Scale Warriors is a scale practice game that focuses on you playing the notes in different orders and different amounts. Every enemy of a type has the same patterns to them, so eventually you can combo kill them without even needing to see where they are standing. Each successful note has your character jumping to the enemy and punching or kicking them to the next note.
The game takes its inspiration from the old 8 bit era beat'em ups like Double Dragon and River City Ransom. The bad guys are a gang that has wronged the players, and you must proceed through "stages" where you fight regular bad guys and eventually special "boss" fights that have extended scale sequences.
I really wanted to like Scale Warriors, it was probably my most looked forward to game in the Guitarcade. I am a scale playing nut, so I thought I'd play the hell out of it. The reality is that I have not, as of yet, played a lot of it. The Scale Racer game, to be spotlighted later, is better at teaching scale shapes IMO, while Scale Warriors is made for improving your general note playing abilities, and developing muscle memory patterns. I think they have the games listed backwards when it comes to recommendations, I think Scale Racer should be first, and then you do Scale Warriors after. As I learn new scales, I will use this game more, I think.
Day 26
I did quite a few things outside of Rocksmith today. Last week Rocksmith got a lot of new Oasis songs to play, and there's one included with the game already. I've seen that Wonderwall is made much easier by having a Capo, so I went today and bought a Capo. It is really weird for me to own a capo. Growing up, the Capo was this thing you got in your "starter" kits, but never knew exactly why to use it. I don't remember a single friend ever using a capo. So the fact that I know why to use a capo makes me a bit happy. Also, if you have read this, I bitched about a lot of songs I want to play are in E Flat. My brain actually lit a few sparks, and I had this question: If I tune E Flat, and use a capo on the first fret, isn't that being in E now? So I shot the question to Google, and I was correct! You can, indeed, do that. All the more reason for me to own a capo.
I'm working on going backwards through my scales in a musical way. I can walk up and down my scales pretty easily, and I can make music with them and all that, but going from the B string to the G is just not as smooth as when I go the reverse way, or when I do E to A in the Pentatonic minor. So I don't really need Rocksmith for that practice, I watch Yogscast videos on youtube and just absent mindedly practice this, committing it to muscle memory.
I also bought a 70's tastic looking journal and some colored pencils. My brain works better when I write things down. You can tell me a whole list of groceries 5 times in a row, and ask me to repeat it once, and I'll probably get 2 or 3 right. My brain just doesn't store info like that. I write the list down, and I'll be able to tell you, probably in order, 3 weeks from now, the entire list. So that's what my journal is going to be, Skypp-notation on chords and scales. Oh I have books, especially bass books, that talk about all this too. But writing it down will help me out immensely. Maybe it would help you too? Try it out.
I did get some session play in at the end of the night. Probably about 30 minutes? I don't know, time flies when I'm in session mode. Still, well over an hour of practice and guitar-study today.
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