Psychobilly Freakout

**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

**Slowhand** · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 625 Location: Lombard, Illinois

Hate the sound of this song, and I suck at it.

Nuntheless.....

Here's my blows off 3 sp's strategy.

1 - 2 with full whammy, start after the 2 Y notes after the BBYYRRGGG
this misses sp 3, but lots of notes
2 - Whammy the sp to 3/4 full and act. at last measure so it runs out before sp 5
3 - 2 sp act. immediately. this blows off sp 7
4 - 4 sp, act. at measure 67. this leaves sp 12 useless

Chartwise gets a ton of notes. Strategy wise????????

any tips?
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**tpalkki** · Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 68 Location: Finland

I'll share an outline of the path with which I got #1 a while ago, though it has been overthrown while I was away for Christmas. But I'll probably go for first again with a few activation tweaks later tonight... (Edit: couldn't do it, but I'd say it's possible.)

(SP phrases to be skipped in parentheses)

2 - (1) - 1 - (2) - 1 - (1) - 3 - (1)
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**Slowhand** · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 625 Location: Lombard, Illinois

Thanks, I think I get the idea. I'll give it a try.
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**MetalMadness** · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1095

**millross** · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 212 Location: England

i dont get what you mean by "skip the ones in parantheses" - skip them? eh? I keep getting 100% on this song and only 148k or so, so im doing something wrong, but i dont get what you mean by 2 (1) 1 and all that, im used to seeing 2-2-3-2 and such like?

Care to explain to a dim-witted fool like me?

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**Cdw01** · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 923 Location: New York

**millross** · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 212 Location: England

Is there no way to hit 11 or 12/12 on this song then?
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Goals in hindsight:
FC WGFA [x]
FC Feel the pain (GH:WT) [x]
FC Hush [x]

All goals achieved!

**Cdw01** · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 923 Location: New York

**debr5836** · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 1159 Location: Fort Collins, CO

spopt.pl optimized path for psychobilly.mid (medium)

File: psychobilly.mid
Solution Path: 2-S1-1-S2-1-S1-3-S1
Estimated Base score 30798
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 119903
Estimated SP Score 42917
Estimated Total Score 162820
Activations:
From meas 22.3750 (G note) to meas 27.8750 (Y note) Score: 10000 ((50.0 + 0.0) * 200 )
From meas 41.0000 (B note) to meas 48.8750 (Y note) Score: 12344 ((61.0 + 0.7) * 200 )
From meas 57.3750 (G note) to meas 65.4375 (R sust) Score: 9597 ((31.0 + 17.0) * 200 )
From meas 91.5000 (G note) to meas 98.0000 (GY note) Score: 10976 ((52.0 + 2.9) * 200 )

**debr5836** · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 1159 Location: Fort Collins, CO

spopt2.pl results for "Psychobilly Freakout" (gh2-ps2/medium) generated on 07/20/2007

lazy-whammy (161176) PNG TXT
no-squeeze (162580) PNG TXT
big-squeeze (163156) PNG TXT
nearly-ideal (168028) PNG TXT
upper-bound (168076) PNG TXT

KEY
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Lazy Whammy ---- No squeezing, all whammys start 0.5 beats late
No Squeeze ---- No squeezing, no early whammying
Big Squeeze ---- 80% of the max possible squeeze, no early whammying
Nearly Ideal ---- 80% of the max possible squeeze, 80% of the max possible early whammying
Upper Bound ---- 100% of the max possible squeeze, 100% of the max possible early whammying

big-squeeze path details
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File: psychobilly.mid
Solution Path: 2-S1-1-S2-1-S1-3-S1
Estimated Base score 30847
Estimated 4* cutoff 61694
Estimated 5* cutoff 86371
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 120100
Estimated SP Score 43056
Estimated Total Score 163156
Activations:
#1 From meas 22.3750 (G note) to meas 27.8750 (Y note) ( 22.4401- 27.8268) Score: 10000 (50.0+ 0.0)*200
#2 From meas 41.0000 (B note) to meas 48.8750 (Y note) ( 41.0065- 48.8104) Score: 12392 (61.0+ 1.0)*200
#3 From meas 57.3750 (G note) to meas 65.4359 (R sust) ( 57.4359- 65.4359) Score: 9688 (31.0+17.4)*200
#4 From meas 91.5000 (G note) to meas 98.0000 (GY note) ( 91.4697- 98.0008) Score: 10976 (52.0+ 2.9)*200

