Hardest skill to learn ?

**jayd0484** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12

I have equal trouble with HO and PO. The reason why is that I do PO the same way I do HO. The game really doesent care if you have all the other frets held down during a sequence, it just looks for the press of the button at the right moment.

**shutendoji** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 658 Location: Earth

yeah, that's what gets most people down is the timing, that's one of the elements that makes it much different than a real guitar, my neighbor across the street has been playing since he was 5 and for 24 years, and i'm better than him lol

**Quinctia** · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 8

Superfast strumming.

My first playthrough of Hard, I had trouble passing the opening of Bark at the Moon and found its solos to be the easiest. I can do fast strumming with one note, or alternating, but I can't do that opening bit. It's why I'm still stuck on BatM and CFH in Expert mode...the fast patterns in the main riffs.

I can do HOPOs as long as I am not thinking about it too hard. I still can't do the four in sequence pull off though.

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**shutendoji** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 658 Location: Earth

**Anthony** · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 659 Location: Cali

You only have to strum once with PO's, I don't know what you are doing.
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**InvadErGII** · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 126

I definitely have the hardest time with pull-offs. I'm not really sure why, to be honest...I've played the (real) guitar for years and can do it fairly well on that. But on the GH guitar, it's a whole other story. I'm getting better at it, but that doesn't change the learning curve at all.

**shutendoji** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 658 Location: Earth

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**LearningGH** · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 6

Yeah.. just wanted to enlighten you guys on a freak accident in which i believe Jesus took over for my hands for a few minutes... I was playing Get ready to Rock on expert and i hit every note through to the first solo.. that includes the incredibly fast part inbetween some of the
b-rb-rb-rb-rg-yg-yg-yg-yg-rg-rg-rg-ry-o. So yeah.. i know i didn't strum that fast because i was expecting to miss it like i usually do.. so hammering on+Miricle of Christ= Hitting that part.

**stv2049** · Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 32

I never even try to hit HOPOs since my success rate with strumming (and double-strumming) every note.

Now (listen up, Red Octane!) if there were some incentive, like extra points or a tiny bit of star power for correctly hitting a HO or PO (i.e. no strum) I'd definitely wade out into more treacherous waters straining for every little bit, and balancing my desire for that 100%.

I believe that adding in this small little advanced scoring technique would raise the ceiling considerably for HOPO heavy songs, and even though it would serve to further separate the casual Heros from the Hardcore ones, it would do more to encourage the usage of HOPO.
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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

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

Pull-offs are by far the most difficult for me. Maybe a dexterity issue...

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

My fingers work backwards or somethin because I suck so bad at hammer ons, but I can do pulloffs without even thinking. My only problem with fast strumming is strumming too many or too few times, I can usually keep rhythm well.

**shutendoji** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 658 Location: Earth

**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

I think my skill has changed. It's not necessarily gotten better, but it's just changed.

I used to be absolutely horrible at HO's/PO's, but my skill for HO's has increased dramatically. I'm still not too good at PO's though...

It's wierd though, because I can do a run where it's a combination of the two, but I can't do just one or the other very well.
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