Rock Band - The End, or just the Beginning?

SO

I completed Rock Band on Hard. YES!! That's right, I finally completed the guitar solo career on Hard. Now I can die a happy man. . . or can I? The expert difficulty is calling to me and I KNOW that it will serve to KICK MY ASS all over again. Why put myself through such torture? No really. . . WHY? I can't really come up with a good explanation for that one, but what I CAN say is that I will be completing the solo Drum career on Hard before I do anything else in the game. I think there are like 45 career songs you have to complete and I am stuck right now on Vasoline. I have completed like 26 songs in the Drum solo career. The drums are. . . tough.

The thing about the drums is that I feel that they are actually easier to play on Expert than on Hard. What I mean is, I am always finding myself playing extra beats to try and mimic what I am hearing rather than actually playing what is on screen. This is easier to avoid in the guitar career, for me personally, because I don't actually know how to play the guitar. I don't play the drums either, but drumming is more of an instinctual type of thing anyhow. I mean, your limbs just naturally want to do certain things when you start drumming. This is why, if you are right handed, you cannot play the ride symbol with your left hand. Your right foot and left hand just naturally want to hit the same beat at the same time.

Anyway, I have to say I actually pumped my arms and fists when I finished Green Grass and High Times. . . er, I mean " Tides". (heh heh ) I had to practice those solos for a good hour before I could play through them. And I should mention that I can only play through them without dying. They don't sound any good, I can just make it through the song now. I did get 4 stars somehow though. It was like I was playing every other note.

I haven't felt a greater sense of accomplishment in a game other than making this achievement. (which is really quite sad. . but, moving on) It just took me so long to train my fingers to do all the button presses. It is interesting to me how much control you need in order to make your limbs respond a certain way. Like playing the drums for example. It takes me a ridiculous amount of concentration in order to play syncopated rhythms, hit the base pedal multiple times in a row and so on. When you are looking at the screen though you are thinking to yourself, "How hard could it be." Then you realize your body just DOES NOT want to do that. UGgghhhhh. . . the struggle continues.

I guess the bright side though is that playing the drum career can actually carry over (somewhat) to the real world. Not that I am going to run out and buy a drum set, but it is nice to know that I would be able to mess around if the opportunity ever did present itself.

In closing - It doesn't matter to me that I have wasted hours upon hours playing this damn game. What does matter is that I viewed an animation of my character choreographing a pyrotechnics event.