Playing Guitar Hero with a Standard Controller
All of the Guitar Hero games so far are also playable on the standard controller, in case of the player not having a guitar controller. Unfortunately, this is not possible on
Game_RockBand Rock Band∞ or Guitar Hero World Tour. The mechanics are completely different, as every button pressed is a fret+strum so
Hammer-ons Hammer-ons∞ aren't possible, but on
Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock Guitar Hero 3∞ and Game_GuitarHeroAerosmith Guitar Hero: Aerosmith the player can make use of
Hammer-ons Pull-offs∞ by holding the lower notes and playing the higher notes, making trills and faster solos easier to play, as the player doesn't need to play every note. More details as soon as the page is updated with advanced techniques.
Controls
- Green = L2
- Red = L1
- Yellow = R1
- Blue = R2
- Orange = X
- Whammy = Left Analog Stick (or Right Analog Stick in GH3 or GH:A)
- Star Power = Select (or any direction on D-Pad in GH3 or GH:A)
- Green = Left Trigger (LT)
- Red = Left Bumper (LB)
- Yellow = Right Bumper (RB)
- Blue = Right Trigger (RT)
- Orange = A
- Whammy = Left Analog Stick (or Right Analog Stick in GH3 or GH:A)
- Star Power = Back (or any direction on D-Pad in GH3 or GH:A)
- Green = B (Trigger)
- Red = Right on D-Pad
- Yellow = A
- Blue = 1
- Orange = 2
- Whammy = Moving or shaking the Wiimote back and forth, away from you and towards you (example∞)
- Star Power = Up or Down on D-Pad
Basic techniques
There are 3 basic techniques for a standard controller:
Hammer-ons Pull-off∞,
Alt-strumming and Easy chords.
This is a technique exclusive of Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Game_GuitarHeroAerosmith Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. It's done the same way as the guitar controller. The player holds a lower fret, hit a higher fret, then release the higher so the lower fret will play. Example:
The player hits the Yellow and hold that button, then hit the Blue, and when the player releases the Blue (during the Yellow note
Hammer-ons HOPO∞ timing window), the Yellow will play automatically.
The difference between the guitar controller and a standard controller is that the player can't hold a fret beforehand since every button is a strum, so the player needs to hit a note before and use that to hold the button. This means that on a trill like:
The player can't hold the Yellow before starting the trill, so the Blue must be hit before and use the first Yellow to hold and hit the trills with
Hammer-ons Pull-off∞.
This is a technique exclusive of Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Game_GuitarHeroAerosmith Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. It uses the fret+strum properties from the buttons to make
Alt-strumming possible, but it's only for the higher frets (Yellow, Blue, Orange).
By holding a higher fret, and hitting the lower fret buttons, the strums from the lower fret buttons will be used to play the higher fret that's being hold. So, to play a long fast strumming Blue, the player will hit the first Blue and hold that button, then use the Green, Red or Yellow fret buttons to play the next Blues.
Since there aren't 2 or more lower frets for Green and Red, this technique can't be used on those, but there's still the possibility to play Red using the Green fret button, useful for some sections like
Song_GH3_TheNumberOfTheBeast The Number of the Beast∞ Solo 2.
Easy Chords
This is a technique exclusive of
Game_GuitarHero Guitar Hero I∞. Instead of playing the chord by hitting both buttons, the player can hold one of the buttons and only hit the other one for the chord to play. Examples:
Hit the first chord by pressing both buttons, then keep holding Yellow, hit the 3 Greens and play the GY chord by just pressing Green, since the Yellow is already being hold from before.
Either hold Yellow before at some note, or use the first GY chord to hold Yellow, then play the rest of the chord by just hitting Blue, Red then Orange.
Differences between versions
Game_GuitarHeroII Guitar Hero II∞ and Game_GuitarHeroEncoreRocksThe80s Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the 80's
Game_GuitarHeroIIILegendsOfRock Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Game_GuitarHeroAerosmith Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
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