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Vocal Virtuoso

Vocal Virtuoso

Earn an Awesome rating on at least 90% of the phrases in 6 songs on Hard Vocals.

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How to unlock the Vocal Virtuoso achievement in Rock Band 3 - Definitive Guide

This can be done in Hard or Expert, but for obvious reasons Hard is easier and must be Solo singing, not harmonies.
Now if your a good singer you will have no problem, otherwise here is a really good trick to get you through it.

The trick with this is to find songs that don't require pitch, and just let you talk it through, this way as long as there is sound in the Microphone it will count. Best trick is to drag a Fan/Air Conditioner in front of your microphone.
The only problem is that most are through DLC or exporting so you will need your bigger library first.

Songs recommended to do so with are:

Rock Band 1-
- "Sabotage" - Beastie Boys

Rock Band 2-
- "So Wha'cha Want" - Bestie Boys
- "Testify" - Rage Against The Machine

Downloadable Content-
- "Gay Bar" - Electric Six
- "Thank You Boys" - Jane's Addiction
- "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg
- "Ridin' In My Chevy" - Snoop Dog
- "The Great Southern Trendkill" - Pantera
- "Suicide Note Pt. II" - Pantera
- "The Underground In America" - Pantera
- "(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin" - Pantera
- "Laid To Rest" - Lamb Of God
- "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against The Machine
- "Guerilla radio" - Rage Against The Machine
- "Debaser" - The Pixies
- "Dawn Patrol" - Megadeth
- "Clouds Over California" - DevilDriver
- "Blinded by Fear" - At the Gates
- "Thrasher" - Evile
- "A Drug Against War" - KMFDM
- "Visions" - Abnormality
- "No Sleep till Brooklyn" - Beastie Boys
- "Thank You Boys" - Jane's Addiction
- "Bombtrack" - Rage Against the Machine
- "Killing in the Name" - Rage Against the Machine
- "Sleep Now in the Fire" - Rage Against the Machine
- "King of Rock" - Run-DMC
- "Raining Blood" - Slayer
- "The Hourglass Paroxysm - Part II" - Chaotrope
- "Frontier Factory" - Freen in Green
- "Everyone I Know is an Alcoholic" - Robby Suavé
- "Cookie Monster" - XTT
- "SEX" - SNMT

I realise this is not a complete list so please let me know if there are more I haven't thought of...

Credit due to:
- Samurai Judge
- Gnarlycore
- Perpalicious
- UpgradePolecat
- DJP519
- T0rtureTactics
- lightsup55
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27 Oct 2010 23:54

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In addition to what is noted above, here are the songs I've done with 100% vocals easily (with the exception of one at 99%) and gold stars.


DLC:
"Visions" by Abnormality (available as part of the Rock Band Free Pack 01)
"No Sleep till Brooklyn" by Beastie Boys
"Thank You Boys" by Jane's Addiction (Nothing's Shocking (Album) pack - vocals are at the end of the song)
"Bombtrack" by Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine Pack 01)
"Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine Pack 01)
"Sleep Now in the Fire" by Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine Pack 01)
"Give It Away" by Red Hot Chili Peppers (available as DLC single OR Rock Band Blitz soundtrack export - 99% is easily obtainable - only the last phrase is the hardest to hit)
"King of Rock" by Run-DMC
"Raining Blood" by Slayer (Slayer Pack 01)

Rock Band Network DLC:
"The Hourglass Paroxysm - Part II" by Chaotrope (vocals come in after 4 minutes)
"Frontier Factory" by Freen in Green (the full song heard in "Rock Band Network Megamix 01")
"Everyone I Know is an Alcoholic" by Robby Suavé (the full song heard in "Rock Band Network Megamix 01")
"Cookie Monster" by XTT
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By lightsup55 on 02 May 2013 03:41
Can you confirm that Visions is actually in your RB3 songs list? I exported over RB2 and Visions isn't there, Testify and So Wha'cha Want are in my songs, but no Visions. I read that there were 14 songs in total that don't export over from RB2, is that one of them?
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By DrSchlepenstein on 28 Oct 2010 06:48
# "Let There Be Rock" by AC/DC
# "Any Way You Want It" by Journey
# "Battery" by Metallica
# "Give It Away” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
# “Spoonman” by Soundgarden
Plus a few Harmonix songs are the ones that won't but Harmonix has promised the Harmonix songs will reapear as free DLC
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By Kennansoft on 28 Oct 2010 10:08
Visions doesnt carry over!
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By Maka91 on 28 Oct 2010 17:42
Must be in that batch... I will add it when it's back
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By Kennansoft on 28 Oct 2010 22:02
Well at least I know Visions doesn't export now, almost thought my export glitched or something. And I don't have the Electric Six song, but did get the achievement using the other 4 songs and after playing 2 warm-up songs on Hard, Blitzkrieg Bop and In Bloom.
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By DrSchlepenstein on 29 Oct 2010 15:29
I would add The Pixies - Debaser as an easy one...it's what I used in RB1 and RB2 to get the 100% expert vocals achievements. All talky parts no singy parts.
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By Gnarlycore on 30 Oct 2010 13:23
Still Alive. It's free and by far the easiest.

