Night in the Woods

Night in the Woods

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Maestro

Maestro

Four strings and the spite to use ‘em.

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How to unlock the Maestro achievement in Night in the Woods - Definitive Guide

On days 1, 4 and 8 you'll have unmissable band practice, where you and your friends will play a different song each time. In order to unlock this achievement, you'll need to do reasonably well in a Guitar Hero-style minigame.

Here's some videos of the songs. They are from the PC version, but should suffice to get an idea of the songs. The videos are not mine, credit to its uploader.

Day 1: Die anywhere else.

Day 4: Weird Autumn

Day 8: Pumpkin Head Guy

The first two songs are rather easy, and shouldn't pose a problem. The third one really steps up in difficulty. You'll need to master almost the entire song, and for the hellish part (1:15 in the video) what I did was to focus completely in cn_A and cn_Y as they are the most repeated notes, and throw some cn_X in between if I could do it without failing. Keep calm, and, important, don't "overstrum" as that adds to the errors. If you follow these tips, you should get it after a few tries.

Note that this has to be done during the band practice scenes. So, if, after ending the song, Gregg doesn't say "That was pretty good" that means you have failed. If that happens, hold cn_Y to exit the game, and when selecting "Continue" from the main menu, you'll be back at the beginning of band practice, ready to try again.

Also, keep in mind that completing these songs with a good rating will unlock three sketches needed for another achievement

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Fuck this achievement, and fuck Demontower. Anyway, definitely mute the game for PHG (the first two songs I was able to do fine with the audio on, even though the notes don't always match the music). I was having a particularly hard time getting the timing right for the section of PHG just before the insane solo, where you're mashing A/B/X a bunch in a row...it might be useful to do a few throwaway practice runs where you don't worry about nailing the song, just concentrate on figuring out the timing for the mash section and maybe practice the solo some. Once I finally managed to get most of the mashing part (I think I might have had one or two mistakes there), can confirm everyone else's advice that you can safely skip all of the X presses during the solo and as long as you get just about all of the A, Y, and B notes correct you will get the "pretty good!" rating. It does take a lot of practice though. Try to concentrate on watching the buttons as they approach the bottom and ignore the "strings" as best you can, because the near-constant shaking as you skip Xs can be very distracting and make you think you're messing up the other notes when you actually aren't.

And personally I found it most helpful to have my left thumb on the Y button and use my right thumb for A, B, and X. Some have said to use one thumb for X & Y and one for A & B, but my coordination is not good enough to be moving two fingers back and forth...keeping one thumb in place with just a single button to control was the most helpful for me.
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By DenverMax27 on 02 Oct 2020 18:45
I recommend muting the sound and just doing it by visual. The song doesn't seem to hit the notes with the button presses, so it's distracting.
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By Shadow XBL on 15 Aug 2018 04:40
Here's a better one for Pumpkinhead Guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqE4nGkV1BE
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By Sashamorning on 16 Mar 2019 06:31
I came here to say i also recommend muting the sound. I would also focus on Y, A and B rather than X because those combos made more sense to me. Once i decided to ignore X, i got this the first try, though i had been playing it for about 30 min and had mastered everything else but that solo.

