FujiSkunk’s customs! Classic Synths 3-Pack!
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Great job. I just went through this on several instruments, and the new tempo map is perfect. Thanks.
Some bands can easily tell who their true fans really are. Take Pink Floyd, for example. The story goes the line in “Have a Cigar” was inspired by a music exec and “alleged” fan who asked the group, “Which one’s Pink?” Such is the case also with…
…the Marshall Tucker Band. The name came not from any members of the group, but from a piano tuner who had once rented the warehouse the band was using for rehearsals at the time. When they saw the name “Marshall Tucker” on the key to the warehouse door, they knew they had their name.
“Heard It in a Love Song” was the band’s final Top 40 hit, and it was their biggest, reaching #14 in the States. Southern rock fans will know this song well, but even those who aren’t familiar with the group may want to give this one a shot, especially anyone who’s been hankering for more country and country-esque tunes. This is the full album version, with the piano solo and fourth verse that often go missing when the song is heard on the radio.
The guitar chart is a mix of one of the two electric guitars present plus the ad-libbed acoustic guitar heard to the left. There is a rhythm guitar I could have used to fill out some of the empty spaces, but it is buried so far down in the mix that it wouldn’t really feel like you’re playing along with anything. Also well buried is the piano, and my reference MIDI wasn’t as faithful as I would’ve liked. I think I pulled out enough notes to make it convincing, and I found a very helpful YouTube video for charting the solo. Keyboardists get to play along with the flute as well.
Hope y’all enjoy!
In memory of Glenn Frey, here is…
…”Heartache Tonight” by the Eagles, complete with the “The”!
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” /> Tempo map and drums by Crazy Canuck. Reductions, vocals, guitar and bass by me.The guitar chart jumps back and forth between the original song’s three guitar parts, but I think it still plays quite naturally. I also believe this sets a personal record for the most HOPO overrides in a single song!
Hope y’all enjoy!
Thanks Fuji another great eagles track
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_biggrin.gif” />YAY!!!!!!! Have been looking forward to this one since it was announced. One of the few songs that I can actually play drums on.
Thanks, Fuji!
Outstanding! You knocked it outta the park on this one!
A couple of cool points on this release for us are:
1. This is one of our very favorite Eagles tunes.
2. Like Samjjones we’ve wanted to have this in RB3 for a very long time.
3. With the inclusion of this song in game, now “The Long Run” album has it’s own sub heading!
We are really happy you did this one!
Domo Arigato, most honorable Fuji San!
Stereotomy is the process of turning solid pieces of stone or wood into custom geometric shapes. These are often used to create walls or other structures with distinctive building blocks rather than generic pieces like bricks or boards. Project founders Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson named their 1986 album Stereotomy not only as a metaphor for how artists are shaped by their pursuits, but also as a call back to the subject of their first album, Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote about stereotomy in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”.
For musicians, stereotomy can come from a quest for fame and fortune, and for a place in the…
“Limelight”. And what better place to sing about the limelight than in a game that challenges you to start a band and rock the world? Of course this isn’t the first “Limelight” to grace the game, but don’t worry, this one won’t trample over the other one.
The original vinyl release of Stereotomy came with a unique cover and a couple of color filters, letting buyers turn the two covers (front and back) into four all together. The filters let listeners perform “stereotomy” on the album itself, in other words. Most CD releases showed only one such set of covers, probably because the music labels were too cheap to include the color filters. That made finding a good hi-res image of the original cover a bit of a challenge. Still, it wasn’t anything Google and GIMP couldn’t handle.
With “Limelight” I’ve finally created a custom for my favorite band. This isn’t the first APP full-band custom, of course, thanks to C3’s release of “Sirius / Eye in the Sky” and Dash Riprock’s custom of “Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)”, both fine tunes. This also isn’t the first Rock Band release for the lead singer of “Limelight”. The first person to tell me the lead singer’s name and his other song available in the game gets a sneak peek at my future custom plans, and a bit of a say-so in my custom priorities.
In the meantime, I’ve also uploaded some fixes to earlier customs. “Heartache Tonight” now has proper practice sections, along with a few lyric formatting fixes. “Last Child” also has some lyric fixes, and I’ve rebuilt the “greatest hits” version to have a different ID and internal name than the original-album file. Both versions of “Last Child” still have the same in-game song name, so one may still overwrite the other (I haven’t had a chance to test that yet). Still, this will make keeping both versions a little easier for those who want both.
Both “Heartache Tonight” and the original-album “Last Child” have the same ID’s as before, and the game charts have not changed, so they should be easy drop-in replacements that won’t erase your scores. Just make sure to erase the old package files before closing RB3 Con Tools.
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