Meuterei's X-Guitar with a crap hand (and some vox YAY) - RB3 Edition

**Meuterei** · Joined: 04 Jun 2008 Posts: 94 Location: Hell

BIG OL' EDIT 3:
I'm back to guitar/vox, mostly because my cousin (who also plays piano) now has my keyboard so the two of us can play online. I wish I could just sing full time, I'm a freakin' plat vocalist but I'm in an apartment where I just can't unleash the dragon and my voice is ...well... FUCKIN' POWERFUL. I'll still sing a bit here and there though when no one's home next door.

I imported everything into RB3 but I'm not going to bother trying to re-gold stuff with the RB3 score changes - it's basically time to reboot this shit.

RB3 Score Page! Yes, it's very empty right now.

Still, I'm going to leave the OP intact for the most part, and just keep on updating like I always did (poorly and sporadically, haha). Also, I'm going to leave the introduction alone just in case anyone picks up on the thread that hasn't seen it before.

--The OP from January 2010:

Hi. I'm Meuterei... most people on these ol' internets just call me Moo. This is a thread about how an old guy with a messed up hand learned how to play expert guitar (albeit poorly.)

I kinda got stabbed some odd years ago with an icepick in what has become my fret hand (because I simply CANNOT play on lefty flip) and it took forever to even get this far.

I failed incessantly when I first moved up to hard, and even more when I first moved up to expert... where I still regularly fail anything over about 4*. Some of these charts just don't agree with the nerve damage in my fingers, and it shows, haha.

So a little over two weeks ago, I decided I'd start using my account that I registered back in, what, summer of '08?

See, it's only in the last couple months I've really broken into expert and been able to do anything without major suckage. Then on New Year's Day, 2010, something REALLY COOL happened!

I farted off on Quickplay while I had a lasagna in the oven, playing my favorite song in the game: Black Hole Sun. Then all of a sudden I saw these five shiny gold stars. Shock and awe.

It took a couple days before I saw those again playing solo... but it did happen. Then, on Saturday, January 16th, I pulled 3 in one day! (That's What You Get, Mississippi Queen, and Closer)

Easy songs, I know, but hell.. I never expected to get this far to begin with. Soooo, I figure it's worth a shot to see how many more I can pick up.

Here's the spot where I'll keep the latest & greatest:
Starting off RB3 with a lot of rust to shake off but here goes nothing:

(8 Nov 2011)

I am apparently the KING OF 99

(2 Dec 2011)

Guitar GS so far: (31)
Black Hole Sun
Pork And Beans (First FC!)
Beverly Hills (SR GS, haha)
Today
That's What You Get
Mississippi Queen
Closer
Song 2 (Also FC 2

)
Losing My Religion
I Was Wrong
Pretend We're Dead (FC #3)
White Rabbit
In Bloom (SR GS #2)
I Think I'm Paranoid
Hungry Like The Wolf (FC #4)
Monster (Skillet, not the Lego one. FC #5)
Don't Look Back In Anger
Orange Crush
Time We Had (SR)
Here It Goes Again (SR)
Sweetness & Light
Polly
Live Forever
Your Decision (Vocal FC, BQP FC, Voxtar GS, There's even a Shitty YouTube of the Voxtar GS!)
Gone Away
Rooster
Word Up!
New Kid In School
---Rock Band 3 Starts Here---
Rockstar
Still Alive
Learn To Fly

Vocals Rebooted for GS funsies (Whee I can sing again sometimes! - I miss it since it's by far my best "instrument" in this game)
Plush (99% and a funny choke, literally - I coughed)
Dead and Bloated (another damn 99)
Sex Type Thing
Master Exploder
21st Century (Digital Boy)
Crazy Train (FC)
Free Bird (FC)
Aesthetics of Hate (FC)
Ghost of Perdition
Blurry (FC)
So Cold (FC)
Losing My Religion (FC)
Nearly Lost You
Oceans
Photograph
Rooster
Figured You Out
Heaven Beside You
Blow Up The Outside World (FC)

Some other neat (recent) stuff:
Failed Free Bird at 77% (H Keys) - this is the furthest I've made it so far.
4* Bohemian Rhapsody (H Keys) - I bet this is a nightmare on expert.
8 or 9 songs 5*'d on H Keys, Need You Tonight FC on X Keys (this isn't really an accomplishment, that song is the easiest thing in the history of Rock Band)
5* Psychosocial (HOLY SHIT!)
4* Colony of Birchmen
4* Empire of the Gun - first Impossible 4
5* Spoonman!
5* Wanted Dead or Alive
Within striking distance of GS on The Perfect Drug, Territorial Pissings, Pretty Noose and Welcome Home... stay tuned!

