Raw Dog

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

**GlowingHalo** · Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 468 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

I can't get better than a three star!

What makes this so hard is the mass insanity of chord changes that have no rhyme or reason to them. Even Crossroads had easy chords...

**TheSilenced** · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 3

I got 4 *'s First try. Then again I would rather see tons of odd chords, and never ever try and play Jordan.... (I'm going to try with a bucket on my head one day). I would say just practice the frist couple of sections til you can get a high 90% and you should be fine through the whole song.

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

SP plz

kthnxbi

**katamakel** · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1467 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

I haven't really worked on this song, but I needed to 5* it, so I spent a few minutes cooking up a SP path and it did the trick.
Here it is since nobody's posted theirs yet (*hint* pope?

)

Get 2 SP (whammy all you want) and activate immediately!
Get the next 3 (whammy) and activate on measure 78.
Get 2 (whammy) and activate on measure 134 or 135 depending on how safe you wanna be.

Got me 242k on a sloppy 96% run.

EDIT: Nice, turned out to be my 100th post

**Samson007** · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:55 am Post subject:

Oh man, unreal. I just had an epic run on this song following that star path pretty much to a T.

Got 99%, 534 note streak. 305,738 points. Its cuurently in 28th place!

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

Try this one......

1. Get 2, activate immediately.

2. Get 3, activate mid-way through measure 83 on the chord.

3. Get 2, activate on measure 135.

Got me 317,972 on a near perfect run. Should be near optimal.
_________________

Sept. 18, 2006- I no longer am a man, I am now a God. 47/47 *****.

Jan. 12, 2007- I no longer am a mere God, I am a Guitar God. 64/64 *****

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

Actually............

This was a weird one to chart. Many options. No offense meant and I can't play this song well but charting and counting notes etc is a different skill than actually playing so here goes......

One path I came up with was the second one listed here, which is good and for my skill level, probably easier to play and I would do better with it. But here is the path that will get you about ten more notes with SP, possibly more depending on the total hold points, whammy skills and squeezing.

1-3-2-2
Whammy Sp1 use it on the R sustain of meas. 26, should end @ SP2
Get 3, whammy away and use it on the first GY chords.
Get 2, here's the hard part, activate on the first triplet of meas. 104, should end at the next SP. Guess you have to nail the solo so I'm SOL
Get 2 and acitvate at the GY chords of meas. 160.

This path is more notes and slightly more hold points but maybe only useful for FC whammy squeeze gods.
_________________

goals = mediocrity + 1 on all levels
*goal achieved!*
Guitarist for Heaven's Wrath
Vocal Stylings for Throat Punch
PSN - jaypen123
GH3 and RB community - Slowhand123

**Armageddon** · Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 3006 Location: Durham, NH

Weird. I always assumed 2-2-2-2 was the best path. Well, I decided to take the liberty of making a visual of both Slowhand's and my SP path. I would appreciate it if someone who has FC'ed it with a good score could decide which path is the superior one. Well, here they are:

Armageddon's 2-2-2-2 Raw Dog - Expert Path

Slowhand's 1-3-2-2 Raw Dog - Expert Path

Note: These charts are only an approximation. They are used as a guideline to show where optimal SP use should start and end. If you like to squeeze, SP activations can be moved slightly ahead or behind in order to maximize points.

Edit: It appears that, after watching Echelar's 330K FC video, Slowhand's SP path is superior. That is all.
_________________

**catfish7** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 927 Location: North Florida

To backup Armageddon more, Slowhand's path is the way to go. I used it when I finally FC'd this song and got 329,910 with minimal squeezing, nabbing me 14th place. Thanks for the help guys.

**decimator543** · Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 56 Location: Coral Springs, FL

**Bandin** · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 118 Location: Fresno, CA

Pretty sure this is optimal:

Raw Dog Expert SP

Got me first...for the time being.

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

Yep...with really good whammy and the squeeze 2-2 in the beginning is about 4 more notes
_________________

goals = mediocrity + 1 on all levels
*goal achieved!*
Guitarist for Heaven's Wrath
Vocal Stylings for Throat Punch
PSN - jaypen123
GH3 and RB community - Slowhand123

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

spopt.pl optimized path for rawdog.mid (expert)

File: rawdog.mid
Solution Path: 2-2-2-2
Estimated Base score 70780
Estimated Perfect w/o SP 278760
Estimated SP Score 54147
Estimated Total Score 332907
Activations:
From meas 34.5000 (O note) to meas 42.6250 (B note) Score: 15300 ((72.0 + 4.5) * 200 )
From meas 60.8750 (RB note) to meas 65.3750 (RB note) Score: 9687 ((44.0 + 4.4) * 200 )
From meas 103.6250 (Y note) to meas 109.8750 (R note) Score: 11552 ((56.0 + 1.8) * 200 )
From meas 159.8125 (Y sust) to meas 167.8750 (GY note) Score: 17608 ((76.0 + 12.0) * 200 )

**Barbaloot** · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 1583

2-3-1-2

_________________

L I B E R T Y