So you have found something you like the look of eh? Its cheap yes? You want it now huh? Well by following a few simple steps you can make sure what you want is what you get!

• Read the ad - sounds obvious I know but you need to read exactly what the buyer is saying in their ad, most seller are good people trying to provide the best service they can but you still need to check.

• Ask questions - if you're buying a console, for instance, and it does not mention that the power lead is included then ask! Chances are the seller has just forgotten to mention it, but what if they are selling without a power cable? That would be very dissapointing when it arrived.

• Check Feedback - Feedback is eBay's way of keeping the honest, honest! Good traders will have a good feedback rating and comments - they are used to getting it right and will not want to ruin their reputation on one transaction going wrong, so they will ensure you stay happy throughout.

• Check how much things cost on other sites like Amazon to make sure you are getting the best deal.

• When to buy - these deals change by the minute so you should be sure to check back often, but generally if you are looking on a sunday afternoon you will be bidding against more people than if you were looking on a tuesday morning.

• Paying - while sellers can accept many methods of payment, Paypal is by far the favoured way of paying, it is safe, free, and provides insurance should something go wrong - If you do not have a Paypal account go get one now!

• Problems? eBay and Paypal both work very hard to ensure the process is a hapy one and as you will see by looking at people's feedback rating very, very few people ever experience a bad transaction and even then they can get their money back.

By following these simple steps you should be able to keep yourself safe online and get the very best value deals.

Whoever says you never get something for nothing is obviously not aware of the upcoming free downloadable tracks for Guitar Hero World Tour!

Activision have announced that on 7th May they will be releasing a new FREE track pack on PS3 Marketplace, Xbox Live and Wii. The track pack will contain:

• The Devil Wears Prada - Dez Moines
• Chimaira - On Broken Glass
• Unearth - Grave Of Opportunity

For those of you not familiar with these bands let me use one word to describe them - METAL! All of the songs to be released as part of the upcoming free tack pack are available now to listen to on the bands Myspace pages (apart from the Unearth track), so head on over there, have a listen and get ready to rock!

More details have come out about the latest Guitar Hero Game due for release June 16th 2009 (US).

The game is Guitar Hero's greatest hits combined into one game so you can now rock along as a four piece band to songs on the original Guitar Hero games, on which only playing the guitar was possible. Activision have released details on which songs from Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, will be joining the line up in the new game. The songs are:

From Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock

• AFI - Miss Murder
• Dragonforce -Through The Fire And The Flames (check out a vid of this legendary song here)
• Heart - Barracuda
• Kiss - Rock And Roll All Nite
• Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
• Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
• Priestess -Lay Down
• Slayer - Raining Blood

These newly announced songs will be joining songs from Guitar Hero's 1 & 2 (see below) and songs from Guitar Hero Rocks The 80's which are still to be announced - as ever stay tuned for details!

From GH:1

• Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
• Boston - More Than A Feeling
• Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
• Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
• Helmet - Unsung (live)
• Incubus - Stellar
• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock N' Roll
• Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
• Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (Live)
• Queen - Killer Queen
• Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
• The Donnas - Take It Off
• The Exies - Hey You
• White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65

From GH:2

• Alice In Chains -Them Bones
• Avenged Sevenfold - Beast And The Harlot
• Danzig - Mother
• Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
• Iron Maiden - The Trooper
• Jane's Addiction -Stop!
• Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
• Lamb Of God - Laid To Rest
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
• Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
• Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
• Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
• Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
• Rush - YYZ
• Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
• The Police -Message In A Bottle
• The Sword - Freya
• Warrant - Cherry Pie
• Wolfmother - Woman

The only thing better than an excellent DIY repair is... well not having to perform an excellent DIY repair eh!

Following a marathon session on the drums you may find you have a screw loose, not through hours of pounding beats but more because, while you have been wailing on the pads, the tiny black screws that hold the frame together are undoubtedly coming loose. You will not know this until you go to pick up your drums and one of the legs falls off, and who keeps their rock room tidy enough to find a tiny black screw on the floor once it has fallen out? Not us that's for sure!

