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Congrats on the "real guitarist" goal!! It may be worth sourcing a good instructor.. i.e. someone who can do all the things you aspire to do - They may be able to help carve out the path for you.... Other than that, you sound like you've done enough research to know what you need to learn, you could probably make up your own practice routine which includes it all; Fretboard knowledge - know every fret on every string by name, Chord shape drills - go through scale tone chords in every key, or play the same chord in every position up the neck Scale drills - pick a scale and a string at random, then start from there - Once you have mastered the vertical six string shape of all positions, start with one or two strings and play the scales horizontally - create melody lines - build muscle memory of how the shapes connect to one another.. Keys - find some common chord progressions, I-IV-V, III-Vi-II-V-I, II-V, etc.. and play them in a variety of keys and shapes Improv. - record the above progression practice and play different scales over them, try a scale of the key, a scale of the chord you're playing over, develop your ear to what you like the sound of... For me, playing guitar is part science and part art, it's up to you to define how much of each part signifies your playing (style). You've probably seen or heard of everything I've mentioned above, it just sounds like you're looking for more structure behind your learning. My 2c - write everything you want to learn down on paper, then draw up your own schedule dividing your time between them. Test that for a month then re-access and modify as required. Best wishes :smile:

Might be of use to someone - E standard tuning fretboard notes.. Most of the charts I've found on the internet are a bit fuzzy, so I did my own. It's high res, so good for a printout, desktop wallpaper etc.. Cheers, H edit.. v2 Corrected colour on 2 notes.

i would have use my own picture but i was unable to get them to upload http://images.epiphone.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Products/Les-Paul/Prophecy-Les-Paul-EX/Gallery/LesPaulProphEX_MS_Splash.jpghttp://images.epiphone.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Products/Les-Paul/Tribute-Les-Paul-Standard/Gallery/MS_Splash.jpghttp://images.epiphone.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Products/Bass/EB-3-Bass/Gallery/CH_Splash.jpg

Hi everyone :) I'm intrested to know what you guys&gals play?I have 4 guitar's & 1 bass :) I have a johnson strat which i hav'nt played much :( a BC Rich Bich which is in the prosess of being restored,a BC Rich Ironbird which is nice&fast to play,a Wesley bass which im told is hand made(but can't be sure)&finally my Epiphone SG400 Pro which is amazing!i payed £102.00 for her on ebay & is the best money i ever spent on a guitar,i customized her with the skull parts but had to make the pieace between the front pickup&neck to finish her off :)http://s27.postimg.org/514n51x03/2014_03_08_01_14_42.jpg http://s16.postimg.org/8sws2vwut/2014_03_08_01_13_14.jpghttp://s30.postimg.org/4gi10wxqp/2014_03_14_20_24_21.jpg

Do you play the $10 Walmart special or an original played by Paul Mccartney?? We want to see em and hear the stories behind them! This was my first guitar that I bought at a second hand store. It's very light and I like the way it feels. I use it mainly for Drop D and lower tunings. It's an Epihphone Special SG. http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g34/jshaw0705/IMG_0563_zps70c572b9.jpg I am 35 years old. As such when I was in high school every guitar player and lead singer that you dreamed of being played one of these. I had to have one! I understand that over the years they are pretty much all the same but that wasn't going to do it for me. I had to have an era correct one. I hunted and hunted and finally came across this heavily used, but plays perfect '99 MIM Fender Stratocaster. Found it on Craigslist and had the guy email me the serial number. As soon as I had it confirmed by Fender for year and such, I headed out to get it. 2 hours. I am thrilled to own it though! Totally worth the drive. http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g34/jshaw0705/IMG_0564_zps01d5e2ea.jpg

