Rock Band 2 Achievement Guide

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Introduction

Rock Band 2 is the sequel to the successful rhythm game Rock Band. This guide is intended to assist you in unlocking its 50 achievements and 1000G as easily as possible. The format of this guide was inspired by Jeff Gerstmann's own Gears of War 2 Achievement Guide.

Achievements

The achievements in this guide are split into five sections: Tour, Band Challenges, General Play, Drum Trainer and Secret.

Tour

Achievement Name	Achievement Description	Points Worth
Got Wheels	Win a van in World Tour	20G
Open Road	Win a bus in World Tour	20G
Jet Setter	Win a jet in World Tour	20G
West Coast Performer	Play a set on the West Coast of North America	10G
Heartland Performer	Play a set in Middle America	10G
East Coast Performer	Play a set on the East Coast of North America	10G
God Save the Band	Play a set in the United Kingdom	10G
Western Europe Performer	Play a set in Western Europe	10G
Eastern European Performer	Play a set in Eastern Europe	10G
Needs more Umlauts!	Make a band logo	10G
You're Hired!	Hire a staff member	10G
You Killed the Radio Star	Make a music video in World Tour	15G
The San Dimas 4th Annual Award	Compete in a Battle of the Bands event	15G
Clothes to the Edge	Buy over $100,000 worth of items from the Rock Shop	20G
One Million Fans	Reach 1 million fans in World Tour	30G
Road Dog	Play every venue in the world	30G

These are the achievements earned in Rock Band 2's World Tour. Unlike the first Rock Band, this mode can be played by a single player. Most of the achievements become unlocked while logically progressing through the mode. You can choose whether or not to make a music video or a band logo or compete in a Battle of the Bands. I suggest that you do all of these things.

If you want a fast track to the Performer achievements for whatever reason, you can start a different band in a city in each of those areas and play a single song as each band. For the Road Dog achievement, you only have to play one performance in each venue of each city. To earn One Million Fans, hire a manager that promises to garner fans over cash (once one becomes available) and accept all random events that promise the same; to earn Clothes to the Edge, hire a manager that will sell your band out for money over fans and accept all random events that offer a bigger financial payoff. Don't waver back and forth between these two strategies either. Complete One Million Fans first.

There are a few more achievements in Tour that you can find under the Secret category in this guide.

Band Challenges

Achievement Name	Achievement Description	Points Worth
Along for the Ride	Beat an instrument-specific challenge while playing another instrument	10G
Challenge Novice	Complete either 25 challenges on Medium, 10 challenges on Hard, or 5 challenges on Expert	10G
Challenge Master	Complete 25 Challenges on Hard Difficulty or 10 Challenges on Expert Difficulty	15G
Challenge Savant	Complete 25 Challenges on Expert Difficulty	25G
The Final Countdown	Unlock an Impossible Challenge	15G
Groove Assassin	Beat the Impossible Bass Challenge	20G
Lord of the Strings	Beat the Impossible Guitar Challenge	25G
AN-I-MAL!!!	Beat the Impossible Drum Challenge	25G
Virtuoso	Beat the Impossible Vocal Challenge	25G
Stage Igniters	Beat the Impossible Band Challenge	25G

Achievements in this category are unlocked by playing Band Challenges, which are accessed from the tour menu. Don't do what I did and remember that you can still get the impossible challenge achievements by finishing the respective challenges on Easy.

Along for the Ride and Stage Igniters require multiple players or one player playing multiple instruments. To unlock an impossible challenge for an instrument and earn The Final Countdown (not the song, the achievement :( ), play its specific challenge on each level to unlock the next one until you are able to play the impossible challenge on the final tier. For the Challenge Novice, Master and Savant achievements, seek out the easiest challenges on your favoured instrument. Your downloaded content will show up in themed challenges in this mode. If you have purchased simpler songs like the Weezer or Jimmy Buffet packs, they will help your cause.

General Play

Achievement Name	Achievement Description	Points Worth
Flawless Groove	Score 100% notes hit as bassist, up-strums only, on Expert	25G
Flawless Fretwork	Score 100% notes hit as a guitarist on Expert	25G
Flawless Drumming	Score 100% notes hit as a drummer on Expert	25G
Flawless Singing	Score a 100% rating as a vocalist on Expert	25G
Flawless Guitar Solo	100% a guitar solo on Expert, using only the solo buttons	20G
Solid Gold, Baby!	Gold Star a song	25G
The Bachman-Turner Award	Maintain deployed Overdrive for 90 seconds	25G
Overdrive Overdose	Achieve an 8x Band Multiplier	25G
Million Point Club	Earn more than 1,000,000 points in a single song.	25G
Band Savior	Be a savior three times during a single song	20G
Hello Cleveland!	Deploy Vocal Overdrive 4 times in a single song	20G
Victory!	Defeat a player in either Score Duel or Tug of War.	15G
Comeback Kid	Defeat the last player that defeated you over Xbox LIVE in either Score Duel or Tug of War.	15G

These achievements can be unlocked in Quick Play, Tour, online or wherever. For Flawless Groove, there is no easier bass song to 100% than So What'cha Want as it is only green notes at a slow pace. Remember to only up-strum. My recommendation for the Flawless Fretwork achievement is the free downloadable track Charlene (I'm Right Behind You). Flawless Drumming can be earned on Charlene or Livin' on a Prayer, but if you can't complete those, the downloadable tracks Silver and Polly are ridiculously easy. Polly only has 4 drum hits! Both cost 160 MSP. Almost anyone can get Flawless Singing on Testify, So What'cha Want or Visions because none require pitch and are all "talkies".

