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hey everyone B) http://s23.postimg.org/aqf3zywzf/Rocksmith_rhythm.jpg managed to do it ahah B) http://s18.postimg.org/6zx267tll/rocksmith.jpg this song is a real pain..after some time on RR only managed to improve a small bit.. still playing crap on this one..not sure how much I can improve on this one as I dont have much time to play on the rest of this week <_< however it's a real nice song it was a good choice for int's to improve and practice :D rock on everyone B)

I try to look into songs with a lot of problems, I'll admit I'm not the best about doing so, but I do agree that at least someone with a lot of skill should be looking into every song...don't get me wrong I appreciate whoever tests these songs before the week starts... http://s29.postimg.org/u13oa98nr/2015_06_09_00005.jpg So I had to listen to the solo a few times, but its dead on, the original has a reverb vibe going on(as well as some kind of pitch effect the second time around on top)...it messed with me big time Also if you can tell Rocksmith to keep the hand position the same from that 12-8 it would also be nice, it shifts down a half step just for that 8...it creates a blue shifty mess, and I bet that can hurt some scores. A tip here is to count in RR 123 123 123 12 12. Speed it up 5% at a time, and dont jip yourself, only move on once you get 100% each time. Also be aware that it goes from the high note to the open string and back on the beat of the note. The chorus is what gave me the most trouble on this song, I'm going to look at it again with some rest. I feel like there is an easier way to play that. I will transpose it out and see what I come up with. Also I really cant give tips if I dont know what is tripping everyone up, so if you want em.......you gotta speak up, or else I will only touch on what's getting to me. but this current version gets a 7 in difficulty, whoever made this for intermediate hates the intermediate players

@@albatross213 *hands the ball to LeBron James on his way home, LeBron proceeds to slam dunk the ball* http://s24.postimg.org/7cy8a6ihx/2015_06_09_00003.jpg

First plays: http://i62.tinypic.com/jrf913.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/2pqo01w.jpg Perhaps a 100% score in the next days... I was waiting for some slide parts but that it's ok too. Also noted the 21 E fret instead of 22 ( Y U NO 24 frets guitar ?? :P) And Mega's song is going to have lots of RR... http://i61.tinypic.com/fkm89v.jpg

some great scores in the beginner class this week. looks like i have to push myself a bit more than this. :blink: rhythm: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/713039707354991264/18CFF417926199C7CC5DA708F3FAAE83A23EE0E2/ lead: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/713039707354972992/06BC8D4085D9A1F7ABAB0BF6958775687FB0BE1E/

This may sound weird, but maybe you need to try going a bit slower, at least for a bit. While I certainly spend more time at the faster speeds in RR, I feel like the slower speeds are probably more important in terms of understanding and deconstructing the riffs and figuring out how I'll attack them at faster speeds (which is why I really appreciate customs that have lots of sections, as otherwise I tend to get impatient sitting through stuff at 50% speed that I already know I can do. This makes score attack much harder, but I think I've found a workaround by making lots of sections in a bonus arrangement while the main arrangement has relatively few). Anyway, here's an example of me working on a riff on one of my customs that's within my technical abilities (neither hand has to go at ridiculous speeds, it doesn't require crazy long legato, or tapping, or slap and pop, a totally flummoxing plucking pattern, or something like that), but still quite tricky at full speed. For something I'd need a new (or improved) technique for, I'd do much more practice at slow speeds, like I mentioned doing for that one section of the Orion solo last week. Anyway, I tried to put some commentary into the video description so you can follow along with what I'm trying to do at different points in the video. I probably should just get a decent webcam at some point so I can do it verbally and you can actually see me trying out different things at 50% speed.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/544154344558517830/B85DA114147528D43219D8EAB257186A2666ABBB/ Megadeth

http://i59.tinypic.com/2hs5aww.png 2nd try.. too bad the nice streak wasn't accompanied by a nice percentage of notes hit :P