Working to bring mostly Finnish metal customs for rocksmith 2014. Complete Amorphis - Battle For Light Amorphis - Black Winter Day Amorphis - Drowned Maid Amorphis - Enchanted by the Moon Amorphis - From The Heaven Of My Heart Amorphis - Godlike Machine Amorphis - Hopeless Days Amorphis - House Of Sleep Amorphis - Into Hiding Amorphis - Majestic Beast Amorphis - On Rich And Poor Amorphis - Sacrifice Amorphis - Silver Bride Amorphis - Sky Is Mine Amorphis - Skyforger Amorphis - The Castaway Amorphis - The Smoke Before The Dawn - Deathstar Be'lakor - Suns Delusion Catamenia - Coldbound Doom:VS - Earthless Ensiferum - Axe Of Judgment Ensiferum - Burning Leaves Ensiferum - Elusive Reaches Ensiferum - Eternal Wait Ensiferum - Heathen Horde Ensiferum - In My Sword I Trust Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes Ensiferum - Warrior Without A War Insomnium - Against The Stream Insomnium - Bereavement Insomnium - Black Heart Rebellion Insomnium - Black Waters Insomnium - Collapsing Words Insomnium - Down With The Sun Insomnium - Drawn to Black Insomnium - Dying Chant Insomnium - Ephemeral Insomnium - In the Groves of Death Insomnium - Lose To Night Insomnium - Mortal Share Insomnium - One For Sorrow Insomnium - Revelations Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun Insomnium - The Bitter End Insomnium - The Killjoy Insomnium - The New Beginning Insomnium - The Promethean Song Insomnium - The River Insomnium - Through The Shadows Insomnium - Unsung Insomnium - Weather the Storm Insomnium - While We Sleep Kalmah - Better Not To Tell Kalmah - Bitter Metallic Side Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony Kalmah - The Groan Of Wind Kalmah - The Trapper Kalmah - They Will Return Kiuas - Across The Snows Kiuas - Aftermath Kiuas - Cry Little Angel Kiuas - Warrior Soul Kotiteollisuus - Iankaikkinen Kotiteollisuus - Minä Olen Kotiteollisuus - Ukko Perkele Mors Principium Est - The Meadows Of Asphodel Mustan Kuun Lapset - Morfiinisiivet Noumena - A Day to Depart Omnium Gatherum - Ego Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows Sentenced - A Long Way To Nowhere Sentenced - Aika Multaa Muistot (Everything Is Nothing To Me) Sentenced - Cross My Heart And Hope To Die Sentenced - Excuse Me While I Kill Myself Sentenced - May Today Become The Day Spiritus Mortis - The Man Of Steel Swallow The Sun - ...And Heavens Cried Blood Swallow The Sun - Don't Fall Asleep (Horror Pt. 2) Swallow The Sun - Doomed To Walk The Earth Swallow The Sun - Falling World Swallow The Sun - Swallow (Horror Pt. 1) Swallow The Sun - The Giant Swallow The Sun - These Woods Breathe Evil Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Elegia Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Juoksevan veden aika Wintersun - Battle Against Time Wintersun - Beyond The Dark Sun Wintersun - Land Of Snow And Sorrow Wintersun - Sons Of Winter And Stars Unfinished Too many songs to list.

