Okay so I'm having difficulties. I can do a lot of the easy songs on Hard (I've done a couple on Expert with at least a 85% or higher). However a lot of the harder songs I have to be Medium or else I'm murdered. Yet if I do that, the songs way too easy anyways. So really too things I need to improve on, is being able to hit notes that rapidly repeat. Most of the time I hit the notes to slow when that happens, or when I get frustrated, too fast. Another problem is switching between the notes quickly like on the Solo for Enter Sandman.

So any tips for those things?

Also, what would some be some good Medium-Hard tips for the drums be since my friend is on drums and we can't get any fans if he's on hard. He can play his favorite songs easily on hard, but the rest he just gets scrambled up on it.

P.s. If it makes any difference at all, I'm using the Strato guitar.

Practice, practice, practice. I got better just by playing the higher difficulties.

Don't expect to gold star GG&HT on expert over night, though.

Would you do the hardest song on medium til it's perfect then try to integrate to hard on it?

Well what I did when I first started playing with the guitar on Guitar Hero II, well, it's a long story.

In short; I had been playing on a standard PS2 controller since the launch of Guitar Hero I. I eventually learned how to play Expert (and I wasn't too shabby), and so that just stuck with me. Come around Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360, my dad buys the bundle and another guitar for me. I try Expert, that's the first thing I did. After failling "Surrender" a couple hundred times, I finally learned how to pass it, and I worked my way from there.

What you need to do is just keep playing the song (or the part) you're having trouble on. For fast notes, do you mean ones of the same color coming at you really fast? If so, flick up and down. I flick up and down by getting my thumb on the top and my index finger on the bottom and strum like a real guitar; as if I was using a pick. Works for me.

I find that playing songs I couldn't do helped me improve. So if you're struggling with hard. Try to do the beginner songs on hard till you're very familiar with them, then move up from there.