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• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings
• What do you need

Guitar Hero Is a rhythm-based game for PC, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. You play On guitar simultaneously with many famous tracks. The game requires nothing but a musical sense of rhythm, a bit of patience, love for at least some of the songs available and, most importantly, very dexterous fingers (skills that can be developed). Even though Guitar Hero is a highly simplified version of a real guitar, playing can still be nearly impossible, especially on more difficult levels. Do you want to become a Guitar Hero? This tutorial explains several of the ways you will need to play and how the game progresses from beginner to expert.

Steps

1. 1 Learn Your Guitar - While it's not as hard or difficult as learning a regular electric guitar, your mini-guitar has the capacity to play it really hard. First of all, in the center of the guitar is a string key with a two-way switch. To play a note, you have to hit it up or down. The note you play is determined by pressing a combination of five frets - the buttons on the guitar neck. They are colored differently for quicker identification. Next to the string key is a tremolo lever for vibrating the sound on a sustained note. Finally, the usual Start and Select control buttons display fake volume and tone knobs. Do not try to turn down the volume with them.
   • If you are right-handed, hold the neck of the guitar with your left hand with three or four fingers placed on each of the fret buttons. Keep your right hand on or near the string key. Lefties can simply do the other way around, although the tremolo arm will need to be adjusted.
   • If you play while seated, you can hold the guitar in your lap, or if you want to play while standing, you must use the strap provided.
   • Take the time to get used to the comfortable positioning of the guitar, it will help a lot!
   • If you want, personalize your guitar with the stickers supplied with the game. This is your tool!
2. 2 Start playing - Connect your guitar to the console. Turn on your TV, console, speaker system (if any) and insert the game disc into the disc tray. If you are using a Playstation 2 to play, you can use a memory stick to save recordings of your best scores and unlocked songs.
   • If this is your first time playing career mode, you must come up with a name for your group. Inventing what you like is not the most important decision you will ever make.
   • The option selection screen gives you a number of options: Career, Quick Play, Multiplayer, Tutorial, and Options.
   • Career gives the most pleasure from the game - you need to play up to 35 songs on four levels of difficulty, which allows you to accumulate money, prestige and fame. Completing each set of songs increases your status, allowing you to play in a new location and unlock a new set of five songs. Your earnings allow you to "buy" unlocked options such as new guitars, songs, and characters.
   • Quick game allows you to play any of the songs that you have unlocked in career mode (10 unlocked by default) on any difficulty level as a single experience. It includes a table of the best scores.
   • Multiplayer will be available if you have two controllers connected. If you like, you can use a standard controller with Guitar Hero. A second guitar controller is supplied separately, or use your friend's guitar controller if your friend you can play with has such a game. Guitar Hero 2 and 3 have several game modes: Clash - splits the notes of a song between two players (as in the legacy game from Guitar Hero 1), while Clash Pro allows two players to play the song as in Quick Play. Guitar Hero 3 also has a "Battle" mode where you use "combat power" to try and thwart another player.
   • Textbook is a great introduction to the game, giving you the ability to play the simplest notes without having to play the entire song. There are several tutorials and it is recommended to play with each tutorial consistently. This article teaches you how to play from the beginning, although playing by the tutorials is certainly useful and more visual, this guide assumes that the player does not have tutorials.
   • Parameters - this is important if you have a wide screen or need to change something. A very important option here - switch to lefty which you can turn on if you are left-handed and want to press the fret buttons with your right hand - this will reorient the notes on the screen for your perception.
3. 3 Play.
   • The best way to get used to playing is to have clicks in a song, and the simplest songs are the songs at the very top of the list. If you already have a good sense of rhythm or musical background, try playing on medium difficulty first. Light will probably be too light for you. Start playing by going to the main menu and choosing "Quick Play" or "Career" and then choosing the first song on the list.
   • After the loading screen, which will consist of helpful messages and a few additional tips that may be game-specific or unrelated, you will be greeted with an unfolding overview of the location where you play in the group of which you are a member and your avatar with guitar - randomly selected if playing in Quick Play mode. The information display will then appear in the lower middle of the screen, along with two settings in the lower corners.
     1. The foundation and key to your success is the scrolling bar in the center of the screen.It contains notes with colors that correspond to the colors of the fret buttons on the guitar, their position on the screen also reflects their position on the fretboard (that is, the green button will always be on the left - or right if you are left-handed). There are several desaturated colored circles at the bottom of the screen. When you press one of the fret buttons, the corresponding circle lights up.
     2. In the lower left corner is your score counter and "scoring factor". You get a certain number of points for the correct note, but linking 10 consecutive notes together will increase your scoring factor, so you get twice as many points per note. This increases the bonus up to 4x. If you miss a note, the ratio resets to one.
     3. At the bottom right is a counter that shows the crowd's opinion of you. The pointer will tilt towards green when you're playing well and the crowd will love you. The pointer will swing to red when you play poorly. If he goes too far on red, you will be kicked off the stage and you will have to reload the song. Above the meter is your Star Energy indicator - this is explained below.
   • In Light mode, only the green, red and yellow buttons are used. In Medium mode, a blue button is added. In the Difficulty and Expert difficulty modes, all five colored buttons are used.
   • Colored notes will begin scrolling downward from the top of the scrolling fretboard. When you see the first note, press the corresponding fret button. When the note reaches the bottom of the screen to the gray colored circles, strike using the string key. For each subsequent note, strike using the string key again. Other notes are played in exactly the same way: press the corresponding buttons and strike using the string key when the note reaches the bottom of the screen - using the beat of the music and melody will help you decide when to play. Distilling to the most basic level is all there is to this game - hitting on time while using the fret buttons to play the appropriate note. If you play too late or too early, you will "miss" the note and hear terrible noise and lose some popularity.
   • The game will be expanded by the game chords: here you need to press two or more of the fret buttons instead of one. And in this case, the buttons must also be pressed in accordance with those appearing on the screen.
   • Long notes are dragged on after the note is played. They are indicated by a colored line from the note down the screen and are played by holding down the corresponding fret button until the line disappears. After playing the original note, you do not need to strike again. Instead, you can use your striking hand to operate the tremolo lever and distort or hold the note.
   • That's all! Play the notes that appear on the screen. Do not be alarmed if at first you do not succeed, because it takes time to get used to the game. Gradually working on songs, regardless of your self-esteem, regardless of the low scores with which you go ahead, will make you better - even if it is not visual. Once you're sure you can tie a few notes, go into Career Mode and play a few songs. They won't be so difficult anymore.
4. 4 Effective Techniques - There are a number of effective techniques that can be used:
   • The Star Energy mentioned above is a quality that you increase if you successfully play all notes in a series of "star notes". These notes appear in the form of spinning stars rather than circles, and often appear in more grandiose pieces of music. If a "long" star note is played, using the tremolo will give you additional star energy. Try to get it if you can! If you have enough of it (the meter fills up to its limit), you can "use" it and enter star energy mode by quickly tilting your guitar or pressing the Select button.This will temporarily double the points you get from each note, and will dramatically increase the rating at which popularity is growing, so try to use this when playing many consecutive notes. Also, once you enter Star Energy mode, there is no way out until the power meter is depleted, so wait for the notes to float or your Star Energy will be wasted. You can also use Star Energy to get through difficult parts of the song that you cannot get in any other way.
   • Legato ascending and legato descending. If you look closely at the notes moving up the screen, you will see that some notes are different from others. Normal notes have a hollow black center, while notes with "rising legato" have a filled white center. To simulate a real guitar, some note sequences can be played with legato ascending or legato descending: Simply strike as usual for the black center note (the first note in the sequence) and simply press the correct buttons for the fill notes at the correct time. Notes with "ascending legato" will be registered as correctly played as long as you play them on time. Try to refine this method, as in the most difficult songs, the notes will end up being too fast and too close to each other to strike accurately.
   • Tremolo lever. If you can play long notes, then you can use the tremolo lever. On long notes (holds), slide the tremolo lever up and down. Make sure you use the tremolo lever on the star energy notes, you will get more Star Energy on your meter! The Tremolo lever doesn't give you any advantage on normal notes, although it's just fun to do.

