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MC Lead: http://i.imgur.com/5FI4AmN.png Good song to practice with. Pretty difficult indeed, got some fatigue but overall this was pretty fun :D May upload a youtube video of this soon.

Looking forward to week 100 - excited about what we will see... I'd also be soooo happy if I could pull off Hanuman at a decent level - it is a bit out of my league. Here are my results (having problem linking directly to images in Flicker - here comes the links): Bass https://flic.kr/p/xQJ8MM Rythm https://flic.kr/p/xQzMsf

http://i.imgur.com/npibmkq.jpg This is one of my favorite songs in or out of Rocksmith. I've had it downloaded for ages, but the best I could manage before this week was around 72%, and I haven't tried in ages (since before starting the championship I think). My initial run this week was around 91% though, so I'd say I've made some pretty solid improvements over the past two or three months. I spent the last few days working in RR when I had time, mostly on that one section toward the end. I can play it in isolation perfectly at 90% fairly consistently, 95% occasionally perfect or usually missing 1-4 notes, but at full speed it's still kind of a mess, especially in a full playthrough. The rest of the song I have pretty well under my fingers at full speed, but consistency in a score attack run obviously isn't quite there yet. And I actually hit exactly 95.87% on three runs in a row just now, with different scores/multipliers/streaks each time (this one is the most recent and highest streak), so I think I've probably plateaued for the evening. I plan on working on it more tomorrow, but just in case I don't get around to it (or don't manage to secure a better score before the early cutoff), I wanted to get my screenshot uploaded now. I'm not sure what exactly is planned for the big 100, but it'll have to be a short week for me regardless. I'll be out of town from Friday until the beginning of October, and I'm not sure how much time I'll have to play between packing and getting other stuff done before I leave. That also means I'll be out for the entirety of Week 101 unfortunately. So just in case I'm completely MIA for the next two weeks: Congratulations on keeping this going for almost two full years now, and thanks for all the work everyone puts in each week :D I've had a lot of fun participating and have definitely been exposed to a ton of songs I probably never would have even listened to if not for this competition, much less tried to play myself.

Some improvement today: http://i.imgur.com/TQX9WR8.jpg Fatigue is sadly starting to take hold, and my playing has been getting progressively sloppier after this one. I'll give it another shot later maybe.

Okay, I was like, "one more try before I go out for the night!" and it was a good idea because I sucked a lot less at that riff even though I made a lot more random mistakes everywhere else. http://i.imgur.com/cRbGana.jpg

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=520525875I don't wanna leave Adv bass :fearful:

Managed to break 90% and with that I'm happy with my score. http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Hanuman%209051_zpsoyei9yrg.jpg

Thanks @Mortalo! The championships are still somewhat new to me (even thought this has been around for almost 2 years) but I guess I'll finally join in on the fun haha

@@albatross213 I stop RR, check position and play this chord by chord, play very slow with checking strings sounds, step by step increase speed ~20-39 min (i have not more patience), then check progress in RR, if progress enough for one day, play total a song, and repeat all this every day, else again stop RR and repeat all row actions. If i very like a song, and chords really hard, do same, yet play without RS14 (guitar is offline), this changing chords and watch TV (films), a lot time. (Same for some arpeggios or solo) P.s. If i unlike a song and have not enough progress i make post there that a song bad, or this is not adv level difficult :) Pp.s For great a song, yet play this phrase with metronome(drums) via zoom g3x(start with low speed, step by step inc), like it was with one a song by Megadeth. (Real temp to got via tap function.)

When I'm learning new chords, I try to compare it to a chord I already know. Often something new will use the same shape as something old, or just has one different fingering. If it's something completely new to me, I pay close attention to what Rocksmith says I should be doing with my fingers (the #1-4 that appears on the frets on the UI), though sometimes I'll do it my own way since I favour my ring finger a lot. Chord transitions are probably the hardest thing to get the hang of. The most useful advice is the most general: as with just about anything musical, it's really important to slow down and do the transition at a tempo you can do it cleanly, then work your way up to speed. The more specific advice I have on transitions is - try to be as efficient as possible with your movements. I find that when I was starting out on guitar, I moved my fingers a lot unnecessarily, wasted a lot of energy and time, and negatively impacted my tone. Being efficient usually requires a little premeditation and the method varies from riff to riff. In Hanuman for example, the riff I was having the most trouble with became very easy when I realised that I could fret a minor chord shifted up one string, and then just shift the whole shape down a fret halfway through. Before that I was trying to hit each individual note in the arpeggio and was struggling hard, but once I figured this out I was barely moving my hand and hitting every note. That is way more words than I was expecting to write. I hope that was helpful.

