Raining Blood

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

**Timdogg1934** · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

I am pretty new to guitar hero and am not the greatest player, currently 92% through hard, and about 1/3 through expert, but I can't get a 5 star on medium on this song...what is the points cutoff...I have a high score of about 119,300. Thanks

**Potatomasher** · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 28

I suck at this song, but have 5-starred it.

Using a good Star Power path will help. 2-3-2 is what I use. Check the note chart to figure out the best places to activate them.

Hyperspeed all the way up to 5 is probably a good idea on this one to get everything as spread apart as possible so you can read it more easily.

Other than that, find the sections you do the worst on, and take them to practice mode. For me, I 100% most anything other than the fast repeating greens at the start, and The Flood solo at the end, which I'm terrible at.

Also, you can find the cutoffs if you click Song Stats here on Scorehero.

**rkcr** · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2518 Location: Minneapolis

2-3-2 is the path I used for my latest score.

If you're having a lot of trouble keeping combo after the first two phrases I would just save 4 bars for measure 102. It's by far the easiest part of the song and it's worth just as many points as activating anywhere else.

**yankees408** · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

my high score is 78,333 lol.

Last song I need to Five Star and like 4th I need to FC..

**BrianBAM19** · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:38 am Post subject:

I can has optimal path?

2-next note
3-5th GR chord(start of measure 102)
2-right before the 8th R note, middle of measure 145

This got me 190,287. Can't see anything wrong with it.
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**TheHeroOfCanton** · Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Bountiful, UT

this was the last song i needed to 5star everything, thanks for the note chart!
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**mutantfreek** · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 3

this is one of the hardest songs i need to 5* and im using a controller cause i suck with the guitar and every song ive 5* up to this point was by controller lol. anyway ive tried many ways to get the 5* but my highest score is 117K, is there any easier way to get the cut-off score?

and what do people mean by like 2-3-2? that is confusing me. and i am new to this.

**rkcr** · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2518 Location: Minneapolis

**mutantfreek** · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 3

**21337** · Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 10

Thanks for the above advice, because I also am having trouble 5*ing this song on Medium.

I got 122k and still only got 4 stars!

I'm not convinced that the only way to maintain a high average multiplier is by not missing any notes in the entire beginning:

Edit: Today I used starpower through the part I mentioned above, and didn't miss a note, then finished the song with 97% and got the 5 star.
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**Fatigue** · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

i just got a 5* with 126k with a 158 note streak and 94% hit using the 2-3-2 path described above. turning on hyper speed helped.

**Giggedity** · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

Yeah hi I have tried RB on medium and have got a HS of around 122k 96% and 188 note streak and still no 5*.BTW my avg multiplier was 2.748 I believe in GH2 it was 2.8x to 5* is it the same still?Help?

Thanks for the help

~Gigs

**gusmahler** · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 758

Yeah, the multiplier you need is still 2.8. I think I scored 124k 3 times in a row without getting the 5*. I finally did it with a 126k, so you're really close to the cut-off.

And yes, this song is a bitch to get 5* on. With most songs, as soon as I figure out the pattern to the section that's confusing me, I can rapidly increase my score. (E.g., figuring out the galloping triplets in KoC increased my score by 45k). But I never had that luck with Raining Blood and my increases have been very small.

EDIT: while the cutoff hasn't been officially proven yet, the calculated 5-star cutoff is 124,186. (Taken from Debr's spreadsheet in the Barfo Proof Project thread.)
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**Element** · Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 230

Ill Check it, I can Fc it so i can make some mistakes if i want:P