Assassin, hard guitar, I wanna shoot this chart

**BlueTornado** · Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 2175

I cannot keep a combo anywhere on Assassin on hard guitar! I only get 90k, and it's the only 3* I have in the game! How do I even keep at least a combo some of the time? I have a higher avg multiplier on TTFaF on hard, which really shows something. This is like, my worst song on hard

. I even get better stats on Misirlou on expert

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**JosephL**

This was my last 5* on GHWT HG, and for good reason.

For you, what I'd suggest is this: downstrum the verses. The strumming is at about 8.8 NPS, which may sound daunting, but the verses have more breaks in them than the other parts, so it'll be less taxing on your arm, and it'll be easier to keep the rhythm. Maybe you'll keep enough of a combo to carry you to the 4*, at least. Good luck!
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**ThunderAlex** · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject:

I suggest listening to the song a couple of times, and watching YouTube videos of FCs, to hear the strumming. It'll help.

As for me, I once sucked at Assassin... I really sucked at it, I couldn't even 4* it. Then one day, it just clicked for me, and I was able to 99% 5* it on Expert and FC it on hard.
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**CristianHero** · Joined: 06 Mar 2010 Posts: 404

It's probably because after time your strumming arm gets weary from moving too much. I had this problem before, but follow this tip: Try strumming with your wrist instead of moving your arm up and down, it lessens the pain by a lot and you use less effort. Notice that there are also breaks in between the strumming, also focus on the song and don't look away into the surroundings (it can happen

) .

To help, watch a video to get a good hearing of how the strumming is actually supposed to sound like to compare yours to that one.