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AN-I-MAL!!!

AN-I-MAL!!!

Finished Drum Solo Tour on Expert

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How to unlock the AN-I-MAL!!! achievement in Rock Band - Definitive Guide

A tip to getting through longer, painful songs, is never, ever use your overdrive. This will allow you to get drum fills often. this will:
1) give you a small rest
2) allow you to skip a few notes
3) you will have overdrive ready whenever you're in trouble

With songs like Run To The Hills, I used the drum fills as an opportunity to pause it and give my arms a rest, then went back to mashing the red note for another few mintues.

As a tip for "Dont Fear the Reaper", I played it probably 6-7 times, failing at the fast red notes and everything after that. To overcome this, I just made more and more runs at it until I went into those hard parts with full overdrive and a full crowd bar.
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14 Jul 2010 06:10

One of the songs that will probably get alot of people new to Expert Drums is Run to the Hills. Constant stream of snares, coupled with the fact that the RB1 kit isn't as good as it should be can make this achievement hard to get. If you have the RB2 kit, use that. It makes life alot easier. Otherwise, just keep playing it and you'll eventually build up enough endurance to pass the song.
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07 Oct 2009 21:49

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Ha, did this on a GH drum kit which made things awkward as your playing the opposite on the kit than whats played on the song, if you get me. Like your playing the hi hat on the snare and the snare on the hi hat, yeah pretty awkward. I must say this requires alot of stamina. i mean i had to stop half way through. but i think the intro to foreplay is alot harder than this, because this is just a simple fast beat. Might take practise. but i thought i'd never pass foreplay and i eventually got use to the beat by listening to the track alot.
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By SteSteSte91 on 10 Jan 2010 02:05
Good advice, it's true that Run to the Hills will ruin a LOT of people. A couple of years ago when I got this cheevo Run to the Hills was the last song I had to beat. But I have to nitpick juuuuust slightly. It's not a constant stream of snares. It's a constant stream of reds, and usually the red is the snare, but in songs like RTTH the red is a stream of hihats. =D
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By MajimaActual on 27 Apr 2012 15:20
If Run To The Hills is the song your stuck on try only hitting red and have a friend do the foot pedal for you and you can pause and switch if you get tired and try getting overdrive in the start and don't use it so u can have breaks throughout the song.
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My tip for Run to the Hills.
Put rubber bands on the ends of your drum sticks for more bounce. PAUSE!!!! It doesn't matter if you are in the the middle of the fast red notes, when you resume, you know what will be coming up. Relax too. IF you don't get it first try, play something else and try again.
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01 Nov 2011 20:02

Ok, as one of the few people I know of that actually has this achievement, let me go ahead and say.... Wow.

This is probably the hardest achievement in the game. The drum set consists of four pads, color coded accordingly R, Y, B, and G along with a foot pedal, color coded O. The foot pedal is what gives people the most trouble because of lack of hand/foot coordination. However, there has been complaints about people's pedal not picking up the rapid pedaling. There is a fix for this. You can -find it here-

Some Tips:
Tutorials - Seeing as this is a new concept, I highly recommend going through the tutorials. They will teach you all about overdrive and how you activate it (it's different than on Guitar and Bass).

Loading Screens - Read the loading screens in between songs. They actually provide useful information in this game. Some of them include holding your sticks loosely as to allow for bounce or resting your foot on the pedal and keeping it pressed down as to not wear out leg strength when the pedal is not used.

Friends - You can use a friend to hit the bass pedal for you. Though this is kind of cheap, it's doable.

Danger Songs:
(Don't Fear) The Reaper - This song is pretty straight forward and simple from the beginning. However, at the end, it gets really really hard. There is non-stop pedaling going on, and the pads are something like B R B R B Y-G. This will give everyone problems that has no idea it's coming. How I got through this was I took it into practice and worked each section at a time. I started with pedal, then added in R and so on.

Foreplay/Long Time - This song is directly opposite to (Don't Fear) The Reaper as it is hard mainly in the beginning (During Foreplay). It basically consists of non-stop pedal (sounds familiar) with double reds and alternating G or B's. To do this you should use that bounce technique I mentioned earlier. If you bounce the stick right, the pad will register two consecutive strikes, rather than one. This means that you can hit two notes at once, allowing you to concentrate on the pedal and the alternating B and G's.

Run to The Hills - This song seems way harder than it is. It seems like it has a pretty steady pedal pattern and pretty straight forward rhythm. The only thing difficult is the constant use of the red pad. The best way for this is usually a roll technique. Seeing as I am not a drummer, I don't know how to do that. There are tutorials online for that. You can just do what I do, and kind of bang until you're through it.

Wont Get Fooled Again - This is the hardest song on drums without a doubt. The pedal is so sporadic it is very hard to follow. The pads are pretty simple, with some crazy breakdowns every now and then. I suggest using the same technique I described with (Don't Fear) The Reaper for this one.

**Stackable** meaning completion of this will unlock all subsequent achievements

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