The Twelve Days of Customs 2014
- This topic is empty.
-
Posts
-
Excellent – I will be happy to double my total number of Fray songs. Thanks for coming out of retirement to bring us this one!
Day 8 is brought to you by BearzUnlimited!
http://i.imgur.com/OQB66fn.jpg
See the video reveal in the blog post!
Please allow me to introduce myselfI’m BearzUnlimited, a man of modest wealth and taste (hopefully, I guess that part’s for you to judge)
I’ve been around for a long, long year (and a few months)
Charted many a song’s…fuck it, I don’t know where to go from here with this lyrics thing
Other than song releases, I’ve been mostly quiet in the community here, so I’ll take this opportunity to go into background info or whatever which I absolutely did not already say last Christmas.
Rock Band has really had a huge influence on me. Before playing it, I really didn’t know anything about music, but RB made me a musician and introduced me to a huge amount of artists. Nowadays, I’ve branched out a lot with the music I listen to and I’m perhaps more of a music fan than I am a gamer now. While the only real instrument I can play right now is drums (which I learned from playing R:cool:, I’ve been experimenting with learning others as well (probably not from RB, though).
Like many others, I had always wanted to be able to play custom songs in Rock Band. Remember that one video where he was like “here’s how you put custom songs on Rock Band” and he put a piece of paper that said “Custom Songs” on top of the Rock Band box? In late 2012, I made an account on the RBN creators website so I could download the plugins and access the authoring docs. I didn’t have experience with actually charting for RBN, but I started out with just reading the docs and using my knowledge from playing the game. From the beginning, I wanted to make the songs as close as I could get to official quality. Some time after official DLC ended, I thought something like “Wouldn’t it be cool if there could be, like, a group of people who kinda carry on the official releases?” Shortly afterwards I discovered C3 was a thing.
While vocals and pro keys were a hurdle I had to clear, my skill improved over time and I joined C3 in late September last year. At first I had no idea how I was supposed to figure out what notes the singer was hitting. Then, I wondered how the hell anyone could figure out what notes were played on keys. By charting songs, I’ve gained practice and gotten better at these things, and learned a lot about music along the way. Part of why I chart a song is not just to have it playable in the game at the end of the process, but so that I could really get to know it and analyze everything that’s going on.
Anyway, the song. The Rolling Stones are a classic band that we’ve always needed more of. There’s a lot of great songs by them that deserve to be in the game, and while I can’t make promises about any future releases, we now have one more of their classics. This one has multitracks taken from Guitar Hero 5, but without the nasty Neversoft charts. If you’ve played GH5 (or, like me, just seen videos of it), you’d know that the drum part was really boring. In the RB version, the handdrums are represented much more fully to create a fun, tom-filled part. The bass has a cool, bouncy rhythm with lots of little variations to make it more interesting. Guitarists are no longer stuck playing the piano part and just have the little solo-y bits. Instead, the piano is properly represented with a devilishly (yup, I did it) hard Pro Keys chart. As you get farther into the song, there’s lots of tricky freestyle sections that are hopefully less painful to play than they were to chart. Singers can belt out Mick Jagger’s rowdy vocal part, and make sure to bring your friends along to sing “Woo woo!” 126 times so they’ll want to kill you. Happy holidays!
Check back tomorrow for day 9 of the Twelve Days of Customs 2014!
(Remember, this is just a reveal; all songs will be released in a megapack on December 25.)
Excellent. I’m very happy there’s a full-fledged version of Sympathy coming. The Stones are certainly a band that needs more representation.
I’m also pleased to see Time of the Season coming. That one is a no-brainer.
Thank you Bearz and everyone else in C3 that keeps bringing the rock!
Fan-frickin’-tastic! Possibly my favourite Stones song is finally seeing the light of day on Rock Band in all its glory. This pack just took a turn towards epic territory.
Excellent. I’m very happy there’s a full-fledged version of Sympathy coming. The Stones are certainly a band that needs more representation.I’m also pleased to see Time of the Season coming. That one is a no-brainer.
Thank you Bearz and everyone else in C3 that keeps bringing the rock!
