To unlock the Air Guitar, insert the following notes in the Options menu: Blue & Yellow, Green & Yellow x2, Red & Blue x2, Red & Yellow x2, Blue & Yellow, Green & Yellow x2, Red & Blue x2, Red & Yellow x2, Green & Yellow x2, Red & Yellow x2.
All Songs (Quick Play Mode)
To unlock all of the game's songs for Quick Play Mode, insert the following notes in the Options menu: Yellow & Orange, Red & Blue, Red & Orange, Green & Blue, Red & Yellow, Yellow & Orange, Red & Yellow, Red & Blue, Green & Yellow x2, Yellow & Blue x2, Yellow & Orange x2, Yellow & Blue, Yellow, Red, Red & Yellow, Red, Yellow, Orange.
Alternate controls
When using as a Wiimote as a second controller, press the following buttons to emulate a guitar controller.
Green: Press B.
Red: Press Right.
Yellow: Press A.
Blue: Press 1.
Orange: Press 2.
Bat Guitar
To unlock the Bat Guitar, get five stars on each song during Career Mode on Easy difficulty.
Battle Lou in Easy Mode
To battle with Lou using Easy Mode notes, try the following. When the battle with Lou begins (on Expert Mode), strum without holding any frets down. When you lose, select the Tutorial option at the Game Over menu. Do the Guitar Battle Tutorial and play through it in its entirety. After the "Lesson Complete" message appears on-screen and the next fret board appears, pause the game and exit. This will bring you back to the Lessons menu. From here, press the red button, which will bring you back to the list of songs. The battle with Lou should be highlighted. Choose the song, and Lou's note chart will be set to Easy Mode now. Your note chart will still be in Expert Mode, but Lou's will be in easy mode.
Beach Life Bass
To unlock the Beach Life Bass, complete Co-op Mode on hard.
Boss Characters
To unlock any boss characters as playable character, simply beat them in the game and they will become unlocked.
Characters
Complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding character.
Character
How to unlock
Elroy Budvis
Already available for purchase at the store for $10,000.
Lou
Successfully complete the game to purchase Lou for $15,000. Lou comes with his skeleton guitar.
MetalHead
Already available for purchase at the store for $10,000.
Slash
Defeat him in the Boss battle in Career mode to unlock him for purchase at the store for $10,000.
Tom Morello
Defeat him in the Boss battle in Career mode to unlock him for purchase at the store for $10,000.
Distant Visitor Guitar
To unlock the Distant Visitor Guitar, complete Career Mode on Expert difficulty.
Easy battle power survival
When in a battle (either online or in Career mode), if you are playing against your opponent under the same difficultly setting, when they attack you with their battle power, look at their side of the screen. The notes will be the same and easy to see.
Easy Online mode
During an online vs. match (Face Off), the meter bar in the middle of the screen shows who is winning by the most points. To get more points, hold the whammy bar down while you play. The whammy bar gets you more points on long notes, but on short ones it is hard to hit. Hold the whammy bar to get all of them.
El Jefe Guitar
To unlock the El Jefe Guitar, complete Career Mode on expert with five stars.
Guitarists
You can unlock Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine), Slash (of Guns N Roses/Velvet Revolver), Lou (the Devil in the game), and a character called MetalHead by beating them in the game and then purchasing them for $10,000 (Lou costs $15,000).
Hammering on and pulling off
Hammering On and Pulling Off happens when you can strum on one note and successfully hit the notes that come after it without using the strum bar. Look for the single notes with white rings on top instead of black rings. As long as you hit the previous note, you can hit the next note by pressing the correct fret button. This is especially useful on songs like Cult of Personality under the Hard difficulty setting.
Hyper Speed
To get this code go to the cheat screen, under the options menu, and play: Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow.
Hyperspeed
To unlock Hyperspeed, go to the in-game cheat menu (found under Options) and insert the following cheat on your guitar: Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Orange, Yellow.
Iron Maiden reference
"22 Acadia Avenue" is a song name by the band Iron Maiden. You can see this in the first venue of Career mode.
Jolly Roger Guitar
To unlock the Jolly Roger Guitar, get five stars on each song during Career Mode on Medium difficulty.
Large Gems
Go to the screen where you enter your cheats and enter the following code:
Green, Red, Green, Yellow, Green, Blue, Green, Orange, Green, Blue, Green,
Yellow, Green, Red, Green, Green and Red, Red and Yellow, Green and Red,
Yellow and Blue, Green and Red, Blue and Orange, Green and Red, Yellow and
Blue, Green and Red, Red and Yellow, Green and Red, Green and Yellow.
This code will make the Gems (the colored notes that you have to play) really big. It look really cool.
Note: In the code it says "and" in the middle of two colors. For example Red and Yellow you must press those two notes at the same time then strum how you regularly play the note when entering cheats.
