Guitar Hero. Awesome.

[Squeek]

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I told you to use your first three fingers to fret. Pinkies are only for emergency cases (chords two notes apart, quick movement up/down the frets, etc.) Play on medium so you can get used to the hand positions, and then once you can 5-star most songs without breaking a sweat, move on to Hard. And yes, the jump from Medium to Hard is retarded.

Because that's stupid.

Sliding my fingers over that line on yellow will cause blisters.
I can't do blue-green, orange-red, or orange-green with three fingers.
I have to move my hand even more, which causes fatigue even faster.

I already 5-starred most of the songs on Medium without any problems. That's why I'm annoyed that Hard is so ridiculously hard.

[MalReynolds]

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I told you to use your first three fingers to fret. Pinkies are only for emergency cases (chords two notes apart, quick movement up/down the frets, etc.) Play on medium so you can get used to the hand positions, and then once you can 5-star most songs without breaking a sweat, move on to Hard. And yes, the jump from Medium to Hard is retarded.

I use pinky through pointer for the bottom four, and use my pointer to hit the green. It makes things much, much easier. I used to do it your way, but my pink is double jointed and would lock at the top joint, rendering me unable to bend it and hit orange at the right time. I do tend to slide my pointer over to green, but that's better than sliding everything over that stupid bump in yellow. Plus, I play pretty all right. I mean, I'm no GH messiah, but I get by.

[Hawbs]

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Is day-long hand numbness a typical effect when playing this game?

Slayer > Me.

[MalReynolds]

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Is day-long hand numbness a typical effect when playing this game?

Slayer > Me.

I'm an occupational typist, at the moment, and that game has done nothing but made my job hell.

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

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Because that's stupid.

Sliding my fingers over that line on yellow will cause blisters.
I can't do blue-green, orange-red, or orange-green with three fingers.
I have to move my hand even more, which causes fatigue even faster.

That's what I meant by chords two or more notes apart. I use my pinky for them. Sorry, should have said frets. I never have blister problems, but that might be because I don't really slide.

I already 5-starred most of the songs on Medium without any problems. That's why I'm annoyed that Hard is so ridiculously hard.

See my last post. All you can do is try to get better and eventually youll be able to five-star some hard songs.

Have I mentioned that I'm amazed you've gotten to just below my skill level in just a couple of days?

[dore]

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You guys try too hard to have a specific position on the fretboard. Just set up in second position at the beginning (RYBO) and go with the flow.

The new hyperspeed levels make me so happy, I can actually read solo stuff on hyperspeed 4 (I'll try to get up to 5 eventually).

[Squeek]

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Have I mentioned that I'm amazed you've gotten to just below my skill level in just a couple of days?

Technically, one day. It arrived Monday night.

[Brilliant Dynamite Neon]

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Fuuuuuck

Another week and you'll be like David Briers.

I'm kind of addicted to my style of play.

[All_That_Chaz]

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On the debate of proper hand positioning, I would suggest just getting used to playing in second position with your index finger on the red fret and only moving back when there is a number of greens in a phrase. That will get you more comfortable with using the orange fret.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

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**** Raining Blood. I hate that song, but only because I can't beat it yet. I got past that first part that everyone was having trouble with, somehow without star power because I messed up on an easy part. Anyways, Failed soon after because I was too surprised that I passed the first part that I wasn't ready for the next one. I might be able to pass this by the end of the day if I keep working on it.

[MalReynolds]

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I can nail the first mosh pretty well, hitting like... 80% of the notes every time, but it's the second mosh that screws me up. Which is terrible, I'm just not very good at fast chords at all. Not at all.

[sjoecool1991]

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I have not bought GHIII yet, I will buy soon.
So I decided to play some GHII.
I beat my old Thunderhorse score by a huge amount, new score=180078.

[gattsta]

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lol i beat TTFAF on expert and i got 378k...i got 3 stars...lmao makes me laugh. although the only way i think that anyone will beat the beginning is by tapping it, like i did

[jugglinguy]

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It was c1200 at one point but that was a bit too much for some songs.

I found the cheat for Hyperspeed mode. Hyperspeed 2 is about my speed.

Still, I'm failing Tier 1 songs on hard. This is way, way too freakin' hard. It also feels like my hand is going to break. Human hands were not meant to be held that way.

This happened to me as well, i practiced each song about 4 times, worked hard on getting the hand movement down and now i'm on the last songs of tier 3, but rarely ever 4*ing

[Reach]

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Ok. Hard sucks.

Still, I'm failing Tier 1 songs on hard. This is way, way too freakin' hard. It also feels like my hand is going to break. Human hands were not meant to be held that way.

I felt the same way on my first day or two, but your hand gets used to it pretty fast.

I was on expert by my second day though 8) 8)

Too bad I don't have GH3 yet. I'm pretty sure like, my mom bought it for me and isn't going to give it to me until Christmas. And since I've already 5 starred everything in GH2 I probably won't be playing much for awhile D: Though, I did get 99% on six and 89% on Jordan. Once I have some harder songs to play I'll dominate this game 8)


And uh, yea, your default hand position should be with your index finger on the red. You will run into terrible problems with streams of notes if you, like me, get used to leaving your index on the green fret.