Flawless Guitar Solo requires you to have the Rock Band Stratocaster controller. I advise against getting it because it's a piece of garbage in comparison to the Guitar Hero X-Plorer and Les Paul controllers. With your hopefully borrowed Strat, play the first designated solo of Give It Away by pressing the solo buttons without strumming the strum bar. If for some reason this presents too much of a challenge, the solo in the downloadable track The Power of Equality, which costs 160 MSP, is even easier. Make sure to finish this song after 100%ing the solo.

Solid Gold, Baby! can only be unlocked on Expert, because that is the only difficulty that you can earn gold stars on. If you can get any of the Flawless achievements, you can probably get this one with a sensible use of overdrive.

The Bachman-Turner Award is a little tricky. Overdrive must be active by at least one player for one minute and thirty seconds. The more players you have, the easier it is. Overdrive drains at various speeds on different songs. Singers and drummers can only activate at designated points so start your attempt with one of those. The next player should activate as late as possible before the previous player runs out and so on and so forth. This achievement is quite do-able on Today and Give It All.

Overdrive Overdose and Million Point Club require a full band. For the former, get all four players to activate their overdrive at around the same time. For the latter, play long songs with lots of easy notes on higher difficulties. Also have multiple players activate overdrive close together for higher multipliers. I recommend PDA, Shooting Star and Lazy Eye.

For Band Savior, play with at least three players, pick a long, easy song with lots of overdrive and have someone fail twice and another person fail once before you save them each time by activating. Hello Cleveland! is easily obtainable on Visions and So What'cha Want. Activate overdrive early and often.

While Victory! can be earned over Xbox Live, Comeback Kid is the only Xbox Live mandatory achievement. You can either earn it legitimately or get a friend to help you because it's non-ranked.

Drum Trainer

Achievement Name	Achievement Description	Points Worth
Beat It!	Complete all beats at 60 BPM or higher or half of the beats at 140 BPM or higher	10G
The Beat Goes On	Complete all beats at 100 BPM or higher or half of the beats at 180 BPM or higher	20G
Fill Me In	Complete all fills at 60 BPM or higher or half of the fills at 140 BPM or higher	10G
Fill Legend	Complete all fills at 100 BPM or higher or half of the fills at 180 BPM or higher	20G

These achievements are awarded for skill in the drum trainer mode. There are almost no tips I can offer here. It's entirely dependent on how good you are at playing fake drums. My sole recommendations are to earn the achievements by completing half of the beats/fills at a higher speed rather than all of the beats/fills at a lower speed and to remember to play them at the bare minimum speed for that of 140/180 BPM.

Secret

Achievement Name	Achievement Description	Points Worth
Buy a Real Instrument Already!	Beat an "Impossible" Challenge with all players on Expert Difficulty	35G
Rock Immortal Inductee	Join the Rolling Stone Rock Immortals list	20G
Vinyl Artist	Finish the Endless Setlist 2 in World Tour on Medium	20G
Gold Artist	Finish the Endless Setlist 2 in World Tour on Hard	30G
Platinum Artist	Finish the Endless Setlist 2 in World Tour on Expert	50G
The Bladder of Steel Award	Complete the Endless Setlist 2 without pausing or failing	25G

The secret achievements are earned in both the Challenge and Tour sections of the game. Beating an impossible challenge on Expert might be a daunting task. The easiest are probably the Impossible Bass Challenge and Impossible Vocal Challenge. Unlocking Rock Immortal Inductee should be no problem once you've progressed that far in Tour, since the Rolling Stone Rock Immortals setlist can be played on Medium in a worst case scenario.

The Endless Setlist 2 is the last main objective to complete in the Tour mode. It's approximately five and a half hours of non-stop Rock Band. The Vinyl, Gold and Platinum Artist achievements are simply a matter of skill. The Bladder of Steel Award is a matter of being hardcore. While it can be earned on any difficulty for the Endless Setlist 2, it's still a challenge to complete. Finding a chunk in your day where you're sure to be uninterrupted for that long and abstaining from bathroom breaks or instinctively pausing can be difficult. I chose 10:30 PM - 4:00AM and succeeded. I also almost paused during Panic Attack to scratch my nose, which would've been a tragedy.

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