Activating SP without breaking streak

**jgcube** · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 9

Anyone else having problems hitting the two symbals between a pair of notes while playing? The only way I found to keep a streak while activating is while there's a break, or when the beat is very slow, and that is far from optimal activation. I might be missing something here since I found no other topics regarding this situation. As for information, I can play most of hard songs, and low tier expert songs.

**Trogdon** · Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 948 Location: On the computer

I've sometimes been able to hit the orange at the same time a yellow was playing and get it, but not always.

I blame most of the 4 stars on my slightly faulty red pad though.

**dmau82** · Joined: 08 Sep 2008 Posts: 45

Activating when a lone yellow is charted works best for me. Trying to activate on an orange note, whether or not any other notes are charted with it, breaks my combo without starting SP more than half the time, I'd say. I'm new to drumming so I won't swear it's the game and not me subtly messing up the timing or something but the problem seems pretty consistent so far.

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**The6thHorcrux** · Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 154 Location: U of Arizona

**Whitt333** · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1535 Location: Minnesota

The problem with my set is that the orange is very faulty, so often times when I try to turn on SP it only reconizes the yellow and breaks my combo

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**HoorayItsMike** · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 1604 Location: Ohio

**someguy913** · Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 970 Location: Dallas, TX

Hmm, I didn't know that, DBV. I knew it widened the window right when you activated SP, but I didn't know you could actually miss notes with no penalty (other than not getting score or additional streak for those notes, I'm assuming).

I've found that as far as activating on a lone Y or O note (or YP or OP chord), that you have to hit whichever of the two notes that is not charted slightly before the charted note to avoid breaking streak. Not quite sure why it's this way, but I would break streak half the time before I consciously tried doing it this way. Hitting the charted note before the noncharted one doesn't seem to work for me.
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**zombihero** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 88

Sorry that it's completely off topic, but this thread gave me a mental image of me trying to activate SP by headbutting the cymbals, falling off my chair, and destroying my kit. Sorry, i just felt like sharing that.
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**Fraggle497** · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 25 Location: Liverpool, England