how do you play guitarhero.rockband on hard/expert? (with guitar)

I only have guitar hero 3 legends of rock atm. Right now I can beat any song on medium and some songs on hard and maybe 2 songs on expert. Other than that I totally suck. I dont understand why though, almost everyone around me who has either GH or RB can beat any song on expert, heck this 13 year old girl across the street from me can beat any song on expert (except TTFAF) in GH hero.

My question is how do you guys do it? Does real guitar lessons (no i dont play real guitar) help you? I play alot on practice mode on medium-ex pert on guitar hero and its still hard. Hammer ons and pull offs really get to me and for me its impossible.

Im planning on getting RB2 and I dont wanna invest $150+ on a game im not gonna enjoy cause i suck at.

So how do you guys do it? any tips?

I can play on expert. And only a few months ago I could only play on medium, but I pushed myself to hard. All I can say is practice, once you get hard down going to expert is pretty simple.

You'll get is soon enough.

all you can do is practice. u have to practice and learn as you go and everyone has different ways and techniques. maybe some parts with blue and orange if you cant use ur pinky good slide ur hand down and use the other three or vice versa. just keep playin them. ive practiced so much that there are some songs on expert and hard i can almost do the whole song without looking at the screen. and master the hammer ons and pull offs they will be ur best friend. rainging blood took me a long time to beat until i got hd's and po's down

this was my experience

my friends got mad at me because i kept playing hard,and not expert.so i man'd up and started playin expert,got pounded but i kept on.i borrowed gh3 from a friend and got towards the end of the setlist,then had to give it back.then a couple weeks later got rockband,very easy on expert once playing gh3.played that alot on guitar,and then went to guitar hero 3 and wow,was alot better.my recommendation,get rockband,disc or full bundle,whatever you can afford,play expert on it,and i think you will be better at gh3,least thats how i got good at expert.beat the dragonforce 3 pack within a week :D.

im yet to beat ttfaf because of the intro.past couple of weeks ive been playin gh3 4-5x a week,and today was excited,got through the intro almost,got to where the scale starts almost,saw it but was close to failing and failed the song :'(.then after that just got worse and worse.so i got mad and put it away.ill go back to it in a couple days and i should get it and FINALLY take on the song.

Practice Practice and More Practice... Play on harder difficulties even if you dont pass the song youll eventually get better

well when i started i suked and i play real guitar but i got better just like real guitar just keep at it and you get better. Ho and Po's are a must and learn how to hit the different types of note patterns. Also learn how to do guitars heros ver of finger tapping and your good.

GH and RB on expert are child's play to me now.

its important that you push yourself move up to harder difficulties even though cant play them and try because thats how you get better.

TO be honest with you, just keep practicing! I found it to be better practicing on one difficulty harder than what I was trying to get good at (i.e. try beating a song on expert for a while, then by the time you try to beat it on hard it will seem and be much easier) You need to get your timing and finger/hand endurance up in order to play alot of the songs on hard and expert (you're going to go through numerous hand cramps for a few days.) Once you get bette, hitting notes will become instinctual.