Mad Izzy
Pick Izzy and pick any guitar and any place. Pick a hard song like through the fire and the flames and play It. If you fail it at the end Izzy might stick up his middle finger up at the drummer.
Moon Shot Guitar
To unlock the Moon Shot guitar, complete Career Mode on Easy.
Nemesis 13 Guitar
To unlock the Nemesis 13 Guitar, complete Co-Op Career Mode on any difficulty.
Neversoft Skateboard
To unlock the Neversoft Skateboard, complete Co-Op Mode on expert with five stars.
PendulAxe Bass
To unlock the PendulAxe Bass, complete Co-op Mode on expert.
Performance Mode
To unlock Performance Mode, insert the following notes in the Options menu: Red & Yellow, Red & Blue, Red & Orange, Red & Blue, Red & Yellow, Green & Blue, Red & Yellow, Red & Blue.
Precision Mode
To unlock Precision Mode, insert the following notes in the Options menu: Green & Red x3, Red & Yellow x2, Red & Blue x2, Yellow & Blue, Yellow & Orange, Yellow & Orange, Green & Red x3, Red & Yellow x2, Red & Blue x2, Yellow & Blue, Yellow & Orange x2.
Predator reference
There is a reference to the movie Predator in the song "Helicopter". After playing the song, go to the "More Stats" screen, or to Practice mode and get to the screen where you choose what section to play. One of the sections in the song is called "Get Back To The Choppa!!!" which seems to be a reference to Arnold Schwarzenneger's line in Predator, when they are all running away from the Predator.
Rojimbo Guitar
To unlock the Rojimbo Guitar, complete Career Mode on Hard difficulty.
Saint George Guitar
To unlock the Saint George guitar, complete Career Mode on Medium.
Songs
The following songs can be unlocked in the game:
An Endless Sporadic - "Impulse"
Backyard Babies - "Minus Celsius"
Bret Michaels Band - "Go That Far"
Die Toten Hosen - "Hier Kommit Alex"
Dragonforce - "Through the Fire and the Flames"
Fall of Troy - "FCP Remix"
Gallows - "In the Belly of a Shark"
The Hellacopters - "I'm in the Band"
Heroes del Silencio - "Avalancha"
In Flames - "Take This Life"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Ruby"
Killswitch Engage - "My Curse"
LA Slum Lords - "Down N Dirty"
Lacuna Coil - "Closer"
Lions - "Metal Heavy Lady"
NAAST - "Mauvis Garcon"
Prototype - "The Way It Ends"
Revolverhead - "Generation Rock"
Rise Against - "Prayer of the Refugee"
Scouts of St. Sebastian - "In Love"
Senses Fail - "Can't Be Saved"
The Sleeping - "Don't Hold Back"
The Stone Roses - "She Bangs the Drums"
Superbus - "Radio Song"
Songs (Normal)
To unlock songs in the normal fashion, simply pass the song successfully. It will thereafter be unlocked.
Through the Fire and Flames
To unlock the track "Through the Fire and Flames", beat the game.
In the Through The Fire And Flames introduction, before you start wrap a rubber band around Green. By doing this, you will not have to worry about holding Green; it does it for you. Make sure you press the other buttons quickly so that Green can register. If you hold the buttons as you do the hammer-ons, Green will not register, and you will fail.
Alternately, defeat Lou to automatically unlock the "Through The Fire And Flames" song for free.
Tiki Guitar
To unlock the Tiki Guitar, complete Career Mode on hard with five stars.
Troubleshooting the whammy bar
Try the following steps if your whammy bar does not work.
First, try calibrating the whammy bar. Go to "Options" at the main menu. Go to "Guitar", then to "Calibrate Whammy". Use your whammy bar a few times. If the drawing does not show a complete skeleton of the man pointing down at the woman, leave your whammy bar at its resting place (when not in use) then press Green. Use your whammy bar again. If it shows a complete picture, you are done. If it does not show a complete picture, proceed with the next method.
If the above resolution does not work, go to the "Home" menu. Go to "Wii Remote Settings". Then, go to "Reconnect". Press 1 + 2. Do not touch the whammy bar while doing this/ Your Wiimote should be reconnected and your whammy bar should work.
Various Codes
Go to "options" and then go to "cheats." Now, cheats are entered completely differently in the third installment. You now have to strum with the frets on just like normal playing. Two or more notes in parentheses indicate a chord.
(YO) (RB) (RO) (GB) (RY) (YO) (RY) (RB) (GY) (GY) (YB) (YB) (YO) (YO) (YB) Y R (RY) R Y O
Unlock all songs in Quick Play
Wii Remote Usage
If you want to play this game with a friend on your Wii and don't have a spare guitar, you can play the game using the Wii Remote. Here's how the buttons correspond:
B Button - Green
Right (D-Pad) - Red
A Button - Yellow
1 Button - Blue
2 Button - Orange
