Rock Band + The Beatles

[Darth Waller]

I freaking can't wait for this game!

 

[LTM438]

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Yes!

 

[Karma]

Details for downloadable albums coming to The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store


ALBUM: Abbey Road (1969)
Release Date: October 20, 2009

Pricing: $16.98 (or 1360 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for album $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for individual tracks

“Come Together”
“Something”
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
“Oh! Darling”
“Octopus’s Garden”
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
“Here Comes The Sun”
“Because”
“You Never Give Me Your Money”
“Sun King”
“Mean Mr. Mustard”
“Polythene Pam”
“She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”
“Golden Slumbers”
“Carry That Weight”
“The End”
“Her Majesty”

In addition, purchasers of the full album download of Abbey Road will have the option to play the famous 16-minute B-side medley as a single continuous track. The medley includes “You Never Give Me Your Money,” “Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam,” “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window,” “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End.”

ALBUM: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Release Date: November 2009

“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
“With A Little Help From My Friends”
“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
“Getting Better”
“Fixing A Hole”
“She’s Leaving Home”
“Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite”
“Within You Without You
“When I’m Sixty Four”
“Lovely Rita”
“Good Morning Good Morning”
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”
“A Day In The Life”

ALBUM: Rubber Soul (1965)
Release Date: December 2009

“Drive My Car”
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
“You Won’t See Me”
“Nowhere Man”
“Think For Yourself”
“The Word”
“Michelle”
“What Goes On”
“Girl”
“I’m Looking Through You”
“In My Life”
“Wait”
“If I Needed Someone”
“Run For Your Life”

 

[Karma]

Details for downloadable albums coming to The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store


ALBUM: Abbey Road (1969)
Release Date: October 20, 2009

Pricing: $16.98 (or 1360 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for album $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for individual tracks

“Come Together”
“Something”
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
“Oh! Darling”
“Octopus’s Garden”
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
“Here Comes The Sun”
“Because”
“You Never Give Me Your Money”
“Sun King”
“Mean Mr. Mustard”
“Polythene Pam”
“She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”
“Golden Slumbers”
“Carry That Weight”
“The End”
“Her Majesty”

In addition, purchasers of the full album download of Abbey Road will have the option to play the famous 16-minute B-side medley as a single continuous track. The medley includes “You Never Give Me Your Money,” “Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam,” “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window,” “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End.”

ALBUM: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Release Date: November 2009

“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
“With A Little Help From My Friends”
“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
“Getting Better”
“Fixing A Hole”
“She’s Leaving Home”
“Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite”
“Within You Without You
“When I’m Sixty Four”
“Lovely Rita”
“Good Morning Good Morning”
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”
“A Day In The Life”

ALBUM: Rubber Soul (1965)
Release Date: December 2009

“Drive My Car”
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
“You Won’t See Me”
“Nowhere Man”
“Think For Yourself”
“The Word”
“Michelle”
“What Goes On”
“Girl”
“I’m Looking Through You”
“In My Life”
“Wait”
“If I Needed Someone”
“Run For Your Life”

 

[Agent23]

Awesome.

Now we need the rest!

 

[Odowankenobi]

Certainly those aren't actual downloadable track listings, as many of those songs are already in the game.

 

[Valfar]

When are we going to get some good bands with these games?, Opeth,Sepultura, Testament,Bathory,Celtic Frost etc...Beetles songs are soo boring for these types of games, you need metal, technical music.

 

[kain4521]

Certainly those aren't actual downloadable track listings, as many of those songs are already in the game.

Those are the downloadable album tracks and I am going to take a wild guess and say that you will be able to add the albums to RB2.

 

[Entropy]

They already said that Beatles tracks will be separate and not be ported into RB2. They could change their minds I suppose.

 

[kain4521]

They already said that Beatles tracks will be separate and not be ported into RB2. They could change their minds I suppose.

Oops than my guess was wrong.

 

[Darren Carnall]

can't wait for this.

I only got GH3 recently for the Wii (my first guitar-rhythm game) and I love it. so much fun... but I've never played one yet that has drums...

I've seen the RB ones with 4 pads in a line, and the GH:WT ones with 3 pads and 2 cymbals (I think) so can someone tell me the differences in how they play. Does RB just allocate one of the pads to be a cymbal for instance? And if you use the GH ones on a RB game... how does that work in terms how how many pads there are etc.

Trying to figure out whether to get other drums and use them on this (I much prefer the idea of having higher cymbals to hit) or whether to use the RB ones

Thanks for your help guys

 

[Darth Waller]

I don't know how the RB drums work as-is because I bought a cymbal kit right away. I wanted the raised cymbal feel when I played.

 

[The Mike]

I just saw a music video on MTV2 for this game. It was gameplay with points rising in the upper right hand corner but not instruments showing. Its getting me really pumped for this.

 

[Darren Carnall]

I don't know how the RB drums work as-is because I bought a cymbal kit right away. I wanted the raised cymbal feel when I played.

yeah i want that too. THat's why I'm trying to find out what its like playing a RB game (for when Beatles comes out) using GH:WT drums.

Somebody must have done it, right??

 

[Serpentor]

can't wait for this.

I only got GH3 recently for the Wii (my first guitar-rhythm game) and I love it. so much fun... but I've never played one yet that has drums...

