Frontman: Practice Session

[derelict68]

So talking to escorted in the chatbox (I'm sure of you noticed) and he told me that his Practice project was pretty much dead. Too many commitments and not enough escorted to go around. As this was a project I was following very closely, I'm going to see how taking it on goes.

Now that being said, I thought about making the sounds by charting something in fruity loops like canped suggested, but since I've never done that could you really make it sound right if you're doing a HOPO tutorial? For this reason I thought I'd try to create a few of them, post em up here and see how we like it. Here is escorted's original list:

EASY

01. Single Notes
02. Alternating Notes
03. Starpower
04. Double Chords
05. Steady Strumming
06. Basic HOPO Training


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MEDIUM

01. Single Notes; runs through all the notes, somewhat slowly but faster than easy
02. Alternating Notes; medium speed where each note is strummed
03. Starpower; tutorial on whammying long notes to get more starpower
04. Double Chords; similar to the single notes, however this time using double notes going back and forth across the range
05. Split Chords; alternating between the two medium split chords at varying speeds with other notes thrown in
06. Steady Strumming; Think "barracuda"
07. Double Chord Strumming; similar to steady strumming, however those ones where you have a string of greens and they throw a green-red chord in there once in a while
08. Intermediate HOPO Training; slowish hopo strings, 5-6 notes long, 3-4 different hopo strings

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HARD

01. Single Notes
02. Alternating Single Notes
03. Alternating Chords
04. Starpower
05. Double Chords
06. Split Chords
07. Steady Strumming
08. Double Chord Strumming
09. Intermediate HOPO Training 2
10. Fast Strumming


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EXPERT

01. Single Notes
02. Alternating Single Notes
03. Alternating Chords
04. Starpower
05. Double Chords
06. Triple Chords
07. Split Chords
08. Steady Strumming
09. Double Chord Strumming
10. Triple Chord Strumming
11. Advanced HOPO Training
12. Faster Strumming

So I have a few questions I hope somebody (perhaps escorted himself) can try to answer.

1. Starpower sections....? Getting starpower and knowing when to use it? or knowing how to maximize score by "squeezing" starpower and what to look for when trying to decide where to activate?

2. Where in this list would the sections of playing a continuous note and throwing in a chord every 4th or 6th note fit into this list?

Oh, and CB said he'd be willing to record the guitar for this, so that would leave charting it and if necessary recording a bit of helping audio through any sections that need a little coaching.

escorted's original thread

[CJB100]

i'd like to help out with this, but if it's going to start slow imma do my mod first. i can tab it out in feedback, and do the voiceovers.

[esc0rtd3w]

nice to see this starting again

i will help where i can.

[derelict68]

You could help by explaining what you had in mind for the ones I asked about. :-D

[Confusingboat]

I think the "random chords" in fast strumming would be number 13 as Advanced Fast Strumming.

[JD2504]

i think starpower section should be only in easy just to teach what it does, how the starpower meter works and how to activate it....

squezzing to maximize score is way more complex and vary song to song, most of ppl learn to do that eventually with experience...

[esc0rtd3w]

@derelict:

i just thought it would be cool to have a sh*tload of starpower in one of the sections.....lol

not much help..i know

[fude]

Feb 20, 2009 1:17:45 GMT -5 JD2504 said:

squezzing to maximize score is way more complex and vary song to song, most of ppl learn to do that eventually with experience...

Agreed, the player should already be able to FC a song when learning stuff like squeezing and starpower paths will help. Also, the multiplying system in starpower is so simple that anyone should understand that the more notes you include inside starpower, the more points you get. Without losing the streak, ofcourse.
In my opinion, all the tutorial will need about SP is what it does, how to gain it and how to activate it.

EDIT

Feb 20, 2009 1:17:45 GMT -5 JD2504 said:

i think starpower section should be only in easy just to teach what it does, how the starpower meter works and how to activate it....

Feb 27, 2009 4:24:36 GMT -5 fude said:

In my opinion, all the tutorial will need about SP is what it does, how to gain it and how to activate it.

I just repeated in almost exact same words the stuff JD said before. Uh, ignore that.

[derelict68]

Great news!! After laying dormant for many months, this project, much like FM, has been given a breath of life. Thanks much to emerald and guitarfreak for taking this project on. Hopefully we'll see a few songs pop up and we'll see what everybody thinks. Stay tuned!

[mikeeasley]

The hard part is a good list. I find it very interesting to try on my own. Nice list there!