Fortnite Festival - Mr. Brightside / The Killers (Expert Drums Flawless)

[@odetoblurryface]

I cried when I attempted this, I almost broke my fingers. I can only do bass and vocals on expert flawlessly, drums are literal nightmare

[@brendo6897]

Yeah I missed 3 notes on expert vocal on this song (on controller). Drums is literal hell though lol Edit: update, I missed 0 notes but didn't flawless because of 1 strike :/

[@sleepnace]

it’s just the first part for me

[@SegularRpork]

Yeah ik, vocals, bass and lead are piss easy but the drums are absolute insanity

[@whoisnugget]

its really fun and dynamic to play drums on this song, prob my personal fav.

[@gusdbus2287]

Yeah I played it once on like Hard before I started expert… I still haven’t touched drums since on it😭

[@DjejFunny]

Fortnite festival really is the best thing they added this season, still currently fishing out my guitar hero controller Also what speed did you have this on?

[@EpicTkoWko]

i think for these early recordings i had it on 1x, for anything that has the background opacity though it's on 1.5x

[@KeltonTF]

Wait you can increase speed!

[@heatheninferos2231]

@@KeltonTFThe track speed, yeah. The song is still played exactly the same and the notes are still played exactly the same, but they’re just more spaced out. Go to the Game Settings and at the bottom - in the Festival section - you can tune, change the track speed and the background opacity.

[@forzamach7]

I cried just when the song started, this song is just too emotional 😭

[@SilverEvans]

The drums are really hard, but it seems so fun to play. I’m starting to get the hang of it on Medium, and I want to learn it on hard. Thanks for the vid!

[@PatoChu]

hard and expert are basically the same thing. I personally find Expert easier since the notes are wider and more spaced out. Whenever I play on hard my brain just can't process what's going on screen. Basket Case for example is so easy on expert compared to hard.

[@Akcanavar]

Will this content also come with a handheld camera version? I would love to see the current synchronization

[@r0zemary]

You wouldn't be able to notice the latency in a 60fps video most likely even if it was present

[@colbyvi]

so YOU are the one that took over my #1 when i had it for like 20 mins😭

[@EpicTkoWko]

this fortnite festival shit get serious!! a friend of a friend took that #1 i got by literally 1 perfect and i conceded i think i'm done grinding mr brightside forever LOL

[@colbyvi]

@@EpicTkoWko real! Only rhythm games I’ve ever played have been guitar hero/rockband, so I’m still trying to get used to the judgement timings. I’m trying to get higher on highway tune lead, but I’m stuck at around top ~75 cause I can never hit more perfects :/

[@EpicTkoWko]

@@colbyvi the judgements can be kind of brutal especially on songs with a lot of pull notes - I have no idea what the timing window is but it feels both fairly generous and extremely easy to slip from at the same time. doesn't help that there's no hitsounds and there isn't an easy way to tell if you're hitting early or late

[@bobbybrine6547]

I love watching this video just to see Fabio singing his heart out

[@SunsetGsus]

When playing with a computer keyboard, do you still use two hands or just one and stretch the pinky?

[@Charlieredpants496]

Expert drums on Xbox is hell and it’s a challenge I’m up for!

[@christianpimenta6332]

That one off time drum roll at 1:28 always gets me!

[@L1meMusi3]

something i dont think people have noticed with festival but whatever instrument you choose is louder then the other instruments so when i wanted to learn mr brightside on the drums (im a drummer) i just listened to this video 15 times or more

[@PatoChu]

Yeah this version of the song is actually a bit different than the original. A lot of the drum parts seem to have been altered by AI, Epic, or The Killers themselves. Like I just can't find the version of the song that has the drums exactly like this: 0:49 and 0:56

[@asdwz458]

i still don’t understand how to do the first part with the rapid hi-hats, i know how the release notes works but damn it’s really confusing to get the timing down on that

[@goldnut5193]

Spam it, you can treat them as a normal note. On the spaced out ones, i like to hold it down.

[@ezzythegreat6]

Slightly hold them down, the tiniest bit, like the other guy said, treat them as regular notes

[@heatheninferos2231]

I treat them like a normal note. When there’s practically no gap you can just press it like normal. Might not hit it with a ‘Perfect’, but it won’t give you a strike or anything.

[@haydenreaves5991]

The drum roll at 3:08 is literally a nightmare. No matter how on time I am I can’t do it. It’s pissing me off because I can 100% the rest of the song now.

[@haydenreaves5991]

update! I 100% it!

[@HeroicLeo8125]

HOW

[@VanDrums1]

​@@haydenreaves5991learn real drums buddy

[@Thelatezt318]

after listening to mr bright Side on youtube i noticed that they didn’t put all the drum parts in

[@julians9899]

So you can kinda play along with it if you are not tabbed in to keep messing with the play and go or whatever, And I remeber playing actualy in game and doing really well until that just real long drum roll sort of thing- like half way through one would slip by or id over click and scratch >:()

[@goldenmangolps]

I have all of the rock band 4 instruments for ps4 and ps3 and it would be awesome if they ever made them compatible for at least the ps4 ones

[@TwinkleNZ]

They are working on compatibility with instruments that will be introduced probably when they update the tracklist but they haven't confirmed exactly when that'll be

[@genesisosuna]

Me too. Gotta borrow the drumkit from my brother tho lol. I was never too. Big a fan of drumming so I never bought one.

[@tonylange4755]

Can anyone tell me if rb4 instruments are compatible? Might need to assemble the band again if so

[@Cherry67253]

HOW DO YOU HIT THE LONG STRING OF NOTES CAUSE I CANNOT

[@calcifoxx957]

I literally haven't played in 3 weeks. What the fuck is this man 🤣 great job though

[@zer0drumz68]

You would think it would help to be a practiced drummer irl…it kinda does? I still struggle with this song, props to you lol

[@heatheninferos2231]

I feel like trying this on a controller or keyboard is always going to be more difficult. With a drum set you can literally bounce off one beat onto the next one, but you can’t really do that with buttons.

[@elyouruga4777]

i dont seem to understand what the little triangles do, idk what to do when they appear

[@EpicTkoWko]

They're pull/lift notes - you have to hold the previous note and then release on the triangle. They're a very fun part of the mode when you get used to them but I do think they need more intuitive visuals.

[@cheesehasrizz]

I cant find the track, help me i want this song

[@shinyev3281]

It should be in the shop

[@sinister_ray159]

Sad that they haven't brought this song back 😭

[@masonward5004]

Ive gotten SO CLOSE to flawless on thism 3 times ive had 100% with one strike on the 16th note drum rolls, wether it be the short two, the medium one, or the stupidblong onenthat goes for 8 measures. I suck at those Im perfect everywhere else and am currently around 6000 on the leaderboard

[@KeltonTF]

I was going to get the high score out of my friends on every song on every instrument and after playing on drums I can safely say of fuck that I’m doing everything else

[@CoffinSkate]

So this is why Epic bought Harmonix.

[@_TheLazyDrag_]

Can y'all try to beat that one dude's score on Vocals for Brightside? Man somehow reached over 200k and yet I'm sitting on the top 52 merely half his, like HOW

[@EpicTkoWko]

The score isn't legit. There's been a bug for a while where (IIRC) band overdrive counts for solo scores, and also scores are sometimes posted to the wrong instrument leaderboards. Nothing that can be done until Epic fixes it and removes any glitched scores like that, unfortunately.

[@_TheLazyDrag_]

@@EpicTkoWko dang, hopefully soon enough scores will be fixed, other than that, keep killing it with those (FC) scores, you and your friends are absolutely awesome

[@genesisosuna]

​@@EpicTkoWkothat makes a lot of sense as to why there were some insanely high scores on like I on drums and bass but they aren't even FCs . Don't know if that was fixed already though, haven't checked.

[@naimashree6335]

did you doubletap or release the lift note?

[@EpicTkoWko]

releasing them, just tapping again seems like it would be WAY harder

[@ItsKevin183]

@@EpicTkoWkodo you release on the lift note or after it?

[@jacktangent]

@@ItsKevin183 release on the lift note, like u would a proper guitar

[@DarkSabrewulf123602]

FC'd this song on expert drums today. 🎉

[@Vertical_water]

Im gonna grind for a fc on expert drums

[@Dead9982]

Same

[@thesithturkey]

97% on this song my hands hurt 😭😭😭

[@SM-wn2go]

How many times did you have to do this?

[@EpicTkoWko]

my sightread was an FC but when recording i kept having stutters in the worst possible places so like 2-3? tries for the video

[@heatheninferos2231]

@@EpicTkoWkoHow many in TOTAL, though? I feel like that’s the answer they were looking for - because I know it’s the one I was looking for. 😂 I’ve attempted Expert on it about a dozen times in total now. Even if I can do the first set of notes right, I always mess them up further into the song.

[@fortnitepro98632]

i plugged the keyboard into my xbox because no way😭😭

[@yuukiasunaわ]

Bro this is not Fortnite it's literally guitar hero now

[@TristanDowling]

I still only get 99% on expert

[@AwesometimeEdits]

Keyboard makes it way easier than controller, the best i got was top 140

[@ziziflor9019]

Yeah for real. So frustrating on controller :(

[@ToPimpAWorm]

Skill issue

[@HelenaAsDiva]

​@@ToPimpAWormNah, is just that the controller is not the best for this

[@ToPimpAWorm]

@@HelenaAsDiva skill issue

[@HelenaAsDiva]

@@ToPimpAWorm ?

[@chupapimunanyo2596]

I hate this song now. I tried so much but I just have not gotten the 100 yet. always 99

[@ScarHydreigon87]

What skin you got?

[@EpicTkoWko]

luminos

[@ScarHydreigon87]

@@EpicTkoWko thanks. Looks really good

[@Faulton]

Here i am being top 11

[@atnewschannel3611]

ATNEWS approves

[@24k.mamba.]

Its easier to play this on the actual drums

[@katelle]

i bet girls love you

[@EpicTkoWko]

my fortnite username is femboy fox bro no they don't

[@FoxTheLegend7]

@@EpicTkoWko SO UR FEMBOY FOX??? IVE BEEN SEEING YOUR USERNAME ON SO MANY SONGS!!!!

[@genesisosuna]

​@@EpicTkoWkowhy is that the name you decided to choose? Strange.. But I'm not gonna judge.

[@RichMaxwell]

As an expert pro-drummer on Rock Band 4... this chart makes absolutely zero sense at all. Wtf

[@EpicTkoWko]

Elaborate.

[@RichMaxwell]

@EpicTkoWko Look up a KZbin video of this same song, but on Rock Band expert Pro-Drums and compare how the notes on the screen are laid out. The one on Fortnite looks like a guitar chart with chords and pull-offs? Meanwhile, over on Rock Band, it'll have a line of yellow cymbals for the hi-hat roll, etc. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pF65qX5ue9FnrK8si=_HoJ3myF7pvpR-6S

[@EpicTkoWko]

@@RichMaxwell It's ultimately representing the same thing though, it's just formatted a little differently. This chart's pretty consistent about where it represents notes - kicks are on lane 1, snares on lane 2, hi-hats on lane 3, cymbals on lane 5 etc. There's compromises that have to be made with the chart because - Festival doesn't have a dedicated kick lane for pad mode - they're unwilling to use three note chords at any point so if there's a kick, snare and hi-hat happening at the same time one of those things is getting omitted (almost always the kick) and - obviously asking controller players to repeatedly press hi-hats like that with their thumbs would be... a bit much, so they'll usually have it as a press / lift format. The chart still makes sense, but I think it's just laid out in a different way than you're used to - it has to sacrifice a bit of accuracy for the sake of being playable on controller (which to be fair this is something that does create a lot of problems for festival but for this chart I don't think it matters.) If you're comparing it side by side and just imagining lane 1 as the orange kicks it's actually fairly similar. Here's a video that has the Pro Colors option enabled where it's a little easier to compare - snares are still red, hi-hats are still yellow. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpWtfGuwqq6Ji6c

[@RichMaxwell]

@@EpicTkoWko maybe it makes sense to a standard controller or even a guitar controller... but on a drum controller, it makes no sense, lol

[@EpicTkoWko]

@@RichMaxwell yeahhhh it definitely doesn't work if you're trying to play with a drum controller - especially because there's a lot of pad charts that will swap kicks between lane 1 and lane 5 depending on the song section (which i still don't understand why they do that, also 80% of the time they're charting kicks on lane 5 it means they're gonna underchart and just not do hi-hats it really sucks) if you want to use a drum controller (in a way that will be consistent because charts are made for it) unfortunately you're gonna have to wait until the Pro Drums mode releases. every song has a pro drums part in the midi but unfortunately it just isn't ingame yet, most likely because there's no readily available peripheral they can make money off of like with the Riffmaster.