I read a post that a guy got a pass even though he counted 22 mistakes so that's a good reference point. As long as you can get perfect or close to perfect before the solo, theres only about 10-12 X notes in the hard section. There's still a bit of leeway for a couple more misses.
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By A1ienspacebats on 26 Aug 2019 16:58
I cheesed this a bit on pumpkin head, I had my husband do A & Y and I did X & B, much easier, I have terrible timing for music games.
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By SuperAwesomez on 18 Jun 2020 00:36
It also counts if you get almost perfect comment afterwards.
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By DarkLordRaptor on 30 Sep 2020 23:08
Solid advice DenverMax27, I got it by doing the first parts of pumpkin head with only 1 or 2 mistakes then completely ignoring X for the crazy part and making a few more mistakes on Y, A, B and another 2 mistakes on the ending. I'd say I just about scraped it. Also saying the letters to myself as they came up helped.
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By Calex dEUS on 04 Oct 2020 11:31
Had a lot of trouble with this, then muted audio and didn't hit any x inputs during that last crazy bit and got it first try. Good info y'all, cheers for that!
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By MartyrrTTV on 22 Nov 2020 15:28
Does it count through different playthrough? Cuz I did well at the first one and bad at the last two if I start again and go bad at the first and well at the last two, will it pop?
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By Bruno Gerotti on 11 Dec 2020 23:28
The best way to beat pumpkin head guy is to get a friend to click two buttons "A" "B" and you click "X" "Y". Even ask your parent/guardian for help XD. Anything for this insane achievement.
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By Foxmoonlight on 25 Jan 2021 22:29
I'm not sure that this'll be a help for anyone, but it certainly was for me: After many tries for Pumpkin Head Guy, in addition to muting the sound (which I'd been doing for Weird Autumn as well), I also turned off the controller's vibration. Seemed to cut down on mis-strums, enough that I earned the achievement on my first attempt after doing this.
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By treeofmana on 06 Feb 2021 19:39
The 1st and 2nd songs I could manage to play them, but I struggled on the 3rd one. I could keep trying, but I decided to cheat facepalm. I plugged another controller, and asked to my daughter press the A and B button, while I pressed the X and Y. We got it on the first try.
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By TrevorPhilipsBR on 09 Apr 2021 19:51
the easiest way to do "pumpkin head guy"on Xbox, if you have unskilled hands like I do, is to have someone "copilot" the song with you. while you press A and B, the other one will press X and Y, for instance.
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By Cyanuret on 11 Apr 2021 03:00
Yup so good advices guy thx!

Muted the song, vibration off and my girlfriend managed Y, B while I was doing X, A; got it first try! "Copilot" on the same controller, I dont know if it works with the real copilot function with two controllers tho but anyways, totally doable with only one!
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By PiMaC1985 on 28 Aug 2021 02:45
Muted the TV, vibration off, left thumb for X and Y, right thumb for A and B, and when it gets to the difficult part, just focus on Y and A. If you can manage the occasional X and B, even better, but I got this first time with this method.
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By FearTheConman on 18 Sep 2021 08:48
Why in the hell do devs feel the need to add achievements for such ridiculously hard tasks in games? My coordination is no where good enough to complete Pumkin head, nor Demon Tower from level 7 onwards. It took me a couple hours just to do the simple Cylces song alone. And to top it off the devs decide to make a bunch of achievements dependant on others. Also the guy who wrote the main walkthrough guide for the game totally understaes how hard parts are and expects everyone playing will be just as accomplished as he is FFS.
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By Buachaill Dona on 25 Sep 2021 12:31
I counted 4 mistakes in Pumpkin Head and that 3rd attempt got me that "pretty good". It's honestly not that bad if you can perfect the parts outside of the fast one and then break down the fast part to sections you can perfect and just mess around with the rest. 2 thumbs on the controller was a great tip.
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By Sipuli91 on 26 Sep 2021 12:58
Must Pumpkin Head Guy finish on day 8?
“and throw some X in between if I could do it without failing. ”
It means u can ignore X ?
How many miss can accept if get pass?
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By LikingMallard44 on 27 Sep 2021 03:32
Passed! not very hard, keep 1st first slow part not miss,2nd long repeat part little miss,3rd fast part forget X first, last slow part not miss X.
I did 4 plus mistakes and pass.
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By LikingMallard44 on 27 Sep 2021 12:05
They’ve either made this easier or I got really lucky. Messed up the beginning bit and some notes in the continuous section. The tip to just ignore x during the hard bit and turn off vibration and mute the game were the tips that’s worked for me.
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By Falensarano on 09 Feb 2022 15:35
I was so close to giving up on the last song but I just kept practicing. Took me almost an hour + 2 extra strength advil but I persevered!
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By Pure Pip Raptor on 02 Apr 2023 17:58
the last song took me like 20ish times
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By neoncat on 16 Dec 2023 19:41
Thx for the tips here! I made it by leaving the X button untouched in the Section of Hell, only focusing on the other three buttons.
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By RiBoP on 25 Apr 2021 06:43
Copilot is definitely the way to go for Pumpkin Head Guy. I was a mess when trying to do it solo, but I got it first time on copilot. My copilot (who does not play Xbox) did A&B while I did X&Y, since the A&B combination is easier than X&Y. Plus, I also did the long single note sequences for all the buttons.
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By RepentantHades7 on 06 May 2021 01:53
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