Rock Band Marathon

[Dan Petrovic]

Well... the Ion drum set is a little expensive and I'm not that serious about it.

One of my friends (the main drummer for our Rock Band) probably will get it. He's wanted an electric drum set for quite a while. This is a very inexpensive solution.

Since Rock Band 2 is coming out in September, I'm wondering if I should even bother bringing the drums I already have to school with me.

I pretty much love Harmonix for allowing most of the Rock Band songs to be backwards compatible. I just really hope we can do Band World Tour online.... I'm going to Purdue, our drummer is going to RPI, our bassist and vocalist are going to Umass Lowell. So, getting us together to work on our Leaderboard rankings will be kind of difficult. By the way, we're almost in the top 100 for Band Career Score. I think we're 113th at the moment.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Well... the Ion drum set is a little expensive and I'm not that serious about it.

One of my friends (the main drummer for our Rock Band) probably will get it. He's wanted an electric drum set for quite a while. This is a very inexpensive solution.

Since Rock Band 2 is coming out in September, I'm wondering if I should even bother bringing the drums I already have to school with me.

I pretty much love Harmonix for allowing most of the Rock Band songs to be backwards compatible. I just really hope we can do Band World Tour online.... I'm going to Purdue, our drummer is going to RPI, our bassist and vocalist are going to Umass Lowell. So, getting us together to work on our Leaderboard rankings will be kind of difficult. By the way, we're almost in the top 100 for Band Career Score. I think we're 113th at the moment.

Just beware about the Ion set, you still have to buy a separate brain in order for it to be a stand-alone electronic set. It is definitely directed at the Rock Band-ers that want to get into real drums though (along with the lessons and mp3 playovers).
And yes, World Tour is online now!
Beware, the rankings will be even harder with that though. Once upon a time one of my bands was 5th on Welcome Home (with only 3 members!), now we're like ~60 (with a higher score and 4 members). My most successful band has only 2 members, so we don't really go for rankings (gold stars are good enough for us ).

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Just beware about the Ion set, you still have to buy a separate brain in order for it to be a stand-alone electronic set. It is definitely directed at the Rock Band-ers that want to get into real drums though (along with the lessons and mp3 playovers).
And yes, World Tour is online now!
Beware, the rankings will be even harder with that though. Once upon a time one of my bands was 5th on Welcome Home (with only 3 members!), now we're like ~60 (with a higher score and 4 members). My most successful band has only 2 members, so we don't really go for rankings (gold stars are good enough for us ).

I forget what our rank is for Welcome Home, but we're #1 for Roxanne, Don't Cha Stop, and You're All I've Got Tonight. I'm not sure what our highest rank is of the songs that are on the disk.

But yeah, the ranks will get harder. All of the elite players will come together and dominate the boards.

Edit: After a quick search on the rockband.com/leaderboards site it says we are 64th on Welcome Home.