blingdomepiece - The slow pro key 5* grind

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

I'm (very) gradually 5*ing everything on pro keys, right-handed. I'll start posting the good ones when I get there.

Remaining Songs (53)

Amy Winehouse - Rehab
BB King - The Thrill is Gone
Bee Gees - Tragedy
Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Billy Joel - Pressure
Billy Joel - The Entertainer
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Billy Joel - Prelude/Angry Young Man
Black Crowes - Remedy
Bob Marley - Small Axe
Clash - Rock the Casbah
Clash - Revolution Rock
David Bowie - Modern Love
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Don McLean - American Pie
Doors - Touch Me
Dream Theater - On the Backs of Angels
Edgar Winter Band - Frankenstein
Edgar Winter Band - Free Ride
Elton John - The Bitch is Back
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
George Strait - TWANG
Huey Lewis - The Heart of Rock & Roll
Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee
John Lennon - Oh Yoko!
John Lennon - Crippled Inside
John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth
John Lennon - I Don't Wanna Be a Solder Momma
John Lennon / Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas
Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry
Lady Antebellum - Perfect Day
Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name?
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
Peter Cetera - Glory of Love
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
Phish - Tweezer
Queen - Somebody to Love
Reba McIntyre - The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Smashmouth - Why Can't We Be Friends
Some yokel - Awful Beautiful Life
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder - I Wish
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
The Band - The Weight
Yes - Roundabout
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Yes - I've Seen All Good People

Fans

1.0 billion: October 5, 2011
1.2 billion: January 22, 2012
1.3 billion: February 6, 2012
1.4 billion: ???

Remaining Goals (46 total, 44 possible on PS3)

Rock Band [2] - Country Track Pack, RBN Raps
Guitar [4] - All Songs 5* Expert (66/82), HOPOcidal maniac (~37000/53596), Mission of Burma all songs 5* (2/3), Final Countdown 100% solo
Bass [1] - All Songs 5* Expert (74/83)
Drums [2] - All songs 5* Expert (81/83), All Main Drag Songs 5*
Pro Drums [2] - All songs 5* Expert (80/83), Pro Drums Lessons (0/3)
Vocals [2] - Little Monsters DLC goal, Happy Faces DLC goal
Harmonies [4] - Triple Awesome Usually, Is This Just Fantasy?, Always Double Awesome, Every Triple Awesome
Keys [1] - All songs 5* Expert (57/63)
Pro Keys [4] - All songs 5* Expert (61/63), Advanced Scales (1/4), Hard Pro Keys Lessons (60/63), Expert Pro Keys Lessons (41/63)
Pro Guitar [17] - Barre Chords (0/1), Strumming Your Way Through (2/4), Finishing Your Schoolin' (0/4), More Chord Holding and Arpeggiation (0/1), All songs 5* Hard (6/82), Hard Hall of Fame, Expert Apprentice (1/11), Expert Solid (1/12), Expert Moderate (1/12), Expert Challenging (0/12), Expert Nightmare (0/12), Expert Impossible (0/12), All songs 5* Expert (0/82), Expert Hall of Fame, Hard Pro Guitar Lessons (1/82), Expert Pro Guitar Lessons (1/82), 100% Expert.
Pro Bass [7] - All songs 5* Hard (12/83), Hard Pro Bass Lessons (13/83), Expert Pro Bass Lessons (3/83), Expert Challenging (10/12), Expert Impossible (5/12), All songs 5* Expert (12/83), Expert Hall of Fame {22/32}

italics - not currently possible on PS3
underlined - requires buying something I don't have

Progress Towards a Billion Fans (2011)

Start - 759,281,728 fans

Aug 22 -

90 seconds of overdrive (Sorry on guitar)

Aug 23 - [11 goals]

Finished RB3 setlist on bass (all 3* except Jerry)
HoF setlist on bass
Lego Rock Band Endless Setlist on Bass (44/45 5*)
Sang Two Princes for 5* LRB

Aug 25 - [30 goals, total 823 million fans]

Rock Band 3 Endless Setlist on Vocal Harmonies

Aug 26 - [28 goals, 865 million fans]

Finished RB3 setlist on guitar [12]
Guitar HoF on Hard + 90% HOPO + Crazy Train solo [4]
Harmony HoF & remaining 5*s [7]
Bass all songs 5* Hard [3]
Medium Pro Keys Song Lessons [2]

Aug 27 - [25 goals, 901 million fans]

Keys All Songs 5* Hard + 500 note streak keys [4]
Pro Drums All Songs 5* Hard + 90% Disco Flip [7]
Drums - Buncha Punks
Vox: Red Devil, Forever, Pope's Opus, Bang Camaro, Suds in the Bucket, El Scorcho, Mom's Favorites, Vocie of an Angel, The Logarhythms [9]
Guitar: Armory Wars, 100% Expert HOPO
Bass: Closer FC, Monkey Gone To Heaven 5*

August 28 - [10 goals, 915 million fans]

Rock Band General: The Trinity, Rare Music Finder, Give It Your Best, Download Populist, 50* Doolittle
Guitar: 5000 HOPOs, Easy/Medium/Hard Guitar 5*, Guitar Solo Master

August 29 - [12 goals, 931 million fans]

Pro Keys: Easy & Medium All Songs 5*
Pro Bass: Easy/Medium/Hard Apprentice Pro Bass, Easy/Medium/Hard Solid Pro Bass, Easy/Medium/Hard Moderate Pro Bass, Pro Bass Immortal (50+ 3* songs on Hard or Expert)

August 30 - [4 goals, 937 million fans]

Guitar: The Longest Solo
Keyboard: Keys In Unison
Pro Guitar: Flawless Pro Guitar
Vox: Friends Say It's Good

August 31 - [14 goals, 955 million fans]

Rock Band General: Obsessive Compulsive
Pro Guitar: Getting the Hang Of It, Hard Song Lessons #2, Hard Song Lessons #1, Master Song Lessons #1
Pro Bass: Easy/Medium/Hard Nightmare Pro Bass, Easy/Medium/Hard Challenging Pro Bass
Pro Keys: Hard Lessons
Harmonies: 50 Triple Awesomes, 100 Triple Awesomes

September 1 - [4 goals, 961 millions fans]

General: Beat Green Day: Rock Band, 5* Green Day: Rock Band
Guitar: The two Green Day goals that aren't 100% Jesus of Suburbia guitar solo .

September 2 - [2 goals, 965 million]

General: Save Someone 40 Times
Guitar: In the Land of Make Believe

September 3 - [4 goals, 969 million fans]

General: Harmonix Recommended Setlist, American Unity
Drums: Burnin' Drums (Green Day goal)
Pro Guitar: Foolin' Lesson

September 4 - [5 goals, 976 million]

Pro Guitar: Hard/Expert Warmup Guitar
Pro Bass: Easy/Medium Impossible Bass, Medium HoF

September 6 - [2 goals, 979 million]

Pro Guitar: Hard Apprentice Tier, Hard Solid Tier

September 22 - [3 goals, 984 million]

Pro Guitar: 5GS
Pro Bass: Easy/Medium Song Trainer

September 23 - [1 goal, 986 million]

Pro Guitar: Medium Hall of Fame

September 26 - [2 goals, 988 million]

Pro Guitar: Easy/Medium Song Trainer

September 29 - [1 goal, 990 million]

Pro Guitar: Solo Survivor

September 30 - [2 goals, 993 million]

Pro Bass: Expert Apprentice Tier, Expert Solid Tier

October 1 - [5 goals, DONE]

Pro Guitar: All Songs 5* Easy, All Songs 5* Medium, Hard Moderate Tier, Hard Challenging Tier
Pro Bass: Hard Impossible Tier

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"Final" RB2 Drum stats

570 GS (925 songs owned)

Tier 1: 46/46 gold or FCed (Polly is FCed but not gold)
Tier 2: 52/52 gold, 31 100%
Tier 3: 87/88 gold, 36 100%
Tier 4: 263/319 gold (82%), 42 100%
Tier 5: 163/169 5* (96%), 80/169 gold (47%), 9 100%.
Tier 6: 111/124 5* (89%), 32/124 gold (26%), 3 100%.
Tier 7: 88/121 5* (73%), 11/121 gold (9%), 0 100%.

Failed to pass 6 songs:
* What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
* This is Exile
* Unfurling a Darkened Gospel
* Day of Mourning
* Descent Into the Eternal Pits of Possession
* Guns of Summer

Didn't bother buying because I wouldn't have passed:
* Packet Flier
* We Are the Nightmare

Missing Tier 3 GS:
* Funky Monks

Missing Tier 5 5*:
* The Hockey Theme
* She's So Fine
* No Control
* New Dark Ages
* Purple Haze
* 1348

RB2 Setlist

83/84 5* (everything but Visions)
71/84 GS, last 5 were:

GS #67: American Woman (Aug 17 2009)
GS #68: Master Exploder (Aug 28 2009)
GS #69: Souls of Black (Sep 22 2009)
GS #70: Girl's Not Grey (Sep 22 2009)
GS #71: Rob the Prez-O-Dent (Dec 28 2009)

Total score: 15,302,951

RB1

10,363,996 as of February 15, 2009.
10,204,936 as of October 15, 2008.

GS #48: Go With the Flow (Feb 15)
GS #47: Tom Sawyer (Feb 10)
GS #46: Timmah (Feb 8)
GS #45: Can't Let Go (September 28)
GS #44: Brainpower (September 28)
GS #38-43 (revised cutoffs): Seven, Blood Doll, Day Late Dollar Short, Learn to Fly, Foreplay/Longtime, Flirtin' With Disaster. Guess this is more of a HMX coder accomplishment!
GS #37: I'm So Sick (August 8)
GS #36: Suffragette City (August 8)
GS #35: I Get By (August 7)
GS #34: When You Were Young (July 26)
GS #33: Paranoid (July 20)
GS #32: Black Hole Sun (July 18)

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Long March to 15M

15,001,677 as of May 15th 2009.
14,950,417 as of May 3rd.
14,909,474 as of April 26th.
14,741,362 as of April 19th.
14,706,962 as of March 12th.
14,604,012 as of February 22nd.
14,518,135 as of February 8th.
14,313,874 as of January 27th.
14,146,675 as of December 27th.

It's over.

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September 1 2008

Endless setlist on voxdrum has been completed. I wasn't going to try it tonight but then I decided hey, let's be stupid.

My goal was to average 4* (232/290). I ended up with 245, based on 18 5-stars and 5 3-stars. I only had ever 5*ed 16 songs going in, so I got at least two new ones tonight.

It took... a long time. Like over five hours. I took a 20 minute break after 12 songs to eat dinner. Then stopped after the 27th song (Day Late Dollar Short) for a bathroom/hydration break. Then right before Can't Let Go I grabbed an apple and some dark chocolate, and took one more five minute break before the last five songs. Run to the Hills took over an hour because I failed it eight times. At one point I took a break to get a snack. Then after the eighth failure I took another break and posted here. Then I passed it, and WGFA.

I ended up with 8 new 5*s. I boosted 39 scores for a total over two million points. Showing the effect of fatigue, I improved on 27 of the first 30 songs I played (90%), but only 12 of the last 28 (and 2 out of the last 11!).

Here's my pretty platinum icon. The reason my singer is called "Johnny A" is that PSN told me that what the A stood for wasn't "classy". And I do like having access to the leaderboards!

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July 18 2008

The long march to 10M is over. I started at 9.4M on May 31st. It took me 48 days in total, broken down per 100K as 8, then 11, then 5, then 12, then 4, and finally 8 more days for the last 100K. I played almost every day, sometimes for 2 or 3 hours, maybe more some days.

It was not an easy process for me at all. I had never drummed when I got this game, except for playing a couple songs on Easy and one on Medium at a friend's place. When I upgraded from PS2 to PS3 a few months ago I had 8.1 million in career score. I thought that was pretty good.

What I found is probably not surprising; it was much harder to push myself to an extra 600K from 9.4M than it had been to do anything up until that point. I had to play songs a lot, sometimes to the point where it wasn't as much fun anymore, although the DLC kept me sane. I had to spend time in practice mode. I had to look up OD paths, and experiment with my own when something prevented me from doing the optimal path well. I'm definitely much better now than I was ~50 days ago.

When I started this I had my doubts I could finish it. 48 days is actually pretty short compared to how long I feared it might take. I never got my GH2 log or whatever the hell you get for 5* everything in GH3, so failure was certainly conceivable.

I will not be bumping this thread quite as often now that I have made this goal. I will bump it whenever I get a new gold star on the main setlist, or 5* some of the harder DLC.

