Tips on immediate whammying?

**SkepticalMario** · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 310 Location: Minneapolis, MN

In particular, I can't squeeze enough star power out of the holds in Story of My Love. I haven't been able to start whammying soon enough to get the whole 7.5 beats. Any tips on hand/whammy bar position so I can learn to do this better?
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**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

I don't know for sure whether I can do it on that song or not, I haven't played it lately... but I usually have the whammy in my palm while i'm strumming the guitar so it's really easy to start hitting it as soon as I strum a note/chord. You have to make sure that you don't have the whammy bar rotated too far towards the top of the guitar though, or the whammy bar can bump the strum bar when you push it down and you'll get an extra note played, and lose your multiplier.
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**Echelar** · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 1246 Location: Fort Wayne, IN

**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

Another thing is to make sure you don't begin whammying before strumming the note, doing so will result in about an 8th note delay before you'll begin to get credit for whammying.

I find it best to strum the note a bit early (before it's true location), and then start whammying just after strumming. In general this makes it much easier to get maximal SP.
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**Fly1ngV** · Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:09 am Post subject:

what i do is prep for the upcoming whammy by putting my fingers on the bar and just strumming with my thumb. this makes it easier to hit the whammy and the note at the same time. if you need practice with this, just do the first few notes on iron man and you'll be set.

PS: greetings from tennessee

**SkepticalMario** · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 310 Location: Minneapolis, MN

Thanks, everybody. I'm going to practice some of this tonight. It's very frustrating to have 30K fewer points than the leader on a song I've full comboed.

EDIT: Any particular reason for bringing up Tennessee?
EDIT2: Never mind, apparently you were on vacation.
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**GibsonGuy100** · Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Posts: 86

If you stretch your hand you'll find your thumb able to strum and your palm on thw Whammy Bar.

**UltraPants** · Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 15

I play with three of my fingers (middle to pinky) over/on the whammy bar, the heel of my hand over the SELECT button, and my thumb on the strum-bar for any occasion. It should let you be in a great position to start whammy-ing ASAP for any SP note, and also that way you can activate SP in any place where you strum down by pressing your wrist down with your thumb when you strum the note.

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