I finally got back to playing a bit more of Guitar Hero 3 today as well. My last session made my left arm a bit sore for a few days, this being perhaps the most exercise it’s seen in years…

I continued along the Medium career, and left off at the beginning of Tier 8, which is where things are really going to get tough. Raining Blood was the only song I didn’t five-star when I blew through Easy, so I’m not looking forward to that one.

The boss battle against Slash again took a few retries, though fewer than I needed for Tom Morello, at least. It again went to sudden-death-and-you-lose-for-no-apparent-reason a few times, but in the end I managed to save up enough attacks to make him fail during one of the solo-ish parts.

I also had a bit of trouble with Knights of Cydonia (couldn’t find a good video of it on Medium though), failing a song completely for the first time in my Medium career. I was doing fine right up until the rapid hammer-on/pull-off section, and I’m still not very good at those. I managed to succeed the second time around just by strumming them like regular notes and being prepared by seeing the pattern the first time.

I also tried another song on Hard, and although I passed, it was…humbling. :P I’m really going to have to start explicitly practicing songs and techniques when I reach that point.