Frankenstien: please dear god help me

**Fly1ngV**

ok, i've just about gotten to the point where i've almost gotten guitar god on expert (not a big deal for most of you that play a lot more regularly than i do, but it's cool.) the only song that i know right now i know i am no where even close to getting is Frankenstien (my record is 117k to put it into respect). i guess what i'm asking is how should i be going through the tougher parts (fingering wise) to keep a combo going through a good portion of the song?

**popemobile** · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 3879

the only really important part for a five star is having full star power going into the chords at the end. if you can get them all, then you should improve a lot in your score

for the record, i could only get about 120000 before i first five starred it, and then i got it because i got all of the last notes in star power. so basically it was a 55000 point jump for me

**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

oh, popemobile, you're so witty and knowledgable...we should go to the drive-in together on saturday night...er...um...

seriously good advice

the chords at the end really boost your score if you can get all of them with a full x8 combo
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**dd3mon** · Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 68

Play it more on hard to get the rhythm down. If you're only getting 117k, you're missing alot of the "easy" stuff.

As the others have said, getting all the chords at the end under star power and a streak (the fast chords right after the last BYRG) - is massive points.
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**ES942** · Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans

JHetfield, do you have some super awesome sp startegy for this song? because my score was just luck from hitting a lot of notes, and my sp strategy was crap.

**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

I have a hard time with this song too... you're doing better than me, my best is 98,000. I can't figure out a really good starpower strategy for the song.. there is no way to not waste some stars. I also have a hard time (not just on this song, on others too) with fast BYRG patterns. For some reason it's a lot easier to go up the scale than down the scale for me... I can hit some of them occasionally but I miss most of them and that keeps my combos broken up. And then it's just hard to not miss notes on the fast "solo" parts... for lack of a better term.

edit: just reread and saw that the OP was about Expert.. I can't get >100k on hard... so i'll just crawl back into my hole and keep practicing until I don't suck as bad

**Hellion42** · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

The only part of the song I find really difficult is the first phrase of the synth solo... a lot of that is the fact that there's removed notes (as opposed to what's playing), it's tough for me to keep my bearings. My top is 150k right now, so I'm prolly doing most of the song just fine, lol.

As far as fingerings go, this is one of those songs where I root myself on red and reach for the greens with my index. Or, in the case of the quick BYRGs in the "verse," I'll roll from my ring on the B to my index on the R, then slide my index to the G in one smooth motion. If a phrase starts on G, I'll shift up as soon as it's feasible. Dunno if that'll help or not, but... *shrug*
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**dspoonrt** · Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 2449 Location: Columbus, OH

Hellion is right, fingering is important. Hehe, that sounds dirty. I can nail everything outside of the solo thanks to that fingering structure. I used to have 135000 on the song and now I have 202000. The fingering change and using SP on the chords at the end should put you into the 5 star area.
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