I've seen the RB ones with 4 pads in a line, and the GH:WT ones with 3 pads and 2 cymbals (I think) so can someone tell me the differences in how they play. Does RB just allocate one of the pads to be a cymbal for instance? And if you use the GH ones on a RB game... how does that work in terms how how many pads there are etc.

Trying to figure out whether to get other drums and use them on this (I much prefer the idea of having higher cymbals to hit) or whether to use the RB ones

Thanks for your help guys

For Guitar Hero when using Rock Band Drums the input switches from 5 to 4 the game will compress the drum charts to 4 notes.

For Rock Band when using GH Drums the Yellow Cymbal simply becomes the Yellow pad. The Orange cymbal will do nothing.

Now with this being said, I own the RB2 drums with a cymbal expansion so I can have the higher cymbals to hit if I so chose. I have never had any issues with it. I have no personal experience with the GH Kit. However I hear mixed reviews about it a lot of people say they don't always work properly. Some even say that are broken out of the box. Where as there are others who stand by the drum kit and say it works fine.

Personally I'd get the RB2 kit get the cymbal expansion so you can use the higher notes. Unless you want the full drumming experience on GH games in which case you may want just get the cheapest drum kit possible for now and wait for the new Drums that will come out with Band Hero as hopefully they will be much improved over the first GH offering.

 

[Darren Carnall]

Thanks for the informative reply

ok seeing as you have the RB drums with the cymbal expansion (I've looked at those whilst doing my research into this) ...how does that work.

In the game are certain pads *always* used for hi hats/crash etc... or does it depend on the song. In which case.. do you have to learn which song uses a particular pad as a cymbal.. and then you can use the high pad... (I wouldn't want to ruin the illusion of the high cymbals by hitting them.. only to realise that in this particular track, that colour is used as a tom lol)

if that makes sense? I realise that the expansions simply offer another way of hitting whatever colour you attach them too, that they don't give an 'extra' input... but how do you know when you would want to hit the high cymbal as opposed to the basic low pad?

Thanks for this

For Guitar Hero when using Rock Band Drums the input switches from 5 to 4 the game will compress the drum charts to 4 notes.

For Rock Band when using GH Drums the Yellow Cymbal simply becomes the Yellow pad. The Orange cymbal will do nothing.

Now with this being said, I own the RB2 drums with a cymbal expansion so I can have the higher cymbals to hit if I so chose. I have never had any issues with it. I have no personal experience with the GH Kit. However I hear mixed reviews about it a lot of people say they don't always work properly. Some even say that are broken out of the box. Where as there are others who stand by the drum kit and say it works fine.

Personally I'd get the RB2 kit get the cymbal expansion so you can use the higher notes. Unless you want the full drumming experience on GH games in which case you may want just get the cheapest drum kit possible for now and wait for the new Drums that will come out with Band Hero as hopefully they will be much improved over the first GH offering.

 

[Serpentor]

First question High Hats / Crash etc will always be charted to the same pad. The kit has 3 inputs in the back where you plug the cymbals in each of thoes represents a diffrent cymbal don't ask me which is which I have no clue.

Yes you would have to learn at which part of songs the pad is charted as a cymbal this is rather a simple thing if you feel the need to do so. The cymbals always make the appropriate cymbal noise depending on which of the 3 inputs they are in. The Pads will make the cymbal noise when charted as a cymbal so if you turned the vocals volume down to 0 you would be able to figure out quite easily when its time for cymbal when its time for pad. I don't know when to use the cymbal as opposed to the pad I just use it when I feel like it.

On the flip side of things with a World Tour kit your illusions of high cymbals will come crashing down quickly when RB charts one of them as pad.

There is no perfect solution really, RB doesn't chart the cymbals separately like GH so adding cymbals is really a novelty. But the GH set up makes the GH kit kind of weird for RB and then due to the missing input for GH using the RB kit is kind of odd. In the end it comes down to personal choice and what's right for you.

There is however a wrong solution to this dilemma and that is using Konami's Rock Revolution Drum Kit. That thing scares and confuses me.

 

[ProgMatinee]

I think you really can't go to wrong with any set. Personally, I recommend looking for either RB kit or GH kit that comes with a game. You should be able to snag complete band or drum only sets packed with either 1 or 2 previous games for serious discounts. I snagged a GH drum set + a mic and "Smash Hits" from the Red Octane store for like $80 shipped.

 

[Darren Carnall]

thanks for the info guys. I was hoping to get one set of drums and be able to use them for both The Beatles RB game (and probably RB too which I'd end up getting) and also for GH:WT.

I guess I'll get the Beatles game (seeing as i *know* I'm getting that) and then probably end up getting RB 2 or something... (so far I've onnly got GH3 - hence I know nothing about the drum setups)

Just trying to avoid having RB drums AND GH drums I can just see the wife's face at that one lol

 

[ProgMatinee]

I can't access Red Octane's website from work so can't tell you exactly what they are currently going for but they always have these "1 day sale" things that like I said are like 1 or 2 games plus the drumset for seriously cheap. If you want either GH Metallica, GH:WT or GH:Smash Hits you can probably get 2 of them bundled with the drums for under $100 shipped which you really can't beat, IMO.

On the other hand, if you are interested in getting the RB guitar, you can pick up RB2 complete band set for $90 at Target this week.