The Unofficial Rock Band/Guitar Purity Quiz!

Check the box for any question you can answer "Yes" to, then click the "Rock Out, Wayne" button at the bottom to see your results!

Have you successfully played through all the songs on Easy on any Rock Band/Guitar Hero game? (Any instrument counts, and by "all songs" we mean "all of the songs that came pre-loaded with the game.")
...on Medium?
...on Hard?
...on Expert?

Have you ever five-starred a song on Easy on any Rock Band/Guitar Hero Game?
...on Medium?
...on Hard?
...on Expert?

Have you 5-starred all the songs on Easy on any Rock Band/Guitar Hero game?
...on Medium?
...on Hard?
...on Expert?

Have you ever Perfect Comboed a song (i.e., played it through without missing a note) on Easy on any Rock Band/Guitar Hero game?
...on Medium?
...on Hard?
...on Expert?

Did you know what “Perfect Combo” meant before I explained it?

Are you unable to play Medium and Easy songs any more because you keep hitting notes that aren’t there?

Have you ever played any song with your back to the screen?
…all the way through?

Have you ever played any song with anything other than your hands (this girl plays two guitars with her feet!)?
…successfully?
…at Hard or higher?

Have you learned how to play Guitar Hero/Rock Band using the default controller, not the little plastic guitar? (Yes, people do it.)

Have you ever considered a song “your nemesis”?
…and did a dance of pure triumph when you finally aced it?

Ever played Guitar Hero/Rock Band online?
…and won the match?
…and won more than ten matches?

Have you ever found yourself “playing along” with someone else as they played, fingering the air as you mimicked what they SHOULD be playing?

Ever found yourself fingering imaginary chords as you were falling asleep?

Have you ever fallen asleep and dreamed of little falling notes descending from the sky?

Have you downloaded a song for Rock Band/Guitar Hero? (And if you have the PS2 "I can't download anything" version, well, you have our sympathies.)
…more than one?
…more than twenty?
…every last one that’s available (you addict!)?

Have you ever downloaded a song without even knowing what it sounds like?

Have you downloaded a song because a friend of yours wanted to play it?

Ever purchased a song/CD just because you liked hearing it on Rock Band/Guitar Hero?

Ever refused to purchase a song/CD because the song was so hard on Rock Band/Guitar Hero that you will never support the artist out of spite?

Have you ever started strumming, unconsciously, when you heard a song that was on Rock Band/Guitar Hero in some other environment (at the supermarket, on the radio)?

Ever heard a song and begun wondering how the notes would go if that was on Guitar Hero?

Ever gotten into a conversation/forum thread about what songs would be totally AWESOME to play on Rock Band/Guitar Hero?

Have you ever bitched to friends about a Rock Band/Guitar Hero song that is WAY too hard for its difficulty level (“ ‘Woman’ is a second-tier song, MY ASS!”)?

Ever had a preference for the way a song shared between Rock Band and Guitar Hero was “noted” (as in, “Wow, I enjoy playing ‘Sabotage’ so much more on Rock Band.”)?

Do you have an opinion on what the best Guitar Hero/Rock Band controller is?
…and refuse to use any other?
…and are so hardcore that you bring YOUR GUITAR over to other people’s houses?

Ever purchased any official Guitar Hero/Rock Band guitar faceplates?

Ever decorated your own guitar with unofficial stickers?

Ever severely customized/created your own guitar (like this Lego guitar)?

Ever broken/worn out a controller? (A broken Rock Band foot pedal counts, folks.)

Ever hooked up some other instrument to serve as a Rock Band/Guitar Hero controller (like this guy who hooked up his MIDI drum pads to his Guitar Hero setup)?

Have you ever had people over just to help you unlock achievements/songs/new instruments?

Ever injured yourself playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band (we’ll count severe hand-cramping)?

Ever held/attended a party specifically for purposes of playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero?

Ever gone to a non-Rock Band/Guitar Hero party where they had the game, and then spent the entire evening doing nothing but playing and watching other people play?

Ever skipped out on work/school to play Rock Band/Guitar Hero?
…and felt no guilt whatsoever because you totally shredded that day?

Ever created accessories for your Guitar Hero/Rock Band controllers (like this adorable drum cover crocheted cozy)?

Have you ever imitated your on-screen character’s movements, punching the air exactly as your avatar does?

Have you ever replicated an artist’s signature move as you play their song (windmilling to Pete Townsend songs, et cetera)?

Have you ever played Guitar Hero/Rock Band in public? (In front of your friends doesn’t count – strangers have had to wander by and see you shred!)

Have you ever specifically chosen a very difficult song to play in public, just to show off?
...and succeeded, winning the crowd’s heart?
...and bombed out, embarrassing yourself?
...and done it specifically at the demo kiosk at the local games shop, just to impress your fellow Wal-Mart shoppers?

Have you ever had a signature song that you reserve just for playing in public to show off?

Have you ever played Guitar Hero/Rock Band as part of a tournament?
…and won?

Have you ever recorded yourself playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band?
…and uploaded the video to YouTube?
…and had that video get over 50,000 views?

Have you ever gone looking for Rock Band/Guitar Hero videos on YouTube?

Ever felt guilty over bombing out on a song when you were playing cooperatively?
…and apologized to your teammates?

Ever played band leader, calling out Star Power at the appropriate moments?

Ever designed a T-shirt for your band?
…and had it printed to wear it? (Café Press and Zazzle FTW, baby!)

Ever used Rock Band/Guitar Hero references in bed? (Referring to simultaneous orgasm as a “Unison Bonus,” imagining Star Power as you approach the finish, et cetera. Yes, people do that.)

Ever taken up playing a real instrument because you’d been inspired by Rock Band/Guitar Hero? (We’ll count it if you already knew how to play and started up again.)

Have you ever gotten into an argument with a “real” musician about whether playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero is not an instrument/a waste of time?

Have you ever learned to play your instrument with your off-hand?
…so you could bring it to a showdown, play poorly with your off-hand, and then, when you are losing, say “I know something you don’t know. I am not left-handed!”

Do you read My Name Is Might Have Been, the comic that tells the awful story behind the glossy surface of Rock Band?