Red and Bass Drum more important?

**Siberian** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 207

It doesn't say this anywhere in the manual or the tutorials but last night when playing a drumming tip popped up that said if your having trouble to concentrate on the Red & Bass drum first because the crowd won't notice if you miss one of the other colors as much...

Just found it interesting and it does seem to be true. Before if I started to have trouble I'd concentrate on just hitting say the yellows first. But now that I'm trying to do the red/bass first I'm not failing as quickly.

**TheGlow** · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 2748 Location: J Train Brooklyn!

Thats odd.
One would think majority of players are right handed. And then they would be able to have best control with the right hand, which is for mostly Blue and Green and occasional Yellow.
So I find it odd theyd prioritize the 2 "weaker" functions for the average player.
Oh well.

And when you say the crowd doesnt mind, you mean they dont boo as much (which I could care less) or the rock meter doesnt drop as hard?

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**i5hawn** · Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 413

on hard/expert this doesn't really mean a hill of beans. your rock meter just drops way to much on missed hits/kicks

**defiler47** · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 42

IT makes since the red and the bass is the main beat and the most important part of the drums when the other other notes usually act as rides

**LongSockSilver** · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 1204

I was just about to make a topic for this. Just saw the screen and found it interesting. I think it should be taken literally, and I have reason to believe that your rock meter goes up faster with red/bass hits than the others.
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**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

Feel free to try it yourself, at the start of a song with no drum bits whatsoever. Hit the bass or the red, and see how much your rock meter drops. Hit another drum instead, and see how your rock meter drops by much less. It definitely affects the rock meter going down, and certainly seems to behave similarily for filling it back up. (Find a song on Easy with enough isolated notes near the beginning to confirm, if you're really that curious.)
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