Yesterday met with three Nine Inch Nails tracks being added to the vast roster of downloadable content for Rock Band, and in the days leading up to the songs' availability Rock Band aficionados and angsty teenagers alike were atwitter with anticipation. Yet as intrepid explorers into the world Trent Reznor simulation (sans questionable relationships with fellow musicians) loaded up their respective consoles and the first chords of The Perfect Drug rang out, the gleeful squealing foretold by Destructoid's own all seeing oracle Nick Chester came to an abrupt halt.
Now, being familiar with the works of Nine Inch Nails, I knew that the drum tracks would be a bit challenging, but even my familiarity couldn't prepare me for the frontal assault on my self esteem that is The Perfect Drug. Gentlemen, I stand before you a man now humbled, in awe of the supernatural acumen displayed by whomever is playing (on expert no less) in the video above.
[Via The Weekly Geek]
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6:05 PM on 02.27.2008
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For the actual recording, I'm pretty sure Trent records the drum tracks from a keyboard. For live shows he uses real drummers, though.
Most of NIN's tracks are drum machines, but The Perfect Drug single has actual drums played by Jerome Dillon. They get a little chopped up in the solo, but the base playing is still there.
I'm still waiting on Piggy. That's probably the best Nine Inch Nails song to play drums to.
Holy crap that looks insane.
and I want to play piggy on the drums too
If anyone wants to buy me the game I'll pay them back if I can't get through this song on expert the first time I play it.
And by the way the drums start going apeshit at about 0:58. Im on the last tier on expert but I dont think I could handle that well.
Actually the only NIN album without live drumming is the frist one, Pretty Hate Machine. Trent has stated he's a big fan of live drumming on albums, which is why he gets guys like Chris Vrenna, Jerome Dillion and Dave Grohl to drum on his albums. Also, the awesome drum solo on Piggy that tibisor mentioned was actually Trent screwing around, but he decided to keep it and use it on that track.
Now I must go back to my room and wait until May for Rock Band to be released in Australia.
Kudos to that guy though, because I couldn't do it nearly as good as he does.
the time my eyes bled lol
NICE going. Im pretty much set on hard, expert kicks my ass
I've resorted, in some songs, to tapping the rim rather than hitting the head of the pad. (That's the only way I can pass Run To The Hills.)
march of the pigs would be cool too
Probably won't buy any of them, unfortunately.
Makes me question the legitimacy of this.
I need a nap after that
Too bad the guitar is utter shit.
....No, I just can't make this post without complaining that rock band still doesn't have a european release date. Seriously, this shit is fucked.
Something fishy is going on here.
I don't know what to tell you about the tempo. When I'm playing it live and watching and listening to the TV, it's in time, but for some reason it comes out a bit lagged when being picked up by the GameBridge (which is what I'm using to capture the gameplay).
The simple fills are meant to be that: simple. Since this was my best run, I wasn't worried about the fills "sounding cool" or anything. I was more concerned with keeping time (which it doesn't sound like because of the lag described above) and not breaking combo.
Thanks all for the supportive comments. And for the record, yes I play the drums irl (for 13 years and counting).