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yourlocalsanitizedoctoling · 2 years ago

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i should have probably reblogged this off the person who originally made the post huh.

anyway here's the song I'm talking about

and here's a YouTube video of the solo D in question

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sorry for the long tags

NEVER apologize for leaving long tags when you reblog from me. i am reading it like its my daily newspaper in the morning. idc if idk shit about what ur talking about, its like checking out the gossip from the next town over

#constant motion by dream theater is one of my favourite songs ever #especially in the prog rock sphere. not just because the song itself is a gem from one of their most underrated albums #but because of the status it holds in the rock band community (guitar hero made by the original guitar hero devs after they got kicked out)#rock band alongside harmonix's guitar hero games (1 and 2) are famous for having an incredibly tight window #for you to actually hit the notes. this means that doing shit that in other plastic instrument games would be easy as hell becomes impossib #le #so here comes motherfucking constant motion #a decently long dream theater song (6-8 minutes. i don't really remember) with a signature john petrucci solo #meaning technical as all hell #in rock band 1 (the most jank game of the 4 im pretty sure) as dlc #specifically. the part that makes the song go from relatively hard to absolutely fucking impossible is solo D #(that's how the section is called ingame)#which not only has fast as hell HOPOs (notes you don't have to strum for) with really fucking tight regular strum notes #but also requires you to transition quickly from strumming notes every couple of seconds in fast sweeping patterns to doing #descending triplets fast speeds (think of One by Metallica in guitar hero 3)#and it really doesn't look all that bad if you've seen/can do advanced clone/guitar hero play #but that timing window does NOT LET YOU FUCK UP #you have to be. SO ACCURATE TO HIT ANYTHING IN ANY OF THESE GAMES #beside this #the reason this song matters to me so much despite the fact i can't even dream of being able to play it well #is because dream theater is one of my favorite bands of all time and to see that despite my previous dissapointment given to me by the fact #that the one chance guitar hero had to make a DT song noteworthy and difficult by putting it in the same place that their last game #guitar hero 3 #had put fucking THROUGH THE FIRE AND THE FLAMES #was wasted because they chose pull me under #which is a great song and their most well known but it's also stupid easy on plastic guitar #like. easy to the point where i can play it and i can't even play on expert yet #was completely negated thanks to constant motion being dlc for rock band 1 and being really fucking hard at that #made me so happy to a concerning degree. what is wrong with me #thank you harmonix

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