Tips

• In Medium mode, learn to use your pinky finger to press the blue button without having to move your hand at all.
• In the first Guitar Hero, the upward legato and the downward legato are extremely difficult and hardly worth applying.
• Prepare a note by holding down the button before it reaches the hit area.
• If you find a certain passage difficult, try playing it in a different position.
• Look carefully at the notes. Almost every song has a similar pattern.
• Find a partner and play multiplayer, or even organize a party with a group. It is interesting!
• On the Xbox 360, the songs are arranged in a different order, but the notes are the same.
• Use legato ascending and legato descending.
• Relax. A mistake in a song or missing a note (or even a dozen) is not the end of the world, and you'll be less likely to play the correct notes if you're too tense.
• However, in Guitar Hero II and III they must be played. Live, learn and love legato ascending and legato descending.

Warnings

• Remember that this is not reality and will not give real satisfaction!
• Using any form of self-luminous display in low light for extended periods of time can cause rapid eye fatigue and / or headache, but this has not been proven to cause permanent damage.

What do you need

• A display that can be connected to a console (TV, computer monitor, etc.)
• Playstation 2, Xbox 360, PC or Mac, or for the third or fourth PS3 or Wii game.
• Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero: Rock 80, Guitar Hero III, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock, Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Rock Band: AC / DC, Rock Band Track Pack, The Beatles: Rock Band, or Rock Band 3 game disc.
• A guitar controller or a standard console controller (although this article is for a guitar controller).
• Patience. Mastering the expert difficulty can take months, especially when it comes to the more complex songs of bands like Slayer and Dragonforce.