Guitar Hero: Smash Hits

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Raining Notes

Raining Notes

Perfectly play the First Blood section of the song Raining Blood as the Guitarist on Expert.

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How to unlock the Raining Notes achievement in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits - Definitive Guide

Achievement is called "Raining Notes". You have to play the section "First Blood" PERFECTLY on EXPERT on guitar. For the most part with the glowing notes at the beginning of the solo hold green with your index finger and practice rolling your other 3 fingers on orange, blue, yellow, and then on blue, yellow, red, but holding green the whole time. If you can get this you just need to focus on the few strumming notes you have to hit until you go back to the glowing rythym of holding green and rolling your fingers on those combos of O, B, Y, then back to B, Y, R. Good Luck.
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08 Aug 2009 20:53

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omg yes! this one was a pain but i finally got it :) I don't know if anchoring green is the best way as i just stayed in position 2 for the most part. i'll try your method though and see if maybe it's more consistent.
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By Data555dough on 19 Jan 2010 18:32
Hah, Good luck is really all you can say on something like this. I did that section with 1 miss numerous times. I might go for it again eventually. lol
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By Raisukai on 02 Mar 2010 17:14
Can this be done in Practice mode?
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By Psycho Joe 1 on 15 May 2010 22:50
*REPLY*
Can this be done in Practice mode?
Posted by Psycho Joe 1 on 15 May 10 22:50:08
- not as far as I know
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By JiglifiedmQfQ on 29 May 2010 14:31
Just to confirm it, it CANNOT be done in Practice mode.
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By Psycho Joe 1 on 17 Jun 2010 07:41
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This one must be done on the Expert difficulty. This one ranks up there in hardness with "You Play It Well." This may be the 2nd hardest achievement. It looks EXTREMELY hard. It's not too difficult once you get the rhythm down. Keep your index finger on green constantly then learn the transition of the orange-blue-yellow & the blue-yellow-red back to green. The chords in between are nothing to break a sweat over. Keep in mind, though, that this section is really fast. Once you get down the transition it will be smooth sailing. Just keep on practicing. This one took me quite a while to grab too. Also, this one unlocks when the song is completed. So do not fret if you do not get it immediately after perfecting the First Blood section.

*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.
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16 Dec 2009 16:26

If none of the other solutions work out for you, I have two methods that both worked out very well (for me anyway).

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.
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03 Aug 2010 20:09

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Method 2 is the best solution so I gave this one an upvote over every other one. GH, unlike RB, doesn't penalize someone for hitting a note inbetween HOPOs (hammer-ons and pull-offs). So sliding your hand constantly works.
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By Perpalicious on 19 Aug 2010 12:58
Looking at finishing some old achievements and this: "First of all you need to be pretty good at playing a plastic guitar"...made me laugh
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By x athiktos x on 31 Jul 2017 16:41

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 ;)
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12 Mar 2015 23:19

For this achievement you've got to play 100% on the section "First Blood" in the song "Raining Blood" on Expert. It must be done in the full song and not in the practise-mode.
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.
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18 May 2012 06:20

I can believe no ones suggested this, this is a hard achievement, and if your expecting it to be the same as GH3 its not.
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.
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06 Jan 2011 03:36

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.

 
Thanks to BigJAG2004 for the video
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Ok this has to be done on Expert guitar, career mode or quickplay. Practice mode doesn’t count.
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😕
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