i had to use the sliding method as well. honestly, i think thats what they want you to use. obviously, its not required, but I think its easier for most

So which of the ingame purchasable songs are fun to play?

Haven't spent any $ in the store yet.

Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osborne is VERY fun

Best in game bonus songs:

Raw Dog
Arterial Black
Collide
Gemini
Push Push (Lady Lightning)
Laughtrack
Less Talk More Rock
Jordan
One for the Road
Parasite
Radium Eyes
Soy Bomb
The Light that Blinds
Thunderhorse
Trogdor
X-Stream

Just my opinion of course, and may depend on the music you like. Some of these are really hard, some are really easy, but they are fun to play and not horrible to listen to.

Less Talk More Rokk is my favorite bonus song in the game.

I love how it starts out kind of slow and builds a lot of speed as you play it. It is very much a pattern song as the notes are all pretty much the same throughout.

But a very fun song and I love Freezepop.

Jordan - Buckethead
Thunderhorse - Dethlok

those are my two favorites. I especially like the sweep/legato sections in each track

How do I collect the MS points if I purchased this game at Circuit City?

Cool thanks guys. Not so much a rock fan, other than the classics or more popular tunes. Not too keen on the metal stuff. Love the sweet melody stuff like the first half of freebird, or the end of war pig.

You had to have purchased the guitar hero game and the 1600 point card at the same time. Guitar Hero would ring up at $69.99 and the point card at $19.99.

Then you use the code on the back of the point card to enter it into the dashboard in the 360 to apply the points.

If you didn't get the point card when you purchased Guitar Hero, you may be out of luck now as that sale was last week. You might be able to speak with a manager there and plead your case that you were never offered the point card and thught it would be inside the game. They might go for it and give you the card now. But it will be a big if.

Good luck trying to get that fixed with Circuit City. In my experience they are bar none the worst customer service chain I have ever dealt with.

honestly, you'd probably have to call corporate. the people behind that counter really don't give a fuck, sadly enough

Speaking of "horrible to listen to", if you're looking for the songs to hold off on purchasing until the end, "Yes We Can" and "Red Lottery" are pretty much universally considered to be the worst songs in the game, especially Yes We Can.

What's funny is that I thought that Made In Mexico's song from GH1 wasn't all THAT bad. It wasn't great, but it's weird sounding enough that I play through it once in a blue moon.

However, I've only played through Yes We Can twice. Once to get 5 stars on Hard, and the same for Expert, and I never, ever want to hear that song again.

I wuold definitely recommend purchasing those two last. I hate Red Lottery more than Yes We Can, but both will melt your brain.

My pinkie is finally coming around. After stumbling heavily through the medium section, I find myself replaying it and scoring 5 stars on songs that gave me big trouble the first time through. The blue note has become very natural within any combo a song throws at me.

The pinkie is the real challenge, once you get him to cooperate you're good to go.

Took me forever to get my middle finger and pinkie to play nice.

Made it to Stonehenge last night. I was pretty excited. I've made it through Medium pretty much stumbling through most songs. A few I was moments away from being booed off stage.

I tried one song on Hard and didn't even last a minute.

My goal now is to get five stars on each of the Easy songs and to stay in the top 100,000 players worldwide. I may adjust that downward if I improve.

Question: I rejected an encore last night. If I play a song again, do I get a chance for an encore? Or was it a one-time deal?

The song should be on your setlist now for that category, so you can go back to it and play whenever you want. But yeah, generally when you finish the last song that is required for that category is when you're asked to do an encore.

yeah, I'm almost there. At least hammer ons and pull offs are close to becoming a reflex.

I'm curious what the total # of players are on the leaderboards are, if you can find that out easily?

I got 5* on all easy songs.

I'm trying to get 5* on all the Medium songs. I got about half 4* and half 5*.

I also tried hard one night. It sure is different with the Orange button. I made it up to Woman, having to replay one song twice. Woman, though, I cannot pass. I failed 3 times before giving up and going back to medium. I've practiced one of the higher up songs, Dead, on Hard. 3 button combos make me cry. I barely got them with the song slowed down for practice.

I watched a YouTube video of a guy 5* in Dead on Expert. That is a hard song. Tons of 3 button combos pretty regularly.

I've been practicing on GH1 and have gone thru all of the tracks on HARD with one exception: Cowboys from Hell. I can get thru 95% of that song before failing. I pretty much forced myself to go thru with HARD, because I was just fine with 5 Star MEDIUM while singing along.

But what I found interesting is that going back to MEDIUM, the notes move in slow motion, as if I were playing EASY. And what's really funny, is that it's harder now to get thru EASY because it's soooo slow.

I don't care too much for the songs in "Return of the Shred" and "Furious Fretwork" (Killing and YYZ are the only exceptions.)

I am down to only 3 songs left that aren't 5 starred on Medium... I fucking hate 'Carry Me Home' and 'Institutionalized'...HATE THEM!!!!!!!!! I mess up certain parts and only have 4 stars on them. Freebird I have at 4 stars but I've only played it twice, so I don't hate it yet.....

Recall?

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/07/re...els-defective/

If anything, this was posted at cag.com: http://www.allaboutthegames.net/feat...rticle_id=7714

might be a quick fix if you have a guitar with the whammy problem.

If you don't mind disassembling the guitar and voiding the warranty that comes with it.

I've got one of the 95065 guitars and the only problem I have is that it seems to take a half a second to respond to the whammy moving. Is that all the recall is for? I'd hate to have to send it in for a replacement .