Thanks to the people who encouraged me or gave me tips and a shout out to Internetguy87 who should be passing me in the next couple of weeks![/b][/list]

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

Still not making much progress in terms of score. I decided to try hitting quick double snare hits before a double-kick with R-L instead of L-L (comes up a lot in Cherub Rock and Can't Let Go). After seeing some initial success I went back to "I'm So Sick" and got the FC first try. Seems like I messed up the path because I thought I was doing 1-0-1 which should yield GS, but I didn't get them. Either way it's 6K and every bit helps. Think I will eventually top my Cherub Rock best this way.

Practiced GGaHT solo 1E-1F (which has the steady stream of blue notes). Trying to hit it two-handed as in the video posted to the technique forum. I can hit 99% at 90% speed but I fall to the low 90s at full speed. I am pretty sure I do about that well just using the right hand so I need to practice more before a full run. Even though I've already GSed this one I can probably pick up another 15-20K if I can get that one part down cold so it's worth the effort.

Also practiced RttH, the Fast Part into the end of the first verse. I can pretty much combo it at 80% but I fall to 90% at 90% speed and then to 70+% at full speed. Problem at full speed is I lose my ability to count off the notes and then my bass gets off and that's pretty well curtains. Not sure what I can do improve this beyond repetition.
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

**willay** · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Seattle

try doing lefty flip for foreplay. i got about an extra 40k that way (switch back to righty for long time)
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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

Thanks for the tip (esp. given your career score). I'm actually a lefty who plays "normal" so that should actually help me on this song (my left hand is faster than my right and I do RLL). I am just going to have to practice the part until I can play it without spazzing on the snare, which is fine to pass the song but not so hot for maintaining a combo.

Anyway I had a pretty brutal couple of days. Was working on Cherub Rock and couldn't even break 200K in three tries because I broke combo on every double-snare hit. I was having no trouble with these a week ago so the problem is mental.

Went to the DLC and picked up my 5* on Smokin' and went back to work on Detroit Rock City. Took three runs to smooth out the rolls enough to get a modest score increase, from 162K to 165K.

Then went to play Foreplay/Long Time, and despite another fairly poor run on the start (21K) I managed a pretty good streak on the rest, although I missed one overdrive phrase. Got my score up 14K to 246K. I can work on the ending to get some more out of this one too, even without improving much on FP.
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

**soaklimozeen** · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

My advice (and take what you want, I'm not a real dummer, but my career score is about 10.27 million) is to keep practicing (A LOT) on the foot/arm independence. Most of the songs where you can gain the most ground have tricky bass parts (DoA, DRC, Outside, NtY, WGFA). I find that the better I got at hitting bass parts, the better I got overall.

FP/LT I can't really give any advice, I just kept playing it and one day I went from failing it on Hard to 5* on Expert. It just sort of clicked. I think everyone has a song like that.

RttH - Endurance (and a decent set of pads)! I have only 5* this one time, and it was on BRE.... so probably fluke. But i consistently get 4.5 stars. I still am not good enough bass wise to hold a combo during the solo. Make sure you're red pad is working well. If not, tape or Sock Mod FTW

Keep plugging, one thing I've learned from playing GH and RB is that whenever you think you hit a plateau, you really haven't. I thought I hit a plateau at 8 million....... Just keep playing!

Good luck!

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

Appreciate the thoughts, one thing I am trying to do is keep my arm movements smooth and fluid during tricky bass parts.

A pattern is kind of emerging where I spend all night tearing my hair out on some song and then get a boost elsewhere. Tonight I worked on Next To You for about an hour and really got nowhere with it. I haven't figured out a good way to play the bass on this one. The slower Police songs with this kind of pattern are no problem for me but once the tempo gets this high I seem to slip my foot off the pedal, or the entire kit gets pushed off at a weird angle, or whatever.

After giving up on making any progress I went and did a single run of Flirtin' With Disaster and boosted it 18K. I pretty much comboed it outside of rolls hitting almost every one of those strange sticking patterns with the bass hits in the middle.

