Footloose and Fancy Free by Bill Bruford's Earthworks on Rock Band Network

Footloose and Fancy Free by Bill Bruford's Earthworks on Rock Band Network. Authored by Mick Larkins.

This marks the first Jazz track for the game. Keeping with Bruford's spirit of progression, "Footloose" pushes the boundaries of Rock Band. The song itself has no vocals or guitar, however the main melodies are driven by piano and sax. Therefore the song is comprised of the following:

Vox: The saxophone is played via the microphone. The "lyrics" are the actual notes, so if you are musically inclined, you can actually learn the parts of the song, play along, and get scored. Otherwise, you can use whatever noise appropriate to play the part!

Drums: Tricky time signature changes, including sections of 5/4, 7/4, 6/8, and a few measures of 4/4 will keep you on your toes. Look out for the blazing drum solo at the finale.

Guitar: The first iteration of the song in playtesting did not feature a guitar track. Due to popular demand, the piano part is played via the guitar peripheral, including a blazing mid-song solo.

Bass: One of the few (or perhaps the first?) stand-up acoustic bass charts for a Rock Band track.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Bill
• Bruford
• Rock
• Band
• RBN
• Footloose
• and
• Fancy
• Free
• sax
• vox
• Steve
• Hamilton

[HE11FIRE100]

when your playing online w/ other people, can they use auto play or no? because i notice that alot of people are tapping the entire song and not missing any notes so it just made me wonder

[mlarkins]

No, the auto play feature is reserved just for Audition mode. It allows authors and testers to observe the song without worrying about playing it in realtime. It also allows to demo the song in its entirety. :)

[HE11FIRE100]

any overdrive in this song?...

[mlarkins]

As you can see, there is overdrive, but the song plays on Autopilot and doesn't deploy it. Also, for demonstration purposes, you don't see the drum fills in this particular video.

[chemicalterrorist]

Well done on the character animations, finally someone who understands how a proper music video should be made! Just focus on the drummer, no one else is interesting!

[ROQFAN]

More Jazz please :)

[TheMisterD00D]

Whew! What a thrill for drums, too. They can't do anything about charting the constant hi-hat foot though...

[LordRM]

The D just needs to be brought up an octave, I think

[ES942]

the vox phrase at 0:31 is backwards on the last two notes@

[gojikranz]

please please release this!

[iammaxhailme]

Why isn't it available anymore ;_;

[DeSangre]

Will this come out with the piano charted on PRO KEYS please?

[aureliosjc]

This is boring stuff for me . He should play always progressive rock.

[Thom2509]

Is this still coming? It's been 7 months.....