A Milestone

Due to my lack of access to a real drum kit, I mostly satisfy my drumming fix by using my electronic kit (e-kit) to play Rock Band 2. It's pretty realistic in the sense that I have a full drum set of pads to hit, and I can hit the correct ones to play the game. For example, in 99% of all cases the green note in Rock Band games is either a crash cymbal or a floor tom, so my e-kit has a crash cymbal and a floor tom both mapped to green. It's up to me to hit which one is correct based on how the song sounds (even if I hit the wrong one the game counts it as correct, but it's more satisfying and realistic when I hit the right one). I've mentioned this before but I wanted to say it again anyways.

So as I played through the songs of Rock Band 1, RB2, and DLC (downloadable content) on Expert, the list of songs I couldn't beat got smaller and smaller. I don't want to get your hopes up - I haven't beat them all yet, but today I did hit a milestone. There's a song called Visions which in my opinion is terrible. It's fast growling metal, has very little discernable rhythm, and often times feels like you're just pounding on the drums with no regard to any sort of song structure. This was the hardest song in RB2 on drums because of the above characteristics. I tried it a few times and then for the longest time didn't even play it because I thought it sounded awful. I finally decided to try it again and beat it, the last song in RB2.

(By the way that 53 note streak is hilarious. Most songs I have over 200 note streaks.) I have now officially beaten all Rock Band disc songs on Expert drums. That means that I have finished all of RB1 and 2, and only have DLC to go. The last songs for DLC that I can't beat are:

Prequel to the Sequel (Between the Buried and Me)

More Human than Human (White Zombie)

Jesus Christ Pose (Soundgarden)

Stay Away (Nirvana)

I think on a good day I could beat Stay Away (I've gotten as far as 90% through the song) and maybe More Human than Human (if I can ever learn the weird disco beat). The others, though, are going to be very difficult. Jesus Christ Pose has a pretty constant pattern through the whole song and the farthest I've gotten through it is like 15%. Prequel to the Sequel just has sections that are ridiculously fast that I can't keep up with. Maybe someday...