Just enough for the lead :) http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198116793064/screenshot/424818461509050141

@@albatross213 there's like 10 chord shapes you need for 95% of the songs. The other 5% are Hendrix,QoTSA , and others. Learn those, and yer good. Oh, I just thought my name got really mad :P

just a bit of improvement before week 100!!! cocker: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/429322061131717713/2640C9E2B7621737305931C0869781E9DD00ACA3/ jackson: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/429322061131718365/7B9BAEF16B71F30E0E0DDDD93153A44F9C5C5826/

Hey everyone! I've been wanting to create a tutorial like this for some time, and I finally got around to it :) Hopefully some of you will find it helpful, and feel free to leave any questions or comments you may have: For further insights into using the spectrogram, you can refer to @@albatross213 's post here (sorry for the numeric dyslexia when I mentioned your name in the video). Also, would anyone like to see any other EoF- based tutorials? If so, which topics would be the most helpful to you? Let me know here

Oh, you weasel! I'm coming back with a 95.5!

@@albatross213 wish you were here is beautiful for beginners. Some basic chords and shapes.

^ Moved to Help & Support section.

Excellent and thx for adding it. @@Lovroman - thx for the explanation and showing a workaround - with having it in both (renaming and setlist) it's more flexible as you might add the tuning to the filename if one prefers a different taxonomy for their customs.

I know what you mean with that. I was playing Star Chords (level 5, I think) and it took me a while before I realized that for transitioning between the C and Am chord all I had to do was move my ring from A3 to G2, I think. Before that I'd freak out and start fingering each chord from scratch. A similar thing happened for the interlude in I Want You Back, where for most of those chord changes I could slide a mini-barre around and move one other finger. I still feel like I really suck at Star Chords, especially now that there are no power chords, but it seems to actually be pretty good practice. Would be more useful if you could select which chords would show up (and not be eligible for leaderboards), but that would be too convenient.

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@@albatross213 i) Practice - playing songs ii) Practice - playing songs (or I don't uderstand the question...) "I have trouble either cramming all of the fingers into the itty-bitty frets" Maybe because they were childs when they made that song, so they had smaller hands.

Well, I've been giving "I Want You Back" a go on rhythm, and except for the chorus, I guess it's going OK. The interlude was pretty tricky for me, but I was able to do pretty well on it after slowing it way down in RR and getting used to the chord patterns and the transitions between them before speeding things back up. Still some room for improvement there, but... http://i.imgur.com/putSw5F.jpg But I don't really know where to begin with practicing the chorus. I have trouble arpeggiating those chords even when I have all the time in the world when looking at the chord book (speaking of which, the fingering on many of these chords is totally fucked. Unless the charter has a very uniquely shaped 255th finger) because I have trouble either cramming all of the fingers into the itty-bitty frets or if I try to fret multiple strings with one finger I usually inadvertently mute another string. Which I guess brings me to a broader question: when practicing a song that has new chords, i) how do you guys familiarize yourself with those chords and ii) how do you prepare yourself for the transitions between chords? I can deal with power chords pretty well (obviously), but when it comes to assuming more complex chord positions and then swiftly changing between them I'm pretty lost. And there's still a lot I still have to learn with regards to right hand technique, though I'm slowly getting better. Lastly, @@then3verend and @@Nacholede are mods :blink:

@@Unleashed2k I play in this. And have some fun, but only bcs of now no new good games, with stealth which i very like. 1. History in compare with MGS1-4 bad. (I refund my money after first chapter, it was so disappointed, but then buy again, bcs of like stealth and close my eyes at bad history.) 2. Stealth in compare with Deus Ex, Splinter Cell more bad (AI very stupid and slow, no any punish for fail, only turn to action mode where i`m terminator, and yet can not jump(and climb) from roof (mounts) and shock some enemy) 3. Action in compare with CoD more bad (AI again stupid and very slow and BB have a tons health, like terminator no any challenge). Once i was blown at nade and my c4 and not die, wtf :) 4. Missions in compare with Witcher 3 more bad, a lot copy-past, same location, same target - so boring. Sorry :)

Hi Terry, My current primary bass is a Fender Squire PJ, (Has both Progressive and Jazz Pickups with a Jazz Neck) I love the thing, paid $150.00 for it. I also have a POS no name Pbass I hate :( pickups are ass and the thing sounds like it.. This Fender Made In Mexico (MIM) is (when Restored) in the ballpark of 600-800 on the used Fender scene. Fender Made in America(MIA) go for anywhere between 1200-2000. Depends on condition and year. Fender started shipping work to Mexico from California, and the craftsmanship was superb. They then wanted to try and speed up production and cut costs and allow for an new Series of guitars, and started the Squire Line. This started in Japan, moved to Taiwan briefly then Indonesia. Along the way craftsmanship, wood types and pickups all took a back seat to mass produced entry level gear. All that being said I love my PJ, and will never part with it. And I do believe the old add age that its not the quality of the arrow its the Indian behind the Bow that matters most ;) Jerry

