I finished unlocking the bonus songs in Rock Band tonight (“Outside” by Tribe and the Bang Camaro songs are pretty good, and Honest Bob And The Factory-To-Dealer Incentives gets the award for best band name in the game). I was going to start the world tour after that, but then discovered that you really do need at least two players in order to do it. I had assumed you could do it alone since it let me get past the player join-in screen with just me, but then it stops you later on. Oh well.

I started the hard level of the solo guitar career, and was disappointed again to discover that the bonus songs are locked again and have to be unlocked per difficulty level, not just once. Oh well. I was able to go on and complete the first two tiers on hard. Only one song really gave me any trouble and pushed me deep down into the yellow, and I only got three or four stars on most of them, but I did manage to five-star “Orange Crush” at least.

I got used to shifting my hand down one fret on medium, but now I need to be able to shift down two frets to reach the orange note, and I frequently wind up losing my place if I have to shift quickly. There are also more notes that are difficult to hit, like triple chords and RO or GB chords. I’m still using three fingers for now and haven’t decided yet whether to switch back to using my pinky again. Hey, if Clapton can do it with just three… But then again, I’m no Clapton. ;)