Comments on: Run To The Hills, Real Drums vs. Fake Plastic Drums

By: Meds

Meds — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:02:51 +0000

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.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:57:00 +0000

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

By: Jim Crawford

Jim Crawford — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:51:56 +0000

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.

By: JS

JS — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:07:05 +0000

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…

By: Will

Will — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:32:21 +0000

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!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:46:43 +0000

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.

By: Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:09:14 +0000

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)