For the curious, here's my old RB2 score page link. The first 28 Golds are in there as well as some funny stuff like my awful sight read of We Die Young and my sneezing fit during We Are The Champions.

I haven't updated my DLCQuickplay page in eons, but here's what I've got, content wise:
Discs: RB3, RB2, The Beatles
Imports: RB2, RB1 and Lego. I traded the RB1 & Lego discs off for gamestop credit (Helped me buy the keyboard!

) but I still have the RB2 disc to play online with some friends who don't have RB3. I'll probably be keeping it.
About 280 songs of DLC, mostly 90s alternative stuff, hard rock, metal and a few random songs I saw the charts for on youtube and figured they'd be fun to play.

If you get bored and want to jam sometime, I play on PS3 and my PSN handle is Meuterei_Z - but I should warn folks that I often leave Rock Band running on my PS3 when I'm not actually playing (I rarely, if ever, turn the thing off), so if I don't respond it's not because I'm ignoring you, I've just left it on again.

Anyways, I'll update as I go. Who knows, I may actually get good at this game.

Edit to add: If this isn't really on par with what's considered achievements, feel free to close the thread/point and laugh/etc. Please don't ban me?

Edit 2: I guess I should update stuff in this post, huh?

**bignate1011** · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 127 Location: SC

**Meuterei** · Joined: 04 Jun 2008 Posts: 94 Location: Hell

Thanks, and yeah, I'll try to keep up with it as I can

In the meantime,

The only way I can describe this one is... well...

WOOOOO-HOOOOO

Got back on right after that and -1'd Losing My Religion, woot

In the zone today, I think.

**MehPlusRawr** · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 1389

Good luck!

I'm glad that you're getting better! I think you might get some crazy stuff done one day if you keep trying!
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**sportsboy85** · Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 1497

Epic achivements my man.

**Meuterei** · Joined: 04 Jun 2008 Posts: 94 Location: Hell

Thanks guys

The other big thing I've been working on is trying to 5-star Wanted Dead or Alive, and twice now I've come within 3000 points (just pulled 84909, and apparently the cutoff is just below 87k)

The song's a freaking killer, but my major sticking point is that I refuse to "cheat" (no strumming! ...until I miss and HAVE to strum, that is) on the series of taps that shows up like 6 times or so. I'll be doing that series in practice a bit more today and we'll see what happens.

This song is so freakin' hard that a 5 on it would almost beat those GS's on the "holy crap" scale in my book (well... except maybe Black Hole Sun, it's the only one that isn't Tier 1, lol) even if it obviously won't be as shiny and pretty.

Edit: No...freakin...waaaaay.

**bisq** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 949 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Keep it up man...Old Guys FTW

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**Vineboy** · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:47 pm Post subject:

Pretty soon you'll be playing Nightmare/Impossible tier in no time. Keep up the good work.

**twistedoak** · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 1152

Nice job, and any achievement is simply awesome! Keep up the great work and you'll get your goals (like wanted dead or alive).

by the by, how old are you if you don't mind me asking? I'm 33 and consider old to be in the 60's or higher.
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**MasterNobody** · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 2791 Location: Duxbury, MA

wow congratulations! This is really a great story. Glad to hear your living out your fake plastic rock and roll dreams

Gratz on the FC!
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**FL4RE** · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 4178 Location: Liverpool yano

The fact you're playing this game at all after being stabbed in the hand in the first place shows dedication.
And yeah the accomplishment thread is for what YOU consider an achievement...not us. So don't worry about the mods they won't do anything

Nice job on wanted dead or alive but If you want to GS the song tapping might be an option for the fast triplets near the end of the song. If you can get those under star power then a lot of points would come your way and you would have a much greater chance of achieving those shiny gold stars
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**Meuterei** · Joined: 04 Jun 2008 Posts: 94 Location: Hell

**Thom1234** · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 48

Keep up the good work. It's amazing that you can even play Rock Band, let alone on Expert. Good luck on the Sweetness and Light/Wanted Dead or Alive GS's!

**bisq** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 949 Location: Phoenix, AZ

**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

Hey dude, I am old as well. I always laugh when I submit a guitar score here and it isn't last place

. I see you're beating me on a few songs so feel free to use me as an unofficial rival. Keep it up.
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Expert Pro Drums: 53/83 GS, most recent Free Bird / Oh My God / Oye Mi Amor
Expert Pro Bass: 6/83 GS, most recent Everybody Wants to Rule the World