Turn up the speakers a bit and hold the mic up to them.
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By Firvagor on 31 Oct 2010 21:26
Jerry was a race car driver is another very easy one and is 90% talkie bits, RB3
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By Calex dEUS on 01 Nov 2010 16:43
Dawn Patrol by Megadeth is the best song since it's one of the shortest songs out there and it's all talkie bits.
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By Perpalicious on 10 Nov 2010 23:21
any death metal song will work. There is more than 6 in the marketplace and you get 2 from the free RB2 pack for RB3.
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By OfficerBarbrady on 12 Jan 2011 17:34
actually shoulder to the plow from the free RB2 pack requires you to actually sing most of the song. So there is only 1 good one from the RB2 pack.
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By OfficerBarbrady on 12 Jan 2011 17:37
almost all the songs in the Mayhem DLC Pack, some of which include Conquer All, What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse, This Is Exile, etc.
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By TheLonging on 22 Jan 2011 18:35
You can add Clouds Over California by DevilDriver to that list.
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By UpgradePolecat on 20 May 2011 06:17
Cheers
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By Kennansoft on 20 May 2011 07:54
Blinded by Fear by At The Gates should also work. Pretty sure it's from the Metal Track Pack export.
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By DJP519 on 02 Jun 2012 17:07
Thanks
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By Kennansoft on 02 Jun 2012 22:53
Here is a new one I've just recently discovered. And I'm NOT kidding about the song title (just in case it gets censored).

Rock Band Network DLC:
"SEX" by SNMT

http://www.rockband.com/songs/UGC_5009260
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By lightsup55 on 23 May 2013 03:33
I hate this list. It's just lazy. I mean, 6 SONGS. 6 SONGS is too hard for people? IF you are 'a good singer.' No. If you have Vocal Cords. You can get this achievement.
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By THEpaynexkiller on 11 Sep 2013 16:42
To be fair if you are a good enough gamer you can get any achievement.
There is obviously a reason people look for help on achievements.
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By Kennansoft on 12 Sep 2013 12:49
@THEpaynexkiller

If the achievement description read "Earn an Awesome rating on at least 90% of the phrases in 6 songs on Easy Vocals", then I'd agree with you.

Not everyone has a singing voice and are most likely to fail a song before the 50% mark on Hard Vocals. This is the most likely explanation as to why vocals is the least common part.

Also, it may boil down to doing songs where the lead vocalist is NOT Freddie Mercury. Someone who isn't good at singing could barely do the easiest Queen song on Easy. That is to say... sing songs where the lead vocalist is in YOUR vocal range. Of course, that is easier said than done due the differences in one's song library (DLC and exports).
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By lightsup55 on 12 Sep 2013 15:12
Visions is part of a free pack they released with all of the HMX bands that didn't export...

...I think
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By LIBERT4D on 16 Apr 2011 21:58
Evile - Thrasher and KMFDM - a drug against war will also work. primus is 89% talkie parts. i could not get the 90%.
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By T0rtureTactics on 01 May 2013 05:05
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Id try and do songs from the RB3 disc if you can (helps toward the 25 songs played)

A few really good choices are:

Jerry Was a Racecar Driver (do this on expert - EASY 5* - mostly talking)
Imagine
Before i Forget (another good 5* expert candidate)
Yoshimi
Free Bird
Crazy Train

The Primus, Slipknot and Ozzy are good candidates for Expert 5* - good if you need them for 5* Expert career.
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01 Nov 2010 19:07

Although this has to be done on solo vocals it doesn't mean you can only have 1 singer. Connect 2 or 3 mics, choose solo vocals and everyone sing. With 3 vocalists filling the pie up it's a lot easier, each vocalist even gets their own pointer

The game will pick up whoever is on pitch at any given time during each line, so if you nail half a phrase and a friend nails the other half, it fills the pie completely and you get the awesome.

It's also brilliant for the really long sustained notes, if you run out of breath, as long as someone else is still singing you can have a breath and join back in

Please feel free to comment
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31 Oct 2010 14:41

Although the description seems pretty straight-forward, there's a catch: It has to be "Vocals" and not "Harmonies".

Racking up 6 good scores on Harmonies won't trigger the achievement.
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27 Oct 2010 22:55

In addition to Kennansoft's song choices (except visons)
these songs are easy to sing since they have no pitch
do these on hard or expect

drop it like its hot-snoop dogg
Ridin' In My Chevy-snoop dog
The Great Southern Trendkill-pantera
Suicide Note Pt. II- pantera
The Underground in America-pantera
(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin
laid to rest- lamb of God
bulls on parade- rage against the machine
guerilla radio-rage against the machine

comment if theres more no pitch songs besides mine and Kennansoft
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28 Oct 2010 22:27

Choose 6 low tier songs for this one.

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You can do this on Expert but it is far easier doing it on Hard. You are better off choosing songs that suit your voice than you are trying to work from a list of easy songs. In general though, you should try the zero dot songs first. If you are having trouble, hum instead and change the pitch of the note so that it is an octave up or down, since the game will allow for a “C” in any octave to substitute for the “C” in the song. You can also sing ahead of the note to try and hit the pitch before it actually comes up.

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