5Frets interviews top Guitar Hero player Lilirock to learn more about her unusual playing technique
Manon "Lilirock" Desbiens's extraordinary skill at Guitar Hero has earned her a #15 ranking for highest Guitar Hero 5 Expert Guitar Career score on the competitive ScoreHero.com leaderboard. But the kicker is her very unusual playing technique: she plays the guitar overhand like a piano, using all 5 fingers on her left hand in reverse order compared to normal. Her pinky handles the green fret and her thumb handles orange – even for trills!
To get a better idea, watch this video of Lilirock's 100% perfect FC run of Rush – "The Spirit of Radio" in GH5:
Lilirock talked technique with 5Frets recently in an interview:
5Frets: Tell us a bit about yourself for readers who aren't familiar with you.
Guitar Hero World Tour is known to have finicky and difficult Star Power activation on drums. Most drummers have experienced it: you hit the yellow & orange cymbals simultaneously to activate Star Power, and instead you get a dull thud and break your streak. Why is this, and what can you do about it?
Worldwide 1st place (career score) Guitar Hero World Tour Wii drummer "Koric" shared with 5Frets.com his excellent tips for mastering the tricky GHWT drum SP activations:
Guitar Hero 5 Wii new in-game Leaderboard Score Rankings
Guitar Hero Wii rockers have been jealous for a long time of the Xbox360's in-game leaderboards since Guitar Hero 3. Guitar Hero World Tour first gave Wii rockers an in-game leaderboard; but for many people, simply accessing the leaderboard causes the Wii to freeze completely! (I speak from experience – the leaderboards only worked for the first few weeks after GHWT release and then 100% lockups ever since, until I eventually was forced to delete my save file months later due to the GHWT Corrupt Save File Bug.)
With Guitar Hero 5, Wii developers Vicarious Visions have taken the bull by the horns and completely reengineered the leaderboards into a badass new system that shows more data & statistics than any previous GH game by far!
Guitar Hero World Tour is known to have finicky and difficult Star Power activation on drums. Most drummers have experienced it: you hit the yellow & orange cymbals simultaneously to activate Star Power, and instead you get a dull thud and break your streak. Why is this, and what can you do about it?
