Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Unlike learning a foreign language or playing the guitar I am not disheartened when the task of learning to drum becomes difficult, but challenged. I want to push myself to accomplish more complex patterns and achieve increasing levels of competence. I think this is partly because of the ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I am continuing to practice my drumming in Guitar Hero and, I am happy to report, showing some obvious improvement. I am no longer warming up with some medium difficulty songs, albeit from the more complex end of the set-list, and instead diving straight in to the hard difficulty ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Rather than get more frustrated at missed notes on my Guitar Hero: World Tour fake plastic drum kit I take some time out from practice to get the kit set up as best I can. This involves a little modification beyond changing the sensitivities, as detailed in a guide ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The playing of fake plastic instruments has quite captured my attention, at least in the form of fake plastic drums, because I find drumming to be a whole lot of fun. The drum kit that comes with Guitar Hero: World Tour is not far removed from an electronic drum ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
I have given up on my orange cymbal. Certainly, adjusting the sensitivity of the Guitar Hero: World Tour cymbal made a significant improvement to the number of notes registered but errors still crept it. It is quite possible that my lack of skill contributes to some of these ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Burnout 2 on the Gamecube has to be one of my favourite racing games, with its excellent mix of high-speed racing, superb car handling, and visceral and detailed crashes that augment instead of hinder gameplay. I am quite excited, therefore, to have a copy of Burnout Paradise bundled with ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
My confidence in Guitar Hero: World Tour drumming isn't helped when I am sure I strike the right pad at the right time but it doesn't register, and I find that the orange cymbal pad is remarkably insensitive compared to the other pads. I really need to hit it ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Just to make sure that everything works I take a short break from drumming in Guitar Hero: World Tour to try out the guitar parts, although I am still yet to give singing a bash to test the microphone. I get the guitar controller connected and working without issue ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
I have had a few brief flirtations with the Guitar Hero style of game, picking up a Fisher Price guitar and single-string strumming in time with downwards-scrolling notes, but as my initial forays in to the genre were with a group my self-consciousness kicked in to overdrive and I became ...
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