http://s15.postimg.org/cy92sh4cr/2015_06_09_00008.jpg I still give it about a 7, and heres why: That chorus is very dynamic, and while I know the notes, I still dont have the muscle memory for the song. I couldnt even hope for someone with a more than basic level to understand or see what needs to be played. They would just see 6 9 6 7 10 2 4 5 4 5 7 9 7 6 9 etc...Wanting to know what the numbers mean...String skipping should be a new concept, not a basic requirement. The Bridge, okay so yes, it is o2 oo on the D and G with E going 0 3 2 1, but if you get lost on that 0 3 2 1 on the E...good luck coming back. IF you dont want your score to die just focus on the o2 oo until it is second nature, then do that with the 0 3 2 1 After mastering songs like Twist and Shout and Connection, this should not be the next step in difficulty. I know Dead-end friends is much harder than this, but i do feel like these are both solid Advanced songs... Now with that said... This is a great goal song for Intermediate players, its a great taste of techniques and ideas that are basic requirements in Advanced. While this may be out of the range for some Intermediate players. They all should shoot to master this song someday.

http://oi61.tinypic.com/5wxah4.jpg Highscore.. but screwed up the end :/

Wow...what a jump... http://s12.postimg.org/vm7x50nn1/2015_06_09_00004.jpg If I do a run like that again I might remove @@Mortalo 's quote from my sig

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/544154344556341567/A139FCF6F6B743BC372239A5F2692594814E16F4/ Not sure how I scored this high. It did not feel like it at all. Song is tough...

Dead End Friends on bass is up to 85% but still feels like a random note generator on the last third. I decided to try something easier just for fun and got over 98% on Goodnight Moon bass on my 2nd and 3rd attempts. I've got a sinking feeling that working on songs that are too far over my head does more harm than good because I can't learn them and build up my speed in one week, so I make do with sloppy as long as I get a valid score.

hey all, no scores from me this week :) spending the time in a new custom, and be happy, new FISHBONE cdlc is coming, this time a metal song. Who thinks knowing them after a few songs can be surprised again and again, and that's cool. I'm still sitting at the tabs, but most work is been done.

Finally manage to reach 90%. http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Dead%20end%20Friends%209069_zpssae9nkrx.jpg

Hi Guys, had a friend that loves Queen so i did this for him this morning :) Have a great day ! Jerry

Yet one update score for Megadeth: http://i.imgur.com/9R1RJ28l.jpg

@Gamut Classical system of practice mean a lot of repetition of simple basic techniques from which to build complex technique. And even professional always continue practiced on the base. I practiced in Aikido about 10 years, and know exactly how it work. if you have not perfect basic technique you can not have even good advanced technique. Аnd even when you have reached good advanced technique, you should praсtice with basic always, else you advanced techniques dilapidated If to say about guitar, all complex technique it is the mix of basic technique + speed up, all you need is to train every components to perfect state, step by step. So no point to try jumping over 2 meter, if you can not jumping over 1.5m. And especially no point practice in jumping over 2 m, if can not pass 1.5 m. Off course is possibility pass 1.5 with bad row of steps, from wrong position, but then you very fast riched gap, and you still have to go back to start for relearn basic.

2hrs in RR for +3% :(. More scotch may be needed to loosen my fingers a little more. http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/z14clmhxt4rpshw/221680_2015-06-09_00001.png?dl=0

@@2groggy - I think you can make do with trying to play songs at practically any skill level (though trying stuff way beyond your skill level probably is more frustrating than useful) 1) Play stuff that I'd call "below my skill level" in Rocksmith and record myself. I've done it straight through the Realtone cable into Audacity, but it would probably be better with more and better recording equipment. Anyway, the goal is to not just hit the notes (which is basically what Rocksmith gets) but to also try to get right on rhythm while sounding right in terms of sustains, syncopation, and so on. An example of this that I've done is here (this is pretty much raw - I didn't use the compressor or EQ or anything). The song is one that I can pretty much 100% on command in Rocksmith, but you'll notice there are many places throughout where I don't sound good for various reasons, and this was my best recording after a few tries (done ~3 weeks ago, I think). 2) Play stuff that's a little beyond my skill level, or at a reasonably high skill level that I'm very unfamiliar with. This is basically the part of being in masterclass that happens behind the curtain. You see our screenshots and our playthrough videos, but you don't see the hours that we put into riff repeater so that we don't feel like we're embarrassing ourselves. I mentioned this last week with Orion, how for a single section of the bass solo I probably riff repeated at least 100 times starting from an incredibly slow speed before I felt like I could nail it whenever it comes. The fill shortly after the 40s mark in my video above was similar. Same goes for the tapping section after 2:40 (though I can't nail these on command yet). It's definitely less enjoyable (and probably not feasible time-wise) if you feel like you have to do it for the whole damn song, but there's nothing wrong with just picking a few sections out and working on them in RR and gradually increasing the maximum speed that you can comfortably play them at, even if you never get up to 100% speed.

