Rocking out

I spent all Friday at FUDCon and then all Saturday and Sunday working on repoman. I figured I owed myself a break. So I took today off from work to sit around the house and not get anything important done. The one thing I did do was pick up Guitar Hero again and make another effort at beating hard.

I started out having three songs left to go. The first was “Institutionalized”, the only song I haven’t gotten five stars at on medium diffculty. Well I stumbled through that one to get three stars right off. It’s a really tough song with lots of goofy tempo changes and rhythm changes. However I don’t think playing it on hard was all that much difficult than medium. Feeling pretty good about that, I decided to tackle “The Beast and the Harlot”. Oh, how I hate this song with its cheesy arpeggios and poppy chorus. The first time I played it, I failed miserably. This time I did much better but still only got three stars due to my unfamiliarity with it on hard.

And that was it - I’d beaten all four regular songs in the last group (I’d done “Misrilou” and “Hangar 18” previously since they’re fun) and only had the encore to do. The last encore is “Free Bird” and I knew I was going to get into some trouble with it. I fumbled through the hammer ons a little too much in the slow beginning but did pretty well overall. So I was feeling competent when I hit the giant solo. The amazing thing about the solo was that it wasn’t really all that much harder than on medium. Sure there were a ton more notes, but I guess I’ve gotten good enough to deal with them. There are certainly more difficult songs on hard.

Regardless, I beat it with a much smaller score than I have gotten on medium. So I got three stars on all but one of thte final group. I still beat hard, though. What’s next? I guess I will keep playing until I get more songs up to five stars. I didn’t move from medium to hard until medium started to bore me. I’ll follow the same plan here.