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    Posted: April 22 2009 at 22:36
In a similar vein of Prog Idol, list some prog songs that would be hard as hell on Guitar Hero. That would include guitar, bass, a crappy drumset with only 6 different things to hit, and vocals. Unfortunately, no keyboards, or else choosing hard songs would be a lot easier.
 
Personally, I think I'd put these ones on:
 
Metropolis Pt. 1 - Dream Theater
Sound Chaser - Yes
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
Goliath - The Mars Volta
By-Tor And the Snow Dog - Rush
 
These would be some of the harder ones to play. Of course, these are pretty popular songs, I'm sure that many others could come up with some other ones.
 
Keep in mind a couple of things:
 
-There is no left foot pedal for the drums. That means lots of tricky hi-hat lifts will be a lot easier to play on the game and double bass sections will cut out all the hits that would be normally be done by the left foot.
 
-Extreme growls and screams are a no-no. A couple of lines like that is probably okay. Otherwise, nothing. That's why there are no Meshuggah songs on my list.
 
-Keep the length of the song shorter if you can. Nobody wants to play 20 minutes of "Gates of Delirium" no matter how hard it is (yes I realize all of them on my list were over 7 minutes long, but that's standard prog length my friend).
 
Anyways, I thought this would be a fun topic, even if some people here probably think it's a useless game that people play so they think they are good musicians.

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Points: 3595 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2009 at 23:01
Ah, how about

For guitar -

Perpetual Burn - Jason Becker
For The Love Of God - Steve Vai
Jaws Of Life - John Petrucci
The Odyssey - Symphony X
A Change Of Seasons - Dream theater

(Yeah, the last two are long, but I have played them on Frets on Fire)

Drums -

Spirit Crusher - Death
Symbolic - Death
Time Does Not Heal - Dark Angel
And The Devil Cried - Psychotic Waltz
The Dance of Eternity - Dream Theater

(yeah, I know, three Hoglan tracks. He is my favorite drummer.)
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Focus - 'Hocus Pocus'

... on any instument. Vocals would be interesting. Smile
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Willie the Pimp - Frank Zappa
La Villa Strangiato - Rush
Anything by Ozric Tentacles would be sweet


Then they should release a Guitar Hero 3.51 that includes sax, bassoon, and other instruments as an extension. It'd be... HENRY COW HERO
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"Paradox" by Kansas
"YYZ" by Rush
"Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus" by The Mars Volta
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays
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Originally posted by 3vilP3nguin 3vilP3nguin wrote:

Focus - 'Hocus Pocus'

... on any instument. Vocals would be interesting. Smile


Great choice.
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Let me just step in here for a minute to remind you all that you can surf any track you want with this great game:

http://www.audio-surf.com

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Hmm, lots of instrumentals here. The vocalist is gonna get bored....

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Akupunktura by the legendary Leb i Sol.Clap (and generally all that comes from their 2nd album).
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"In Circles" - T2
"Master of the Universe" - Hawkwind
"Globus" - A.R. & Machines
"Minstrel in the Gallery" - Jethro Tull
"Red" - King Crimson
"Cicatriz E.S.P." - The Mars Volta
"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
"In the Dead of Night" - U.K.
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21st Century Schiuzoid Man Including Mirrors - King Crimson

 
On the... I don't know. Never played Guitar Hero! Embarrassed
 
Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man.
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Larks tounge in aspic II and 21st century schizoid man
Tom Sawer and YYZ
Money and Young Lust
Aqualung and Thick as Brick (single version)
Owner Of A Lonely Heart and Heart of the sunrise
 
 
I'm trying to think of popular prog songs which would be likelyto be onthere if it were to be released.
 



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Originally posted by topofsm topofsm wrote:

In a similar vein of Prog Idol, list some prog songs that would be hard as hell on Guitar Hero...

I understand they put "Seven" from Symphony X - Paradise Lost - on Guitar Hero already.  If that ain't a bitch to play, I don't know what is!...
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YYZ has already appeared in a Guitar Hero game (GH3, I think).

Since Rock Band came out, both games are focusing on songs that have vocals, which is a shame because some of the best songs from the first three Guitar Hero games were instrumentals (such as YYZ).  Not much prog finds it's way into Guitar Hero and Rock Band unless it's prog metal or Rush.  Although several no-too-prog songs from bands in PA have been in past games.
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Guitar Hero II actually...

Tom Sawyer has is on the World Tour one I think as well. (Rush is pretty universal guitar rock I suppose)

If you buy Guitar Hero III for your PC, you can download tons of free charts that people have made, and all you have to do is some other fiddly stuff (which can be explained better by some Tutorial somewhere, so I'll leave it to them) and play pretty much any song you want. There is a site that has a HUGE database of songs.

If they don't have YOUR song, you could make it yourself, although it is quite tedious to do so.
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Bleed - Meshuggah on Expert Evil Smile

The room would be just covered in lactic acid.
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They could put "Kayleigh", "Lavender" and "Easter" from Marillion on there, although those songs aren't too
proggy.

I think "Close To The Edge" or "Gates Of Delirium" would be insane, I would possibly buy it just for those 2.

Shame that GH doesn't have a synth controller, that would be so badass.
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Points: 19643 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2009 at 22:19
:O

Almost forgot the "Forgotten Sons".
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Maybe for the sake of it being prog the "Legends of Prog" game would only have 1 song on each tier for difficulty. Think about it
 
1. Easy
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
 
2. Harder, but still pretty easy
"Supper's Ready"
 
3. Mezzo-easy
"Thick as a Brick Pt. 1"
 
4. Medium
"Anesthetize"
 
5. Hard
"2112"
 
6. Even more difficult
"Gates of Delirium"
 
7. Experts
"Cassandra Gemini"
 
8. Arms falling off status
"In The Presence of Enemies"
 
That would screw pretty much anyone over.

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It would be interesting to try and play Cassandra Gemini. It would be fun to play Starless and Bible Black on Guitar, but even more fun to do vocals for A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. Bands like Mahavishnu Orchestra or Henry Cow would be hard to play, I don't know how GH would represent some of Frith's guitar playing.
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