Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
51 Achievements
Raining Notes
Perfectly play the First Blood section of the song Raining Blood as the Guitarist on Expert. Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
2.0%
How to unlock the Raining Notes achievement in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits - Definitive Guide
*This is not my video
First Blood: 1:18-1:34
Edit: This one is NOT unlockable in practice. It must be done in career or quickplay.
First of all you need to be pretty good at playing a plastic guitar.
Method 1:
Tap it (use two hands). Hold down green with your left index finger (unless you're a lefty) and then if you can tap with three fingers on your right hand (that's how I did it but if you prefer more fingers on your left hand instead go with that, it's just a preference). All you have to do is simply tapping the hammer ons and elbow strum the strum notes.. I found this consistent but I always seemed to miss somewhere.. The other method was the one I eventually succeeded with but this one is way less consistent and kind of random, and maybe even harder for those that haven't played the game much.
Method 2:
Alright, so this was the method that eventually worked out for me. I just slided my hands across all five buttons. When you have to hit Orange, Blue, Yellow then Green. I also slided over red, but very fast so I was there in time to hit Green. It kind of looked like I had a seizure and I had really no control of what I was doing, but it worked.
Both of these are gonna take some practice first in practice mode to get fairly consistant with them.
This is an old video I posted on how I FC the section...I know this is a really late time to post this guide but thought I might aswell put them on here since i already have the videos on youtube.
I also have a video guide for Play with me section and Bloody feet.
Check them out if its not too late ;)
Actually there's no trick how to easily beat this but I can give you some tipps.
1. Take a guitar that has good contacts on the colors.
2. Never hit the colors to hard with your hand, hit them softly so it's like you almost don't press the colors. Also you must know these notes are all together, here shown in X: xxxxxxxx. It's not like xxxx_xxxx so never make a space between the ladders.
3. Don't use tapping here, since these is harder to do and you must strum notes inbetween every now and than.
4. Also don't hold the green note because this will make your three upper fingers tense and not be able to move them softly on the colors.
Step 1. if your having trouble with the song on expert, learn to get between 95-100% on hard first, then play expert
Step 2. Your not going to jump on and get this achievement 1st go. Go into practice, pick the sections b4 and after the first blood sections as well, learn when its comming. start practice and the slowest speed until you can hit every note.
Step 3. Keep doing the practice until you hit every note on the slowest speed, then go to the next highest speed and so on and so on till ya get to normal speed.
Step 4. You should catch onto it quite quickly by doing this.
Step 5. Go into quickplay/career pick raininig blood and dont give up till ya got it, dont forget you must finish the song for the achievement to unlock. if ya still having trouble go back and practice some more.
This is one of the hardest trophies in game. You need to complete the First Blood section of 'Raining Blood' in Expert and hit all the notes there. IMO this is harder than You Play It Well because the section is longer and Let's Play.
Make sure to practice it and play it on lower difficulty setting. Important is to play it on Hard. There are two ways of getting it.
Single Player method. You can do it by either holding the green button down all the time with your index finger while using the rest of your fingers to hit the other notes. I prefer this method. Another way is not to hold the green and tap it like the other notes. Some people prefer this because you have more control on your other fingers. You should not try to do this with two hands because there are chords in between the riff that you have to strum.
Two Player method. You can get a friend to hold the green fret button. This way you can play it like you would on hard. Make sure he lets go at the exact right time when the chords come.
Practice this in practice mode with the slowest speed and move to play in faster once you get 100% on that speed. After you can 100% it in practice mode, you have to do it in Quickplay. You can't get the trophy in Practice mode. Go to quickplay and play the song until you reach the First Blood section. You can just ignore the last bit of notes to get your hands ready. Keep trying until you hit every note there. Then you still have to complete the song for the trophy to unlock. Don't screw up here or you'll lose your trophy.
Below is a tutorial on how to get the trophy.
Anyway I still can’t believe I got this, I’m not even that great of a GH/RB player. I can’t even FC this part on GH3. It was ‘mind over matter’, I told myself ‘I’m gonna do this’.
Under an hour I went from starting up the game, to unlocking the achievement. Plus I haven’t played this game in a while.
I used Hyperspeed 4 and played through it on practice mode. Most of the time I played like shit. I tried a couple different methods, even wetting my fingers with water so it’s easier to move(I used the GH2 Explore guitar btw). I ended up going with the ‘holding down your index finger on the green notes’. Only after 100%ing the part once on practice mode, I tried again and missed(still on practice mode). I was then like ‘ok let’s just do this before I start to play worse’. So I then played the song on career mode and got first try.
Don’t think I’ll be able to get it again without serious work. I got lucky from faith.
Maybe there is a god out there😕