July 19, 2008

Run To The Hills, Real Drums vs. Fake Plastic Drums

This one’s fairly self explanatory.

Iron Maiden’s Run To The Hills on Expert, played on Rock Band drums:

Iron Maiden’s Run To The Hills on Expert, played on real drums:

Very cool to see how the in-game drum pattern correlates to play on real drums!

After looking at the note pattern, and playing this song on Hard drums all too often, I think it’s true what they say this song is actually harder on hard, due to the odd way they drop drum hits to make it “easier”!

He has some other real world drumkit Rock Band videos, and they’re all fun as heck to watch:

  1. Foreplay/Longtime (Boston)
  2. Sick, Sick, Sick (Queens of the Stone Age)
  3. Buddy Holly (Weezer)

I play guitar and drums and I find almost all the songs on both Rock Band and Guitar Hero REALLY HARD on anything less than Expert, because they remove half the notes I’m expecting to play to make it ‘easier’.

Of course, I then have the trouble that it’s quite difficult to play the song on Expert unless you’ve rehearsed it a bit… ;o)

Chris Thomas
July 19, 2008 at 3:09 am

I’ve beaten every song (including a bunch of DLC) on Hard except this one. Bah. I’m half way through Expert now but still can’t take this one down on Hard.

Steve
July 19, 2008 at 7:46 am

I’m proud to report that I just beat this song for the first time on the drums on hard last night, completing that particular career mode. This is after two months of constant trying.

What finally did it for me, was realizing that I could play the fast section during the breakdown with my bare hands instead of the drumsticks. I simply couldn’t play fast enough with the drum sticks to come close to keeping up.

This was a good find, thank you for the videos!

Will
July 19, 2008 at 5:32 pm

I haven’t beat RTTH on Expert (without bass pedal help) but I can beat it on Hard. I think this is one case where fewer notes _is_ easier, for me at least. I can do the “da-da-dum, da-da-dum” pattern but I can’t keep that speed up consistently.

For most other songs, though, if I wind up playing on Hard for whatever reason, I’ll often break combo by playing the missing bass drum notes…

JS
July 20, 2008 at 7:07 pm

The RTTH pattern on hard is a standard gallop rhythm: and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-three, and-a-four. Really a very common pattern, which falls out of my hands, at least, naturally. The straight 16ths pattern of RTTH on expert is a lot “simpler” but also much harder to implement in real time because it lacks the short rest that you the mental space to recalibrate your rhythm. Talking out of my ass about observations of how my own mind works here, of course.

Jim Crawford
July 29, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Jim, I think your ass speaks rather well — that’s an excellent observation.

Seth
August 24, 2008 at 1:57 am

Dude, awesome post. I am playing World Tour on expert mode like a madman now. It brings me back to my early days of playing the real set when I was younger. It comes really close.

Meds
December 30, 2008 at 7:02 am

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