RICK IS A ROCK BAND SUPERSTAR!!!

Yesterday was a first in RICK'S Rockband playing skills. He dared enter the realm of expert level for the first time. He had been messing around with the HARD setting on drums and was getting fairly good at it. He could easily make at least 4 stars and had in some instances made it to 5 STARS!!! Not an easy task to many out there who have little to no skill at drumming. Now, Rick will admit that he is not expert at drumming either. Played the bass drum in High School, and got alittle familiar with the percussion. But never really picked it up.

ROCKBAND is a rhythm game. You follow the screen hitting the colored drum pad as it falls down the screen. It matches the rhythm of the song, whether it be for a guitar or drum. It even has vocal tracks that you try to match. With a myriad of songs to choose from, and more released each week, it's a game that doesn't stop challenging.

Well, Rick picked up the OASIS song pack last week. One of the songs that he has always liked from them is LIVE FOREVER! And it's on the pack. So he played and played it. And at the moment he felt that he could move out of Hard, he went to expert level. It was a little scary at first but as the song got going, he fell into it and made it all the way to the end with a Star Rating of 4!!!! Almost made it to 5!!!! This is the first time he had tried an Expert Level song. Needless to say, Rick was excited about it!!!

But trying another song on Expert, it fell apart rather quickly. PRACTICE MAKES almost PERFECT!!! He will keep trying when he can. Hopefully there will be more news on the Rock Band Front as he keeps playing it as often as he can.