@@then3verend - Thanks for helping fix my problems! http://i.imgur.com/ODfcTjH.jpg Ball's in your court now. Edit: Video Oddly enough, I think I was tensest during the parts between the first chorus and second verse.

Update score lead Megadeth: http://i.imgur.com/LHBGVXkl.jpg P.s previous run was with very good streak 392, i almost good learned arpeggio at verse. So i sure, that almost every of int participants can learn it in RR. But still yet have problem with shifting at chorus, often lost fret position, and main source "miss" for me, it is post solo part, with open strings and hammer on. http://i.imgur.com/0orrM0Am.jpg

Hi, Guys I got another Beatles tune completed The Beatles - From Me To You - 1963 - L, R, B & V if anyone wants to give it a try. The first of there songs to feature there trademark unison Woo-o-o sound that drove all the gal's wild. Steve, I will give the Free tune a go this evening along with this one and check them both out. The Bass line to this Beatles tune looks like one of the easiest ones I have ever seen, I think even I can get a 100% on it - easy. Later, Terry

Metal FISHBONE? Will it be the 1st FISHBONE tune that I will like? :P

@@2groggy et. all: I think doing stuff above your skill level is a really critical part of improving. Not too far ahead, but just enough to spur on "a-ha!" moments. Getting better is all about playing the songs that are a notch or two above where you're at, and figuring out how to close the gap. Of course, there's nothing wrong with playing easy stuff for pleasure, I do that all the time too. But if you're bulking up at the gym, you don't get bigger by doing the same amount every day - the majority of your practice time should be spent pushing your limits.

This Was My Life is not that difficult. Solo is simple, and chorus is not that bad either. In comparison I felt that Dead End HappyTree Friends is way above my skills and I won't be able to tackle it. @@2groggy Just like albatross said, go to RR and play it at slower speed. Build it up, maybe you'll reach moment when it's too fast to you, then you'll knew that it's moment to try something else. You can possibly play anything at correct slow speed. But as Motive said, it can be boring to do so, and will take more time then play few songs on your level. Here in Championship we try to push you, thus we're trying to level you up soon, bu we understand that it can be of high value to try easier songs, as everytime you play, you improve.

@@then3verend In original cdlc and in all tabs that i see, this part transposed to 2-6 fret at high strings, and it have a bit less shifting. But at live video by Megadeth and cover video in one of previous my post, it played as it is now in cdlc. And this parts sounds more good at thick strings.

Just a little improvement http://i.imgur.com/yL6m1id.jpg

This is going to take a lot of RR. Almost got the first riff down @ 70% speed but at 100%, it all turns to shite. I'll be happy if i can get to 90% by the end of the week. http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/q29xjvq4w38ejoh/221680_2015-06-08_00002.png?dl=0

Rockabilly Song Pack – $11.99 / SteamBrian Setzer “Rock This Town (2010)” – "XBL" / SteamCarl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” – "XBL" / SteamGene Vincent and His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” – "XBL / SteamRicky Nelson “Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)” – "XBL / SteamQueen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” – "XBL" / SteamThanks to Antithez, MVega, todtod for bringing us these songs first. Read more at our partner website : The Riff Repeater

Also, If you use the report function, with an explanation any staff member can delete one for you.

Awesome, Jerry And thanks for checking out the Beatles - A Hard Day's Night the other day. I finally got them posted to CF last night. Later, Terry

Thanks @@albatross213, @@Gamut and @@Mortalo, I probably spend an hour a day in RR at about 80% speed trying to work the kinks out of the advanced bass track for the week. I try to get to the point of near zero misses before speeding it up in small steps. My difficulty is that the time limit forces me to step up to full speed before my skill level is ready. I'm afraid of reinforcing sloppy habits.

