I'm totally ok with the load times. I like reading the text and when I'm playing with others that's the time where we stop chatting and get ready to get uploaded into the game grid. I usually start getting the beat going for myself assuming it's a song I know and then take the early bits of the song to correct myself because, well, beat has to be an internal thing for me.
On an unrelated note I was thinking about the drum trainer and what was mentioned with GGAHT and was thinking that it might make some sense if they gave us a strum pattern trainer in the next release. Sure, it's not quite as accurate or necessary as the drum fill trainer is, but it would be roughly similar in giving you a skill that's useful in the game (although, admittedly, easier to learn on your own) that's also applicable to real-life situations. The biggest problem I can think of is that unlike an actual guitar it's going to be harder to take strokes out because you can't strum past the bar without actually connecting the way you can in reality.
On an unrelated note I was thinking about the drum trainer and what was mentioned with GGAHT and was thinking that it might make some sense if they gave us a strum pattern trainer in the next release. Sure, it's not quite as accurate or necessary as the drum fill trainer is, but it would be roughly similar in giving you a skill that's useful in the game (although, admittedly, easier to learn on your own) that's also applicable to real-life situations. The biggest problem I can think of is that unlike an actual guitar it's going to be harder to take strokes out because you can't strum past the bar without actually connecting the way you can in reality.
What is in the second screen looks completely doable, but the first is guaranteed to be brutal since you have to strum all those notes.
