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Rock Band 2 (2008)

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Probably should've posted this during Season 2 of Fortnite Festival while Lady Gaga was the headliner instead of Billie Eilish. Whoops. 😅 The Lead instrument chart is quite a bit different from its Rock Band counterpart (mostly the first hook, bridge, pre-chorus and chorus), which gave me a good excuse to revisit my favorite Lady Gaga song. Planning on revisiting this in Festival as well on Bass's gamepad chart once I get around to it.

Speaking of which, Fortnite Festival's Instrument Mode just dropped alongside Season 3! The new Pro Lead and Pro Bass instruments play just like traditional Guitar Hero and Rock Band, with fretting and strumming. (And also whammying, though it does pretty much nothing at the moment.) There is a massive problem though: at the moment, you can only access it with a very limited selection of guitar controllers. You absolutely need either the new Riffmaster guitar controller (currently sold out) or a Rock Band 4 guitar (still being scalped), or you're locked out of the Pro modes. Other guitars and controllers don't work, even on PC with key rebinding software or with legacy adapters for consoles. There's also an additional "screw you" for those that got the PlayStation Riffmaster: it doesn't work on PC, at least as far as Fortnite Festival is concerned. Even the Lore Hero guys—Acai, A Wise Moose, JasonParadise, and 760 Creations, who you could probably consider the spokespeople of Festival—weren't aware of this. Epic Games and Harmonix did confirm that they're currently working on legacy guitar support, but the fact that this wasn't implemented right out of the gate (especially with how hard it is to acquire the Riffmaster and RB4 guitars) is ridiculous. Some modders did come up with a workaround for PC players until official support gets added in, I'll probably check it out later. I'll still stick with Rock Band for songs that have proper conversions.

Pretty much used the same path I used in the Rock Band version, just with the second one pushed up to fit more notes in. Nailed every act. The last act was actually a tilt one, but I got crazy lucky and timed it perfectly. 😁

Fun fact about this conversion, BTW: the word "bitch" got censored in the Festival version (since Festival's Jam Tracks can also be used in Fortnite's other game modes, some of which have an E10+ rating), but it still shows up in this conversion's Vocals track and lipsync, since the Rock Band version they were pulled from was uncensored. You can even see Kyoko mouthing it during the bridge if you look close enough, especially during the "I'm a free bitch, baby" directed cut.

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"Bad Romance (Fortnite Festival)" - Lady Gaga
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Guitar: Misako (River City Girls)
Bass: Vanilla (World's End Club)
Drums: Shantae
Vocals: Kyoko (River City Girls)

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