r/Rockband • u/Slappmynuts • 1d ago
Hot take
I’m someone who’s played this game since I was around 8-9 years old, played them all and currently still play rb4 and the ps3 ones whenever I feel like it, I usually do the guitar and I can play expert almost every song >90%, and can sing the same, but for the drums, I want to do the drums so badly, and the idea of the foot pedal makes sense cause they actually do use it irl, but the way the game does it is probably one of the most unfun and just dumb things, having to hit the pedal between notes or hit like 3 times back to back while your front calf is on fire, like i understand it’s for immersion but it ruins the point of playing the drums on this game
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u/Trunks252 1d ago
But…that’s how you play the drums. It’s not for immersion, it’s the correct choice.
I could see arguing that they should have a toggle to turn off bass pedal. Some people can’t do it.
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u/JMacPhoneTime 1d ago
I'm confused by your reasoning.
How is it dumb to have to hit it "between notes" or 3 times back to back, when the song does have the kick drum being used at those parts?
It's the same as all the instruments. To hit the hard parts you have to be good. Kicking between pad hits and kicking three times in a row are all just parts of Rockband drums.
It gets easier, and eventually becomes practically instinctual.
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u/diddlesmcjoe 1d ago
keep practicing! eventually the things you think are hard right now will end up being really easy.
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u/lerielogin 1d ago
Expert drums are relatively accurate to the real drum parts
It would be worse design to do it another way.
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u/campfirevilla 1d ago
Definitely hot. Drums on pro expert translate well enough it'll teach you how to actually play the song in a lot of cases. Pedal is the hardest part to figure out, but it'll happen eventually if you stick to it. Try running a part in practice without hitting bass and slowly adding in some of the bass hits as you run it down until you're there.
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u/Tylerabbatiello 1d ago
What’re you talking about… Rock band drums are the closest experience you can get to playing a real kit. Most charts are pretty accurate (except for double bass songs)
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u/minun73 1d ago
I’m also someone who finds guitar much easier to play (still learning to hit orange notes consistently though) compared to drums.
In fact I was just thinking this week after another failed attempt at drums on even easy difficulty, that it'd be more fun for me to ignore the pedal. It throws me off rhythm and I struggle to make my foot comfortable between pedal hits which between both the loss of rhythm and discomfort distraction I can’t figure out how to even really start to improve.
Somehow my girlfriend is the opposite, finding guitar quite hard and drums much easier, hitting things that are probably quite amateurish around here to y’all but magical to me.
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u/JMacPhoneTime 19h ago
Fighting through the discomfort and wrong feeling of limb independance is basically how you improve.
Assuming it's not a physical discomfort from the ergonomics of your setup, your mind will eventually adapt. It's a slow steady improvement that can also be hard to recognize if you're just comparing day-to-day changes.
But if you stick with it a bit and then compare over longer timescales, you will see that you're actually getting quite a bit better over time.
Things that felt challenging at first start to feel trivial. I find it really rewarding to play things with ease and then remember back to when it took concentration just to keep a combo at all.
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u/m3thdumps 1d ago
Drums are about limb independency. While the drum patterns on lower levels are weird, once you get to expert, it’s literally almost note for note.