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Throwback Thursday: Best Official Rock Band DLC Of All Time Episode 6 - Matchbox 20 & More!

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Channel: Rock N' Roll True Stories · 2015 · Gaming

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Songs Featured This week

Matchbox 20 - She's So Mean
Rage Against The Machine - Bombtrack
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (Live)

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Welcome to rock gamer it's throwback thursday time where i highlight some of my favourite tracks that harmonix has released over the past 5 years. So let's get started with our first song of the week So this week's first song is from the band Matchbox 20 it's a song She's So Mean it's from a pack that was released in the fall of 2012 along with two other Matchbox 20 songs. And this is a song that features pro keys as well as vocal harmonies  And this song is really a song for I'd say guitarists, vocalists and drummers. The drumming is really good on this song. It's not difficult but what it does is instead of having that standard rock beat which it does has for some parts of it introduces this really fun, really fast rolls on the hi-hat combined with some rolls on the floor toms, on the rack toms and then it has this really fun bridge section where you're playing between different toms with the kick drum thrown in. The guitar is pretty chord heavy ilke the main riff you hear throughout the song it's a lot of chords and then it switches back and forth between chords and single notes. And then the later part of the song like the ending tends to throw  in some more chords that you haven't played before in the first half of the song. The bass and the keys are probably the weakest instruments. There's  sections where you won't be playing any keys at all you'll just be standing around. The bass you know is not that varied and it's just not that much fun. The vocals are a lot of fun and there's quite a few harmonies in here. There's actually some back and forth between the lead vocalist and the people singing the harmonies, which is really nice, but overall it's a really great song. I recommend you guys check it out. Let's go to our second song of the week. 

This next song is from the band Rage Against the Machine. This song is Bombtrack .it was released as part of a pack in 2012 that featured Sleep Now in The Fire and Killing In The Name. Killing in the name is a fantastic song if you haven't played it. It was originally from Guitar Hero 1 or 2. So Bombtrack is really interesting on guitar and bass they virtually play the same for the most part the riffs are identical, the intro's are identical almost.  And you know the intro uses a lot of hammer on's and pull offs. It's really good practice if you want to get used to playing hammer on's and pull off's The riff is really fun. You'll basically play across the entire fret board hammer ons and pull offs. And then the rest of the song is pretty decent on guitar. There's 2 guitar solos both of which are quite easy. I found the bass really shined during the guitar solo. That's when it gets really varied and a lot more fun. The drums are really great it's got a great driving beat to it the bass drum pattern i found really fun on this song and you'll be using all of crash cymbals on this song. You'll be using your green crash, you're yellow crash and your blue so if you do play pro drums and you have five total cymbals 3 of which are crashes. It's a really great song to play on. The vocals if you've played Rage Against the Machine they are all talkies. So there is not really much to evaluate there. There are harmonies in this song too. The harmonies are pretty fun, but i enjoy songs that are not just talkies. That's just my preference. This is really another great track you should definitely check out. Let's move onto our final song of the week. 

Our last song of the week is from Lynyrd Skynyrd its a live track of Sweet Home Alabama. This is the same version of sweet home alabama that was in Guitar Hero World Tour. Now this song features harmonies, it features pro keys. This song i think is a devil tiered on pro keys and there's a reason why. It's insanely difficult on pro keys. And this is a song where pro keys really shines especially the later part of the song where it's a giant jam session. The vocals you know it's a great song to sing and it's fun on harmonies,  i think the big downside against the vocals is that the later part of the song the last 1 minute or minute and a half to 2 minutes yo  you won't really be singing anything so the vocalist will be standing around for a while. The drums you know have a standard rock beat to it, but it changes things up by including open hi-hat as well as some ghost notes. The later part of the song has Rush style quick double hits triple hits on the ride cymbal that help add some flare and gives it a little more life. I

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