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[dore]

3 sticks is easy to figure out:
Right hand- 1 stick on yellow or blue
Left hand- 2 sticks, on yellow/red or blue/red.

Then all it takes is a simple roll with your foot hitting every time you use your right hand. Granted, it's still extremely difficult because you're basically doing a 125bpm roll for the entire song, but it's a simple concept.

[s0ulst0n3]

Tips for 2 sticks?

Originally Posted by s0ulst0n3

Mal - I find that if you hold the drum sticks loosely, you can double tap the drum and it will count as 2 hits for the effort of one. Your wrists can move a lot slower during the red part and everything. Save your Overdrive for the solo so you can have breaks every now and then, then when you get to the solo completely neglect the pedal. I had a lot of trouble with the pedal for like a month after I passed RttH, but it becomes a lot easier with practice.

Another good song to double tap is the beginning of Foreplay/Longtime and Perfect Drug during the chorus. I find I can combo a lot better if I double tap those. =)

This also takes effect for BbF. You don't have to go up/down with your wrist every time there is a note, you can double tap it. If you play normal drums, you may know what I mean. I will find a video to show it for example. Or, you could always just tense up your whole forearm and go as fast as you can, but you get tired very fast.

EDIT: Here. http://youtube.com/watch?v=HIx34SZs0Bs

Check out what he does on the red drum at :32.

[~GJampa]

Oh yeah I know what you mean, I don't drum in real life but I play on real drums whenever I can. My main instrument is piano and going for conservatory but you need a second instrument for conservatory so that goes for drums. But thanks for the tip I'll keep it in mind. I should give Practice Mode a try too D:

I hate Foreplay/Longtime! I used to like the intro and such but suddenly the whole song goes gay starting at 2:32.

[dore]

The way I have my red pad modded it makes Foreplay impossible to doubletap

[SethSquall]

Originally Posted by MalReynolds

Your drummer is awful.

Screw you man it was his first go on the game ever rofl. Our band owns any band. We has 6 members and we all play every instrument. We're called Moustache Coma.

Our band has a Facebook.

[s0ulst0n3]

Originally Posted by dore

The way I have my red pad modded it makes Foreplay impossible to doubletap

Dore, you get some insanely good scores for a non-DTer. O.o

Never knew that. Awesome job. ^^

[dore]

I doubletap occasionally when you have to but not with a single stroke. It's all arm rofl... you should see me on TKaR lol

[s0ulst0n3]

Originally Posted by dore

I doubletap occasionally when you have to but not with a single stroke. It's all arm rofl... you should see me on TKaR lol

Ohhh, make a vid of it, hehe. Also do you double tap the blue note in Ride the Lightning? If you know what I mean, near the beginning.

[dore]

No I alt-stick that

[~GJampa]

Alt-stick! You Americans keep on amazing me with all this words. First FFR with the FC and AAA sight reading stuff, now double tapping and alt-sticking with Rock Band XD
-Ahum sorry bit off topic.

Why am I sucking at Brainpower - I can do most other songs on Expert, why not Brainpower -_-

[dore]

Brainpower has completely awkward patterns (seeing as it's all synthesized). It was never meant to be played on real/plastic drums.

I think tomorrow I'm going to attempt ESL drum+vox. This is going to be interesting. I want to do it right now but I've already played enough today with my family that I think fatigue would set in and kill me.

[s0ulst0n3]

Yeah, Brainpower has awkward patterns..My best is like 3/4 misses on the first chorus, lol. I find it tough as well.

[dore]

I played Brainpower today and hit my brother with my stick. My grip was loose and I got carried away on the RB>BG thing lol

[s0ulst0n3]

Haha, that's awesome! What did he say/do?

[dore]

He looked at me funny then threw it back at me lol; luckily, none of us failed.

[s0ulst0n3]

Haha, that must have been random for him. To get hit by a drum stick. O.o

Anyways, I want to know what your best on Blackened drums is Dore. =D

[dore]

That's actually the only song I can't pass lol. I'm horrendous at blast beats, especially with offbeat bass drums. I know I could fake through it if I had OD but I can never get there. The one time I actually got past the beginning I forgot about the later blast beats and failed there. I think in score duel (without the risk of failing) I got ~250k, maybe? can't remember really.

[s0ulst0n3]

Yeah, the bass pedal can get confusing, I know you can do it though, Dore! Try practice mode. 20 mins of practicing that part and I was able to get through it decently, now I can do it with small amounts of misses. =)

I'd like to play you on live someday, what's your gamertag?

EDIT: Nevermind..it's in your sig hahah.

[dore]

I don't have that kind of attention span, especially when I can just as easily ignore the song's existence . I hate practice mode because of the way the timing windows are so excessively tight and everything scrolls so slow. I've used it for a couple of guitar solos but I've never gotten much benefit out of using it for drums.

What's your XBL tag so that if you send a request I don't ignore it?

[s0ulst0n3]

Originally Posted by dore

I don't have that kind of attention span, especially when I can just as easily ignore the song's existence . I hate practice mode because of the way the timing windows are so excessively tight and everything scrolls so slow. I've used it for a couple of guitar solos but I've never gotten much benefit out of using it for drums.

What's your XBL tag so that if you send a request I don't ignore it?

What happens if someone picks the song? Do you really wanna play through that song on hard? (Boring) xD

My XBL tag is Zatch123. I'll probably send a request Tuesday or Wednesday (since I'm grounded from my Xbox for 2 days..I did something bad 2 or 3 hours ago). x.x