Band Hero

This will probably be one of the last achievements you earn. There are 81 gigs, and you need to complete 50 successfully. That's a lot more than you'd need to earn the 555 stars for the Shine achievement.

The good news is that you only need to earn Platinum for the challenge to count for this achievement. The other good news is that most of the Platinum challenges can be completed on medium.

Cheats do *not* disable your ability to earn stars, which is what this achievement is about. So definitely make use of them whenever possible. For example, the drum challenges that only specify a certain number of kicks can be achieved simply by turning on the auto-kick and no-fail and starting the song on Expert+.

Some other general pointers: when you can choose a song, longer songs are usually better, especially when the challenge is about a note streak, time to maintain a 4x multiplier, or something similar.

**note: none of the blow are fail proof like the fan trick, there is still some level of skill involved**

this is one of the harder achievements in this game (but thats not saying much) so each song has a "challenge" either for a specific instrument or as a band... they mostly fall in to the category of getting lots of notes in general or a certain colour note or high score or string of correct ones or star power score or a specific strum.
i should mention here that cheats do not disable this achievement (even though the game says so, but i think they mean for the secret notes, so focus on that before following this guide) and these can be done on any level of difficulty so set what you can manage obviously for the lasting a certain amount of time or getting a certain note streak you will need to set it to what you can manage the rest should be easy to figure out.

if your not great at singing the trick is go in to the equalizer and turn down everything except for the vocal track (not to be confused with your mic feed) and put your mic up to the speakers... while this works if the sound is really loud my tip is to use a pair of head phones (obviously avoid in ear/buds) for your TV's audio out crank up the volume and put your mic inside your headphones this one largely depends on your hardware as there is no accurate calibration.

the trick to the Guitar/Bass is to turn on the cheat "slider only" this will basically mean auto strumming with the exception of the two/three notes at time and obviously the strumming bar.
this should turn just about any average player in to an exceptional player

and if drums are your weak point turn on the auto pedal cheat this should make things slightly easier but unfortunately you still have to have some rhythm, thankfully there are not nearly as many drum ones as any other group

your other option if your not good enough for any of the above to work for you, hopefully you can find someone to play with you, you must host and be playing career mode (and while we're stating the obvious you can't do this with any one signed in as a beginner either.) and so long someone fulfills the challenge you will have yourself a platinum or diamond.

I found a Challenge Guide on our known site x360a and the credits are all for DJ Satan UK:

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/archive/index.php/t...

A lot of challenges can be done on medium, but even that which needs expert aren't that hard to do. I'm speaking with my own experience, because I'm very bad with rhythm games, and on Band Hero I can do everything without problems.

Here are some tips that might help you along the way to get this achievement:

For the challenges where you have to keep a X4 multiplier, like Bring Me To Life, Paralyzer, etc., play on the Easy difficulty so that, depending on your skill, will guarantee you an easy platinum or diamond. It also helps to save your SP in case you screw up, that way, if you do, and release SP, you can still keep up that X4 multiplier instead of wasting precious seconds.

For the challenges that involve you hitting a certain note color, like I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Love Is A Battlefield, etc., just set it to Expert, put on No-Fail, and just concentrate on what you need to it, like a blue tom note or a yellow guitar note.

{No Fail DOES NOT disable achievements, specifically this one.}

For the challenges that involve high scores, replenishing the SP meter, etc., like So Yesterday and Fascination respectively, have up to 3 vocalists on Beginner feeding you star power. You can't be on beginner, but your band mates can. This helps dramatically.

Remember, you also have sponsorship challenges where YOU get to choose the song, so if it's a challenge like the x4 multiplier, note streak, or high score, pick a long song on easy. Another tip is that imports from other GH games can work with these, so if you imported Smash Hits, then Free Bird is a good choice for these challenges.

As an added tip, there are TWO easy diamonds you can get.

Bad Reputation and Sugar Were Going Down have a drum challenge where you have to hit a number of kick notes. Enter the auto kick cheat by using the cheat code, or unlock it by getting gold on the Rio challenge, which is keeping up a x4 multiplier.

Here's the cheat if you don't want to do the challenge: Y,G,Y,B,B,R,B,R

I can't give much advice about note streak challenges except to practice, but for phrase streak challenges, like Wannabe and You Belong With Me, play on easy since you get the same streak no matter what the difficulty is. Remember that phrase streaks are for Vocals only.

Good luck on your quest for this achievement and enjoy your 2 free and easy diamonds!