Guitar Hero Question

[Ravenstien]

For those select few among the Guitar hero community who have managed to scale the dizzying heights of completing the game on expert and/or beating Through Fire and Flame on Expert, I have a question.
Did you have to work to get that, or did you have to spend hours in practice mode getting the hard bits right?
I'm good at GH, ok, but not good enough to beat Raining Blood on Expert, which is my only barrier between me and the final bossfight (which is broken as shit anyway), and I'm only recent to the franchise, I started playing after GH3 came out.
I'm just wondering how many gamers who have completed Expert/TFAF started with GH3 like me and were just that damned good at it, or if they had to spend hours practicing? Either that or you started with GH1 and have played all three (or 5 counting expansions)...

 

[kanyatta]

I beat Raining Blood on Expert about 2 months ago. I never used Practice mode. Just playing the song until you get the beat down on the mosh part. Also, I never used the green button on that part. Moving your hand during the mosh is a guaranteed failure, just do the pull offs like "Orange-Blue-Yellow-Red" then "Blue-Yellow-Red" ignoring the green button in the second pull off. In the time it takes you to move your hand down to the green, you're going to miss the next Orange pull-off. The boss fight only took me about 6 or 7 tries to beat, as opposed to the 80 or so it took for Raining Blood.

I just wish the Wii version had the boss fight without the Battle part, because I'd love to play that song as just the song, but Nintendo decided that offering DLC and making money was a bad idea.

On another note, me and the only person I know that have beaten GH3 on expert beat TTFAF on Expert, he played guitar and I played bass, since he is a bit better than me.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

I only started playing GH a few months ago but I am already goodish at it. I have done everything p to raining blood on hard and I am on live in Japan on expert but I have never been into practice mode. I just play the songs over and over if I fail, getting the star power parts down and using it when I am going into the red helps me alot.

 

[Russian Redneck]

Speaking as someone who has played all three core games and currently owns only the second one, I was able to beat Expert mode from just repeatedly playing the song I was stuck at and improving. I only use Practice mode when there's this one really tricky part of a song that I want to improve but I don't use it to help me beat the game. That's just one of the many nitpicks I have Guitar Hero but that's a different story.

Sadly, I haven't beaten GH3 on Expert (it's my brother's game, actually) because of Cult of Personality. And I thought Psychobilly Freakout was bad.

 

[Ravenstien]

I always though that I'd never be able to beat CoP on Expert, but if you max out your star power after the first mini-solo, and activate it when you go into the red on the massive solo, you should be able to.
Cheers for the tip on Raining Blood, I'll try that sometime
The boss battle vs Lou is so broken though - the only easy way to beat him is to hope that he gets Whammy as his first powerup, then you can go whammy-mad for a couple of seconds in time to get your first powerup, then it's a matter of trying to get 3 powerups stored up, then hitting him on a section with lots of notes. I took me ages to do it on Hard, even now I can only do it if I'm lucky.
My main gripe with TFaF is the intro. I'm sure I'd be able to get the rest eventually, but I jsut can't get my head (or my fingers) around the intro.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

I started out struggling on easy on GH2. Now I can 5 star all the career songs on expert except for raining blood. I cannot beat TTAF either, the solo at about 70% kills me when I occasionally make it that far.

 

[Rabid Toilet]

I've been playing Guitar Hero since the first game came out. The only time I have ever used practice mode was when I was learning how to tap the intro to TTFaF, and I've five starred every expert song in the game. At first, I could only play the easiest of medium songs, but I've been playing the game for years, which is how I can play well now.

Honestly, it just takes practice. Some people use practice mode when they are struggling with a difficult section, and perhaps that works for newer players, but I find that, with enough experience, it just takes a number of tries to get past the hard parts. After playing a song a few times, you just start to get the rythym and technique down. Eventually, you get good enough at that technique that you can pass the song.