Learning Guitar & Bass

Hey everyone, Ska has been one of my favorite genres for awhile now, and some of my favorite songs incorporate a ska strumming pattern. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to get that strumming technique down for those smaller chord shapes you see on many songs, i.e Rancid's "Old Friend" and Goldfinger's "Superman" ? I can do that muted downstroke when it is a full barre chord, but it seems like a more precise method when only the G, B and high E strings are being played - hope this makes sense! Thanks in advance

Hey There! I just started out with a guitar i'm used to play bass what i was wondering is the Tones for the guirars mostly have the gain turned up all the way is there a way for me to put the gain down on that tone ?

So what are the "must" haves? What does a good warm-up have to include?Are there any simple songs which are a simple and fun way to get things moving? (i.e songs with minimal chords, simple fingering, etc')How long does your warm-up take? Exercise routine: What are the essential exercises that must be done every time (perhaps as part of the warm-up?)What exercises should be done less oftenAfter playing: What's the best way to finish a playing session?Cheers!

Hi I tried playing this awesome song (both to play and listen) I couldn't help but wonder if the last bit of the dlc is right? The "last solo" if you will. Either there is a backing guitar which isn't "playable" running at the same time or notes are offset? Anyone got to try this an explain? Is it just 2 guitars doing the same thing at an offset?

Hello everyone, I have been practicing tuning my guitar with songs that I play along with, but I have always wondered if there is a way to get the tuning pitch or frequency of the tuning? I'm not very good with music terminology so a lot of this may not make sense. Cheers, Mazza.

Hello everyone! I have been learning bass for 1 year. And I wanna give you a tip about a video lesson series which are free and weekly. Mark's lessons on youtube and on his own website www.talkingbass.net with lesson's pdf documents. Thanks to him I learned bass guitar with music theory. He is really serious with what he is doing and he is really helpful.

I've posted an earlier version of this previously - though not in it's own topic. Maybe it will help someone; I use it as a desktop wallpaper.. Basically it's all the notes on a Fretboard (EStd tuning). I thought the ones I could find online were, well, a bit crap - so I did my own. This is updated with a higher res, scales and a graphic.. Update... v7 Changed background to Black. Shouldn't blind you anymore.. :) Previous one is in same public folder.. Cheers, H Link to reversed image (with low E at top and high e at bottom). Right click and 'view original' to get high res version. https://www.dropbox.com/s/32b3a7xy4yye42c/FretBoard%20NP%20V5flip.jpg?dl=…

I am just starting out and there is such an amazing selection of music on the CDLC database. Although when I start it up its at 100% from the start of the song. Does any CDLC work like the official music with the dynamic difficulty?

i have alot of songs that i want to try make but im not sure how to go about doing it if someone has a video or could tell me how to do it or even show me i have skype haha that would be amazing theres alot of great artists and songs out there that i feel and im sure alot of others need do that need to be on rocksmith thanks Lee

I am a beginner and I would really like to learn how to play scales. Has anyone already done "scale runs" and made them available for download? If so, please provide a link. Thank you.

ARTIST...................: YouALBUM....................: NoneTITLE....................: 12 Bar Blues (Practice)VERSION..................: 1.0INSTRUMENT(S)............: Rhythm, BassTUNING...................: E StandardCUSTOM TONE..............: Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion tonesDYNAMIC DIFFICULTY.......: Kind of, use them to pick the key.DIFFICULTY LEVELS........: 3 (C, E, G)RIFF REPEATER............: YesSCROLL SPEED.............: 2.0PACKAGE ID...............: 248750 (Cherub)PLATFORMS................: PC, Max, Xbox360, PS3First of all many thanks to ja37 for solving my Riff Repeater problem. This is a practice track for the 12 Bar Blues and it's variations as described in i…

ARTIST...................: YouALBUM....................: NoneTITLE....................: Rhythm ExercisesVERSION..................: 1INSTRUMENT(S)............: Lead, Rhythm, BassTUNING...................: E StandardCUSTOM TONE..............: Sweet Emotion'sDYNAMIC DIFFICULTY.......: YesDIFFICULTY LEVELS........: 20RIFF REPEATER............: YesSCROLL SPEED.............: 1.4PACKAGE ID...............: 248750 CherubPLATFORMS................: PC, Mac, Xbox360, PS3The original idea was strumming exercises for the guitar, but even though the charts DO have strum up/down indicators the game does NOT show them, and so I decided to call it rhythm exercises instead leaving it to you…

I usually play acoustic guitar, but I' recently gotten an electric for my birthday and finally I can play Rocksmith well. I never have problems with calluses anymore, but there's this thing that's extremely annoying. From putting too much pressure on the strings with my fretting hand (Usually on the acoustic), I get this weird stinging sensation in my fingertip when touching anything. It's a sharp pain that kind of feels like something like glass, or a splinter is stuck in there. Does it have a name? This time I really tried to be careful and stop playing before I felt it would happen, but it came totally out of nowhere, and I didn't even press that hard. Yes, I realise…

Hi there, I don't know if it's the right place to ask this. Lately, I've been playing a lot of tracks on my bass with RS2014, and it turns out I like playing latin songs more and more each time. Thing is, it's not the type of music I usually listen to, and so my knowledge of artists and songs is quite limited. I've been playing mostly Santana songs, but I wonder if anyone could help me find other tracks to play in the CDLC database - since there is no 'genre' research available, I'm quite stuck here. I know it has nothing to do with Rocksmith but I'm also a trombone player and I'd love to practice bass (and trombone, but that's something I'll have to do on my own) in …

Hi. I have been making some bass cover videos on YouTube and putting tabs for the song. I play all songs in standart tuning and try to make the bassline close to the original but also interesting and easy to remember/play(since it's so hard and pointless to play all the notes exactly like the bassist did on the recording). Maybe I will do some lessons about bass and musical theory applied to it, if anybody is interested... So this is my YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/MysteriousBassBoy I would also recommend this site for learning bass, as it helped me a lot years ago, now it looks like it's has some paid lessons put I think there's still lots of good stuff for free…

I'd love to see this as a CLDC one day (I don't know how to do those) but until then, here's this crazy chromatic study by the Motown great, James Jamerson! http://youtu.be/chvin4h8jA4 Available as a PDF

Hy all, I need your advice, what's more practical to learn a song? Small pieces 100% difficulty and low speed or normal speed and increasing difficulty?