Antibodies

**millross** · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 212 Location: England

Anyone got any tips on the last minute of this song. I can't combo it for shit and it's stopped me from 5 starring it.

Stupidly, it's the only song I haven't on X Gtr, cept some tier 1 stuff. Llama was tough but I quite liked that, whereas I really dislike this.

I know I can still get the achivement for all songs 5 starred by doing it on bass - and I have - but I want to get all of them 5'd or Gold starred on Gtr.
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**Falango** · Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 222

I have a hate on for this song too. It's sad that a Tier 3 song is what's stopping me from 5 starring X Guitar (Llama too, but I'll get that soon). I just can't pick up the rhythm to this song, and that last minute is just dumb. I think it is rated too low for it's real difficulty.
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**MarsPhoenix** · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 377

Practicing on a lower speed, as always, will probably help out. If you're good at down-strumming, try using only down-strums until you get to the part at the end. The inconsistent and awkward patterns go down easier for me when you do that. When you get to the storm after the second chorus, there's really nothing you can do but keep a steady strumming rhythm (I imagine the song doesn't change tempo much if at all since it's got that synth in it, though I could be wrong). The biggest problem is that sometimes you'll get an uneven pattern and that always makes things awkward (at least they do for me) when you're alt-strumming. If you get OD available in that section, save it for parts you know you're better at getting combos on. I'm sure there are some parts that you do fine on and then the parts with more chord changes and strums in a row are the challenge parts.

Good luck! I wish I could give you a better method, but this is one of those things where practice might just be your only friend. :/

**elitewarrior500** · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:13 pm Post subject:

**Mozgus** · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 199

Only the first half or so of that last minute or has no obvious strumming pattern, but the last several bars of the song actually do. It's one of the few parts of the entire song I can actually combo after playing through it only three times so far. Maybe if you figure that part out, then you can eke out a 5 star, provided you do well enough on the rest of the song and save your OD for the parts you can combo.

**JackFr** · Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 335

I just wanted to say that just by reading this thread, I brought my score from a 3 star to a 5 star. Without practicing or playing it again. Weird.
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**millross** · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 212 Location: England

^^ Nice one - but how exactly did you get 5 stars without playing it again!? ;)

At the 4th attempt, I got it by over 25k - miles before the end of the song! Go figure.... I concentrated on getting the most out of OD in the early parts of the song, so that there was less reliance on nailing the last minute quite as much. Practice makes perfect and all that.

Rainbow in the dark took 2 tries, Llama 3 tries, Antibodies 4 tries

Still - horifficly under tiered and irritating!
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FC Hush [x]

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**Bront** · Joined: 09 Oct 2010 Posts: 929

I think it's tiered too low because the theory of the song is easy. Plant your green finger, alternate between G, GB, and GY (and occasionaly GBY) except for the slow chorus.

In actuality, the strum pattern is just odd, and the changes come quick enough that it's hard to get both at the same time, requiring several replays. I know once i got the first part of the song, I went from failing out to comboing it. I'm sure the second part will come to me in a similar way.

At least Llama is a bit more structured, just faster.
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