http://guitargames.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ddc-512.png {Original icon from Svengraph} Dynamic Difficulty Creator I am pleased to share with you the "Dynamic Difficulty Creator" which : - uses the XML files of each arrangement to produce a new version of these files (files like "PART REAL_GUITAR.xml") - generates all phrases automatically (if not already created in EOF) - generates all levels of dynamic difficulties from 0 to 19 if needed for each phrase DDC v3.7 supports various time signatures : - if a time signature is missing, you can now configure its categorization maps - the synchronization process in EOF must respect the rhythm (the measures, beats and time signatures have to be correctly defined in EOF) For best results : - during the synchronization process in EOF, do not move the notes, just move the main measures (vertical bars) - create sections and phrases in EOF carefully because they strongly influence DDC process - All sections and phrases must start on the main beat of a measure If these rules are bypassed, DDC can work, but the results are not garenteed ... I'm writting a dedicated tutorial about DDC : DDC Tutorial ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- D O W N L O A D L I N K ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Production (stable) : ddc_v3.7.zip (Requires RSToolkit v2.8.1.0-980b5022 beta or greater) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- U P D A T E S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Update v3.7 : (14/07/2020) - New specific part in the log file to display the handShapes properties - Fixed bug : HandShapes are not always generated when they contain both single notes and chords Update v3.6 : (02/12/2018) - The "offset" property is now setted if the first beat starts after 0.000 - New "maxMeasuresPerPhrase" parameter to disable the automatic phrase creation process based on the average number of measures per input phrase - Fixed bug : A new beat was always added at time 0.000 - Fixed bug : A COUNT phrase iteration was always added at time 0.000 - Fixed bug : The time position of the last noguitar section was always adjusted - Fixed bug : The maximum number of generated DD levels wasn't limited to 30 Update v3.5 : (27/07/2018) - Fixed bug : When generating the transcriptionTrack tag, a chord must be ignored if it is replaced by single notes at upper levels - Fixed bug : Notes are not always generated for odd measures when "ddc_dd_remover.xml" template is used - Fixed bug : The computation of number of differences is wrong for the first level of difficulty Update v3.4 : (20/09/2017) - More levels added in the default configuration file - In order to add more levels of difficulty, each level is splitted in two sublevels, the first one keep only new notes added in odd measures. - Fixed bug : The last notes may be omitted when the last "noguitar" section has an adjusted time position. - Fixed bug : Error in calculating the total number of events in each phrase that affected the process of merging adjacent difficulty levels. - Fixed bug : Transcription track could produce several single notes at the same time position and on the same fret - Fixed bug : Embedded handShapes may produce issue when generating the transcriptionTrack tag - Fixed bug : Spaces in chord name and display name were not managed correctly - Fixed bug : Count attributes may have wrong values in transcriptionTrack children tags Update v3.3 : (07/04/2017) - Set the default value when an attribute is missing in the input XML file - Generation of transcriptionTrack tag without attributes that have the default value - Don't generate XML attributes with default value in the DDC output file (RSToolkit v2.8.1.0) - Fixed bug : High density status may be forced even if the chord contains any technics - Fixed bug : A value of 100 for the "minHighDensityMisused" configuration parameter doesn't deactivate the density correction process Update v3.2 (28/11/2016) - New process to force the density status of chords depending on their position in a sequence - New parameter in the configuration file to adjust or not the density status of chords - New process to add open notes in chord tags in order to remove display glitches - New message in the log if the time position of an anchor is adjusted - No more protection of adjacent measures that share the same handShape during the phrase creation process - No more generation of linkedDiffs node (only newLinkedDiffs is usefull) - Fixed bug : Wrong time position used when generating a new anchor at the beginning of a phrase - Fixed bug : HandShapes and anchors may be splitted at the beginning of a new phrase - Fixed bug : Linked notes may never appear in any difficulty level Update v3.1 (02/10/2016) - The order of XML attributes has changed for note, chordNote and handShape tags - The feature that automatically adjusts the sustain of notes has been removed - Fixed bug : DDC may crash during the check of overlapping sustains Update v3.0 (01/02/2016) - The chords without chord notes are now supported - New process to add measure 0 at time 0.000 when startBeat is greater than 0.000 - New process to keep the highDensity value as defined in EOF - Fixed bug : HighDensity status can be overrided with a wrong value Update v2.9 (23/01/2016) - New logic to avoid the split of existing handShapes when the new phrases are generated - New process to allow excotic handShape phrases - New check to remove handShapes which are empty - New logic to allow handShapes without a valid chordTemplate reference - Fixed bug : Start time of the first handShape in a phrase may be greater than the phrase start time - Fixed bug : HandShape with no visible note inside maybe generated - Fixed bug : DDC may crash if duplicate nodes are found in the XML file - Fixed bug : The highDensity attribute was not recomputed for lower levels of difficulty Update v2.8 (06/12/2015) - Single distinct notes which are located on the same time position are now managed like a chord if they are associated with a handShape and a chordTemplate. - The transcriptionTrack generation process has been modified to manage multiple notes on the same time position. - New check about the maximum number of phrases and automatic increase of the phrase length parameter if possible. - New process for increasing the phrase length parameter if the maximum number of phrases will be reached (new parameter in the config file to define this limit). - New process for detecting similar phrases (similarities are now computed by measure). - New process for detecting duplicate events on a same time position and to avoid a crash of DDC (only the first occurrence is kept by time position). - Fixed bug : TranscriptionTrack generation may produce events in the wrong order based on their time position (when the highest level has less events than the lower levels). - Fixed bug : Always add the first event of each phrase in the first level of difficulty to avoid a crash in RR. Update v2.7 (06/04/2015) - Fixed bug : XML prolog was missing in the result XML files. Update v2.6 (31/01/2015) - New default value for the phrase length parameter (4). - Fixed bug : DDC may generate a wrong value in the "count" attributes when it merges all existing difficulties to create the "transcriptionTrack" tag. - Fixed bug : The highest level of difficulty is not use when DDC merges all existing difficulties to create the "transcriptionTrack" tag. - Fixed bug : A measure may be not protected by a preceding one if it contains a new sequence of linked notes. Update v2.5 (05/07/2014) - New process to merge all levels of existing Dynamic Difficulty if the "transcriptionTrack" tag is empty. - Notes and chords sustain are now considered if they overlap two or more measures (prevent the creation of empty phrases which break the handshapes length). - Fixed bug : DDC error when the number of chordNodes is lower than the number of frets defined in the chordTemplate Update v2.4 (13/06/2014) - New categorization process to allow multiple time signatures. - New notation to define the ramp up models. - New configuration file (ddc_default.cfg) to allow the modification of internal parameters (category and subcategory maps, merging levels, linked diff.). - New parameter to specify the configuration file to use. - New checks and associated warnings about the categorization process. - New merging process to reduce the number of difficulty levels (separate from the DD generation step). - New view of difficulty levels in the log file for a better differentiation of the levels before and after the merging process. - Fixed bug : Adjacent levels of difficulty may be wrongly merged together. Update v2.3 (13/06/2014) - Fixed bug : Some adjacent measures are wrongly protected in the same phrase. Update v2.2 (15/03/2014) - Synchronize events on the timeline before generating the new phrases. - Protect adjacent measures in the same phrase if they contain a sequence of linked notes. - Generate a warning if a sequence of linked notes overlaps two sections or two subsections. - Fixed bug : Last chord may be missing. - Fixed bug : New phrase can be created with only one empty measure. Update v2.1 (15/02/2014) - Auto-adjustment to the previous main beat for each section and phrase iteration which is not placed on the main beat of a measure. - DDC now allows handShape's end time equals to the start time of the following one. - Fixed bug : Technics on chords can be lost if the chord is the first one in the current phrase iteration. - Fixed bug : Chord notes may be missing if the chord is the first one in the handShape in the current level of difficulty. - Fixed bug : First chord reference in a sequence may be the wrong and chord note technics may appear or disappear. - Fixed bug : Phrase length parameter can be ignored when only the last measure of the current phrase is empty. - Fixed bug : Linked notes can be ignored when two notes have the same time position. - Fixed bug : First section may be missing. Update v2.0 (24/01/2014) - New display of DD levels in the log file to facilitate the DDC process check. - DDC now supports anchors on the secondary beats of a measure. - New logic added for merging two adjacent levels of difficulty if there is no more than 10% of differences between them. - New comparison system to detect similarities between two distinct phrases (less than 25% of differences). - New warning added in the log file if a chordNote tag is not found for the fundamental note. - New optional parameter "-p" to overwrite the XML file content without changing its name (value "Y"). - New optional parameter "-t" to generate or not the log file (value "Y"). - Fixed bug : notes and chords may be missing on the highest level of difficulty. - Fixed bug : arpeggios are not generated by DDC if they are at the last position in the chord templates list. Update v1.9 (10/01/2014) - New warning added in the log file if sections or phrases don't start at the first beat of a measure. - Fixed bug : Wrong value in "count" attribute of the "phraseIterations" tag in specific cases. - Fixed bug : "ChordNote" tag may be missing in lower levels of difficulty for fret hand muted chords. - Fixed bug : Process may stop when loading XML file informations if a phrase is defined before the first section. Update v1.8 (04/01/2014) - Arpeggios are now supported. - File path removed in the ramp-up model name for the generated comment. - Chord Templates are now fully described in the log file. - Fixed bug : The phrase "p0" was always generated even if no iteration of the phrase was referencing. - Fixed bug : Wrong categorization, if the last measure is not complete (based on the current time signature) and contains notes or chords. - Fixed bug : A few notes or chords are missing due to a bug in the sub-categorization process. Update v1.7 (25/12/2013) - New "transcriptionTrack" tag management. - Now supports the DD remover functionality. - First phrases and sections are not generated if they are empty for the current arrangement. - First "COUNT" empty phrase iteration is added between the first beat and the first non-empty phrase. Update v1.6 (15/12/2013) - Synchronize the first measure with the first section before generating new phrases. - Fixed bug : The last phrase iteration was missing in the generated XML file. - Fixed bug : Minor correction in the "linkNext" sequence management. Update v1.5 (11/12/2013) - New "INFORMATION" status for log messages. - New validity check of the XML format. - New security checks about the time position of the first anchor and the first handShape. - ChordNote tag children are cloned for the fundamental notes in lower levels of difficulty. - HandShape endTime is adjusted when it is splitted due to a new phrase iteration. - Remove sustains parameter is set to "N" by default. - Fixed bug : Sections are lost if there are less phrase iterations than sections. Update v1.4 (05/12/2013) - First empty phrase iterations are not generated. - Protect the loading of XML chords and notes when the last measure is not complete. - Anchor "time" value is adjusted for the first event of each new phrase iteration. - Chord sustains are now collected from the "chordNote" tag. Update v1.3 (03/12/2013) - HandShape "startTime" value is now adjusted to the "time" value of its first associated chord in the current level - HandShape "endTime" correction - HandShape added for the first chord of each new phrase iteration if necessary - Chord notes added on the first chord of each new phrase iteration if necessary - Only the needed anchors are now inserted on each level of difficulty - Fixed bug : Wrong "chordId" was used in "handShapes" for lower levels of difficulty Update v1.2 (24/11/2013) - Supports the Rocksmith 2014 Score Attack mode - Automatic difficulty selection for the three Score Attack levels - New "heroLevels" tag added for each non-empty "phraseIteration" Update v1.1 (19/11/2013) - Auto detection of the Rocksmith XML format (2012 or 2014) - The following Rocksmith 2014 technics are now supported : - All new attributes on notes and chords - New "chordNote" elements under "chord" - New "bendValues" elements under "note" and "chordNote" - "linkNext" logic for combining several chords and/or notes in a complex note in RS2014 - DDC now works with no "section" and/or no "phraseIterations" - Existing phrases in the input XML file are now used as subsections - Fixed bug : Wrong "chordId" was used for the lower levels of difficulty Update v1.0 (03/11/2013) - New lightweight executable for Windows 32bit (command line tool) - DDC program totally rewritten in Tcl Update v0.9 (21/09/2013) - DDC now supports all technics on the fundamental notes of the chords (palm mutes, bends, slides, ...). You must first activate [song][Rocksmith][Export chord techniques] in EOF for export these informations in the XML files. - Two new sub-categories (1 & 2) for category 8 in the default ramp-up model (to soften the rise of the first levels) Update v0.8 (12/09/2013) - Sustain of the fundamental note of a chord was not generated if this chord was the last one of the tab (now it works) - Sustain correction wasn't apply on all notes (now it works) Update v0.7 (03/09/2013) - New more powerfull web hosting (but not free ...) - New parameter to choose the length of the phrases (2, 3 or 4 measures) - New parameter to remove or not the note's sustain - New parameter to configure the ramp-up model (* & **) - The transformation process starts instantly when the queue is empty Update v0.6 (30/08/2013) - New leveling model with a maximum of 4 new notes or chords at each level transition - Up to 21 levels of difficulty for a phrase - In the previous release, palm muted effect was omitted during the generation of the XML result file (now it works correctly) - Phrases length can be set to 2, 3 or 4 measures (the difficulty highway bar doesn't display when there are too many phrases; increasing the phrase length resolves this problem) - Automatic sustain correction for each note with length less than 1/4 of its measure (we can keep those sustains in EOF for future compatibility or different behavior in Rocksmith 2014) Update v0.5 (26/08/2013) - Faster than v0.4 (less than 20 seconds for an arrangement) - Source XML files with only two phrases ("COUNT" and "END") are now supported - When a phrase reaches its maximum level of difficulty, it is not written in the higher levels - Similar Chords templates was merged in the previous version and can loose some specific finger positions - "controls" and "phraseProperties" XML elements was omitted in the previous versions - DDC now supports chords HandShapes for single notes Update v0.4 (20/08/2013) - Faster than v0.3 (less than one minute for an arrangement) - Now supports original XML files with multiple levels inside - "events" and "linkedDiffs" XML elements was omitted in the previous version

NOTICE: Sorry I haven't updated this in a while but I won't be making or updating my customs for a very long time. Moved to study abroad in Japan for a year a couple months ago and now all I got is my poopy laptop, left my rig and stuff at home. Thanks for playing my customs! Sorry Everyone! --VO.K Hello! Welcome to my Workshop! I decided to make Anime/Anime related CDLC's. Although there aren't many here that are interested in this stuff, it's still nice that the minority gets some nice stuff too! (I'm surprised there was any on here to begin with) If you have a request, I may be able to fulfill it. Please keep in mind that I only work from Guitar Pro Tabs (it's a lot less time consuming). If you've got the tab, great! But if you don't I'll try my best to look for one. If there's none, I apologize. Thanks for Visiting! VO.K *might start working on Custom Tones soon. Check back for updates! .1 increase = major fixes .001 increase = minor fixes Works Available Girls Dead Monster Little Braver (1.0) Alchemy (1.0) Shine Days (1.001) Run with Wolves (1.001) Houkago Tea Time Houkago Tea Time (1.101) Ichigo Parfait ga Tomaranai (1.0) supercell Yakusoku wo Shiyou (1.001) Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari (1.101) Sayonara Memories (1.1) Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni (1.001) Rita Little Busters! (TV Size) (1.0) fripSide LEVEL 5 - JudgeLight (1.0) Maon Kurasaki Kimi to Taiyou ga Shinda Hi (1.0) YURIA Aozora (1.0) Chieko Kawabe Be Your GIrl (1.0) meg rock Egao no Riyuu (1.0) Staple Stable (1.0) - need to patch Suneohair Sakasama Bridge (TV Size) (1.0) In Progress Houkago Tea Time - Tokimeki Sugar Planned (not guaranteed) MARiA COLOR Rita Little Busters! (Full) Alicemagic Lots more HTT TBA

