Friday, August 7, 2009

Roland + Instrumentals

This week we played 22 songs, 16 with the optimal line-up. After DMan left, we took the opportunity to play the 6 instrumentals released so far in Rock Band. "Caprici di Diablo" had some tough moments, but we managed to finish it with all of us on Expert. Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Rude Mood" was a bit too tough to pull off though, forcing us to drop to Hard to finish it.

Phoenix bought a Roland electronic drum kit a while back to play with his real band, but we brought it down for tonight's Rock Band session. It was neat to see how quickly he adapted to the pad/button configuration.

We gained 17M points tonight, which is just enough to meet our goal of being in the top 20 in the "All Songs" Leaderboards.

Highlights:
- Stars breakdown for the 22 songs: Gold stars (6), 5 stars (7), 4 stars (6), 3 stars (3)
- Raikan is the "Top Performer" for the most songs (11), followed by Bongoo (9), DMan (4), and Phoenix (1)
- Tonight was the first time that noone gets an FC, possibly due to the difficulty of the songs selected
- It seemed to be a Guitar Hero 3 night at the beginning, with 3 of the first 9 randomly selected songs coming from that game ("Hier Kommt Alex", "Black Sunshine", "Pride and Joy")
- We get two 3-way ties for "Top Performer" in the same session (between DMan, Raikan and Bongoo) . This occured when noone was flagged as "Top Performer" but we all got the same percentage
- Phoenix shows us his special powers, as he correctly predicts his percentage for the song where he is the "Top Performer" (93%)

No comments: