clintilona’s full band customs: All songs updated (11-11-14)
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You, Mr. Clintilona sir, are a man of exquisite taste. I love this, thank you!
(unless you are a woman, which…err…um…I guess is possible, right? -j/k)
Ooo nice, did you fix up the charts too by any chance? (I remember the Guitar chart being extremely wrong and charting straight muted chords as trills and stuff)It’s pretty much the exact guitar chart from GH, which after playing last night and experiencing the awkwardness is something that could probably be improved.
thanks for black sabbath , iron maiden
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Thank you for the Black Sabbath!!!
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_biggrin.gif” />Hey! Thanks a lot for Led’s Rock and Roll, I absolutely love this song!
But the guitar charts are way too difficult, even for a level 5! In fact, I don’t even think a devil-heads-level chart would be so hard. I mean, the Expert chart looks good (despite the chord overkill), but the Easy chart looks more like it could be Medium, while Medium looks like Hard and Hard is pretty much Expert with the odd missing note here and there.
The bass isn’t so bad, but it’s still a bit overcharted for difficulties below Expert. And I don’t talk about drums because I don’t have them.
Please revise the charts and tone them down, will you? Thanks.
Thanks for checking out my old customs. Rock and Roll happened to be my first custom that I posted and I’m sure the reductions being off are not the only problem with it. If I ever revisit Rock and Roll, or any of the other songs posted here, it will be through as a C3 “From the Vault” release.
For now, you can try using Farottone’s amazing new CAT scripts for Reaper to delete and automatically redo the reductions on your own.
What I am giving out here with this update are songs that I have been sitting on for a long time or songs that I have been working on and finished up recently. These are not polished like C3 customs. In fact, I think every one of these are first drafts and have not been updated since first being built in Magma.
Bottom line is that I do not intend to ever re-visit these. I thought I might clean them up for C3 releases eventually, but I just want to dump them all here and start with some fresh stuff. There’s really no reason to keep hoarding these so that only myself and the 4 other people I play with have access to them. That’s just being selfish.
All the songs here have everything a full band custom should have (except keys if that’s your thing — definitely not mine). What they’re missing is playtesting and polishing. There’s definitely sloppiness in some areas and some things matching my personal preference to be found, but overall these should all be fun to play. I know we’ve been having fun with them.
First up: Guitar Hero Van Halen songs that nobody knows. I believe these are the final six VH songs from the game that have not already been converted and released in some form. Honestly, I have always been a Van Hagar guy and never really gave DLR Van Halen a fair shot. I had heard all the radio hits and never really found too much to like. When I decided to try these out to see if they were worth converting I found that these songs were actually very good. After giving them a half dozen or so listens I realized that VH had actually done some pretty awesome stuff in the early 80’s beyond VHI & VHII (Romeo Delight was a VERY pleasant surprise for me). I definitely look more forward to playing these ones during Rock Band sessions now than I do the other “hits”. Give them a try if you’re not familiar with them, it will be worth it.
VAN HALEN – HANG ‘EM HIGH
VAN HALEN – HEAR ABOUT IT LATER
VAN HALEN – LOSS OF CONTROL
VAN HALEN – MEAN STREET
VAN HALEN – ROMEO DELIGHT
VAN HALEN – SOMEBODY GET ME A DOCTOR
Next are pretty much the final five Guitar Hero songs that I had any interest in, but had yet to be converted. I am surprised that our resident GH conversion guys like Spindoctor, Nunchuck & Kemiroch never got to these or the VH songs above.
ALICE COOPER – ELECTED
BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND – GET OUT OF DENVER
LYNYRD SKYNYRD – CALL ME THE BREEZE (LIVE)
SANTANA – NO ONE TO DEPEND ON (LIVE)
The next one is something I found in the Frets on Fire forums. I think it was Narutostarwars who charted this entire song. All I really did was convert it and put some Rock Band polish to it.
LED ZEPPELIN – TEN YEARS GONE
You can never have enough Alice Cooper. This “deep cut” from his early years is outstanding and goes great with one of the first customs I ever did, Be My Lover. Give this one and BML a try. Very much worth it.
ALICE COOPER – IS IT MY BODY
Last up is something I was planning on putting in a Van Hagar 5150 pack through C3, but in a combination of getting bored of charting the same band for that long of a stretch and absolutely loathing anything to do with keys, I quickly nixed the idea. But hey, at least I got Dreams completed enough so that I am happy playing it. It’s easily my favorite Van Halen song from their entire catalogue. Though I still don’t love it enough to ever revisit it…
VAN HALEN – DREAMS
Final thing is that nobody should waste their time or finger energy typing complaints or recommended fixes for these songs as it will be ignored. If you see something in these charts that you do not like, go ahead and fix them yourself. It’s really not that hard. With all the tools & tutorials that the C3 Admins, C3 Authors and fellow forum members have provided you should all pretty much be able to put out something playable. There’s really no excuse any more.
So, if you’re not happy with something in the metadata, use C3 Con Tools and edit the songs.dta file yourself and re-save the file. If you are not happy that, for example, a Van Halen song has a stretch of double bass pedal, use C3 Con Tools to extract the midi, open it in Reaper, use CAT to remove notes, export the midi from Reaper and re-insert with C3 Con Tools and save. The same goes for anything else that you find that ruins your life because it’s not how you want it… It is a piece of cake to fix yourself. In the time it takes you to post your complaint you could’ve downloaded and installed C3 Con Tools or read through a section of Farottone’s awesome authoring tutorial.
It’s all really that easy. Nobody should ever have a reason to recommend someone to change something in their custom unless the author asks for it. Everything in this update is exactly how I want it on my Xbox and that’s the way it will stay.
Now that I’ve typed the above I think I probably am coming off as a bit of a prick, but I’ve never really claimed to be otherwise, so oh well.
Wow. Nice picks. Dreams! Fucking Dreams! I was reading through them yeah more GH converts cool and them BAM Van Hagar! The first full band one too if I recall. I always wanted to do one, maybe Why Can’t This Be Love?, but never got the enough motivation. Thanks for getting all these done.
Is this real life?!? …I think I hallucinated this thread while in some kind of dream state. It’s like some kind of rock ‘n roll utopia ruled over by a most generous and kindhearted soul called Clintilona. Although by his own admission he can be somewhat prickish at times
, we will forever be in his debt. This release is absolutely stunning. I can only pray that this all still exists when I wake up.Thanks for completing Guitar Hero Van Halen plus more Guitar Hero converts. Love me some Blister in the Sun as well. Excellent!
Very nice! Violent Femmes, Santana, OK Go and at least a few Van Halen for me. I’ll give it all a good listen, too.
Thanks for sharing!
Hello.
I would like to play your new songs in Phase Shift, but I can’t convert these songs because are encrypted. Can you please fix this problem?
Thanks
Wow. Nice picks. Dreams! Fucking Dreams! I was reading through them yeah more GH converts cool and them BAM Van Hagar! The first full band one too if I recall. I always wanted to do one, maybe Why Can’t This Be Love?, but never got the enough motivation. Thanks for getting all these done.That was the next one I was going to do in the pack. If I do another Van Hagar, it would be that one. I think Canuck already did drums, so that’s a start. I’d be willing to pitch the vocals if you ever get around to charting the rest.
Is this real life?!? …I think I hallucinated this thread while in some kind of dream state. It’s like some kind of rock ‘n roll utopia ruled over by a most generous and kindhearted soul called Clintilona. Although by his own admission he can be somewhat prickish at times, we will forever be in his debt. This release is absolutely stunning. I can only pray that this all still exists when I wake up.You always put out the best and most creative thank you posts. It is very appreciated.
Thanks for completing Guitar Hero Van Halen plus more Guitar Hero converts. Love me some Blister in the Sun as well. Excellent!I have a feeling you will be bummed about Blister. You are a prolific RB drummer and I pretty much threw that drum chart together in about 25 minutes.
Hello.I would like to play your new songs in Phase Shift, but I can’t convert these songs because are encrypted. Can you please fix this problem?
Thanks
I am unable to decrypt them in their current state and there is no chance that I will rebuild all of them again without the encryption and re-upload.
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