Greetings, all!I just came to announce that I am now offering 1-on-1 lessons on how to create CDLC via Skype or Teamviewer.If there are a lot of people asking how, I POSSIBLY will do group sessions and stop every now and then to cover questions and everything.If you are interested, please feel free to message me or add me on Skype!Regards,SkepticSquid. :DSkype: meop90

Guess what guys................i'm back :-P What is the easiest way to create my 100+ customs as pages on here, without manually 'submitting' each custom? Otherwise, I probably won't get time to manually do it which will be a real shame. Any of the devs have any ideas? For now I'm just giving all access to my Mega folder which I'm updating with more and more customs, but ideally would like to sort all my customs into the database so others can easily find what they want. Anyone have any thoughts on what would be the easiest way?

Kasnitch, those are beautiful ESP's. I used to own an early 90's ESP M-2 Custom in Lemon yellow, best guitar I have put my hands on to date; I expect the newer ESP's are only an improvement. bought it used for 300 in '05, traded it for an 87' Ricky 4001. Still a massive regret letting it get away, Rick's come up for sale often but that guitar was something special! that said, Here's what i'm currently playing (Bass porn heavy!): What I do most of my recording on, MIJ Fender Aerodyne Precision Classic, P/J tone, Super thin/light P body, Jazz neck profile, one of my favorite workhorses! http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/Altamont613/FenderP_zpsad47e124.jpg http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/Altamont613/FenderP2_zps63237640.jpg my Eb bass, Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass: http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/Altamont613/Squierjazz_zpsee7b1644.jpg And the two that don't see the outside world very often, I think both were around 400 models made: The Boat Anchor! Gibson Silverburst Explorer Bass: I picked this up because it is identical to Skwisgaar skwigelf's 6-string "Thunderhose" explorer, in bass form. :) http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/Altamont613/EXplorer1_zpsff5942a3.jpg http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/Altamont613/Explorer2_zpsa613aea3.jpg Hipshotted Gibson SG Supreme Fireburst Bass (07' Guitar of the Week promo): The newest addition, went looking for something that would make it easier to move around, came up with this one. http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/Altamont613/SG1_zps5ee3f3aa.jpghttp://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k435/Altamont613/SG2_zps6d06d8f2.jpg I love them all but I've really taken to the short scale SG lately, The finish really comes to life in low light situations and it feels like I work less to do more. :)

I'm new with the axe, playing 4 months, so I'd like to join as beginner. Here's my screenshot: http://s4.postimg.org/p0pz41arx/The_beatles.jpg greenshot

http://s4.postimg.org/8sdvoxadp/725_B62804_D8_DF0_CB59_E2_A478_A955128_AB6_A10387.jpgi almost get heart attack out there... so much pressure :-P next one - queen come on @@RevT2 you to

Soilman great to have you as part of CF!! I have missed your fantastic contributions!

