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classicjdog · 2 months

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man playing guitar hero with the actual guitar controller is really really fun. no wonder that shit was so popular back in the day. in my childhood i played a decent amount of gh with a normal controller, but playing it on the guitar is definitely more fun, at least once i got used to it

wish i'd inherited my older brothers' talent for the game but twas not to be unfortunately, no 5 star through the fire and flames on expert for me lmfao but i'm still having a lot of fun doing fairly well for myself on hard and barely scraping by on expert

the 2 songs that i've replayed the most so far are hotel california & eruption. hotel california strikes a really nice balance between being really fun & engaging to play while still being totally doable even for someone with my shitty level of skill. like it's not some super easy song where you're just strumming away at the same chord progression over and over for 5 minutes, there's lots & lots of hammer-on/pull-off sequences, but those sequences are very much on the easier end of the spectrum. it is, at least so far, the only song that i've 5 starred on expert, it's really fun and obv it's a super good song too

eruption is also very very fun cause it's literally just a 2 minute guitar solo and it's REALLY HARD. it's so hard that i really shouldn't be able to do it, like it's the final song in the van halen career mode which means the game places it on that same tier of final boss-type songs as like through the fire and flames & jordan & the like, but since it's so short it's actually just barely doable for me. at least on hard, i haven't even tried it on expert lol. it's also the only song where i've successfully done that both-hands-on-the-fretboard thing that i saw my brothers do back in the day. any time it could potentially be useful i'm usually too overwhelmed by the number of notes to even think to attempt it, but i'm pretty sure eruption is specifically designed for you to have both hands up on the neck of the guitar since that's literally what eddie van halen did whenever he played the song irl, which i do think is a really nice touch

#also sidenote #playing all this guitar hero is making me wanna start playing my real guitar again #like after a decently long session of guitar hero the tips of my fingers are pretty sore #which kinda brings back fond memories of the stupid steel strings on my guitar leaving marks on my fingers lol #it's been so long since i've touched my guitar i've completely forgotten every single song i knew how to play #i knew how to play like 5 or 6 different undertale songs!!! i played save the world AND hopes and dreams for my year 12 exam!!#i learnt shit like american pie & the man comes around!! the man who sold the world!!#cruel angels thesis! a bunch of songs from steven universe! the little guitar part from el mañana by gorillaz! various other random shit!!#i tried to learn the intro to crazy on you by heart and gave up in like 2 seconds cuz that shit's impossible!!!#now it's all been flushed down the memory toilet #i guess i can just learn them all again. i mean i've done it before right?#oh and another sidenote i just remembered #the first couple guitar hero games didn't get the rights to most of the songs so the soundtrack is mostly covers #and obv pretty much all of them are inferior to the originals #but i just wanted to make special mention of the cover of killing in the name from guitar hero 2 cause that shit was HORRIBLE #butchered an absolute all-time classic but they butchered it in a really funny way so it's fine honestly lmfaooo #like the instrumentation is fine. inferior to the original but prime rage is a high bar to clear so i won't give them shit for that #oh except the guitar solo omg they made that thing sound like shit lol #but the vocals. christ almighty. CONTROL I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME!!! CONTROL I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME!! UNDER CONTROOOOOL #guy is certainly no zack de la rocha is all i'll say. thank goodness they got the real version of bulls on parade for gh3

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