This guy right here was releasing the same song days before our announcement. Like the class act that he is he had no problem in pulling the song and leaving the spotlight on our release. This is the kind of guy our community is made of, and we are very proud of it. Thanks man for understanding!
Day 9 is brought to you by Arcanon and GreenPanda12!
Arcanon brings you:
http://i.imgur.com/2ZajrRN.jpg
And GreenPanda12 brings you:
http://i.imgur.com/wsOueHc.jpg
See the video reveal in the blog post!
What up C3? My name’s Arcanon, and I’m one of C3’s newer authors. Though, I’m not quite new to authoring.Some of you may know me as the owner and lead author of the RBN authoring group Chart Toppers Authoring. If you don’t…we released Shylo Elliott, Rainbowdragoneyes, Eurobeat Brony, one of the Paul and Storm songs, SNMT, and brentalfloss, just to name a few. Now you know me.
Going from the Chart Toppers start date, I’ve been authoring songs for over 4 years. Prior to that, I made a few guitar customs on Feedback that I may or may not go back to and make into full-band C3 releases.
Anyways. I joined C3 right after Harmonix announced the end of RBN. I’d been holding on to hope that the system would come back up so I could release my stash of unreleased songs I was going to bring to the Network. Unfortunately, things didn’t end up that way. Fortunately for you, a lot of my artists (with more saying yes every so often) have agreed to let me make customs of their songs, and some other independent RBN artists (not necessarily CTA ones) have been giving me unreleased material to recover. So, though I may be new here and only have four songs to my name in the C3 database, I have MUCH more planned for you guys, including an EP from an awesome new band that I’m hoping to time the C3 release with its actual release date. So yeah. That’ll be cool.
Some non-customs related facts about me for those who care: I’ve been drumming for about 3-ish years now, got into it via Rock Band. I’m always up for collaborations with other musicians; I’m currently doing background vocals and drum consulting work on a friend’s album, which may make its way to C3, and I’m working on some music with a couple other friends, which may also come to C3. (So much for non-customs related facts, eh?) I also enjoy other video games, with Smash Bros. and Tomodachi Life eating most of my time right now. I love going to the shooting range; I own 3 handguns, two of them Rugers, all of them 9s, and I love going to the shooting range and annihilating paper zombies. My day job is doing contracts for a healthcare company…I like to think that my contracting experience from CTA helped me get this job.
Back to customs! Aside from recovering RBN songs, I’ve become interested in doing customs of other songs I’d like to see in the game. Particularly GH conversions that haven’t been released through C3 yet of songs I’d like to play. Particularly songs from my favorite bands. Like Disturbed, my all time favorite band. You probably know where this is going now.
Disturbed has released a ton of stuff on Rock Band. I would have loved to see more, and at one point I tweeted David Draiman to gauge interest in a possible RBN release. He was all for it, but…major label band. Yeah. I never got anywhere with it. Hell, I may have even done it for free if they’d let me, that’s how bad I wanted more Disturbed in-game. So, what better way to contribute to this holiday event than to take the only GH Disturbed song that never made it to Rock Band, “The Infection,” and make it a full-on custom? I’m very proud to share this gift to you all. Though I’m obviously biased on the song, I can assure you it’s quite fun on all instruments.
I’ll close up here by thanking C3 for taking in this lost author and his trove of unreleased songs and giving them a home. Thanks to the guys here, I’ve been able to connect with more Rock Band fans, and the songs I’ve worked hard on over the past few years have a chance to be played by the public again. I’ve also now immersed myself in the customs scene and have enjoyed playing a lot of the offerings here. I hope you all enjoy “The Infection” and all my other releases as much as I’ve enjoyed the stuff this community had to offer. I’ve got some good stuff coming for you. Thanks also go to Harmonix for creating such an amazing game, and to each and every one of you reading this for keeping this wonderful game alive.
If you wanna reach out to me for any reason, my Twitter handle is @Arcanon, or just shoot me a PM.