@ Don't be ridiculous. Combat Baby is really, really difficult song. For Intermediate at least. We added Advanced class because we felt that Intermediate was filling way too wide gap. You could level up from Beginner with not complicated From Our Hands - Sinners and get to play The Trooper next week. Or level up from Intermediate with Pour Some Sugar On Me and play War Pigs following week. So we added Advanced to ease the progression to MasterClass. Thus we allowed some easier songs to Intermediate, while taking the high end Int's and low end MC's to separate class. Still it's not a shame to struggle with a song in your class. Ba, I should even say that that's the goal. After all if you can handle song in your class, you should go up.

Funfact by the way. The girl from Mercy video is Matts new girlfriend :D If you want to see her naked go check this: hahah :D Thanks for Defector update. Ill test later ;)

Just finished up my favorite Free song: Free - Fire and Water (Live) for lead only. Full of nice, bluesy power chords and a wicked solo with a bunch of multi-string bends. If you give it a try, let me know what you think.

Defector V1.5 http://i.imgur.com/e7lw4CS.jpg Dist tone changed with less treblemuted notes correctedquick changes during solo.​ Let me know what you guys think. :D

Message me the link and I will delete it for you. You cannot delete your own cdlc. We will have that feature for you in the next version of ignition!

my setup is plugin drums usb to pc then get midi-ox then go to options http://s7.postimg.org/a9xwf8zu3/midi_ox1.png then midi devices http://s1.postimg.org/4pm2yg86n/midi_ox2.png then select your midi input and output http://s21.postimg.org/sf7wmobd3/midi_ox.png then open coolsoft virtual midi synth select you output audio device i use my digtech rp355 http://s14.postimg.org/opv5l9pz5/coolsoft.png then plug rs cable to left mono audio output to pc then i could play drums and plugin my guitar to peddle the song i did was rush - how it is andd tune it to all EEEEEE so when i got to tune i just hit the bass drum and six string is open so i go to my drum and set my bass midi note to 40/E1 and so on

I don't know if it will work for you but I had a similar problem when RS turned down the level of the sone after some time without playing it, what i found out by merely accident is opening riff repeater, maxin the song out to 100%, resume the song and after that press ESc and restart it, after that I didn't have that issue, it won't stop leveling down if you're really bad at the song, but you won't have to level up every time you play the song or haven'r played it in a while and levels down

@ I can give the version a test if you want. I love testing cdlc and working to make them better.

Thanks to all for feedback and help. Nice work in team :) I sure there is yet is big room for improvement, but most of not for my skill. Sorry, that high skill players not involved there. Anyway this interesting track, enough ready for practice. if anyone want continue improve this one there link to EOF file @@albatross213 no it was my fault, i was fooled off beat drum there, and tried to set beatmap to drum, it was wrong. All bass drum there between notes (at guitars).

Finally fixed beatmap at first of half verse, i hope now we can start hard practice. This was my stupid fault, notes was shifted just about at half of beat together with beatmap. Bass seated right, so at bass was impossible to see issue. I`m very sorry. Link to updated cdlc 2.4 Megadeth

+ lead... http://i61.tinypic.com/2wdzrzc.jpg

Sorry, but there yet one updated 2.3 cdlc Megadeth --> Fixed one wrong note in lead at chorus, and sifted two notes in bass to another position (at trick part, after solo part)

first tries on the deth :) http://i57.tinypic.com/jae5hl.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/dc555j.jpg

@@bokkiej I hope we enough mastered this one for recording not shameful video :) Thanks for nice cdlc. My score for bass: http://i.imgur.com/1dLEqMSl.jpg

wow, this one is way out of my league, i would need a month to get a decent score.. i was actually surprised of this 81% on the first run http://i58.tinypic.com/2il1tc.png well, at least i'm not dropping out of class this week :P

A bit harder than last week. http://oi58.tinypic.com/11brbdt.jpg

-= weekly leaderboard update =- players listed: 111 (109) leader changes: @@then3verend - Mc bass on fire: @@Nacholede - 73 Pts Mc lead @@Van-Blurten - 73 Pts Int bass CONGRATULATIONS!!! players falling off the boards for not scoring in 10 weeks: @@Gun in the Water @@Laro http://i58.tinypic.com/spgnxv.jpg Have a great week everyone!