Number of the Beast - up/down strumming is helpful on the intro section, but as the other solution says the odd timing will have to be mastered.
I may have sworn a lot at this song! Move on to the other songs, come back to Raining Blood. Raining Blood - play it once, get to Mosh 1, and fail miserably. You'll probably 5 star this before the other songs on tier 7. Lot's of solo in this, but they're reasonably spaced out for the most part. Save all of your star power until here, then get good at hammer on's fast! The final section I find is best played with up down strumming, it's really upsetting if you fail here the first time you get past galloping triplets!Ĭult of Personality - again with the hammer-on's. Even if you can't perfect the really fast strumming part you should only miss a few notes so you should be able to stay in the green until the galloping triplets section. Knights of Cydonia - Brilliant song, difficult though. Up/Down strumming followed by quick chord changes. Same thing as above moving your whole hand for the stepping up chords.ģ's and 7's - This one held me up for a long time. Stricken - Hammer-on's are definitely necessary for this, there's no penalty for strumming a hammer-on though, so it's worth strumming every few notes in case you miss one. When you're just trying to beat the songs, save your star power up for the bits you get stuck on.īefore I forget - Practice the main riff using hammer-on's where you can, up/down strumming will be necessary on the quick notes, and I found for the chorus holding the chord and moving my whole hand worked far better than trying to change my fingers over. You will probably be able to get through the first 2 tiers at least by now, and playing on expert makes hard seem easier when you go back to it. Try the songs, although at this point it may be worth starting a career on Expert. You'll progress to tier 6, get past those and then find that tier 7 is a whole new world of difficulty. The yellow button has a raised notch on it so you can tell what buttons you're on by feel.īy the time you get to tier 5, go back and retry some of the songs on tier 1 and 2, you'll probably find you can 5 star most of them, or at least get higher scores than you did originally.īaracuda (tier 2) is one that troubled me for a while - you have to use up/down strumming for the 3 note main riff, and my rhythm sucked. That orange button was difficult at first, rather than stretching your pinky all the time, learn to move your whole hand. I can say how I got it though, after owning the game for over a year.Īs a level of skill, if you can't 5 star all songs on Medium I don't think you're going to succeed at this.Īfter completing Medium and getting 5 stars on all songs, I elevated to Hard. This isn't a solution as such, because there isn't an easy way to do it - you have to be good enough. Always Hard - this one cost me a lot of hours!