nearly-ideal path details
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File: psychobilly.mid
Solution Path: 2-S1-1-S2-1-S1-3-1
Estimated Base score 30847
Estimated 4* cutoff 61694
Estimated 5* cutoff 86371
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 120100
Estimated SP Score 47928
Estimated Total Score 168028
Activations:
#1 From meas 22.3750 (G note) to meas 27.8750 (Y note) ( 22.3522- 27.8760) Score: 10000 (50.0+ 0.0)*200
#2 From meas 38.8750 (Y note) to meas 47.0000 (R note) ( 38.9354- 46.9354) Score: 12592 (62.0+ 1.0)*200
#3 From meas 57.3750 (G note) to meas 65.4359 (R sust) ( 57.4359- 65.4359) Score: 9688 (31.0+17.4)*200
#4 From meas 89.2500 (G note) to meas 95.8750 (Y note) ( 89.2490- 95.8523) Score: 10744 (53.0+ 0.7)*200
#5 From meas 100.2500 (G note) to meas 104.4151 (G sust) (100.3073-104.4151) Score: 4904 (18.0+ 6.5)*200

upper-bound path details
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File: psychobilly.mid
Solution Path: 2-S1-1-S2-1-S1-3-1
Estimated Base score 30847
Estimated 4* cutoff 61694
Estimated 5* cutoff 86371
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 120100
Estimated SP Score 47976
Estimated Total Score 168076
Activations:
#1 From meas 22.3750 (G note) to meas 27.8750 (Y note) ( 22.3177- 27.8760) Score: 10000 (50.0+ 0.0)*200
#2 From meas 40.0000 (Y note) to meas 48.1250 (Y note) ( 40.0443- 48.0443) Score: 12592 (62.0+ 1.0)*200
#3 From meas 57.3750 (G note) to meas 65.4516 (R sust) ( 57.4516- 65.4516) Score: 9692 (31.0+17.5)*200
#4 From meas 89.2500 (G note) to meas 95.8750 (Y note) ( 89.2490- 95.8701) Score: 10744 (53.0+ 0.7)*200
#5 From meas 99.0000 (GY note) to meas 103.2500 (YB note) ( 99.0719-103.2224) Score: 4948 (17.0+ 7.7)*200

Please post any bugs/questions about these auto-generated paths HERE.

**Astat** · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 282 Location: St. Cloud, MN

Is whammying the last SP phrase even possible (within reason)? I'm not an expert at early whammying or anything, but I'm not even coming close, and judging from the top scores, it hasn't been done.
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**Slowhand** · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 625 Location: Lombard, Illinois

I think I posted that same question in expert. I think all of Debr's pathes had that final one as a single activation. And boy does it stretch the bounds of timing windows. I could see it in the upper bound path but the simpler path should have been without that last single. And I'm not sure if anyone responded saying yes they got it.

edit: Ha shoulda checked. The post was in hard level.
Cdw01 responded with possible in theory but not likely to be done. Coming from one of the best players at getting whammyness, and he couldn't do it, I'll go out on the limb of imposssible.

So try some earlier path that combines that last one or doesn't use it at all.
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*goal achieved!*
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Vocal Stylings for Throat Punch
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**Astat** · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 282 Location: St. Cloud, MN

I figured as much. There's one guy on Youtube with a video where he allegedly does it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxIfDj1e4o

And Lo7 mentions it in one of the Starpower podcasts (the Nov. 2nd one) and says that he's done it, but reasonably speaking, I doubt most people (myself included) would be able to be that accurate. The margin for error at that fast of a tempo has to be razor-thin.

I used the "big squeeze" path and I'm currently 30th, and I'm pretty crappy at squeezing, so I think that's good enough for me.
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GH2 Hard FCs: 41/64
GH80s Hard FCs: 16/30