YES, ROCK BAND IS AWESOME.

I just got to the point where I can somewhat reliably beat Hard songs with drums. I still have some issues with a double kick.

author=Chartley link=topic=551.msg7182#msg7182 date=1199680808
Oh, and the drum solos are a lot of fun! Sorta makes me want to take up drums, but I know I'd never any good at them. I don't have the coordination or sense of rhythm for it.

Actually, there is no such thing as a naturally gifted musician. If you want to play drums, then start; just like every other drummer, in the beginning you'll have no coordination or sense of rhythm.

So Kentona, because you posted the same thing on two different forums, I'll post the same reply that I did at GamingW (shadowtext had complained about the singing being wonky):

With singing, certain combinations of difficulty level and song can actually produce strange results in this game. There are songs where the vocalist scoops a lot and if you don't scoop in exactly the same way, you can fail the song if you aren't playing on Easy or Medium. Other times, the game wants you to hold a steady tone when the recording has the singer scooping. It doesn't seem very consistent and it sometimes it seems like the more comfortable you are with your singing voice, the worse you'll actually do. A few of my friends and I, who are all musicians and can definitely sing in tune, were pretty frustrated by a few of the songs. The game has a very strange and sometimes finicky way of determining whether you are singing the right notes. Conversely, on Easy or Medium, you can just scoop random sounds up and down without any regards to the actual part and you'll do very well as long as your pitch matches the music for at least a split second. WEIRD.

Anyway, this game is the worst thing that has ever happened to me because my girlfriend plays it literally without interruption. She's smitten with the drumset, which makes it worse because I hear the constant CLACK-CLACK-STOMP-CLACK-STOMP-STOMP of her vigorous playing. Curiously, the guitar accessory is much more quiet than Guitar Hero's, so when she plays that instrument it isn't nearly as annoying as it was when she was obsessed with the original Guitar Hero. It gives me a chance to catch up on the stack of PC games I haven't been able to play (she previously had taken over my computer), but if I hear that stupid OK Go song one more time I am going to snap the game in two. Also, my friends Dustin and Alex have stopped being my friends and have become Kyrsten's friends because she invites them over to play Rock Band and drink until three AM and I'm the LOSER who won't play with them.

I hate these stupid BE A ROCKSTAR games because my girlfriend loves them so much and they've ruined all sorts of really good songs for me :( :( :(

author=brandonabley link=topic=551.msg7198#msg7198 date=1199741157
Actually, there is no such thing as a naturally gifted musician.

Say Whaaaaat

yes, the majority of your performance ability comes from training, but a natural affinity for identifying pitch frequencies and rhythm is quite real! Sing any note and I'll tell you what it is. :)

Played rockband a couple times, the guitar part is way easy after GH3, drums took some getting used to. Singing part is fun.

Oh jeez. It's like a knee-jerk reaction for you to flame me. ::) ::)

Just so you know, it's called absolute pitch, or more commonly known as perfect pitch. It's genetic. Relative pitch, the ability to identify pitches when given a base pitch, is not genetic. Both essentially lead to the same end.

Umm so yeah...

GH type games are kinda fun I guess. I play actual guitar and write my own music though, so I never really got the allure of "pretending" to play an instrument. I wouldn't ever buy one of these games, but it is kind of fun playing with other people. I've never tried Rock Band, though. I wanted it to try out the drums until it occured to me I could probably find an actual drum kit for the price of the whole game.