Actually playing making it more difficult?

**ShaylaRCakes** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 87 Location: Minneapolis

I play guitar and bass, and I've found it extremely difficult to get OUT of "real" guitar mode and into game mode, as my brain and hands want to do different things than what the TV screen tells me to do.

Anyone else experience this problem? How have you gotten out of the real guitar zone and into GH mode? I can't shake it, and it's costing me hella points!

**Anthrice** · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 128

I hear that alot, and I think it is a load of bull.

I played guitar for about 4 years, and was a bassist in a band for about 3. I found it actually helped me, as I was able to move my fingers on the frets a lot faster than any of my other friends.

If your brain is telling you to do something other than what the screen is telling you, then it's a problem with you. Not the fact that you used to play guitar/bass.

Everyone uses that excuse "I used to play guitar, and this is different so thats why I suck"
No, I'm sorry. You suck because you havn't practiced. Play more and you will get better. It's like that for everyone.
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**ShaylaRCakes** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 87 Location: Minneapolis

I've gotten pretty...well....ok at it. When I started I had to go straight to hard because my fingers were wanting to do more than what Easy or Medium was allowing to do.

My significant other, who is probably the best guitarist I've ever known, can't even fake it through a song on easy. He got very frustrated and put it down. All the guitarists I know just seem to have a harder time than the people I know who have never strummed a chord in their life.
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**rabies** · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject:

**ShaylaRCakes** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 87 Location: Minneapolis

For me, my initial trouble was trying to play songs on GH that I already knew how to play on the guitar (CFH, TK69, and such) and wanting to strum more than the game was telling me to.

I've gotten out of that habit, but I have a whole family of guitar and bass players that are struggling a bit. I've suggested they bump up to medium to compensate for the speed that their hands are wanting to move at.
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**rabies** · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject:

sounds like they should be on hard or so then. Certainly with CFH, it 'felt' better to play on hard than medium...where you actually 'play' all the notes as you would when playing it on real guitar.
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**ShaylaRCakes** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 87 Location: Minneapolis

absolutely....some songs just...make more sense

Like I do WAY better on "Unsung" on Expert than any other level.
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**ES942** · Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans

once you play a song a lot of times on expert and you go back to easy or medium, you try to play it the same rhythm that was on expert, instead of the notes that show up because youre so used to playing ALL of the notes.

well,, at least i do that
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**ShaylaRCakes** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 87 Location: Minneapolis

no kidding
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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA