And here's this week's first playthrough scores, stem confirmations and impressions for this weeks 4-pack of DLC!
"Attention" - Charlie Puth - [Guitar: Tier 3 | Drums: Tier 1 | Vocals: Tier 5 | Bass: Tier 3]
Expert Guitar: 104,414 | 100% Notes Hit (739/739) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 85,648 | 100% Notes Hit (432/432) Full Combo | Gold Stars
"Thunder" - Imagine Dragons - [Guitar: Tier 1 | Drums: Tier 1 | Vocals: Tier 3 | Bass: Tier 1]
Expert Guitar: 78,341 | 100% Notes Hit (332/332) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 134,707 | 100% Notes Hit (338/338) Full Combo | Gold Stars
"Sorry Not Sorry" – Demi Lovato - [Guitar: Tier 1 | Drums: Tier 1 | Vocals: Devil Tier | Bass: Tier 0]
Expert Guitar: 83,475 | 100% Notes Hit (352/352) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 39,923 | 100% Notes Hit (144/144) Full Combo | Gold Stars
"Feel It Still" - Portugal. The Man - [Guitar: Tier 2 | Drums: Tier 1 | Vocals: Devil Tier | Bass: Tier 1]
Expert Guitar: 49,782 | 100% Notes Hit (277/277) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 98,207 | 100% Notes Hit (424/424) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Stem Confirmations and DLC Impressions: "Sorry Not Sorry" is 100% legit, no muffling of other tracks or overall track degradation when missing notes on your own instrument. "Attention" makes it a double whammy. "Thunder" also has confirmed master tracks and "Feel It Still" makes it 4 for 4 this week! Another flawless week for you stem enthusiasts out there. Purchase the pack without any worries!
"Attention" - This song has the potential to really annoy on guitar if you're not used to zig-zagging with the vast majority of the song zipping back and forth between green and yellow with rapid double strumming all over the place, the other half is slow movement up and down the fretboard between all five frets. So yeah, this'll be a real love/hate chart and for me personally? Can't say I'm a fan really. Bass starts with a 13 second break, and then after a few long sustained notes comes the main riff. A bouncy little affair with hammer-on flourishes in between to mix things up. It's funky as fuck and a blast to play despite it not really switching things up to often. Good stuff there!
"Thunder"- Despite being a pretty naff song musically (well, really fucking naff, shit even) it has a decent guitar chart. It starts off with a few chord sustains and then switches up into this relatively fun series of alt-strummed chord and single note changes with a few chord hammer-ons to spice things up, the first solo is decent too with a lot of hammer-on snaking too. So yeah overall, not bad at all! The bass is pretty mundane though sadly, just having you switch between held single notes and a slightly more upbeat series of strummed bass chords topped off with sustains at the end of each lane switch. Overall, bass is pretty underwhelming
"Sorry Not Sorry" - Guitar starts off decent enough with chords accentuated with single note strumming snaking downwards towards the orange fret. When the piano kicks in afterwards you'll be hitting a bunch of three and two note chords with upward and downward fret movement in between with a few hammer-on flushes to mix things up. Rinse and repeat to the end, so yeah, not bad for a tier 1 chart. Bass is fairly dull though, which mainly just consists of slow movement down the fretboard from green to orange with some sustained notes being about the only variation the bass chart has. Pretty fucking dull.
"Feel It Still" - Despite how minimalist the song sounds on guitar the chart is it's actually really good! The bulk of the song consists of steady single note strumming with two note chords in between to vary things up with steady hammer-on with a few instances of snaking from the bottom of the fretboard back up to the top as well. So yeah, overall I actually really enjoyed the guitar chart for how low tier it is in terms of difficulty! Bass is alright, mostly just consisting of single note sustains with a strummed note in-between to give a little bit of a bounce to the proceedings, the general pattern changing a little with double strums on one fret every now and again as well. Overall not bad.
BEST GUITAR: "Feel It Still"
BEST BASS: "Attention"
BEST OVERALL: "Feel It Still"