Green Day: Rock Band

This achievement is HARD! It's a challenge for even the best drummers out there! The ratio does not lie for this one.

"Brain Stew / Jaded" is one of the toughest songs on drums.

Some people have endorsed to "hands" method, as mentioned above (with no fail-mode on). Well that method was above, but now since my solution is the highest :D and there's nothing above now, then I'll clarify:
With the hands method, you take the foot pedal in your lap with no fail mode on and don't worry about the individual drum notes; just worry about the orange bars. Practice a couple of times to get the rhythm down. I could never figure it out though. Seems like hitting the drums helped me through, but some are able to actually do it.
Sadly, I struggled with this method. It's definitely out there if you wanna try it though. Also this achievement works with hyperspeed as well if you are more comfortable with it.

You can also do it similar to the hand method with your foot, in case you're more comfortable with your foot.

I know you probably don't wanna hear this, & I don't wanna brag, but I'm a really good drummer and I struggled with this achievement. I spent many hours practicing this song since I couldn't do the hand or foot method, so I eventally FC'd (full comboed) the song on drums. & boy was I excited to have this achievement behind me!

You MUST hit ALL orange bars (foot pedals). If you accidentally let 1 slip by, then you must restart the song as it voids the achievement.

The first 3 minutes ("Brain Stew") is a cakewalk. Slow and easy beat. Then it picks up with "Jaded". Which honestly wouldn't be quite as bad if it didn't change up the beat 2 or 3 times in its duration. So make sure to keep an eye out for the changes!

A HUGE pointer: Save up your overdrive & DO NOT use it during the "Jaded" section. It will cover the "tricky" foot pedal beats, making this a lot easier if you get the beat down (a one-two one-two beat). Then the ending is quite a change-up, not hard, but just be prepared for the 5 or 6 bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum beat. It's not too fast, but just get ready so you don't miss one at the very end of the song.

The worst part of this achievement is that most people miss the foot pedal at the end of "Jaded," which sucks because you have to restart the song & sit through the 3-minute long "Brain Stew" section. Don't get me wrong I LOVE "Brain Stew," it's one of my favorite songs by Green Day, but when you're ready to get this achievement, it gets pretty annoying to sit through 3 minutes of easiness so you MIGHT have a chance at "Jaded."

Be patient and don't give up. It took me many hours to accomplish, but it felt amazing once I got it!

Edit: I've attatched a video just for people to see the chart if they're curious. My run looked a lot like this except for the fact that I let the overdrive cover up a lot of the trick beat at the end of the song!


This is not my video, credit goes to S4VN01GreenDay.

3:20-end is the HARD part!

*P.S. according to this site, I was the 9th to get this. :) (June 18th, 2010)

With a bit of practice this achievement isn't hard at all.

Head over to quick play and play Drums Expert with No-Fail turned on. When the Song begins play like you normally would until you get Overdrive. At the next free moment pause the game and put the kick pedal in your lap and use your hands* for the song. With the drum fills removing the hard parts this shouldn't be hard to get the hang of.

I will post the video once I get it uploaded.

*I recommend using a Rock Band 2 kick pedal since its a nice pedal and isn't much tension on it as the original pedal. The Beatles Pedal is the same.

*EDIT* I get this question a lot about Jaded. The beat is a constant one one-two one one-two thing. So in your head just think *bum bum-bum bum bum-bum* but be warned it will stop at two parts in the song so watch for the quick changes. With the drum fill removing the *bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum* parts out it takes away a lot of stress. The ending will be the only one you will have to deal with and it's a simple constant motion that shouldn't be hard to nail.

I have created a way to use a computer to play drums perfectly and obtain this achievement. I have created a video tutorial for this method but I have included full text instructions as well.

This will also get you this achievement in the process if you do not already have it.



