Sweet Child O' Mine

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

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

20K behind a good score. I realize I haven't gotten 100% yet (keep missing a random note) (TROGDOR!!!)
Looked at shart and here is my path I want to use. Please critique. Any advice would be helpful.

1 - after 2 sp - use it during opening melody
2 - after 3rd sp with full whammy - use it during 1st chorus melody
3 - after 2 sp - use after 5 bars into 2nd melody (about measure 88)
side question - Is it possible to get sp on 4th sp whammy? I haven't been able to get this, and it looks just too short. If you can get this sp, that would change my strategy.
4 - after 1 sp full whammy - use at 4th chorus phrase, about meas. 110
5 - Here is where I don't know the better path
5A - after 2 use after Y sustain meas. 128
6 after 2 (final) use immediately
or
5B - after 3 sp, use immediately and lose the 10th and final sp
5C - can you whammy 9th sp for a SP activation?

any suggestions
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**Wiver3** · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 22 Location: Smithtown, NY

I'm at work so I'll try my best to remember the path I used

1. get 3 sp and use it on the next RY note.
2. get 2 sp use it in the middle of one of the yellow holds, fool around with it so you can get as close to the next star without going over it, I think it's the yellow hold right after a blue note.

3. get 1 sp and use it on the 2nd blue hold.
4. get 2 sp and use it on the 2nd yellow hold (I'm not sure about that one)

5. get 2 sp and use it at the green notes.

Good luck, hope that gets ya above 210,000.

**mrseb** · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 343 Location: Swansea, UK

**Beauregard** · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 447

Ok guys i need help with tis one, this is my current path(or at least on my last run) complete with he squeezes that i hit ended up as 218530, obviously not right being 1.3k less than the leader

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8061/sweetchildguitarmediumccl7.png

the only points i see at all are by moving my last activation one note farther in *frustrated*
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**Cdw01** · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 923 Location: New York

It's 2-1-1-2-2-2.

**Beauregard** · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 447

thank you so much, this had me baffled for hours, although i still am a good bit from first on that one i think ill just let you have it.
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**Lockbox** · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 66

how do you even read these things? im so confused

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

Lock box how to read these things was vague, but I think I get your meaning. Going through (hopefully) optimum star power pathes (strategies), the same basic ideas are presented several ways.

Some users refer to videos of the song played with the high score. Hit the link of look at top scores for a song and hit the video link there. Pay attention to how many sp phrases are obtained before activating, where iit is activated and whether or not the sp holds are whammied.

Sometimes users download the chart given in the first post for any song by Jcirri. Then they draw the activations as boxes or colored squares. The boxes or colors indicate exactly when to start (tilt or select) the activation. The start points are usually more accurate than when it ends.

Sometimes the best path is just given in blocks of sp, such as Cdw01's
2-1-1-2-2-2.
That means get 2 sp pharases, use it, get 1 sp (will have to whammy the sp holds to get at least a half meter), use it, get 1 sp whammy it, use and so on and so on. Not everyone has time to make a chart and post it and sometimes the path is fairly obvious and a chart isn't needed so much, hence just the numbers. Still others want the user to do some work on their own to figure it out and the blocks are just a starting point.

good luck making sense of it all. If you are new at this, do not be surprised when you follow a path as good as you can, and find out you are thousands short of the top score. These guys are really good at this and top scorers have near perfect technique. It's not the path, it's the performance a lot of times.

Also, read as many stickies as you can in the gameplay and other sections for really good tips. Malictus had a good one about improving your score beyond 100%. Good luck with the squeezing thing.
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**Lockbox** · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 66

oh ok thank you

i posted my sweet child of mine score up on medium so now u can see how i did with it=P

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

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

File: sweetchild.mid
Solution Path: 2-1-1-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 45175
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 177846
Estimated SP Score 43424
Estimated Total Score 221270
Activations:
From meas 20.0000 (G note) to meas 24.0000 (Y note) Score: 4200 ((21.0 + 0.0) * 200 )
From meas 30.0000 (B note) to meas 34.4612 (GR sust) Score: 5348 ((15.0 + 11.7) * 200 )
From meas 71.0000 (G note) to meas 75.1250 (B note) Score: 5176 ((21.0 + 4.9) * 200 )
From meas 106.3333 (RY note) to meas 114.3750 (RY note) Score: 12232 ((54.0 + 7.2) * 200 )
From meas 126.0000 (Y note) to meas 133.0000 (Y note) Score: 8436 ((35.0 + 7.2) * 200 )
From meas 170.5625 (G note) to meas 177.5191 (B sust) Score: 8031 ((33.0 + 7.2) * 200 )

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

Lockbox got second.................you got skillz. And now you may know how to use the chart pathes. We're all doomed. Well everybody but the top 10.
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**xzLaRnGex** · Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 6

i can't get the second whammy. i get so close but i can never push it past that halfway point to get star power. any suggestions for whammy technique???

