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* ''Rock Band Country Track Pack Vol. 2''

 

 

=== The franchise is the [[Trope Namer]] for: ===

** {{spoiler|Which was actually foreshadowed in one of the "LEGO Legend" loading screens: "The Inflatable Pig holds the record for longest distance traveled into space by an inflatable pig."}}

** The octopus who auditioned for drums and was rejected in the tour/story mode's opening cutscene comes back with his dad in one of the levels.

** The exportable songs for ''Rock Band'', ''Rock Band 2'', ''Green Day Rock Band'', and the ''AC\DC Track Pack'' (except for a couple of songs by [[Bon Jovi (Music)|Bon Jovi]], which have [[Updated Rerelease|Updated Rereleases]] as DLC) are strictly all-or-nothing affairs. Some of the other track packs didn't have all of their songs available separately until later.

* [[Bullet Hell]]: Some difficult songs on the guitar, drums, or bass will feel like an inversion of this trope. Though many difficult songs will still have a relative pattern to their notes that can be mastered with practice, some songs have notes all over the place that don't seem to follow any reasonable pattern (they usually do, as [[Bullet Hell]] is supposed to, but getting used to that pattern is not easy). Of note is the guitar solo in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wtPdpPKrWA "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7yhIT3LCog#t=4m38s this part] of the solo in "Blackened", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Ea9LPwHAY this part] of "Death Quota for Purification", the drum fills of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNtCInpPZM "Day of Mourning"], the drum fills in the intro of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reH2KjzeNMY "Young Man Blues"], much of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWwmzyct-4 "Guns of Summer"] on drums, and on the, erm, "easier" side of things, the entirety of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NgbcsGDHU "Rude Mood"] on bass and the chorus of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jdnc6Axd2U "Science Genius Girl"] on drums.

** 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 [http://www.rockband.com/music/artists/Paul_Henry_Smith_%26_The_Fauxharmonic_Orchestra as done by Paul Henry Smith & The Fauxharmonic Orchestra], [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' [http://www.rockband.com/songs/UGC_5009067 Not Fade Away], since Jerry Naylor was a vocalist for The Crickets. His cover of [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.)

** 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.

** If you're left handed, but play guitar right handed due to your more dexterous left hand, you'll probably be playing keyboard with your left hand. There is no lefty flip option for keyboard. You're probably going to try to play green notes with your index finger and orange notes with your pinky, even though you will want to do the opposite.

*** Actually, some guitar parts are easier on the keyboard than guitar, because some things are easier to do with your fingers pointing down than pointing up (like the crazy solo part in Freebird). Other songs that have a lot of strumming on the same note are significantly harder, though, like Beast and the Harlot (still doable though).

*** Speaking of keyboards... Bass on the keyboard is easy enough. Try [[Evile|Thrasher]], or BYOB, or any song with fast strumming. Have fun trying to keep combo!

** And in RB3, there is a new band goal to hit every note in the 83 on-disc songs in the game. All of them. Thankfully, it only actually requires it be done on one chart per song.

* [[I Don't Know Mortal Kombat]]: Real life guitarists can still suck at the game on guitar. Here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcvSWoQWV0 Rush bombs "Tom Sawyer" at 31%], while [[Jonathan Coulton]] And His Backing Band [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgutrkFjBQ struggle through "Still Alive"].

*** Remedied in Rock Band 3 - unlock once, use on every character you want for that profile.

** There are a couple of songs that were pulled from the store due to copyright issues.

** Rock Band 3 actually lets you do something about both this and having Say It Ain't So appear constantly by the means of rating songs on a "5-lighter" scale. Higher-rated songs have a higher chance of appearing when a random song is picked by the game. This is very important, as not only are Rock Band 1 and 2 songs exportable to Rock Band 3 (and thus can appear in random setlists), ALL DLC, including Rock Band Network DLC, can also appear in random setlists in Rock Band 3, so unless you like the idea of possibly having ''[[That One Boss|Death Quota for Purification]]'' as your first random song, you might want to go through your setlist and 1-lighter all the songs you know you can't pass.

