Big Rock Ending

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Big rock endings (or BREs) are a feature of the Rock Band⇒ series. On select songs, the ending displays open lanes and becomes a free-for-all of playing for points. The more one plays during a big rock ending, the more points one can potentially gain. However, there are always a few notes after the big rock ending which must be hit successfully by all members of the band, or all points gained by the BRE are lost.

Scoring

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For Guitar and Bass, each fret is worth an initial value of 150 points, and afterwards, the fret's value "recharges" until the fret is no longer lit up and is once again worth 150 points. The recharge time is approximately 1.5 seconds and is not determined by tempo. The value recharges in a way such that as long as there is no time span of 1.5 seconds in which the fret is not played, the same number of points is awarded. This means that to get the most possible points, you need to play each of the five frets as close to the beginning of the Big Rock Ending as possible and also as close to the end of the Big Rock Ending as possible, and you also need to make sure you there is no time span of 1.5 seconds in the middle of the Big Rock Ending in which one fret is not played. The most common strategy is to play one quick scale at the beginning of the Big Rock Ending, then play scales or zig-zags throughout the rest of the Big Rock Ending, and then to play one final quick scale at the end of the Big Rock Ending.

Drums work in a similar fashion, except that rather than each drum being individual like the guitar's frets, each drum and the bass pedal corresponds to the same recharging point count, which maxes out at 750. The recharge time is also 1.5 seconds. Unlike guitar and bass, as long as you hit a drum every 1.5 seconds, you will gain the same amount of points. The differences are determined by how soon you start hitting, and how late you stop in a BRE.

Vocalists gain no points on their own for big rock endings, but when they activate during the BRE they give other band members additional points for each note hit.

List of Songs With Big Rock Endings

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• Song_RB2_BabaORiley Baba O'Riley∞
• Song_RB2_BadToTheBone Bad to the Bone∞
• Song_RB_BlackHoleSun Black Hole Sun∞
• Song_RB2_Bodhisattva Bodhisattva∞
• Song_RB_CantLetGo Can't Let Go∞
• Song_RB_CelebritySkin Celebrity Skin∞
• Song_RB2_CheeseburgerInParadise Cheeseburger in Paradise∞
• Song_RB2_CherryBomb Cherry Bomb∞
• Song_RB2_CherubRock Cherub Rock∞
• Song_RB_DetroitRockCity Detroit Rock City∞
• Song_RB_DontFeartheReaper (Don't Fear) The Reaper∞
• Song_RB_DownAtTheWhisky Down at the Whisky∞
• Song_RB_FlirtinWithDisaster Flirtin' With Disaster∞
• Song_RB2_ForeplayLongTime Foreplay/Long Time∞
• Song_RB_GreenGrassAndHighTides Green Grass and High Tides∞
• Song_RB2_HardToHandle Hard to Handle∞
• Song_RB_HereItGoesAgain Here It Goes Again∞
• Song_RB2_Heroes Heroes∞
• Song_RB_HighwayStar Highway Star∞
• Song_RB2_LeavingHere Leaving Here∞
• Song_RB2_LetThereBeRock Let There Be Rock∞
• Song_RB2_Limelight Limelight∞
• Song_RB2_ManuChao Manu Chao∞
• Song_RB2_Margaritaville Margaritaville∞
• Song_RB2_MississippiQueen Mississippi Queen∞
• Song_RB_MyGenerationLiveAtLeeds My Generation (Live at Leeds)∞
• Song_RB2_NIB N.I.B.∞
• Song_RB_Nightmare Nightmare∞
• Song_RB_Paranoid Paranoid∞
• Song_RB_PromisedLand Promised Land∞
• Song_RB_RunToTheHills Run to the Hills∞
• Song_RB_ScreamingForVengeance Screaming for Vengeance∞
• Song_RB_Shake Shake∞
• Song_RB_TheHandThatFeeds The Hand That Feeds∞
• Song_RB2_TimmyAndTheLordsOfTheUnderworld Timmy And The Lords of The Underworld∞
• Song_RB2_TomSawyer Tom Sawyer∞
• Song_RB_TrainKeptARollin Train Kept a Rollin'∞
• Song_RB_Vasoline Vasoline∞
• Song_RB_WarPigs War Pigs∞
• Song_RB_WelcomeHome Welcome Home∞
• Song_RB_WorkingMan Working Man (Cover)∞
• Song_RB_WorkingManVaultEdition Working Man (Vault Edition)∞
• Song_RB2_YoungManBluesLiveAtLeeds Young Man Blues (Live at Leeds)∞

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