Rock Band

[Skins]

Hey all looking for some tips really. Ive been playing on medium for about a year now (Yes i know lame), But i just cant seem to get the hang of using the orange fret. Anyone got any tips on what songs would "ease" me into hard then maybe oneday i can play on expert? Cheers in advance

[Fitzy]

If you keep your index finger on the green, try keeping it on the red and have your pinky on the orange. It's easier to go from red to green than it is from blue to orange. Then just go from the easiest tier in quickplay and work your way down.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Yup. Also the bass tracks tend to be a bit easier on hard to start there just to get used to shifting the index finger from red to green.

But definitely shift to make orange the home for your little finger.

[Cactus Drags]

Horrible Fitzy, horrible.

[Bigal]

Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 System and Wii

Pearl Jam is an American band that became one of the precursors of alternative rock after forming in Seattle in 1990. Made up of Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron, the band has sold more than 60 million records around the globe. The band hit mainstream success after the release of its 1991 debut album, Ten, which sold 12 million copies worldwide. Ten became available for download in the Rock Band Music Store day-and-date with the reissue of the album March 24, 2009, and has sold more than 850,000 song downloads to date.

The band’s ninth and latest studio album, Backspacer, will be released in stores Sept. 20 and will be added to the Rock Band Music Store for Xbox 360 on Sept. 20, for Wii on Sept. 22 and for PlayStation 3 on Sept 24. Pearl Jam is touring in promotion of the new album from August through October in the United States and Europe.

In addition, Pearl Jam will offer a special edition CD set at Target stores nationwide that will include the Backspacer album disc and a code that enables owners of the special edition to download the entire album for Rock Band or Rock Band 2 gameplay for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. The tracks will be imported into participating fans’ Rock Band libraries and be accessible to all game modes, including solo, band play, online multiplayer and instrument vs. instrument.

Available on Xbox 360 (Sept. 20), Wii (Sept. 22) & PlayStation 3 system (Sept. 24):

“Gonna See My Friend”

“Got Some”

“The Fixer”

“Johnny Guitar’

“Just Breathe”

“Amongst the Waves”

“Unthought Known”

“Supersonic”

“Speed of Sound”

“Force of Nature”

“The End”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “Backspacer (Album)” and as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system and as individual tracks on Wii.

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$17.99, £9.19 UK, €11.25 EU (1440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Backspacer (Album)”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

[Crybaby Bunting]

[Rock Band Community] Ugh... MORE PEARL JAM? [/Rock Band Community]

This should be a fun week for DLC, I've had a few listens of the album and will probably get it over time.

Which is funny because I still haven't got round to downloading the whole of Ten ¬_¬

[Crybaby Bunting]

I know it hasn't been confirmed yet, but Alice in Chains have been saying in their newsletter that next week we're going to see part 1 of a 2 part Alice in Chains pack.

Songs that are in pack 1 include A Looking in View, Check My Brain, No Excuses, Rooster and Would?

Songs in Pack 2 haven't been confirmed yet though.

EDIT: Source

Edited September 25, 2009 by The General

[Crybaby Bunting]

aaand Confirmed

• Alice in Chains – “A Looking in View”

• Alice in Chains – “Check My Brain”

• Alice in Chains – “No Excuses”

• Alice in Chains – “Rooster”

• Alice in Chains – “Would?”

• Breaking Benjamin – “I Will Not Bow”

• Breaking Benjamin – “So Cold”

• Breaking Benjamin – “The Diary of Jane”

• Just Kait – “U Suck” *

• Kula Shaker – “Hey Dude”

• Kula Shaker – “Knight on the Town”

[Bigal]

Well, there's 9 songs I won't be downloading.

[King Ellis]

AIC and BB? Those interest me. The Kula Shaker ones might if they happen to be the 1-2 songs i've heard of theirs, probably not.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Hmm might get a Kula Shaker.

Still annoyed that I can't find the Talking Heads tracks from a few weeks ago ANYWHERE. >_<

[Guest JukeboxHero]

"The Diary Of Jane" is a pretty good song in its own right, so I might buy that one this week.

[Guest JukeboxHero]

http://www.destructoid.com/queen-10-pack-coming-to-rock-band-this-month-150736.phtml

If you believed the rumors, congratulations!

Harmonix has confirmed via its Rock Band 'zine that a Queen track pack -- ten damned songs! -- will be coming to Rock Band in the fourth week of October. You probably want to know what songs they are, and we're happy to tell you:

AnotherOne Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, One Vision, FatBottomed Girls, I Want It All, I Want to Break Free, Killer Queen,Somebody to Love, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure

Sobasically, all of the awesome ones you probably wanted. No word onpricing, but you can do the math based on previous releases and you'dprobably get pretty close. Two weeks is plenty of time to enroll insome singing classes, or at the very least, start warming up thosevocal folds.

And I'm stoked.

[METALMAN]

Oh wow. Guitar on "Somebody To Love" must be especially thrilling. >_>

[Meacon Keaton]

Sweet. Queen will be a blast on Rock Band night when I get to see all my drunk friends try to hit the same notes as Mercury.

[Kaney]

Also in your weekly Rock Band update:

Xbox 360 / PS3

Available: October 6/ October 8

The Raconteurs Pack 01 (440 / $5.50)

* "Many Shades of Black" (160 / $2)

* "Salute Your Solution" (160 / $2)

* "Steady, As She Goes" (160 / $2)

Electric Six Pack 01 (440 / $5.50)

* "Dance Epidemic" (160 / $2)

* "Gay Bar" (160 / $2)

* "I Don't Like You" (160 / $2)

Individual songs (160 / $2 each)

* Alanis Morissette -- "Head Over Feet"

* Alanis Morissette -- "Ironic"

* The Flobots -- "Handlebars"

I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO PUT IN YOU!

[EddieRuckus]

NOW TELL ME DO YA, DO YA HAVE ANY MONEY?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Wahoooo! Gay Bar! (Gay Bar, Gay Bar!)

Also I may be the only person in the world who thinks this but Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" on RB2 is brilliant to play on bass.

[thuganomic]

Wahoooo! Gay Bar! (Gay Bar, Gay Bar!)

Also I may be the only person in the world who thinks this but Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" on RB2 is brilliant to play on bass.

Nope. At least one more here. It's a terrific part and one of the only ones that I fight for the bass part.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I also like the bass for the Bob Dylan track. It's pretty easy even on hard but it's got a great groove to it.