* [[Marathon Boss]]: "Green Grass and High Tides" by The Outlaws, which was featured in the original Rock Band, was almost ten minutes long. "The Camera Eye" by Rush, a song available in the DLC store, clocks in at eleven minutes long, but that doesn't even compare to [[The Who]]'s "The Who Super Bowl S-Mashup", another DLC song, which features multiple [[The Who]] songs played back-to-back and is about fifteen minutes long. Credence Clearwater Revivial's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" has the longest guitar solo of all collectively released tracks, taking up most of the 9+ minute song.

*** And none of these goals are actually required to hit the highest rank (Completionist) - but if there's one you can't do, they are able to cover it off. You do need all the exports though - RB1, 2, Green Day and LEGO. Given that The Final Countdown 100% solo goal appears... you might actually want to grab some DLC just to avoid it, if you're close.

* [[Rockers Smash Guitars]]: Some of the songs end this way.

* [[Rooftop Concert]]: Naturally, the final leg of the story mode in ''The Beatles: Rock Band'' is the group's rooftop concert.

* [[Save Scumming]]: Sort of. The RB3 Pause mechanic actually rewound the song, giving you in effect three seconds to breathe before the song started back up, allowing you to to repeatedly pause and hit difficult chord shifts/drum rolls with 100% accuracy. Harmonix released a patch where excessive pausing turns your crowd meter grey and discards your score for that song.

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Can happen occasionally [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RYcHOKwOQ#t=4m9s in a dark room to glasses-wearing characters].

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Harmonix has stated that, while creating the pro guitar and bass charts, they consulted with the actual artists of the songs to proofread and confirm they were correct. Well, for the most part- the plastic Pro Guitar only has 17 frets, so notes played above fret 17 are moved elsewhere (in some cases, down an octave). There are separate charts for the 22-fret models such as the Squier.

** It also features an achievement for whoever can nail 53,596 HOPOs. The number is the exact same as necessary to get the "Z-Genocider 2" achievement in ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'' (which was just two zombies up<ref> Valve one-upped Capcom in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', commanding you to kill 53,595 zombies. Harmoix tried to continue the joke</ref> from the original game's "Zombie Genocider"). The name of the achievement? "HOPO-cidal Maniac".

*** Most of the default characters in the Rock Band Series (Not Counting The Beatles Rock Band, Green day Rock Band, and Rock Band Unplugged)are referenced.

** RB2 had an achievement called The Bachman-Turner Award, for holding Overdrive for 60 consecutive seconds. RB3 had the same achievement, only this time with the title You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.

* [[Siamese Twin Songs]]: Harmonix (and the Rock Band Network Community) is actually pretty good about handling these, as consecutive tracks that should play back-to-back uninterrupted are charted as one song instead of two most of the time. This does end up being impossible to do at times with songs in the Rock Band Network due to the 10-minute length limitation (One song, Andromeda's 18-minute-long Veil of Illumination, had to be split into two parts to be distributed via RBN).

** The most obvious example of not doing this is ''We Will Rock You \ We Are The Champions'', which is two separate songs in ''Lego Rock Band'' as they serve as [[Book Ends]] to the story. When the songs are exported to the main platform, they're still separate.

** 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 [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 (Music)|REM]]'s "''Losing My Religion''", [[Flyleaf (Music)|Flyleaf]]'s "''Again''", [[Avenged Sevenfold (Music)|Avenged Sevenfold]]'s "''Bat Country''", [[Anberlin (Music)|Anberlin]]'s "''Feel Good Drag''", [[Stone Temple Pilots (Music)|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 "[[Janes Addiction|Been Caught Stealing]]?" Well, we have that on-disc, and the ''Nothing’s Shocking'' album, too.<br />

They have three [[Megadeth (Music)|Megadeth]] songs, well we have ''Rust In Peace'' which contains one of them. <br />

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