Beat me to it! I was going to post that myself lol :mrgreen:

I live in iran and because of the sanctions i can not donate and I am sorry for this :(

Took some pics this morning of my beautiful ladies. They are both 2011 ESP Standard Horizons, and are superb instruments. Axemusic.com here in Canada still has one of each of these in stock as of a couple days ago. The red FR model is about $2199 and the blue NT is about $1800 . Considering the 2014 models are made the same but with different headstocks, but cost $5000, I would think hmmmm.. wtf. These guitars are 95% as good as the PRS Studio I had, which cost $1400 more. The other 5% is made up by their own electronics and pickups, which are the best I've heard. Play feel is as good or better on the ESP guitars. Cheers all. Vince aka Kasnitch http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r745/Kasnitch/IMG_0845_zps320779f0.jpg http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r745/Kasnitch/IMG_0846_zpse08126f9.jpg http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r745/Kasnitch/IMG_0854_zps9a178317.jpg http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r745/Kasnitch/IMG_0856_zpsb3949926.jpg

A pizza place next to one of those new Colorado pot shops.

Hello,We are now taking votes on releasing an CDLC approved area. mini-faq: What does this mean? If the votes equal "YES", we would launch a new CDLC area for APPROVED CDLC's only. This means the CDLC will have everything finished, and tested by the community. This would include: Lead, Rhythm, Bass, Vocals, Custom Tones, Synced up, RR And optional DD. (NO issues) (exception is if one of the Arrangement types isn't available for the song)​Additionally, you would need the appropriate album artwork, title, and everything else So like SA's old system, right? Similar yes, but better executed. All of the "approved" CDLCs would have to be 100% finished, in the correct format, and at an appropriate host that won't delete the song in a week or month if not downloaded. EDIT: This is NOT going to a separate section! There will be three filters - approved, unapproved, and in progress. The default will be to show all customs, but you can filter if you would like to see only approved customs. It will be integrated within our current search.

All your words are right. It is not bad to play rocksmith all the time. At least it is far better than not playing. But goals are different. I don't want to play couple of songs to impress ppl. I want to become a real guitarist. Someone that knows music theory, technique and the art of performing. By music theory I mean chord progressions, scales, keys, making melodies and how to mix all these. In all the fields above rocksmith has something to say. But the problem I meant is: I feel like it makes me lazy somehow or addicted whatever the word is and then I won't feel the joy outside rocksmith. Only hitting scores and etc. I say again rocksmith is a revolution in learning and it helped me a lot. More than any thing Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 2

and must work hard just like Buckethead said in "Jump Man" song: I can't never stop workin' hard each day I feel I have to improve Hard work, determanation I've got to keep pushing myself I can't never stop workin' hard I've got to keep pushing myself :lol: :lol:

If you want to improve, play Buckethead :) :) this way you can learn how to play better as well as enjoy great music :) (not only my opinion, but few friends too) You will find very fast parts as well as slow songs with many bends and other techniques too :) and in the rhythm parts you will learn nice chords too :) For very fast parts I use Riff Repeater and it works very well :) Just 1 year and 6 months ago I did not know how to play guitar and now thanks to Buckethead I learned a lot, I can play most of the songs in RS2014 with 80%-90% accuracy, sometimes close to 100% even :) For bass I get 95%-100% accuracy for most of the songs in RS2014. I even could not dream about it about 2 years ago when I started to think about playing guitar, I still can not believe that after so short time I could improve so much... Still much to learn, I am just starting the way :) Have to learn more chords as this is my main problem to be fast playing strange chords :)

http://imageshack.com/a/img19/5784/juiv.jpg Thanks for the encouragement @ but after another hour I don't improve much! Guess I should quit this competition until I can actually play. I guess I am too much of a beginner to compete with the "beginners" here! Don't let others doing better get you down. I haven't tried it yet this week, but I'm sure I'll be closer to you than to either of the other scores posted. What have you tried so far with this song for practice? There's lots of ways to use RS to learn a song. If the ways you've tried haven't shown progress, maybe try RR on the hardest part of the song for you and slow it down? Once you get the hardest part down, it should help your confidence so you can build up on other parts of the song quicker. Either way, there's no such thing as too new to be here. Just have fun with it. Remember, soon you'll be in the higher classes with new people frustrated that it seems to come so easily to you.

@@Collision - I'm sorry, I regret saying this song is easy now. I'm sorry it got you down. In my view the whole point of this championship is to encourage people, not just through seeing yourself get better, but also seeing those around you get better. I've been watching @@Smile get better over the last few weeks and it has pushed me to work harder too. I was absolutely bottom last week though, some songs work for me some don't, but it shows me where I can improve. I really suck at anything that requires fast pick work like last week, and so I really need to work on the speed. This week it took me 12 goes to get 100% where as @ did it on the first attempt. Keep going, it will be worth it when you can see yourself and others around you improving.

Well that's it....I'm off to buy a tambourine!

I'm no expert, and I'm sure that opinions will vary, however I think you'll get more 'musical' benefit from learning songs.. The more you're exposed to riffs/rhythms will just build your guitar vocabulary. And if you think of guitar playing like a language, the better your vocabulary, the better you'll be able to express yourself. I don't know where I heard it, but I remember one thing mentioned by an instructor once; He said, never practice scales/techniques outside of a musical context. His argument was, scales aren't MUSIC - No one is going to pay $50 to come and watch you play scales, let alone enjoy it! So practice them within some form of musical context; backing track, Session mode etc... Give them musical meaning. Apply the scale with musicality, as opposed to playing a scale with a metronome. My recent personal experience - I've had RS2014 for 4 weeks, and in that time I haven't touched my amp/effects :sad: Last night I had a jam with friends and quickly had to adjust to play with a much lighter touch than I was used to in RS... I think the big produced sound of RS (although cool) can hide some articulation flaws in technique that you aren't going to hear till you get back on your amp. There are some guides around of how to run a split set up (RS & Amp at the same time) if that idea appeals to you. Good luck!!