So todays top tip is:

• Check the screws holding your drums together from time to time - they could always do with a little tightening, or if you are a bit more of a perfectionist then get yourself some threadloc from a hardware store, this is basically glue that sits on the thread of the screw stopping those nasty vibrations loosening your screws (or nuts for that matter!).

Got any top tips of your own to share with the community? Post them below we'd love to know what works for you!

Before Guitar Hero Metallica was released, Activision issued a free demo of the game on Xbox Live with 4 tracks playable by the whole band. This was an excellent bit of news for all us GH fans, not only was it a taste of the new look of the game but also we got 4 new songs for... FREE!

On the Guitar Hero Smash Hits site the developers are asking us (yes all of us!) which 5 songs we would like to see included in the upcoming free demo of the game. You can vote for your favourites now on their site and you can see the latest setlist details here.

What would you like to see on the demo? More importantly when will it be out!

Guitar Hero Smash Hits will be the title of the previously rumoured Guitar Hero Greatest Hits and is due to launch in the US on 16th June 2009, and most exciting of all the setlist is starting to appear!

Guitar Hero Smash hits will feature the best hits from:

• Guitar Hero 1
• Guitar Hero 2
• Guitar Hero 3
• Guitar Hero Rocks the 80's

There will be 48 master recordings on it from the 4 games and the setlist we have so far is

From GH:1

• Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
• Boston - More Than A Feeling
• Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
• Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
• Helmet - Unsung (live)
• Incubus - Stellar
• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock N' Roll
• Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
• Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (Live)
• Queen - Killer Queen
• Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
• The Donnas - Take It Off
• The Exies - Hey You
• White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65

From GH:2

• Alice In Chains -Them Bones
• Avenged Sevenfold - Beast And The Harlot
• Danzig - Mother
• Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
• Iron Maiden - The Trooper
• Jane's Addiction -Stop!
• Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
• Lamb Of God - Laid To Rest
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
• Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
• Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
• Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
• Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
• Rush - YYZ
• Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
• The Police -Message In A Bottle
• The Sword - Freya
• Warrant - Cherry Pie
• Wolfmother - Woman

From GH:3

• DragonForce - Through The Fire And The Flames
• Heart - Barracuda

More of the final setlist will be revealed in the next week or so with an announcement about which other GH:3 games are due to join the line up, expected on Thursday 30th April. We will, of course, keep you updated.

Our Drum Repair kit is almost ready!

Drum Repair Kit now availiable!

Following in the footsteps of our successful Guitar Repair Kit we are pleased to announce our Drum Repair Kit.

After a lot of searching and workshop testing to get the right components we are finally there,  just a few more bits to put in place and within the week we should have them available for sale. So if you are only reading this because your drums are broken and you don't know what to do, hold on just a bit longer and guitarherorepair will be there to rescue you!

Once upon a time there was no Guitar Hero, the world was a barren and cold place and rhythm games were for young girls and odd looking people in video arcades. Suddenly, Guitar Hero arrived and the world was a different, better, place.....

We at GuitarHeroRepair.com, like many of you, caught the GH bug big time! The feeling of prancing around your living room wailing on a plastic guitar pretending to be one of many rock icons was so appealing and so addictive it has taken over many of our lives (don't think this doesn't apply to you - it does!). So it was decided to start up this website with the goal of offering people the latest news, products, repairs and mods to keep us feeding the beast.

We have more technical expertise than any other Guitar Hero site, due to the number of instruments we repair. Quite simply no one has taken more instruments apart and seen more issue than us, that is why our repair parts are not just replicas of the original parts, they are improvements on the original, based on our knowledge of what breaks, how it breaks, and what would have stopped it breaking in the first place.

While we love them dearly, we are not associated with Activision or Red Octane in any way. We are an independant company based in the UK and serving the world with the products they want to keep their instruments up and running.

If you have any questions about the site please Contact Us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

You can also call us free anytime on 0800 072 3870, leave us a message and one of us will get back to you!

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For those of you itching to see what the new difficulty setting on GH:M looks like here are a couple of guys making a very tidy job of showing you!

- skip through to the second half for the best bits!