Hey guys, my name is GreenPanda12 and I’m an author for C3. I started out making customs in April this year after finding out about C3 and their customs. I’ve always wanted to be able to produce customs and strive to be the best author I can be to give back to the community. Some of you guys may know me from the Rock Band team Elite Rhythm Gaming (ERG), I’m mainly a drummer for the team but have had my fair share on all the other instruments. But without further ado, I present to you my custom “5 Colours in Her Hair”;Now for me, this song is of special importance. I used to have this friend in the UK where I was raised (I’m currently residing in Australia), we were massive fans of this band when they first came onto the scene. We would always hang out together and listen to music, but whenever this song came on, we would quite literally stop what we were doing and dance and sing our hearts out. It’s probably one of my favourite memories I have from living in the UK.
But enough about me, about the song. This album was released 10 years ago back in July so this release is quite fitting to bring McFly into Rock Band. The album debuted to No.1 in the UK, breaking the world record for the youngest band to achieve a No.1 album, the title previously held by The Beatles. It was certified 2x Platinum status and as of this year has sold 2 million copies worldwide. That’s pretty awesome for an album they released 10 years ago. This song has a killer guitar riff that will have you humming it for days, amazing harmonies and nothing better than Surf Rock nostalgia.
So to close this off, I just want to say a huge massive thank you to the guys and gals at C3 for letting me be a part of their collective. Although we may have had some moments, you’ve always tried to make me a better author and for that I thank you. I also want to thank my two best Rock Band buddies who have been my moral support throughout this crazy journey of authoring, MillionMiAway and SilverSurfer993. And last but not least, you guys. The players. Without you guys this game would not be what I know it as today, your constant feedback on songs any of our authors release mean the world to us and make us work that much harder to provide more. So once again, thank you.
Thank you for reading and now, enjoy the custom!
Check back tomorrow for day 10 of the Twelve Days of Customs 2014!
(Remember, this is just a reveal; all songs will be released in a megapack on December 25.)
Although I hadn’t heard the Mcfly song before, I’m really loving it, and more Disturbed is always good. So far I’m getting everything in this pack!
Day 10 is brought to you by Lowlander!
http://i.imgur.com/KoA5fYx.jpg
See the video reveal in the blog post!
Hey, I’m Lowlander2, and I was arguably one of the first real fanboys of C3. Once American Pie was released, I believe I stumbled upon C3 through Pikminguts posting about it on Twitter, and I was hooked instantly. The idea of the game still receiving weekly content made me very happy, as I have been playing Rock Band since it came out in Australia (which was one year late…). So I tuned in every Friday night to see what was coming out. It wasn’t quite like HMX never left the DLC game, but it was close enough that I could not have been happier.So similar-feeling was it to HMX DLC that I took up what Elison had been doing for the prior three years: posting all-instruments playthroughs of the C3 catalogue. Much of it was random, but every so often when I saw what came out, I just had to drop everything and record then and there, most notably the Cyndi Lauper pack and Halloween. I also remember receiving actual hype for the Weird Al chart videos. Sadly, earlier this year, copyright claims finally caught up to the channel, and so they are lost to the annals of YouTube. But I had a hell of a time simply following C3 by that point that I decided to try and join last December. By some of the comments I read, I got the impression I might have been asked to join and produce the videos once Nemo left either way, but here I am.
While it took me a long time to get my first song out, I feel like I’ve already added quite a bit to the broad RB library. My first real song (Spongebob doesn’t count) was Fire Water Burn, a highly popular but ultimately very simple song. From then on, I did a thirty second TV show theme, an acoustic ballad, a novelty song from Tony Hawk, some myriad GH converts, and a whole bunch of collaborations with both Colonel32dll and Mazegeek. And now?
I chose to do Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here because it’s probably the last of the most massive Pink Floyd songs that hasn’t been attempted in a big capacity, and it’s an absolute classic in every sense. Rock Band, in general, wants for songs with riffs this brilliant, moods this melancholy and instrument synchronicity this great. It has a decent shot at being one of the best songs of all time, and I truly hope you all enjoy it.
While it took me a while to gather my momentum, expect many big things from my contributions to C3 in 2015. Who knows? I might even have a few full albums planned!
Check back tomorrow for day 11 of the Twelve Days of Customs 2014!
(Remember, this is just a reveal; all songs will be released in a megapack on December 25.)
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.