Let the playing commence again.

In a previous post I said I couldn’t play Guitar Hero anymore due to the fact that I wrecked the strum bar by playing one too many shreds. What was happening was not all clicks (physical upstrums or downstrums) were translating into strums in the game, virtually making the whole thing unplayable. I had actually stopped playing for months before I decided to try and fix things – I wouldn’t shell out money for a new guitar. As it turned out, it’s not impossible to fix by yourself. Why I didn’t look for the answer sooner I’ll never know.

A little searching yielded this thread on the ScoreHero forums. Basically, I loosened the four screws circled below and tightened them back. Voila, strum bar worked like a charm again, no more missed strums.

Never mind the arrows, they were already there in this picture I stole.

What’s weird is, now all my scores are higher. Way higher. I pulled off 30,000+ more points on Jordan on Hard. I somehow squeezed another 32,000+ points out of Jessica on Expert. The rest of the scores are up by an average of 3,000 points. Credit it to (too much) muscle memory. Or maybe I just magically stumble onto the optimal Star Power paths now.