I just gave a go at sectioning and generating the .psarc myself... When I tried using the 8 level ramp up model, I got weird results. After choosing the song (but before choosing to play it), there was a weird flickering with the DD bars, then in game the DD bars didn't show up. I was unable to change the difficulty as well (I may have done this for the whole song, but it's also possible I did it in the beginning where there weren't difficulty levels yet). When I tried using ddc_default, things worked pretty well (it seemed like the leveling up was mostly restricted to the chorus, maybe because of small variations in things). Here's a screenshot of me at the end of the song after starting at zero difficulty on bass: http://i.imgur.com/gCOHE1w.jpg So, I don't really know what's going on with the 8 level ramp-up model, but it seems the default one works fine. The folder with the EoF stuff and resulting .psarcs (the DD one is ddc_default generated, phrase lenght of 4) is here if anyone wants to play around with it.

lol Drop Q Tuning

http://i.imgur.com/2D4k2fG.jpg Was having trouble matching my 92 run for a while but I just managed this. I think I can do a lot better at the riff I'm getting strikes on but I'm not going to have any more time to get higher this week.

@@jbroch Hi, Jerry Last year I found a Fender Squire Precision Bass, a Fallout Boy Pete Winch design, pretty sure it's a mexico or Korean, but not positive. For right at $100.00 on sale at Circuit City - I think - of all places. I do like it but I am no Bass expert. Bought it for my wife and tried to get her on RockSmith with me, but no luck she hasn't even touched it. :D And pretty sure she never will, but hey I like playing it. Later, Terry

ADV lead Not enough time to practice :/

What I mean by grander tempo changes is, say you have a song where in the middle it speeds up from 95 BPM to 190 BPM, instead of something not so big like 95 to 97 - which is usually just human error or accent. Regarding anchors and beat markers, the very first beat marker is special, you can use it to shift the whole beat chart, and it is anchored. The ones after that, you can tweak by dragging and dropping to sync a song, and once you have it in the best spot, it applies an anchor to keep it there. You can remove it again by pressing 'a' when selected with a right click. To answer your question, yes, I believe that's normal. In the picture below, you can see I have set minor BPM changes by dragging and dropping, which applies an anchor, at the beginning of preverse1 and preverse2 - the values are slightly different. Whereas, here, I have halved the BPM at the 11th bar using the Halve BPM function: I would recommend, when first setting-up your track try to find the closest BPM for your track (in my case above, it is about 235), and then sync the song every bar or two, or whatever you feel makes your song great. The anchors will help you to not mess-up what you have already spent time syncing. I hope this makes it more clear.

Terry, Wow thanks for digging up all the happenings, but to be honest, hanging out with you and jamming together sounds like the most fun thing to do for me. I will have a Rental car and I am about 30 Mins away from Dallas. so that's not too shabby. Hell maybe we can get your wife to shoot video of us rocking out LOL Jerry

You use dropbox as a host, so it's almost never too late. If you go to dropbox.com and log in to your account (I don't think you can do this in the folders on your computer, but I'm not 100% sure) and navigate to the folder that it's in, next to the search there should be an option to show deleted files, which you can then restore if you'd like (unless you've decided to permanently delete them). If you've overwrittten a file by accident there's also an option to restore previous versions of that file. Dropbox has saved my ass in the past, so I know what you can do with it :D but that's not the problem. I don't use dropbox to save my eof backups. The psarc v1.0 is still on my computer, but not the old xml files nor the backup.eof. Overwritten with the new saves. If I had still the old eof or xml I could implement the old version as bonus track, but now you have to decide for one of them. Ok, the v1.0 psarc is back on Dropbox

You use dropbox as a host, so it's almost never too late. If you go to dropbox.com and log in to your account (I don't think you can do this in the folders on your computer, but I'm not 100% sure) and navigate to the folder that it's in, next to the search there should be an option to show deleted files, which you can then restore if you'd like (unless you've decided to permanently delete them). If you've overwrittten a file by accident there's also an option to restore previous versions of that file. Dropbox has saved my ass in the past, so I know what you can do with it :D

May I asked: How did you solve the hanging issue when going over the song exactly? I have the same issue, but could not solve it until... Thanks in advance :-) Well you open the Rocksmith Custom Toolkit, you import the psarc. Then you have to select the arrangement. There you change the tuning frequency and the tuning if necessary.

what you thinking of? i could be if need......