Though it is a bit off-putting that the guitar in these solos don’t sound like the ones in the real song. By giving these solos some structure, but still leaving some of it up to you, these solos are a nice change of pace. Or, if you want to earn some points and keep your multiplier going, you can instead follow the pattern and hit any note as long as it’s in time, hold a note when told to, or switch from the buttons at the top of the guitar’s neck to the ones closer to the body, and vice versa, to follow the pattern.

Instead of having you hit specific notes in order, you can hit whatever note you want. The biggest of which are the addition of guitar solos, which are optional and only in some songs (though, interestingly, they’re in some pre- Rock Band 4 songs you can download as well). Though it does add to them in interesting ways. Not surprisingly, Rock Band 4 largely sticks to the established fundamentals. You can also hit silver notes to fill up a meter that, when activated, will temporarily double that multiplier up to 8X. Points are awarded for doing this correctly, and if you hit enough in a row, you earn a multiplier up to 4X. Colored notes move down an on-screen fretboard, and when they crosses a line, you hold down the corresponding button on the guitar controller and hit the strum bar, or hit the same color drum on the drum controller, or sing the right note into the mic. But while the former problem continues in Rock Band 4 ( Xbox One, PlayStation 4), I’m happy to say the latter has largely (though not totally) been excised, making this a rather welcome comeback.įor those who’ve never played a Rock Band game before (or a Guitar Hero one for that matter), the basic mechanics of Rock Band 4 are fairly straightforward. When Rock Band 3 came out in 2010, its lousy song selection and unwillingness to let me play at the difficulty level of my choosing irritated me so much that I rage quit after just a few tunes and never looked back.

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