Text instructions can be found here.
http://goo.gl/qGI69

*For people with Guitar Hero/Band Hero/any "Hero" drums:

If you are going to use the "No Fail / Save Overdrive / Play just the bass" method I strongly suggest using Guitar Hero Drums. The GH bass pedal differs from the Rock Band pedal in that it is a piezo sensor (turns vibration into energy) where as the Rock band pedal is a magnetic switch.

Why is this important?
-You can put it on your lap and hit it with drum sticks instead of stomping it with your foot! This allows you to use two hands instead of one foot making this achievement easier (though still very difficult) to obtain.

I suggest turning the pedal over and hitting it on the large piece of padding near the front. The padding is right next to the sensor and will give you a little bounce. Also, you are less likely to break the plastic as you furiously pound away on this achievement.

A few important notes:
-Your achievement screen might not update when No Fail mode is on but you CAN get the achievement with it. So if your hitting all but 1 or 2 kicks and your achievement screen still says 85/100 or something don't be discouraged.
-Extra hits DO NOT count against you. You could theoretically just play a bass roll as fast as you can through the whole song and as long as you still hit all the notes you would get the cheevo.
-Don't expect to get this in a couple tries. I think I tried like 40-50 times and still don't have it and I am a decent drummer. It will take sweat and determination but you will be rewarded in the form of a nice chunk of TA score.

Good Luck!

I literally first played the game a few minutes ago, and am nowhere near this achievement yet- but I made an important discovery which may aid people in getting this achievement.

If you use the Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock drum kit (that looks a bit like this):
then you can, very similarly to all the other solutions, turn no fail on and concentrate on the bass pedal notes. The difference being, instead of pressing the bass pedal with your hands, or hitting it with drumsticks, you can take your CYMBALS and plug them into the bass pedal socket. This way you can use drumsticks to operate the bass pedal, while hitting something that was supposed to be hit with drumsticks! One problem is the very short cables they use, you can either use a splitter or other extension cable to plug them in, or you can detatch the cymbal and place it over the red and blue pads. In my attempts so far I use the redundant orange cymbal as another bass pedal, while the rest of the drum kit is hooked up normally.

I hope this helps someone get this achievement.

Play "Brain Stew / Jaded" on drums in Quickplay, and turn No Fail ON. Play through Brain Stew normally, but do not activate overdrive. This will cause many difficult sections to be covered up by fill lanes for the rest of the song. There is a long break of 10 seconds or so between Brain Stew and Jaded for you to get yourself into a comfortable position to hit the pedal with your hand. For all of Jaded, hit only the bass drum notes. Most of it is the same beat; the real killer is the tempo shifts. Learn where they are so you know where you should speed up and slow down.

Sometimes you won't hear the bass drum feedback from the game when you hit the first kick after a fill section. It doesn't mean you missed it, so if this happens, keep playing the song and don't let it distract you.

If you full-combo Brain Stew, don't activate overdrive, and hit only the bass drum notes in Jaded, your stats screen will read:

63,550 : 62% : 587 note streak

This will give you an idea how many you missed. For example, if you FC'd Brain Stew but got a score of 63,475 using this method, it means you missed 3 kicks in Jaded (25 per note at x1). Keep at it!

Before I got the achievement, my in-game Achievements page showed 99/100, and after using this method it says 100/100, so having No Fail ON did not disable the updating of this page for me.

So just a warning for people going for this. Exessive overstrums almost certainly voids the achievement. I hooked up my phone to the bass pedal jack via aux and played a constant frequency on max volume on a frequency generator app. (This actually works, and you get to hear how green day would sound like as a black metal band. Even better, if you play music, it can faintly heard through the drums). I am very certain that it didn't drop any notes, but still no achievement. Btw, this was done using the Warriors of Rock drum kit

If anyone wants to play around with this, you need to have a frequency of 78 Hz (not kidding, 79 Hz averaged -2 notes per playthrough, 78 is perfect every time). I used saw waves instead of sine, maybe that makes a difference as well. The first app I tried wasn't loud enough, so try again if that happens to you.