I finished off the medium solo guitar career in Rock Band tonight, and as is typical nowadays, the final song (“Green Hills and High Tide”) was an extremely lengthy one with an insanely long solo part. It wasn’t too hard though, and I five-starred it fairly easily. Overall, the medium difficulty was probably a bit below that of GH2, and it’s become a common criticism that Rock Band is a bit too easy. We’ll see about that once I move to the hard level…

I also started unlocking bonus songs, which unfortunately you have to do one at a time here, since playing one unlocks the next. I was hoping to jump ahead to the Freezepop song, but oh well, it won’t take too much longer as I’m about halfway through them now.

Next up I think I’ll try the World Tour mode, even if just by myself for now. You can collect fans and lose them if you don’t perform well, so I think I’ll keep it at medium for now until I build up some and a bit more practice.

There are some minor problems: you no longer get detailed performance statistics after each song, just the final score and star rating (though it at least shows partial stars, so you know how close you came). There’s also no reward or special marker for getting 100% of the notes on a song. The leaderboards only track the top 100,000 players, so I don’t even show up on a lot of them yet. And the community site could use some improvement, as it doesn’t really show that many stats and I can’t even link my account there yet due to some kind of huge delay in updating the data.

But at least I’m getting the snotty rock star attitude down: