The Stray Cats and the Violent Femmes had very basic drum kits too.

They're worried about the dog making noise... and there's a drum kit in the same shot?

I'm fairly certain he is using both at once, which is not a difficult feat. You're already doing that and much more while playing games. I don't see how inputing language and numbers via a 2 analog input system is "insane". From someone who has tested input peripherals, it's just different, like so many systems already out there. You should watch me with a rubik's cube. Peripheral testers use cubes (among other analog devices) to warm up.

It's actually really cool to see this concept in the mainstream, though I'd imagine you may need to practice common positioning. For example, t, h, followed by a vowel will be a pattern that becomes muscle memory, just as w, e, and then r, etc. They're simple algorithms that you don't even realize you're following, but simple take practice.

You know what else is insane? Playing a drum kit using all 4 limbs independently. That's insane! Speed Metal is insane! Me playing Dance Dance Revolution on Challenge is INSANE! Alllllllll of these simple things which are "insane". LOL!!!

If you're ever in LA, check out Jon Brion at the Largo. He's a film composer (Punch Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees), record producer, who also happens to be a multi-instrumentalist that puts on a live layered loop show, doing everything from a traditional drum kit, to bass, all styles of guitar, and piano. I've watched him go from Mozart to honky tonk piano and then up into industrial noise, on into a Detroit rock medley, using only the music he recorded on stage. First time I saw the show in this little low lit club facing a small stage, I had the biggest hard on. I went to jerk off in the bathroom and Fiona Apple walked out. Sorry if I'm being a bit raw here, but it was THAT good.

We need to see a whole drum kit in action.

The Professor on the drum kit.
Indeed.

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big drum kit is pure *comedy

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^pho3n1x:
>> ^Shepppard:
To be fair, he is technically cheating.
I don't much care about the repositioning of things, but he's using a double-kick bass pedal.
If he can play this without that, then I'd be absolutely shocked.
Still impressive though.

Not really... I have a double-bass kit made for the game. granted it's not a true double-bass setup like he has, it's just a second pedal with a powered splitter, but still... i wouldn't call it cheating.
and i've been seriously considering making a new snare with a frisbee and positioning it where it's supposed to go on a real kit instead of the far left where it is now... one day i'll get a real electronic drum kit but for now I can play (and record) using the in-game practice mode just as effectively.

Well... it's not cheating in the sense that it's an auto-hit or anything, but it's more cheating in the sense of he's playing the game in a way that it wasn't intended to be played.
My comment is more a response to "Harmonix purposefully makes these songs to keeps fans occupied"
because I guarantee you that if he tried this with just the single foot-pedal he wouldn't be able to make it.
Again, it's still a impressive in its own right.


You're both sort of right. I don't understand how Harmonix decides what bass hits to chart. I would think that they would chart with the right foot in mind, but For all the blast beats (0:56 for example) I've seen in this game, they chart both feet when most drummers alternate right and left, although the Shannon Lucas (Black Dahlia Murder Drummer) is one of the only drummers I know of who only uses one foot for those. Also, In the verse, the fast bass hits in groups of two are really groups of three but instead of charting the right foot hits (1 and 3) they chart the right and left (1 and 2). So it seems that it's charted as a hybrid of both double and single pedal. I'm gonna sift the video of Shannon Lucas doing his magic because I see it hasn't been sifted yet.

Screw NASCAR and driving simulators...clearly they are a terrible analogy and basically a thread derail.

Look, the point is you don't know this guy doesn't play in a band and just uses RB for practice/conditioning/fun when his band is doing other stuff? Maybe his band broke up? Shit, you have no idea, so making comments saying you should learn real instruments are pretty pointless.

Seems like a good way to build up your endurance/timing to me, even if it somehow doesn't translate directly into actual drum kit skills. Obviously as stated above, this works for drummers and not anything else (until RB3 gets the guitar/piano closer to the real thing). As a thing that allows you to practice and grades you, what better thing exists?

Yes, it's beneficial to learn to read/write music, but IMO that isn't too hard...I started learning in 5th grade. Sure maybe it's harder to pick up as an adult, but wtf...it's just a specific written code for certain sounds. It's not magic. Furthermore, why should traditional written sheet music have a monopoly on the communication of musical concepts for all eternity? There are thousands of languages/dialects in the world that all have different ways of communicating the same things.

I'm out of practice, but I can read music. For my brain and the way it works, RB's style of displaying drum beats speaks to me in a different (and possibly better) way...a way sheet music cannot.

That guy is a trained drummer using an expensive, real drum kit. Sure he's playing rock band, but the drumming is real and he deserves props.

>> ^pho3n1x:

>> ^Shepppard:
To be fair, he is technically cheating.
I don't much care about the repositioning of things, but he's using a double-kick bass pedal.
If he can play this without that, then I'd be absolutely shocked.
Still impressive though.

Not really... I have a double-bass kit made for the game. granted it's not a true double-bass setup like he has, it's just a second pedal with a powered splitter, but still... i wouldn't call it cheating.
and i've been seriously considering making a new snare with a frisbee and positioning it where it's supposed to go on a real kit instead of the far left where it is now... one day i'll get a real electronic drum kit but for now I can play (and record) using the in-game practice mode just as effectively.


Well... it's not cheating in the sense that it's an auto-hit or anything, but it's more cheating in the sense of he's playing the game in a way that it wasn't intended to be played.

My comment is more a response to "Harmonix purposefully makes these songs to keeps fans occupied"
because I guarantee you that if he tried this with just the single foot-pedal he wouldn't be able to make it.

Again, it's still a impressive in its own right.

>> ^Shepppard:

To be fair, he is technically cheating.
I don't much care about the repositioning of things, but he's using a double-kick bass pedal.
If he can play this without that, then I'd be absolutely shocked.
Still impressive though.


Not really... I have a double-bass kit made for the game. granted it's not a true double-bass setup like he has, it's just a second pedal with a powered splitter, but still... i wouldn't call it cheating.

and i've been seriously considering making a new snare with a frisbee and positioning it where it's supposed to go on a real kit instead of the far left where it is now... one day i'll get a real electronic drum kit but for now I can play (and record) using the in-game practice mode just as effectively.

>> ^Seric:

I wonder how good he would be if he'd spent that time learning real drums


Its simular how to how the top sim racers could probably beat allot of the profesoinal drivers out there.

its gr8 to have a game thats relitavly cheep and fun and delivers a simular exsperance to its real world equivelent.

playing on rock band will teach you far far faster than if u were to play real drums reeding sheet music and boring tutoreals , when you engage the competative parts of the brain or make something enjoyable the brain will learn things far faster than if its a choir or the lerning process is bady structured.

as for the technkees that you dont use when playing a game like rock band im pritty sure you could pick them up and develop your own stile in a short amount of time on a real drum kit if that was something you wanted to persue.

Cool, but not showing the one on the drum kit was a missed opportunity.