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*** Similarly, any song you're playing will rewind itself a bit after you exit the Pause menu, which means you can continue without [[Serious Business|disrupting your score]] and [[Rage Quit|flipping out]].
* [[April Fools' Day]]: In 2012, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueS7rbHqo_k&feature=player_embedded Rock Band Board Game].
** If one wants to try and play it, the game board can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20120906140923/http://www.rockband.com/content-assets/2012/03/boardgamePrintable.jpg here].
* [[Artifact Title]]: Arguably, now that the series is focusing on so many different genres of music, although the devs have claimed the title refers to the common lead-bass-drums-vocals ensemble that most rock bands use and not rock music in particular. And, for what it's worth, the vast majority of the series' music library is made up of rock songs.
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: On most of the on-disc songs, as well as a few DLC (such as the Best of The Who pack, George Thorogood's seminal Bad to the Bone, and The Cult's She Sells Sanctuary, as well as others), there's an additional audio track of a crowd singing along with key parts of the song.
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*** [[Funny Moments|And it's got]] [[My Real Daddy|a higher rating]].
** Special mention to the original game's "Train Kept a Rollin'" which is specifically noted as a cover of Aerosmith's cover of the song.
** Mostly averted by the Rock Band Network, where covers of public domain songs are allowed, but only if it's not a cover of an existing arrangement. This allows for classical pieces [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612143250/http://www.rockband.com/music/artists/Paul_Henry_Smith_%26_The_Fauxharmonic_Orchestra as done by Paul Henry Smith & The Fauxharmonic Orchestra], [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021090651/http://www.rockband.com/songs/UGC_5002361 The Itsy-Bitsy Spider], and more. One exception to this arrangement--sort of--is Jerry Naylor, who covered Buddy Holly & The Crickets' [https://web.archive.org/web/20121020165943/http://www.rockband.com/songs/UGC_5009067 Not Fade Away], since Jerry Naylor was a vocalist for The Crickets. His cover of [https://web.archive.org/web/20121020151235/http://www.rockband.com/songs/UGC_5008456 Real Wild Child] is also available, although technically the Crickets' version was also a cover. (Further adding to the confusion: Everlife's cover of Real Wild Child is also available on Lego Rock Band.)
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: Sight-reading [[Megadeth]]'s ''Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?'' album on Rock Band 2 on Guitar-Expert. You will end up conditioning yourself to use overdrive the second blue comes down the highway. Then you'll hit "Bad Omen"'s second solo and full-combo it. And then you'll hit "Bad Omen"'s ''[[That One Attack|Third Solo]]'' and fail because you wasted your overdrive on the laughably easy second solo.
** This also screwed up a lot of Guitar Hero 2 players when "Hangar 18" came out for Rock Band; the RB chart is quite different from the [[GH 2]] version.
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** At least one person has [[Flawless Victory|Full Comboed]] Rock Band 2 (considered the hardest game in the series) playing guitar and singing at the same time.
* [[Downloadable Content]]: If each song is a pound, there's over a ton of it.
** Just to provide perspective, Harmonix fully expected there to be well over '''one thousand''' songs playable in the ''Rock Band'' franchise by 2009's end, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100211164455/http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174116 they met that goal on Nov. 25.] ''The Beatles'' has its own store, too, making it the first band-centric game with DLC.
*** With Rock Band 3's release, combined with all previous games and DLC and the RB Network, Harmonix expects 2000 songs by the end of 2010 to be available. They're meeting '''that''' goal on October 12th!
** Not to mention with Rock Band Network, more and more [[Downloadable Content]] is available on a daily basis. Day One of RBN provided over a hundred new songs for people to download. And the RBN has updated with more songs ''every day since''.
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** [[Play Station 3]] owners who tried to export Rock band 2 at Rock Band 3's launch ended up with the wrong export key, hope you left your email with them to get a fixed key.
** The last two DLC released for ''Unplugged'', Sex Type Thing and Constant Motion, have the potential to delete the rest of your DLC if you download them. Buyer beware, indeed.
* [[Game Mod]]: Mostly hardware adjustments for the drums. Less necessary now that better instrument controllers are available, but sites like [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113211817/http://www.area51moto.com/mega/ MegaPedal] offer aluminum replacements, and then there is the more luxurious designs, like an actual kick pedal augmented with magnetic contacts...
** In a somewhat more traditional example, the Rock Band Network will allow users to submit their own songs for review to be made available for downloadable purchase. This requires a multitrack master of the recording and for the user to chart the song's notes himself. Oh, and the rights to do so, which can be harder than actually charting the song...
** "Jukebox" mode. Turn off the crowd sounds, enable no-fail and performance modes, and select vocals. Then just pick any song that you would like to listen to without fear of the game punting you out for losing.
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* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: The game guitar won't help much for real guitar. Also, even on Expert, one can be partially off-key with their vocals, and the octave doesn't matter at all.
** Quite possibly [[Averted]] with the drums, especially if you can play on expert. Don't expect it to help much beyond a primer for actual drums, but that's a start.
*** In a bizarre mix of real and fake, the game can be played [https://web.archive.org/web/20110408131953/http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56287
** Interestingly, the Rock Band website is starting a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100125164442/http://www.rockband.com/zine/category/berklee series of articles] intended to teach people how to play real life instruments. As well as [https://web.archive.org/web/20100211103010/http://www.rockband.com/zine/berklee a section] full of links to online music courses at the Berklee College of Music.
** What with the Pro mode to be introduced with RB3...
*** The biggest difference between playing Rock Band and a real instrument, is that while Pro Mode can help to teach you how to sightread like a boss, it won't teach you actual musical theory. It's the difference between being able to read and pronounce a word, and knowing what that word ''means.''
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*** The filter seems to be a bit hit-and-miss, though - "Uncle John's Band" by [[The Grateful Dead]] was playable in LEGO Rock Band, lyrics with the word Goddamn in them and all.
* [[Take That/Video Games|Take That]]:
** When Harmonix was developing the Rock Band Network, they code-named it "Rock Band: [[Nickelback]]" specifically to divert press attention (both have the same acronym: RBN). [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|It became less funny]] when [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501054554/http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194216 they actually put Nickelback in the DLC store].
** Not so much a Take That as much as simply a cheeky move, [http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/09/17/psn-exclusive-rock-band-dlc-sale-next-week/ Harmonix announced a 50% off sale for the PS3] (hopefully to counter the arguments for their apparent 360 favoritism). Amusingly these were made-up entirely of albums and packs containing songs that had been announced for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock along with several singles<ref>[[REM]]'s "''Losing My Religion''", [[Flyleaf]]'s "''Again''", [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s "''Bat Country''", [[Anberlin]]'s "''Feel Good Drag''", [[Stone Temple Pilots]]' "''Interstate Love Song''", and a cover of [[The Runaways]]' "''Cherry Bomb''" (the version on WoR is a re-recording) to name only the singles</ref> as though to say "Look at the size of our library". Some of these packs were purely in response to Warriors of Rock's setlist:
{{quote|They have "[[Jane's Addiction|Been Caught Stealing]]?" Well, we have that on-disc, and the ''Nothing’s Shocking'' album, too.
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