I am probably going to work on my WGFA and Reaper 5*s next.
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

**willay** · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Seattle

for detroit rock city, you can do the same thing you did for flirtin but throw in some extra reds. and for the rolls, where it goes

you have to hit the last 2 yellows with your left hand in order to hit the green with your right hand. if you can do those you could probably an extra 15-20k
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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

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

Nice little 20K pickup over two days.

Got my Reptilia GS yesterday, with a 4K increase.
Improve Dani California by 5K.

Played Run to the Hills for about half an hour, failed three times after the solo/roll. The last time I probably would have passed but my arms wore out. Pretty sure next time I pass it I'm due for a good score increase because I can pretty well FC the start at this point. I'm just going to have to play this every day to build up the arms.

Passed Reaper two more times, but haven't beaten 210K. I am getting about 125K going into the solos. If I could combo the end, which I have done before, I could probably increase my score 30-40K in a single run, but it hasn't happened yet.

Got my Day Late Dollar Short score up 4K and Can't Let Go up 9K. I reached my "target" score for Can't Let Go so I'll be setting it aside for now.

I seem to have regressed on Go With the Flow, Next To You, and Cherub Rock.

Need another 7K to get to 9.5M. Would like to get my GS on Suffragette City and Hand that Feeds, which are both within 1-2K.
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

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

9.5M is done!

Half a million to go

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Found a comfortable position for my foot for songs with triple hits. I position the pedal in the middle of the kit and put the heel of my foot about a finger-width from the bottom. My toes hang just off the top of the pedal this way. I play mostly with my leg so it's more like heel-up than heel-down, even though I'm not playing proper heel-up where only the ball of the foot touches the pedal.

Using this method I was able to play Go With the Flow repeatedly without any wearing down, until I got a 171K run. I missed an OD phrase at the end so I know this could easily be 175-176K down the line.

Got my last 3K from Reaper. Again being more comfy with the pedal on triple hits, I was able to go into the solos with a good score. Bombed out the first run right at the end of solo C. Got out of sync with the bass and couldn't get on beat in time. Second run I still had a bad solo but limped through, pretty well nailed V3 but sucked at the ending because I didn't have a smooth RLRLR, which I have found comes and goes. End result was a 215K run, beating my previous best by 3K, which will do for tonight.

In all it ended up taking me 8 days to get the last 100K. If I could keep up that pace I'd be thrilled; it would mean hitting 10M around the end of July.
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

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

Been mostly away from playing the last couple of days so apart from a paltry 2K gain on Next To You there was nothing worth mentioning.

Sat down today to have another crack at Run to the Hills. Failed at 57%, went into practice a bit and found that choking up on the drumsticks a bit more than usual I could get up to 83% on the first verse & chorus. Which is not great but certainly enough to pass the song. Went back and sure enough, passed the song. Picked up 14K over my original pass so that's nice.

Practiced a few parts of Brainpower and then did about five runs. Got my score up from 79K to 83K. My best for the first half was 43K and my best for the second half was 45K, so obviously if I'd had one fully solid run it would have gone up several K. Rather than force it I'll just keep coming back to it. It's a funny song, lots of little parts to miss.

Next I went to Cherub Rock, where I would have increased my score 3K but missed the Big Rock Ending. Kind of an anti-accomplishment there

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Played through Outside, WGFA, Detroit Rock City, Next To You, and DoA, but not really having solid runs anywhere, so that's it for now.
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

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

No score increase over two days. Yesterday I was setting up my lrn2playrealdrum kit. It's pretty sweet.

My only real accomplishment in RB was 5*ing the MTV pack on my sightread, which isn't much of an accomplishment honestly. GOLD-starring them would have been. I was on the fence about even buying them given the difficulty level but for a buck each I figured why not. Skipped the full price song, as I'm not hearing anything that suggests it's fun to drum.

Today I dedicated myself to Cherub Rock once more. It's a wonderful song, because there are many things that have to come together to have a monster run:
1) Time up the double snare hit right before the double kick. Lots of those.
2) Hit the quick double bass kicks at the end of the two choruses and right near the end.
3) The many steady triple and higher kicks in the second half of the song.
4) The alternating stick/bass parts at the start and middle of the song.

All of these I have hit at one point or another, but in the same run? Afraid not. Lately I had a regression in #1 which was killing me. Then I had a run where I would have beaten my high score but I missed the BRE.

