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So I've been borrowing this game from my friend for a while. I think he gets back from the army around Christmas, so I've still got some time to hone my skills.

Right now I'm trying to beat Career mode on Expert, and I need 3 more songs: Institutionalized, Hangar 18, and Freebird.

I hate Institutionalized, Hangar 18 is hard, and once I beat those two, I'll probably be stuck on Freebird for a while.

Just now I got 123,9xx on Misirlou, my new high score; such a sweet song.

I also 4*'d Thunderhorse with 90K, also a sweet song, but I can't get one part down.

Oh yeah, I beat Less Talk More Rokk for the first time yesterday, which was super fun, and it proves that my HO/POs are my best GH skill.
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Dude! I'm in the exact same situation. My friend let me borrow his GHII like 4 days ago and I've been playing it non-stop basically. I also am beating career mode on expert and I just so happen to have beat LTMR expert and I have no idea how. It gets soo fast my mind wants to explode.

Thunderhorse is by far my fav song to play. I finally passed it with 100% tapping all of chorus 3. Tapping is so fun/challenging.

If you don't know already, scorehero.com has a sweet ass forum. Check it out if you haven't already.
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Yeah, I lurk scorehero to see if HellAshes FC'd Jordan yet; he'll do it soon!

I tried to figure out tapping with Fall of Pangea's solo 2B, but I only got a few notes and got fed up. I know I will learn in the future though.

Speaking of Jordan, the few times I've tried it on Expert I've got 45% each time. Solo A just kills me.....
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Ha, I played jorden today on slowest and still only got 77% but I figured out some parts and how they should actually be played. Then I tried to play it for real and I just wasn't feeling the easy ass first part so I gave up. I think I'm just going to try to FC some songs on hard.
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142K on Misirlou Expert.

That song makes me sweat.
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Thunderhorse is by far my fav song to play
you ought to limewire the album "dethalbum" thunderhorse is on there, plus some other good stuff

the other day I got 4 stars on laid to rest on expert/hyper - anyone here gotten 5 stars on that on hyper?
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yeah guitar hero!

i'm taking a break from guitar hero 2 actually. i couldn't beat hangar 18 on expert, so i got angry.

probably just gonna wait for the 3rd one and play non-stop again.
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I 5*'d Laid to Rest on Expert with Hyperspeed today.

234,xxx
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You guys are awsome.
Guitar hero is AWSOME!!!!
First think about how to practice or don't bother practicing.

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Props on the 5* LtR!

Man, I just wasn't feeling it today. I CANNOT beat psychobilly freakout. I hate it when your fingers won't return to the correct position and you strum like 10-15 notes incorrectly. What's the key to it? I may turn it back on and try it again.

100% tapping LtR melody :wink:
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i beat every song on that game in the hardest setting, and then i had to move back to school, such a fun game. The only song i ever really had trouble with was jordan, but i did beat it a few times. :P
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I learned me a bit of tapping today:

Thunderhorse Verse 3 (Full Speed) many times
Fall of Pangea Solo 2B (Slow) a few times

It's fun.
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Oh man, I love tapping.

Both at Full Speed, I did: Trills! seciton of Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight and Solo 2B of Bad Reputation.
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Tapping is way hard to do in an actual song.

I got close to 140K on Misirlou again; I'll get you 4*!

One Hangar 18's many solos destroyed me (at 85% no less). This is gonna be really hard to beat; I may have to learn to tap the one solo and actually apply it in the song.

Got to Solo B in Jordan like usual, except I was actually doing well on the main riff.

I tried to learn to tap Solo D in Carry On My Wayword Son, but on Slow and Full Speed I couldn't keep up.

There had better be some GH at Cornell....
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Neither Luis nor I have GH, but the community center has it. I will ask and see what their policy is on using it.
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hey just thought you might find this interesting:
http://forum.guitarherogame.com/

theres a guy at our school that goes to tournaments over seas where the prize is like $20,000!!!!
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thunderhorse is an incredibly hard song. The thing that helped me out the most is just being a bad ass.
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4*'d Less Talk More Rokk with 175K 8O
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im gonna go to a footbag tournament and u guys are all gonna be there and we are gonna have a bad ass guitar hero sess!
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