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RockMeter-GH1

The Rock Meter in Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.

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Rock Meter in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (extracted using Guitar Hero Three Control Panel).

The Rock Meter is found in the lower right corner of the screen (Lower left in Guitar Hero World Tour, in later games its on the left of the Highways and center when playing co-op), and measures how well you're doing while playing a song. It is divided into four colored sections: green, yellow, red and flashing red (Five, if you count Death Drain in Boss Battles). At the beginning of each song, the Rock Meter's needle is set to the center (except for encore songs, where it starts at middle green). As you correctly play, or "hit," a note, the needle moves one step to the right (towards the green section). Conversely, as you miss a note or overstrum, the needle moves three steps to the left (towards the red section). If the needle reaches the far left of the meter, the player fails the song. However, if you are in flashing red, just barely hanging in there, you can activate Star Power and for every note you hit, the needle will drastically move to the right (green) giving you that extra boost to help you through a song.


The Rock Meter isn't present in Guitar Hero Live but the effects of playing is.


For the Rock Meter for battle mode/boss battles, go to said mode page.

Trivia[]

  • In Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, the guitarists have facial expressions depending on which color the needle is on. They frown when the Rock Meter is red, their facial expressions are blank/neutral when the Rock Meter is yellow, and show their usual expressions when the meter is green. Since Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, their expressions never change.
  • In all Guitar Hero games, the Rock Meter measures how the audience feels about your performance: when the Rock Meter is red, they start booing at you; when it's yellow, the crowd cheers normally; when it's green, their cheers get louder.
  • The Rock Meter changes the effect of the environment. An example is during the stage set in GHIII:Legends of Rock, when it's yellow, background is a road, when it's green, the background is in space, when its red, everything's off.
  • In Guitar Hero: Warriors of RockJudy Nails has a special ability that alters the rock meter; "Crowd Hyper." With this power, the Rock Meter starts at the middle of the green, like with encore songs. The Rock Meter can then go above the green momentarily before gaining a power star and resetting to the top of the green. Once Judy has transformed into her warrior form, her ability is upgraded to "Crowd Hyper +" With this upgrade, the rock meter starts at the maximum.

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