Attention guitar heroes!

[boys from the dwarf]

o.k.

for those of you who own guitar hero 2 and have unlocked the song "Jordan" by buckethead.

go onto practice mode then select the song and go on expert. play the lead guitar and go on full speed. select guitar break to guitar solo F.

whats your best % score?

59%

you may be thinking that 59% percent is crap and im a NooB or something similar but i swear this is the hardest song on the game. its loads harder than free bird which i can complete with a very respectable score.

its quite fun to play that section on the slowest speed but anyway. try it. on a guitar its possible but on a guitar controller i swear you cant play that fast.

just try it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdMNtwMqqc

amazing. but even this guy was circling the drain in that solo.

[Jowy]

Just witnessing that song makes me want to cry a little.

[Kirobaito]

The guy playing in the video is using hyperspeed. I don't like it when people use hyperspeed.

Doing Guitar Break to Guitar Solo F, the first time I tried I got 57%. I tried it again and got 60%. I've never finished Jordan. I've done every other song with at least 4 stars, with the exception of Psychobilly Freakout and Institutionalized, which have only 3.

The farthest I've ever gotten in Jordan is 56%. I really screw myself at the very end of Guitar Solo A, with that set of three-note runs. If I could just passively get by that, I might even be able to beat the song. But I get myself almost to the red right before the real solos start, and so am forced to use my star power immediately.

The rest of the song up until that point, though, I can get 90-95%.

[Roto13]

Institutionalized, Psychobilly Freakout and... the one two songs before Psychobilly Freakout... are evil. I hate them. I hate them hate them hate them. They're random notes, I say.

[Tasura]

Institutionalized, Psychobilly Freakout and... the one two songs before Psychobilly Freakout... are evil. I hate them. I hate them hate them hate them. They're random notes, I say.

Try playing them on a normal PS2 controller. *shudder*

Also, I only play on Medium due to lack of the guitar controller, and the shoulder buttons + x gives you a huge mindsmurf trying to play on hard or expert, though, I am close to being able to pass on hard, with a PS2 controller.

[boys from the dwarf]

really. get the controller. there is very little point in playing without the guitar. its not nearly as fun and it doesn't look nearly as cool.

Psychobilly Freakout is o.k after a while but institutionalized is a nasty.

i've played 30 out of 40 songs on expert. i know i can complete it but i cant really be bothered to prove it yet.

i dont ever plan to be good enough to play jordan. it'll either happen naturally through years of playing or i'll somehow end up with no social life and practice for 3 hours a day or it'll just never happen.

[Tasura]

The reason I have the game and not the guitar is because my friend wanted a second guitar, but no stores here carry just the guitar, so he had to buy another guitar + game pack, but didnt have enough, so I split the cost with him and got the game.

[boys from the dwarf]

ah. still. getting the guitar is really worth it. the guitar is infinetly better than a controller.

on most of that guitar solo is just flail around (not randomly but i try the play the right notes) moving my fingers like crazy and strumming fast while i do a crazy Angus Young impression for my crowd. i dont see how its possible to stay still and relaxed during that guitar solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbB2B...elated&search=

a very underexaggurated angus young impression mind you. that nutter cant keep still!

[sephirothishere]

hyou know a i can play lots of two and tappin things on a real guitar a la buckethead...ron thal aka.bumblefoot and stuff...so stfu. ive spent years of practising on my coordinaion and technique....

but ya....it does kinda look hard....jus practise it til you have practically learned i all.

[Slothy]

hyou know a i can play lots of two and tappin things on a real guitar a la buckethead...ron thal aka.bumblefoot and stuff...so stfu. ive spent years of practising on my coordinaion and technique....

Ummm, ok. Not sure what that was about.

Anyway, I'm not even going to attempt that on expert since I know I can't do it. I have trouble getting past that secion on hard. Mind you even hard is absolutely brutal in places on that song. Maybe when I'm ready to start playing through everything on expert, but not right now.

[ReloadPsi]

I've only just finished GH2 on Medium and will try Hard in the near future... when my housemate decides not to listen to his music too close to my bedroom.

I have but one complaint about this game, but it's a massive one: They obviously completely and utterly loathe Avenged Sevenfold enough to butcher the hell out of Beast And The Harlot. Seriously, I played through the whole damn game for it and was colossally disappointed by how horrible they made it sound. Oh well, playing the bass part was fun.

Hangar 18 and Them Bones were wonderful surprises as I know them for their rough approximation in DOOM II. It was almost like I was really running away from a bunch of exploding barrels.

[Jowy]

Beast and the Harlot was one of my favorite songs to play, honestly.

Heart-Shaped Box on the other hand...

[Slothy]

They butchered more than Avenged Sevenfold (the Rage song is pretty bad in the vocals especially, and I'm not that impressed with their rendition of YYZ). Kind of used to them butchering some songs though after some of the hack jobs in the first game. Luckily most of the fun is in playing anyway, regardless of the cover quality.

On another note, I'm fairly certain that parts of the hard difficulty are just random notes to be honest. The jump from medium to Hard is rediculous. On the plus side, being able to play anything on hard in this game will make you 10x better at the first game.

[Endless]

So far, in career mode, I only beat one song in hard mode, and in medium, all but 4 or 5 songs are 5 starred, the others being 4 star. There are even a couple of them where I missed perfect by a note :/
But in hard mode... I just can't pass. I obviously need more practice.

[Roto13]

If you can get five stars in most songs on Medium mode, the idea that it's not within your current ability to complete more than one song on Hard mode is all in your head. *thrust*