Nice SG. Careful of the Snark on the headstock...some of them are tight enough to leave marks in the nitrocellulose.

Here are my pair of guitars.. Obviously, I use the second one a lot more! :wink: Gibson SG standard http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o680/Hostilian/IMG_20140322_165508_zps5a322de8.jpg Fisherprice Les OldMacdonald - 1976 custom made (v rare). I 'sometimes' let my daughter use this... http://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o680/Hostilian/IMG_20140322_165354_zps93645004.jpg Cheers, H

2000+ CDLC has helped keep me too busy to kill anybody! (recently)

One of my toys and my main used guitar is a dean vendetta. Love this guitar. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/18/ejeqazep.jpg My other is a dean exotica in gloss black acoustic/electric http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/18/hy7ana7u.jpg Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk

The chart authors' wishes are being honored. If you have a problem with it, take it up with them instead.

You want cheap Amp and effects? Use your comptuer and your rocksmith cable. Ubuntu Studio is free, and you can make a LiveCD/USB so you can use it by just booting to the CD/USB. Uber cool. I also have a Mustang amp that I can control and input, but you really only need your Rocksmith cable. http://i.imgur.com/LyqzxMz.jpg

Here's mine: http://i.imgur.com/NaGd330.jpg On the left is my Epiphone Les Paul Jr., and on the right is my Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Special. I've had the LP for about six months and it only cost $10 at a garage sale! I've had the Jaguar for about a month and I also got it used. I found it on the Guitar Center website for $99 and free shipping...who says you can't find good cheap gear?! :D sleepy

Adding DD is a fucking 10 second step in the toolkit for the creator, Its a 5 min step for someone who downloaded it work it out for fuck sake it no 2 second job for someone who doesn't even know how to use the toolkit and for those who say if you can't play it why create it, I made a song I cannot play and it seems to be one of my best pieces of work (except for the tone :???:) so you cant say if you can't play then dont make it thats not what RS is about I am afraid.

If it's a really small thing to add DD with the toolkit, then the maker should add it. For those that dislike DD, it's an even smaller thing to level up a song inside Rocksmith. Even when fully levelled, having DD makes it easier to tell the sections apart as you get bars with recognisable heights, instead of just thin lines. I agree with BHMath; an approved CDLC should be as complete as an official DLC.

http://i.imgur.com/bTS2BXG.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/5sQbwv2.jpgThese are my two guitars. First one is an Ibanez GiO series guitar I use for most E standard tuning songs I play. I got it last march from Guitar Center after trading in my Epiphone Les Paul Studio which I slightly regret because of the build quality of the Ibanez but I still like it. The guitar on the bottom is my ESP LTD MH-1000FR deluxe. This I used for drop C and D standard. I got this off Ebay almost brand new fo $650, I'd been going after a guitar good for drop tuning, metal-ish songs. Only problem I have with it is the Floyd Rose bridge, I've broken the high e string 3 times already in the past 3 months I've owned the guitar.

@@piepesado Love them both, but the Strat gets more play time especially because of the maple neck. About an hour after I took the photo and posted the pics, I took the Gibson in to have the pickups replaced with Burstbuckers, and a full setup. Really love the Faded Cherry on yours.

This is a beautiful thread, nice to see what are you guys playing. This are mine: http://i.cubeupload.com/9nMzTq.jpghttp://i.cubeupload.com/7uQk1S.jpg From left to right: Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded Cherry, I bought this one in Chicago where I lived some months a couple of years ago. This and my first guitar, a classic one were the only ones I purchased brand new. Jackson JS30 KV with floyd and EMG 81 85 ZW combo, I got this one on a online sell site (like US craiglist), the guy played this evil looking Jackson V on a church and that's where I met the guy and tested this axe. Then I won the auction for the Emg ZW combo on ebay with were cheap. Now planning to pimp it with a cool truss rod cover and install a tremol-no so I can drop tune with it. Washburn Shadow Series bass with Emg, I got this bass when I traded my first electric guitar a Washburn brand also, X10 series black strat. She was a really good player for a cheap guitar and sometimes I miss her but having 3 electrics was to much for me and bass is a different instrument so i guess it was worth it. My first guitar was a cheap beginner classical Memphis guitar (I will never sell it since I have an emotional connection with her :P), wasn't room for her on the sofa and its not RS enabled hehe Really nice axes around here guys, cant comment about all of them but I really like the silverburst les paul. @@AtreidesGhola both a Fender strat and a Gibson Les Paul, the best of both worlds. I have massive GAS for a maple fingerborad bass or guitar.