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

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

spopt2.pl results for "Sweet Child O' Mine" (gh2-ps2/medium) generated on 07/20/2007

lazy-whammy (216990) PNG TXT
no-squeeze (220046) PNG TXT
big-squeeze (221038) PNG TXT
nearly-ideal (221806) PNG TXT
upper-bound (222430) 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: sweetchild.mid
Solution Path: 2-1-1-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 45076
Estimated 4* cutoff 90152
Estimated 5* cutoff 126212
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 177850
Estimated SP Score 43188
Estimated Total Score 221038
Activations:
#1 From meas 20.0000 (G note) to meas 24.0000 (Y note) ( 19.9990- 23.9990) Score: 4200 (21.0+ 0.0)*200
#2 From meas 29.0000 (RY note) to meas 33.5000 (GR note) ( 29.0510- 33.4510) Score: 5380 (15.0+11.9)*200
#3 From meas 71.4495 (Y sust) to meas 75.5000 (B note) ( 71.4495- 75.4495) Score: 5096 (21.0+ 4.5)*200
#4 From meas 106.5000 (RY note) to meas 114.5000 (RY note) (106.4990-114.4990) Score: 12236 (54.0+ 7.2)*200
#5 From meas 126.5833 (R sust) to meas 133.5000 (Y note) (126.5833-133.4500) Score: 8252 (34.0+ 7.3)*200
#6 From meas 170.5625 (G note) to meas 177.5000 (B note) (170.5812-177.4479) Score: 8024 (33.0+ 7.1)*200

nearly-ideal path details
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File: sweetchild.mid
Solution Path: 2-1-1-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 45076
Estimated 4* cutoff 90152
Estimated 5* cutoff 126212
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 177850
Estimated SP Score 43956
Estimated Total Score 221806
Activations:
#1 From meas 20.0000 (G note) to meas 24.0000 (Y note) ( 19.9990- 23.9990) Score: 4200 (21.0+ 0.0)*200
#2 From meas 29.0000 (RY note) to meas 33.5066 (GR sust) ( 29.0510- 33.5066) Score: 5384 (15.0+11.9)*200
#3 From meas 70.7500 (G note) to meas 74.8750 (R note) ( 70.7639- 74.8750) Score: 5176 (21.0+ 4.9)*200
#4 From meas 106.5000 (RY note) to meas 114.5000 (RY note) (106.4990-114.4990) Score: 12236 (54.0+ 7.2)*200
#5 From meas 126.0000 (Y note) to meas 133.2500 (Y note) (126.0033-133.2000) Score: 8736 (36.0+ 7.7)*200
#6 From meas 170.3750 (G note) to meas 177.5000 (B note) (170.4146-177.4479) Score: 8224 (34.0+ 7.1)*200

upper-bound path details
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File: sweetchild.mid
Solution Path: 2-1-1-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 45076
Estimated 4* cutoff 90152
Estimated 5* cutoff 126212
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 177850
Estimated SP Score 44580
Estimated Total Score 222430
Activations:
#1 From meas 20.2500 (R note) to meas 24.3750 (G note) ( 20.3109- 24.3109) Score: 4400 (22.0+ 0.0)*200
#2 From meas 29.0000 (RY note) to meas 33.5340 (GR sust) ( 29.0646- 33.5340) Score: 5404 (15.0+12.0)*200
#3 From meas 71.0000 (G note) to meas 75.2500 (R note) ( 71.0503- 75.1865) Score: 5376 (22.0+ 4.9)*200
#4 From meas 106.5000 (RY note) to meas 114.5000 (RY note) (106.4990-114.4990) Score: 12236 (54.0+ 7.2)*200
#5 From meas 125.8750 (B note) to meas 133.2500 (Y note) (125.9092-133.1870) Score: 8936 (37.0+ 7.7)*200
#6 From meas 170.3750 (G note) to meas 177.5123 (B sust) (170.4401-177.5123) Score: 8228 (34.0+ 7.1)*200

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