Today was another Rock Band DLC day, of course, and initially I was only really interested in the B-52s song (“Roam”), since it’s a fun little pop song that’ll be more appealing to groups of players. There was also a Faith No More song (“We Care A Lot”), but I couldn’t remember how it went until I remembered that it’s also the Dirty Jobs opening theme, and I picked that one up as well. They’re both pretty decent on guitar — not too outlandish or complex, but not too boring or easy either.

While I was at it I figured I’d work on the hard solo career a bit more as well, and finished Black Hole Sun, Reptilia, and Epic, and didn’t do too badly for a change, with two four-stars and one five-star. I failed miserably at Suffragette City and Main Offender, though — rapid transitions to and from chords and up and down scales simultaneously just throw me off. This is probably the first point at which I’m really going to have to start practicing songs before I can even finish them.

And then to cap things off I did a handful of songs on bass in quickplay mode, on the hard difficulty since the basslines tend to be easier than the lead guitar anyway. One thing that annoys me is that it doesn’t easily list your quickplay score along with the tracks, so I’m never sure which songs I’ve already played and which ones I haven’t done yet. I have to go to the leaderboards for that, but the extra menu navigation is annoying and the leaderboards lag behind a bit anyway.