Anyway, today I did seven runs of Cherub Rock. The second was the best as I was inconsistent on #1 but pretty much comboed the rest, so I got 215K. My fifth run was 212K; I was finally solid on the snare for the whole song for once, but by now my leg was getting tired so I started missing triple kicks in the second half. My next couple of runs were both pretty bad so I gave up.

Next I did four more runs on Brainpower. The first one was within 100 points of my best score and featured a 48K "second half" which is also a best. The next three runs ranged from ok to terrible. The problem with this song is that so many parts of it are very subtly different; I'm tempted to accuse HMX of making the Freezepop song harder than it needed to be for kicks (the guitar part kind of backs that up too). Even after taking it to practice mode two days ago I couldn't remember some parts today. Still I think I have a 90K run in me at some point.

Figured I'd roll the dice and give Run to the Hills another shot and failed that about 60% of the way through. I'm a beaten man (for tonight anyway).
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

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

Decided to focus on another couple of songs today, Electric Version and Don't Fear the Reaper. This is how a typical session goes for me:

EV - 135650 - 96 - 129: dry run just to refresh my memory
practice each chorus for a few minutes

EV - 153950 - 97 - 290. Just off my best score even though I had a couple of easy misses.

Reaper - failed at 93% after doing well the rest of the song

Reaper practice outro - 88%, 87%, 85%. Don't think I can do this one today.

EV - 144475 - 97 - 401. Best streak I've ever had on this song but I managed to miss most of the OD phrases so it didn't pay off.

Cherub Rock - 216223, missed one snare and one double hit but a couple of weird misses and once again bad on late triple hits - 98% and 579 streak are bests but again, didn't pay off with a high score.

Brainpower - 86075 / 5* / 98% / 163 ns. Yay.

EV - 135900 - 96 - 169. Back to where I started, so not happening today.

Stay or Go FC (took three tries: I had two previous -1 runs)
TKAR rolls practice - 96% @ 70, 90% @ 90. I've practically FCed outside the rolls already so there's no point working on this score until I can combo a good chunk of the roll at full speed.

Random runs on Maps - 175K, 177K, 174K (my high is 181K)

Won't Get Fooled Again - 187K into break so forget it.

So probably an hour+ of playing got me 6K. Think I can finally hit that Cherub Rock target score soon if I don't play other songs first and wear out my leg.
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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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

**Batsky** · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 117

You're definately determined...this is going much harder for you than myself...

I decided a few days ago I was just going to 5-star everything (minus rtth, which i finally 4-starred) and it really wasn't even much of a challenge anymore. at 9.7M now, but was at like 7.8 less than a month ago. Just went through and played songs I hadn't GS'd with new paths, picked up a few more GS's and a FC and every time I play a song I improve my score...consistantly.

Good luck man - this thread's actually what made me decide to even care about my career score ;)
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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

I am definitely not a natural. First time I played the game I was the guy who has to play on Easy and had trouble hitting a bass note and a pad at the same time. Basically if I can get to 10M, ANYONE can get to 10M, it's just a question of work. (On the other hand I think 11M is the province of the naturally gifted or people who have drummed for years).

Decided to tack on a second session today for kicks. Focused on Foreplay and took the Loud 1 / Quiet 2 / Loud 2 bit into practice. First time through I hit 81% of the notes at 90% speed, so I took it down to 80% until I got up to 98% notes, then up to 90% for the same, then played it three times at full speed getting 90-92% notes hit. That's pretty much good enough to survive without overdrive so I started doing full runs.

It definitely makes a difference having that triplet timing internalized instead of just hacking away. My previous best on FP was about 21K, tonight I was never below 29K and my best was 36K. I was consistently missing a couple of OD phrases I have often gotten before so I think this will only go up.

It took five runs but I ended up with a 256K run, an improvement of 10K.

I then went back to my three amigos and had a 200K run on Cherub Rock, 151K on Electric Version (that's good at least), and of course failed Reaper at 92%.

Played a bunch of other stuff and didn't get much accomplished, except a 5K boost on When You Were Young to 159K, hitting most of the snare roll under OD. This one is now pretty close go GS.

I think my next practice will concentrate on the Reaper outro, at slow speeds at first, with the goal of getting into the mid-90s at full speed. I'm sure once I get good at that I'll start failing in the rolls again but what can you do?

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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
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