Todays Rant: Rock band VS Guitar Hero

You may think they're pretty much the same game if you haven't played them before. You hit coloured buttons in time with the music and stuff happens. Yet i find myself getting frustrated time and time again by Rock Band, whereas I've always loved playing Guitar Hero (Okay, I had trouble with Satch Boogie for quite a while, but that was it.)

Unlike what i did with Magic: The Gathering, and Yu-gi-oh, I'm not going to give you a rundown of how each game works, since they're pretty much the same in their essentials, but there seems to be a world of difference in functionality. However, I should note that I play both games on Expert (The hardest difficulty in the game) and for proof that I'm absolutely awesome at it (Even if the video quality is rubbish on this one):
[video=youtube_share;TIS0p4PRTpE]http://youtu.be/TIS0p4PRTpE[/video]

So you know what, after being able to do THAT it shouldn't be a problem to do a simple song like No One Knows by Queens of The Stone Age on Rock Band 3...Right? WRONG!!! I was only able to get 84%, That's right, after having completed Through The Fire and The Flames, one of the hardest songs of all time and gotten 89% on it, I wasn't able to even achieve 90% on No One Knows...How the hell does this work?

Well I'll explain it, you see Guitar Hero has a bit more leniency in when you have to strike the note than rockband does. In Guitar Hero, you have about half a second to hit the note as it crosses that coloured line. In Rock Band, you have about a tenth of a second. Not only that, but Rock Band is a lot more punishing for every single mistake you make.

In Guitar hero, you can miss about a string of 20 notes before things will start going really bad for you (You'll be almost knocked down to the red part of your rock meter, meaning you're about to fail). However, in Rock Band (Or at least Rock Band 3) All it takes is a few misplayed notes and you lose. Not kidding, there was one song where I went from a full rock meter, to having lost the game, in roughly 1 SECOND!!! It wasn't even a difficult song, it's just that Rock Band is so freaking horrible when it comes to hitting notes on time that even the simplest songs can become your worst nightmare.

You know whats funny though. My experiences with Rock Band (Or at least Rock Band 3) Have been very mixed, namely dependent on how difficult the song is. The messed up part about it is, if we're thinking logically, I should be able to play the easy songs with, well...ease. Yet oddly enough, the easy songs are the ones I struggle with. Rock Band gives you a certain number of mistakes based on how many notes the song has in it before you fail. This means that on a song like crazy train, you've got about 15 mistakes before you fail. On a song like slow ride, you would have about 4. I can do Crazy Train, Beast and The Harlot, and Caught in a Mosh with absolute ease on Rock Band 3...Sure i can't get the 100% I did on Guitar Hero Greatest Hits, but I was still able to get 95% or higher on all of them.

So why the hell can't I do the same with No One Knows? (And I see you thinking of making that obvious pun, dont do it.)