How to Play Guitar Hero 3: Becoming the Legend
Playing Guitar Hero 3 is quite as enjoyable as its predecessors, and
as the game gets more difficult the more you want to beat your opponents
and be the master in the end. But how can you do that? The first tip
would of course be practice, practice and more practice. But along with
practice, you must get yourself a good strategy in order to win the
game. Hence, here are some tips and tricks in becoming a better Guitar
Hero player.
First, take control of the guitar. Controlling means holding the frets,
hence if you are right-handed, then you must control the frets using
your left hand. Meanwhile, if you are a lefty, then you can play with
the buttons using your right hand and strum with your left (using the
pick).
By mastering which hand should you use on strumming and holding the
frets, it would then be easier for you to navigate across the game play
screen since you will be hitting on the same buttons in order to select
and start your game. In Guitar Hero 3, you move the menu screens up and
down by strumming the pick, and select by pressing on the Green button
on the fret. To cancel you hit the Red button, and to leave the game and
enter the menu, hit Start. There are four difficulty levels in Guitar
Hero 3, namely, Easy, Medium, Difficult and Expert.
Among the most important counters you must monitor in playing Guitar
Hero is the Rock Meter. The Rock Meter measures your performance level;
if you hit the right notes the counter moves towards the green section,
but when miss the notes, your performance level becomes red. Going too
far into the red section would mean that you are failing the song have
to do it all over again.
Another counter you should check is the Score Meter. In Guitar Hero 3,
your score increases when you get the right notes, and your score will
not decrease when you miss notes. When you hit 10 correct consecutive
notes, your score is doubled. Twenty correct notes meanwhile will triple
your score, and 30 in a row multiplies your score four times.
Learn to use Star Power. In becoming a Guitar Hero legend you must know
how to use the Star Power. Build your star power by hitting on the notes
underlined with stars. When your Star Power meter is at least half-full,
you can then raise your guitar controller vertically to have it
activated. Star Power doubles your incoming points, and as well
increases your Rock Meter level.
Master chord progression. One effective in mastering Guitar Hero 3 is by
keeping your fingers at the same place. You easily work on hand and eye
coordination when your brain knows which finger should hit the right
color. It also speeds up your moves. The ideal finger-button association
is: pinky (blue), ring finger (yellow), middle finger (red), and index
finger (green). When you see an orange note, you must hit the orange
button using all your fingers.
Hammer-ons. A hammer-on is a method where you play two to four notes
quickly by just one strum of your pick. In Guitar Hero 3, hammer-ons can
be done on notes that don't have black rings. Also, try to practice
strumming up and down so you can catch those notes that are so close in
succession. This helps increase both your Rock Meter and Star Power,
giving you more points.
Play against the Power Icons. During the game, you can play against
musicians such as Lou, Slash and Tom Morello. Your objective here is to
make them fail the game before the song ends. What you have to do then
is to play the “battle gem” notes successfully so that you earn weapons
you can use to sabotage their game, such as: broken string, amp
overload, double notes, lefty flip, steal, and death drain. Using these
weapons on them correctly can get them off the game and of course, make
you a true guitar hero. |