Here is my family... Left to right, Agile AL3200, Agile Dauntless Silverburst, Squier Affinity, Douglas WRL 590, Epiphone SG400, Raven hollowbody. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/traileater/20140216_150426_zpsf06f37d7.jpg The 3200 is my top of the line player, bought it as a Bstock for a screaming deal! The silverburst is my Adam Jones wannabe guitar. EMG Selects in it, but will be switching to Duncan JB/Jaz pups. Squier Affinity was a $40 score, since traded for a Standard model (below) Douglas is another Rondo product, it hasnt seen much use but is a sweet player SG was a pawn shop score, installed Entwistle HVX pups. The Raven was my first guitar, from 1975. Needs a little work. Here is the latest addition, traded the Affinity and some cash for it, brand new virgin! I never thought Id own a strat especially a Squier but they are pretty damn good axes! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/traileater/20140308_182110_zps52f57963.jpg

Don't own these anymore. :)

heres mine; Squier VM 70s Jazz Bass and the red one is a Silvertone from a pawn shop. The red one is getting a defretting job. The Squier I replaced the pups with Dimarzio dp123 in series and lowrider strings. The Silvertone using the old Fender strings and cleaned her up and nice setup. Both good players

@@dazedandbemused Nice Guitars. E std Tuning: Ibanez AK95-DVS http://s14.postimg.org/gk0be3kdd/Ibanez_AK95_DVS.png E std Tuning/Drop D (No Tremolo Easy To Tune): Ibanez GIO GAX30 http://s14.postimg.org/o8x5ptkv5/Ibanez_GIO_GAX30.png Eb Tuning: Ibanez SA260FM http://s14.postimg.org/8d8bmiuap/Ibanez_SA260_FM.png Others Tunings: Squier Affinity Stratocaster http://s14.postimg.org/rh1n2v74x/90bce2e325d22193c22cc905bedef890.png

Here's my currently playable guitars. http://i58.tinypic.com/2qdd5ap.jpg back row: Ibanez GSR 200, Gibson SG special front row: Epiphone LP standard, PRS SE custom, Gibson 60's Tribute LP I also have an MIM strat, which I was stripping for re-finishing, but RL kind of got in the way. Hoping I might be able to make the time when it's a bit warmer.

these are mine http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/12124890866_9cf850e7d5_c.jpghttp://farm3.staticflickr.com/2811/12124241115_62cb108b27_c.jpghttp://farm3.staticflickr.com/2825/9837958016_a7de9f6661_b.jpg

Why my Rocksmith colored neon strings of course. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uTvF1XskL._AA160_.jpg

Mine is at my signature, down here. Its a Shelter Nashville 300 Black. With huge modifications, EMG 81 and 85. The original Shelter Nashville 300: http://i.mlcdn.com.br/1500x1500/guitarra-les-paul-shelter-nashville-300preta-204001100.jpg And my guitar below:

So here are my guitars.From left to right:Eagle Archtop Cherry Sunburst, Epiphone Les Paul, Blast, Levin:http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/astrodogmedia/Myguitars_zps192c48a3.jpg Here is a better picture of my Eagle Archtop:http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/astrodogmedia/Eagle1_zps5f234da3.jpg The Eagle sounds and feels amazing, its made in the Korean factory that makes Gretsch guitars.

About 1979 - 1982 while in high school I had my own band called Renegade. A few originals with a lot of covers. Played guitar in this band but also played bass for a couple of different friends that had bands. Mostly rock and metal and a few gigs playing for a country band. 1985 - 1988 Played in a couple of bands that never got as far as getting names. One fell apart after months of rehearsals and one gig where half the band got trashed. The downside to trying to have a band made up of friends who hadn't played in a "working" band before. Then went on to form a band called "The Jake Isles Blues Band" which was kind of a rock edged blues band. The name came as a drunken rehearsal when me and the lead guitar player noticed our singer had us doing a lot of old J. Geils Band covers. As the lead player was a little drunk he angrily said we should just call the band Jake Isles or at least that was what it sounded like with the slurring. I worked (didn't seem like work though) in Maine and New Hampshire for several years in this band and recorded some originals with songs kind of all over the place. Played rhythm for a while in this configuration then ended up playing bass most of the time in this band until varying degrees of interest broke us up. At this point I got rid of almost all my gear I think I had 8 electrics (7 solid bodies and 1 hollow body) , 2 basses, and 2 acoustics and just kept 1 acoustic guitar. In 1989 I bought a Jackson bass (so much for getting rid of everything) and mainly just jammed with people occasionally filling in for some friends or playing for a few songs at their gigs if they wanted a hand. This went on for several years. Then about 1995 I got rid of the new gear I had once again accumulated and once again was back to the single acoustic and found my self playing for my brother in law in his gospel band for several years as a bassist with some guitar duties where fingerpicking was needed. What seemed strange to me was the gospel band had more gigs than any other band I had been in with us playing somewhere pretty much every weekend and usually a couple of weekday gigs every other week or so. Since about 1998 I've been bandless and tried to avoid it due to my work schedule and the fact that if I'm in a band I WANT to play live for people. Just playing with some friends is great but the rush from playing in front of an audience is crazy and once you've done it it's hard to resist. So for now; much like steroma posted above; rocksmith is my band. I wish I was as good as the rest of my band!! :grin:

Updated for My release of Eye of the Beholder

Updated for Viper83's release of End of the Line and his updates of Broken and Judas. Thanks Viper!