I’m still trying to prepare for the transition to the Hard difficulty in Guitar Hero, so I’ve actually gone back to, uh, medium again. This time though, I’m taking some tips from various forums, and I’ll be playing the songs with just three fingers and not using my pinky at all. That should get me used to shifting my hand around and break me from mentally associating fret colours and specific fingers, which is critical for when the fifth fret is added and you’re forced to shift anyway.

I’m doing pretty well with it so far, and I’ve gone back and redone the first three tiers in GH2, five-starring all of them as well (though a couple took two attempts) and beating my old scores. Some parts that use blue notes heavily are actually easier now since I don’t have to strain my weak pinky to hit them, but quick G->B->G… transitions can be a bit of a pain since now I have to spread my fingers further.

I should also be learning how to alt-strum according to the advice, but it’s been difficult to try and learn both at the same time, so I think I’ll worry about that later. It’ll mainly be needed on the rapid note sections and just downstrumming is still good enough for now.

I also quickly popped into GH3 just for one thing: to finally get five stars on Raining Blood on Easy. It was the only song of the entire easy career that I didn’t five-star the first time through, and I wanted the achievement and unlocked guitar associated with five-starring everything. The song was still more difficult than its brethren, but I did manage to get a 3.04x multiplier on the first crack at it and the rewards are now mine.

It’ll probably be a while before I get the five-star-everything rewards on any of the harder careers, though…