Tips for Improving Career Score

**Slippy** · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 20 Location: NY

Anyone have any advice for this?

I have about 7.8 mil right now and am trying to do better. I'm pretty far up on the scoreboards for a lot of individual songs so I'd like to be up higher than I currently am overall.

I'm going broke downloading more of the DLC songs so that I can get more points from having more songs (

) but are there any other things that would help?

Just to make sure, doing songs on easier difficulties won't affect your score if you've already beaten the Expert tour, right?
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**shadow6463** · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 1198 Location: Orlando, FL

dlc doesn't actually raise your career score...
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**Slippy** · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 20 Location: NY

Strange, it's been giving me points for doing them in the Expert Tour.
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**iagomonk** · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 1045 Location: Lynnwood, WA

Your score is only based on the 45 core songs and the 13 "bonus" songs. You will not increase your rank with DLC.

**Slippy** · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 20 Location: NY

Hmm, upon further inspection, yes, my score didn't increase after the song I just played.

Weird, guess I was imagining things when I thought I saw it go up the other time. ^^; Oh well.
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**Slippy** · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 20 Location: NY

**cdylan13** · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 5828 Location: Richmond, VA

I just got passed 8 mil today. How many FCs do you have? Work on the ones that you are close to FCing first, or any that are 3 or 4 starred.

**Nickisimo** · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 774 Location: Charleston, SC

All I can say as far as pumping up your score is that your day should go something like this:

1. Wake up, take a leak, practice
2. Practice some more
3. Eat something
4. Practice again
5. Learn how to squeeze(plenty of threads on this) and study OD paths
6. While you're doing that, practice
7. Take a shower, but think of Vocals while doing it
8. Spend most of your day practicing
9. Eat dinner, chewing to the beats of songs you're struggling with
10. Clean your plate, then go practice
11. Give yourself a 5 minute break, you've earned it
12. Wow, getting late...get another hour of practice in before bed
13. Sleep with your microphone while listening to a looping run of all 58 songs
14. If score is high enough, stop. Otherwise, go back to Step 1.
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**Slippy** · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 20 Location: NY

**violinhero86** · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:19 am Post subject:

**AJayN85** · Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Posts: 149

There's a Rock Band "soundtrack" floating around on the internets; download that and get familiar with the Vocals songs. One advantage we vocalists have over the other instruments is that we can "practice" away from the game just by listening to the songs and memorizing the songs.

I'm pretty sure that if you manage to FC everything with reasonable Overdrive paths, you can make it to at least 9 million. Save from the songs that aren't easily FC-able (check the score charts here for songs with 100% scores that are few and far between), you'll find yourself improving as you get more familiar with each song outside of the game.

One thing that helps me keep sane is working on songs that AREN'T 5+ minutes long. Nothing better to crush your spirits than to get to the final section of Foreplay/Long Time and get a Strong on the sixth improvised variation of the chorus section. =P Nail your FCs on the short songs while studying the longer songs and your score will reflect your hard work.

Basically, know the melody lines to every song inside and out until you can FC everything. From then on, it's a chart, Overdrive path, and a squeeze away from the top of the charts. Good luck!

**cdylan13** · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 5828 Location: Richmond, VA

**AJayN85** · Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Posts: 149

All of them except for Blood Doll.

**hydrapower** · Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 1708 Location: Rochester, MN

One thing I've always done on Scorehero to increase my score the fastest is to take advantage of the Compare Users feature and compare myself to the person next highest ranked overall. Now unfortunately, they haven't yet implemented this on the RB side, so you have to do it manually. But basically figure out on what songs you are most behind them on, then do those songs in order of descending spread. Then after you move up a rank, compare yourself to the next highest person, and repeat.

For example, I'm 137th on Guitar here, so I compare my scores to the 136th person. I am most behind on Outside (-39,000), I Get By (-27,000), Vasoline (-26,000), and so on. It's more effective to advance in score this way than to just do the songs you're lowest ranked on. The reason being on some of the early songs everybody might be really close together and the 400th ranked person might only be a couple thousand points behind the top people.

Good luck!
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