Post by funkdiggity on Nov 2, 2009 2:56:40 GMT -5
When I get new dlc I usually play all the songs on bass first. The reason is simple enough, its a means of getting my fingers warmed up for playing guitar. This week that backfired on me though, because I spent my whole bass sightread thinking "Wow, what an awesome week for bass, every song is amazing!" Then I got to guitar and realized that instead of every song being amazing, what was actually occurring was every song was playing exactly like guitar, or worse, exactly like guitar, only watered down. This is something that annoys me to no end. I realize this isn't really HMX's fault. For better or worse its just the way a lot of bands have come to treat the bass guitar these days. But its completely HMX's fault that they decided to release 11 songs (an entire album's worth of music, mind you) full of 2nd rate cloned bass charts all on the same week.
Ok, ranting aside, this week wasn't so bad. Even if the guitar and bass charts are all clones of each other, they're still mostly fun to play. The Wolfmother tracks are full of long strings of hopos, which I always enjoy. There's a couple of guitar solo's of the WTF variety, but they aren't too difficult either. The drums are a little on the blah side, which surprised me since Joker & the Thief has a pretty kick ass drum chart. Woman was probably my favorite of the pack, due to how cool of a song it is, and that it had the best drum chart. The pack's worth getting over all though. Fun guitar and bass charts, and the one really awful guitar/bass chart had a great drum part. So it evens out, I think.
The Rob Zombie stuff really surprised me. The guitar and bass charts are busy, if not particularly interesting to play. But the drums are great. Burn is alright, its one of those easy-but-fun type songs. Dragula and Superbeast are just epic though. Lots of variety in the tracks, lots of cool patterns, charts that are fast enough and tricky enough to be interesting, but not so much that you're going to get angry with the songs. If you're a drummer this is definitely a pack worth getting.
The Liz Phair song is a gigantic waste of time. Boring, by the numbers charting on every instrument. I don't understand why this song was picked. Its certainly one of her better known songs, but it also comes off of an album that ended up driving her whole fanbase off, destroying her rep, and wrecking her career. Does anyone who still cares about Phair in 2009 actually want this? Its a kind of sexy, kind of funny, kind of clever track. But there's a lot of Liz Phair songs you can say that about, most of which are better suited for Rock Band.
I actually really liked the Morningwood tracks. There's nothing amazing here, its just fun pop music, with some tracks that are easy, but quite entertaining. I liked these songs so much that I'd probably go so far as to say that Sugar Baby was my favorite dlc track this week.
Ok, ranting aside, this week wasn't so bad. Even if the guitar and bass charts are all clones of each other, they're still mostly fun to play. The Wolfmother tracks are full of long strings of hopos, which I always enjoy. There's a couple of guitar solo's of the WTF variety, but they aren't too difficult either. The drums are a little on the blah side, which surprised me since Joker & the Thief has a pretty kick ass drum chart. Woman was probably my favorite of the pack, due to how cool of a song it is, and that it had the best drum chart. The pack's worth getting over all though. Fun guitar and bass charts, and the one really awful guitar/bass chart had a great drum part. So it evens out, I think.
The Rob Zombie stuff really surprised me. The guitar and bass charts are busy, if not particularly interesting to play. But the drums are great. Burn is alright, its one of those easy-but-fun type songs. Dragula and Superbeast are just epic though. Lots of variety in the tracks, lots of cool patterns, charts that are fast enough and tricky enough to be interesting, but not so much that you're going to get angry with the songs. If you're a drummer this is definitely a pack worth getting.
The Liz Phair song is a gigantic waste of time. Boring, by the numbers charting on every instrument. I don't understand why this song was picked. Its certainly one of her better known songs, but it also comes off of an album that ended up driving her whole fanbase off, destroying her rep, and wrecking her career. Does anyone who still cares about Phair in 2009 actually want this? Its a kind of sexy, kind of funny, kind of clever track. But there's a lot of Liz Phair songs you can say that about, most of which are better suited for Rock Band.
I actually really liked the Morningwood tracks. There's nothing amazing here, its just fun pop music, with some tracks that are easy, but quite entertaining. I liked these songs so much that I'd probably go so far as to say that Sugar Baby was my favorite dlc track this week.