If it's turning red and they're booing at you, time to pick up the pace, or you'll fail the song! In the upper left corner of the screen, you'll see your "Rock Meter." This tells you whether you're doing well, so-so, or terribly, and the crowd's commotion will change accordingly. Whenever a note is followed by a lower, brightly-colored note (going from right to left), you'll only have to strum the first, and then tap the second.
This refers to the color-ringed pads and cymbals of your drum kit, which you'll strike to play notes. In Guitar Hero's case, these will often refer to the round, colored buttons (AKA "gems") that you'll be strumming to. This is the long, slender area of the guitar where the fret buttons are located. This is your "multiplier," and each time you hit a note, your score will be multiplied accordingly (e.g., a x4 multiplier means you'll receive four times the normal amount of points per note struck). If you have a combo going, you'll see a number appear in a circle on the left side of the highway. On your screen, you'll see a fret board in the very center, and the colored gems will scroll down along it. The very top of the guitar (where you would tune it, if it were real). Whenever a note is followed by a higher, brightly-colored note (going from left to right), you'll only have to strum the first, and then tap the second. In the Guitar Hero language, "frets" are the five colored buttons at the top of the guitar's neck.Īn official term for the round, colored notes you see on the highway. This is the pedal situated near the bottom of the drum kit, and it's used to hit the long, orange notes on a drummer's highway. There's a meter beneath the multiplier which keeps track of how many sequential notes you've hit. When you're hitting many notes in a row without any misses, you have a "combo" going. The widest area (the bottom) of the guitar.Īny long pair of notes (appearing as a colored circle followed by a line) which must be sustained.