Thursday, July 31, 2008

Burn baby burn

Well, that wasn't long.... After a good dozen tries of the DLC "Burn" by Nine Inch Nails, I finally succeded. I will talk about the difficult part here.

In practice mode I tried to find a simplified pattern that would give me a good percentage of notes. I found one pattern that got me a 60% success rate and decided to try it out:
-Hit the red notes at half pace
-Hit all foot pedals
-Hit all yellow notes

....Not good enough. The meter was going down just too fast in the first "difficult pattern (break 1?)" and I wanted to keep my overdrive as an arm relaxant for the outro. :)

Then I decided to stop chickening out and work those arms. I tried a few holding positions until I found one that could keep my meter constant!

I was holding the drumstick at the middle VERY lightly with my thumb on top. The bounce between the pad and the thumb was so good I was able to keep up. Of course timing the bass pedal is crucial and almost every one should be hit.

FYI, if you save your overdrive for the outro, it is safe to use it on the third overdrive section (it will take you out of the insane part).

I wonder if I will ever reproduce this success? :)

3 comments:

Bongoo said...

Wow, great job! Who knows which chart will make you work that hard in the future... perhaps Panic Attack?

Bongoo said...

or Abnormality - Visions...

Phoenix5096 said...

Bring on the pain :) This is pretty much the only cardio activity I do recently