Glissandos

**pianojuggler4** · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: Virginia Tech

So I've been playing Centerfold for the last hour or so and I noticed that you dont actually need to hit all the notes in a glissando (hitting all the white keys between 2 notes really fast) to not break combo. The ones in that song go from G to G and i was able to intentionally not hit A and still keep combo.

I wasn't able to just arpeggio (GBDG) and get credit though, so I'm not exactly sure what the behavior is, nor do I know how this affects score.

Just thought it was interesting...
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**Azuarc** · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 1389 Location: Philadelphia

I noticed this doing the training for glissandos. I think the key is that you have to hit all the notes, but the timing doesn't have to be perfect since a glissando doesn't have exact timing.

**Chimney** · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject:

For most Glissando sections you only need to hit the first note, then can hit any notes to cover the rest of the glissando. You also don't have to play them for the entire glissando. E.g. say it is an 8 note glissando, then you play the first note, then play whatever for say 3 notes (still fast though, you gotta play as quickly as the actual glissando) and this will make it so that you hit the entire thing.

It's important to note however, that the final note in many glissandos still needs to be hit. e.g. in the glissando before the horn solo in I got you (Ifeel good) live, you need to hit the first note, play whatever for the rest of it, then actually hit the final Fsharp or whatever it is and you have to hit it in time.

**machetemonkey** · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 3043 Location: Minneapolis, MN

Thank god to hear this!

I was worried that Glissandos would be like the tremelo picking/buzz rolls of keys (IE: basically random timing that the game forces you to hit perfectly) when I didn't see any "lane" mechanic for them (like we now have for rolls/trills/etc). It's great to know you don't have to hit them perfectly.

**Moomoomoo1** · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah I'm finding them way easier to hit than they should be if they were just normal notes.
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**donutz0r** · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 404

Confirming what pianojuggler4 said. In my experience, as long as the first note and last notes are hit, you can pretty much do whatever you want in between (assuming that the "whatever you want" falls in between the starting and ending point of the glissando).
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**DVDSmith** · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 1271 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Is this true for five-lane keys too?
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**haytradyl33** · Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 719

Sorry about the late reply, but here's a good example I found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRg1Qaxx9as

Skip to :37 for the first example.
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**DarylZero** · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 413 Location: Boston, MA

I suppose everyone's figured it out but I was directed to the RBN documentation so in case anyone hasn't seen it directly from Harmonix

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