Ramblin Man Expert Drums 100% FC

EDIT: New best score - 400,275. It is 400 points off of optimal, and I did it without using my special grip. I used matched the whole way.

This is the first ever FC of Ramblin Man by the Allman Brothers (on ScoreHero anyway) and it's currently first place. Squeezing would push the score over 400k but I'm satisfied with this for now.

Obviously the hardest part about this song is the fast tempo. It's only slightly slower than the blue stream of death from GGaHT, and it lasts for 5 whole minutes.

I came up with a new style of holding the right stick that allows for much faster single strokes and I don't have to move my wrist at all. The picture at the beginning of the clip shows the grip I use for most of the song. I hold the stick between my index and middle fingers and use my middle and ring to throw it towards the drum. I call it the straddle grip. Since I have the Goodwoods I get really good rebound so this grip style allows me to hit as fast as I can twitch my fingers.
(I had to put a fat ring of tape above my hand to prevent the stick from sliding out. Took me a while to figure this out haha)

Holding the stick like this doesn't allow for much mobility around the set though. There are a couple places in the song that would be too hard to play with this grip, such as the long triplet fill at 2:58 and the fill at 4:38. This means I had to change from the straddle grip to a conventional matched grip during some of the OD activations (pretty confusing, I know). Because of this, some of my fills near the end of the song suck major balls due to me rapidly changing grips.

-I start the song using the straddle grip
-I switch to matched during the activation at 2:29 so I can play the fill at 2:58.
-I switch back to the straddle grip at 3:11.
-I switch back to matched grip at 4:07 so I can play the fill at 4:38.
-I make my last switch at 4:43 to the straddle grip and finish the song that way.

The fill at 4:59 was pretty tough using this grip but I had to do it. If I would have tried to stay in matched to finish the song I wouldn't have survived.

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[ILovePeanutButter718]

wtf is with that pic at the beginning

[beeemdubya]

Read the description

[KH2Finatix]

ITs not as hard as it looks, bad reputation is much more insane

[beeemdubya]

is this a joke comment? bad reputation has been fc'd countless times. bad reputation isn't even considered hard

[yoarrestmeiskate]

therisen77, I have played real drums for about 10 years now and started rock band about 2 years ago, i fcd almost every song on rock band 2 so far and this is one that gets me. i have perfect finger control in match grip and im still going to go ahead and say that this song takes endurance. dont act like a hotshot, let the kid fc the song and shut the fuck up. he fcd it, you clearly didnt. dont be a dumbass and express your jealously by acting like youre the drumming know it all. pathetic

[DrummerKid05]

basicly, in the third paragraph of your desription, you can pretty much put "Thats what she said" after every sentence

[careypricefan11]

@beary605 Green Grass and High Tides

[Ramboclot]

This song isn't technically so hard, it's just as fast as fuck...

[beary605]

GGaHT... whats that

[RaashyxMusicLover]

I was considering trying this after seeing how easy hard was... I changed my mind lol. Nice job, keep it up!

[mechamind90]

Well, it's only cheating if you only hit 3 times during the drum fill. But even then, it's just taking advantage.

The guy who posted an FC video of Visions by not activating overdrive until the very end. I would call that cheating.

[ShadowHero23]

this song gets better every time i listen to it.....

[ILovePeanutButter718]

oh wait yea it does :/ sorry man i dont read in between the lines :P

[ILovePeanutButter718]

lol i didnt see anything saying "that pic in the beginning was whatever"