What to do while playing BATM expert...funny

**magico** · Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 21

just watch the video and see wat the guy is doing...

1. dont just strum down, strum up and down as well
2. learn hammer on's and pull off's
3. i recommend using the buttom of ur palm/hand to hit the star power but if u have small hands...raise ur guitar...
4. dont make the guitar notes with ur voice

basically do the opposite of wat this guys does... enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Is7xZEL8DI&NR

**Galgo** · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 590 Location: Olney, Maryland

I have to give it to him though...he is an amazing down strummer, and sadly his first solo sounded better than mine,

but I still have him on the rest of the song, and it wasn't much better...of course my score is more than 3 times his.

**ScaryAdam** · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 64

73677....
i'll be honest... i didn't know you could score that low and still finish the song.... at least he impressed me there....

and wow... he can sure down strum... i downstrum a lot... like... i downstrum the main riff... but once it gets into the continuous sixteenth notes... i switch to alternating up and down.... and did he hit a single one of the long notes coming out of the GGYGGGBGGGYGGGRGG or whatever that one is... cause i think he missed that long note every time... and each time screamed a rather loud profanity... pretty funny.

props to him for finishing it though haha... better than most people on here....

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

No one noticed he was whammying every hold note?

That alone made me rofl. His hands must be ******* tired.

Edit: But like others, I give him props for finishing it. I can't even beat that song with alternate strumming. The timing of the main riff kills me.
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**Huwonk** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2432 Location: Marysville, Ohio

I bet we all look like dorks playing any song. I haven't watched this video, but try playing in front of a mirror some time.

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**Squirrel** · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:

I actually do better downstrumming the whole song than alt strumming it. Then again that explains why I'm only getting 95k of a score.. but then again, I have a long way to go to get better at that song, or any of the songs on that set. I am learning to alt strum better though, so those scores might increase. I know my TBW scores are getting better thanks to alt strum... now my only problem with alt strumming is that I have this tendency to ALWAYS end pressing down, effictively killing any kind of multiplier I might have had, as it always ends up being a miss.

**Davey** · Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 26

I down strum all the time and can strum faster than that but I keep losing on the last solo, so I guess sadly he has me beat.

**malictus** · Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 994 Location: Bloomington, IN

This is why most GH vids show the SCREEN and not the person

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**DemonHybrid** · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 2871 Location: Matamoras, PA

Actually when I play, I look stone still, though when there's a rest in the music, I pace around a lot, or when it's some silly part, like Godzilla's bass strums. I don't look at the screen, just pace back and forth, and ponder how I'm going to hit the next few notes.

**rabies** · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:

......i would like 5 minutes of my life back now please.....

**quackadilly** · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1078 Location: Colorado

**Sephi** · Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 454 Location: Albuquerque, NM

I actually downstrum EVERYTHING. I am totally against alternate strumming. It's just too much of a pain to me. As for Bark at the Moon, my best is 221,000; so downstrumming definitely does not hurt you on it. Oh and I also whammy every hold too......

**Huwonk** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2432 Location: Marysville, Ohio

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

I wanted to make fun of the goofy expressions he gets on his face while he's playing but then I was like... "Oh yea.. um.. i do that too". LOL.

But then again I'm not videoing myself and putting it on youtube ;)

**rabies** · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: