I’m not going to make it a habit of reviewing songs from Rock Band, but I thought i was interesting that Official Xbox Magazine got three exclusive songs for Rock Band on their demo disc this month. I’ve mentioned it in the past, but every time I think about not renewing my OXM subscription they have just enough to keep me subscribing. Besides these three songs they also have the Turok demo exclusive to the USA and a nice in depth exclusive look at Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 last month. I’m guessing the Turok demo will hit the Xbox Live Marketplace at some point, but it is nice to be able to play it now.

The three exclusive songs for Rock Band they put on the demo disk are:
– Rock Rebellion by Bang Camaro
– Shake by Count Zero
– Sprode by FreezePop

I had some friends over yesterday to watch the football games and play some Rock Band. We played Sprode as a band. The drums were pretty strait forward and not to hard, but the main guitar part had some complex sequences that required some fast finger movement. It was not so hard the guitarist failed, but it did give him some trouble. The vocals are really high pitched so the guy singing had some trouble with it, but once he dropped an octave he was ok. Plus the lyrics are pretty funny so it we all got a good laugh out of him singing them. The one thing I found odd was that this song was not really a Rock song. It seemed a lot more Techno us. Still, it was pretty fun to play.

As a band we did not get too the other two songs, but I did play them both on guitar on the hard difficulty setting. Rock Rebellion was not very hard for the most part. The solo had some semi-complex HOPOs in it, but nothing like some of the really hard songs that come with the game. Shake gave me a little more trouble, but I still got through it without failing. I could probably get 5 starts on it when I try it again, but I was not ready for the mix of strumming and complex sections. It caught me by surprise, but one I got a little ways into the song I got it figured out. Overall, both songs were fun to play on the guitar and I look forward to playing them with a full band.