On Activision's own Guitar Hero forums, user "mordecaii83" complains of having "to hit the yellow cymbal unusually hard (much harder than the orange) and the red pad I have to hit almost as hard as I can (and as hard as I dare for fear of breaking the drum stick) to get it to register a 'hard hit.'" On the IGN forums, user "masprague" complained of similar issues: "I noticed right off the bat that the red pad only registered that I was hitting it softly even when I hit it hard. So when I got to the trainer about hitting certain accent notes harder I failed out every time, even if I hit the pad with all my might." And another user, "Heidican17," writes, "at first there was a problem with the pads registering, and the red pad just completely died a minute ago... Out of the box less than 3 hours...