Yep, Those MM Encores Really DO Suck! Got My First One Last Night. . . | Forums

[whagstrom]

Absolutely! (Quite often in days of yore, one of those songs would be a reprise of something they had played previously THAT NIGHT! Literally, an encore - a replay of a crowd favorite. Not suggesting that for RS. Just driving home the point that a band isn't going to pick a song they haven't played for 6 months to do for an encore.)

LOL, I have actually gotten a MM encore song that I had just played in a MM event! And yeah, I nailed it.

[Lyons2012]

One trick I have tried is pausing the game once the MM encore is shown.
I then go online find a youtube video of the arrangement and practice it to the video in order to refresh my memory of the basic arrangement and chord progressions, riffs etc.
After that, I restart the game and try to play the song from ( my recently refreshed) memory.
I think you need 90% on the MM Encore to get the double encore. Even after I pulled this off (once!), the game still didn't unlock SSB for me.
I have a suspicion that the game developers thought of my "strategy" ahead of time and cancel out your efforts if you pause the game in the middle of an event.
This is the only explanation I can come up with.
If anyone else has either tried this trick ("cheat?") and had success (or similar failure), I'd like to hear about it.
If I ever want to play SSB, I'll probably have to start a new profile (ugh!). I think this is what a lot of folks have done to unlock all the bonus songs.

I have over 100 arrangements mastered so I constantly use this trick. It has gotten me the double twice-I'm still trying for SSB. However, I feel that using this trick stacks the odds against you somehow, even if you do hit over 90% of the notes. Many times I've gotten master modes scores where I could safely say that I hit 90% of the notes but didn't get the double. In short, I would say it works, but I'd say that it only gets the double about one out of every fifteen successful runs.

[pick__pocket]

I would love to see a line item in the event play list showing you the possible 2 encore songs. This only makes sense as a band would never play an encore song that the guitarist couldn't remember. They'd be like, "okay guys if we decide to do an encore we might do song 1 and song 2."

This is a fantastic idea! Makes perfect sense. Hope some of the RS folks are reading this.

[Ezios_Axe]

Exactly. Say you're a band that's been pumping out records for 25 years and the drummer says lets play such and such from our first album. The guitarist scratches his head knowing that he wrote the thing when he was 17 but can't remember the solo or the bridge. Sure he could wing it but I doubt they'd run out there and play it anyway. Choice in the encore makes sense since you get to pick the rest of the set list.

[JTCoop]

Exactly. Say you're a band that's been pumping out records for 25 years and the drummer says lets play such and such from our first album. The guitarist scratches his head knowing that he wrote the thing when he was 17 but can't remember the solo or the bridge. Sure he could wing it but I doubt they'd run out there and play it anyway. Choice in the encore makes sense since you get to pick the rest of the set list.

Why's it gotta be the drummer who makes the suggestion?

[Ezios_Axe]

Lol. Not hating on the guys in back. I use that example because I really enjoy watching roc***entaries on different bands. I vaguely remember watching one that was either on U2 or included the Edge in some fashion. He needed to play 11 O'Clock Tick Tock which he wrote as a teenager but he couldn't remember how to play the thing properly without looking it up because he hadn't really played it in over a decade. Guys have cheat sheets all over the place for chord progressions. Set lists often have them scribbled on them. I know that what I am saying is no great revelation for those of you who actually play in front of live audiences and not just tv screens but it goes toward the authenticity of the experience when considering MM encores. A short list to pick from would be more reasonable than pulling from a hat with a hundred song titles in it as some of you are experiencing. Maybe before a "performance" the game should allow the player to pick a short list of MM titles to pick from.

EDIT: wow the language nanny is tight on this site. I mixed Rock and Documentary and got slammed by the filter. lol It's an actual documentary sub genre. I wasn't being dirty.

[JTCoop]

Guys have cheat sheets all over the place for chord progressions. Set lists often have them scribbled on them. I know that what I am saying is no great revelation for those of you who actually play in front of live audiences and not just tv screens but it goes toward the authenticity of the experience when considering MM encores. A short list to pick from would be more reasonable than pulling from a hat with a hundred song titles in it as some of you are experiencing.

I totally agree. I have obtuse notes all over my setlists for live performances because without them I would have no idea how to start 75% of the songs we play live!

I never really understood what all the fuss was about regarding MM encores. Now I totally do. I gave it my best shot, but that was very frustrating.