All characters must be bought from the character select screen after completing the unlocking requirements
| Unlockable | How to unlock |
|---|
| Rockubot | Beat drums career 100% |
| Travis Barker | Beat the Pacific Coast gig with the encore on drums to unlock Travis |
| Billy Corgan | Beat the Bone Church gig on band career to unlock Billy |
| Hayley Williams | Beat the Amoeba Records gig (or the gig Misery Business is in) to unlcok her on VOCALS |
| Ted Nugent | Beat the Carnival gig and Ted Nugent's guitar duel to unlock him (this is on guitar) |
| Sting | Beat the England gig on the bass to unlock him |
| Zakk Wylde | Beat the Louisiana gig, along with Zakk's guitar duel on guitar to unlock him |
| Air Instruments | Red, Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Green, Green, Yellow (Enter these in on the 'cheats' menu in the 'options' |
| Always use the slide bar (does not count chords though) | Green, Green, Red, Red, Yellow, Red, Yellow, Blue |
| Automatic Kick Pedal (on drums) | Yellow, Green, Red, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, Red |
| Change your flame colors (the colors of the flame when you hit a note) | Green, Red, Green, Blue, Red, Red, Yellow, Blue |
| Change the 'gem' colors (the notes) | Blue, Red, Red, Green, Red, Green, Red, Yellow |
| Hyperspeed( makes the screen go real fast) | Green, Blue, Red, Yellow, Yellow, Red, Green, Green |
| Invisible 'Rocker' | Green, Red, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Blue, Blue, Green |
| Performence Mode (you dont see the notes or anything, you play the song from your mind) | Yellow, Yellow, Blue, Red, Blue, Green, Red, Red |
| Change the color of star power (changes the color of the notes when you activate star power) | Red, Red, Yellow, Red, Blue, Red, Red, Blue |
| Unlock Aaron Steele (not related to Axel Steel though) | Blue, Red, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Green |
| Unlock all of the quickplay songs | Blue, Blue, Red, Green, Green, Blue, Blue, Yellow |
| Unlock Johnny Viper Thorne (of Motörhead) | Blue, Red, Blue, Blue, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Green |
| Unlock Nick (Haven't figured who he is yet...) | Green, Red, Blue, Green, Red, Blue, Blue, Green |
| Unlock Rina (Dunno who she is) | Blue, Red, Green, Green, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Green |
| Change the color of the vocal fireball (the little fireball that shows your pitch on the screen in vocals) | Red, Green, Green, Yellow, Blue, Green, Yellow,Green |
