the microphone is not cheating and that playing solo drums with two people is, but after that I don't really have much of an intuition--is it just determined by 1 person per instrument? Is anything that splits the inputs for a single instrument between multiple people automatically cheating? Is vocals treated differently from other instruments?

Just wondering, since my friends and I have pretty much done all of the above at some point while messing around x)
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**GuitarZero132** · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1024

I'm almost positive that the only one that would be legal for submitting scores would be the first one. I always thought that if more than one person put in any input into the same controller, than it's illegal for score submissions.

**singemfrc** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 4407 Location: California

Although still technically illegal, the one with one player voxtaring and another hitting taps probably wouldn't be bitched about unless you were purporting (sp?) falsely to be a superior voxtar player.
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**ricecake** · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:37 am Post subject:

I have a feeling this is illegal as well, but what about:
-Guitar/drums. I play the intro on drums while the other person plays guitar, then after the song has started, we switch instruments.
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**TopGearFTW** · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:07 pm Post subject:

Out of those, I would say only the first one seems acceptible, and only the first two seem plausible for someone to attempt >____>
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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

**Geekthras** · Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 239 Location: Lincoln, MA

Probably not worth asking if our four person visions drums run was legal :P
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