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100 weeks ago, on Smithy's Anvil, Organizers of Rocksmith 2012 Championship decided to move on to Rocksmith 2014. Few months later, when Anvil died, they moved to CustomForge. Unfortunately, @@Kaijin was forced to make a break, and he left the Championship in hands of @@Joey. But with each coming week @@Joey had less time, so he asked participants for a help. @ answered the call to help him with Organizing the Championship, and to be honest, if he didn't, I would. So I was really happy that he took the job and gave me few more weeks of normal participating. Cause finally @@Joey had to step down, and I knew that it is my time. Last but not least was @@Rodman, with his idea of Rankings (honestly, I didn't liked that idea :lol: , but it turned out quite funny ) and he joined us in the battle of better tomorrow (or something like that). Well, nostalgia no more.. Let's start week 100! READ THIS FIRST =>> How and Why to Join the Championships Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules Last weeks winners: Lead: Beginner: @@albatross213 Intermediate: N/A Advanced: @@joedoe Masterclass: @@Nacholede Rhythm: Beginner: N/A Intermediate: @@koffein Advanced: @@Rodman Masterclass: @@Nacholede Bass: Beginner: @@slooker Intermediate: N/E Advanced: @@NoonyDeloony Masterclass: @@then3verend Congrats to all the winners. Honorably mentioned are @@albatross213 and @@then3verend for achieving 100% on MC bass. @@then3verend made a for you to enjoy. (I wan't spoil it for you ;) ) The songs for this week are: Lead Path: On week 50, we played the French Elvis, this time I wanted to give you the One and Only, King Himself - Elvis Presley, in an all time classic Jailhouse Rock. Beginner: Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (chosen by The King of Rock'n'Roll ) (blackbirddh's version) Pink Floyd is one of the most important rock band's in history, so we just had to have them here. In one of their best songs, with David Gilmour's best solo, and of the best in music - Comfotably Numb! Intermediate: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (chosen by @@Kaijin ) Kill'Em'All was an album that defined Thrash Metal (and you're really fortunate having all three Organizers being Thrash Metalheads :lol: ). Coming from this album is one of Metallica's biggest hits - Seek and Destroy - the perfect example of tru Thrash! Advanced: Metallica - Seek and Destroy (chosen by Headbangeeerrrsss ) (AnotnZap's version, which was inspired by robogranny's, which was inspired by glen's) The best rock band of all time? Led Zeppelin. Best song? Stairway to Heaven. Best solo? Stairway to Heaven. So here we go with Stairway to Heaven in the best possible version - live! Masterclass: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (live) (chosen by rhetorical question ) (PC Plum's live version) Rhythm Path: Beginner: Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock Intermediate: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Advanced: Metallica - Seek and Destroy Slash is one of the most iconic rock guitarists. Haha, it's hard to write anything, after all rhythm is not what Slash plays, but it is what he composed and it is one tricky guitar line, so let's set - World on Fire Masterclass: Slash - World on Fire (chosen by guitar frenzy ) Bass Path: Beginner: Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock Intermediate: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Advanced: Metallica - Seek and Destroy Not enough Led Zeppelin? Here ya go! What Stairway to Heaven is to Jimmy Page, Lemon Song is to John Paul Jones. One of the greatests bass lines man composed - The Lemon Song. Masterclass: Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song (chosen by masochist bassists ) Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10). Honorable list Diehard Member: Playing in their class 4 weeks in row, one pass allowed: albatross213 in MC bass pathavsrick in INT bass pathAzrael in ADV rhythm pathBentron in ADV bass pathBruce Force in INT rhythm pathChoaralaone in MC bass pathfranfit in BEG lead, rhythm pathsGamut in ADV lead pathgenobadass in ADV bass pathJambi in BEG lead pathkoffein in INT lead, rhythm, ADV bass pathsLatsch in MC rhythm pathMaZtoR in ADV lead, rhythm pathsmissis sumner in ADV bass pathMonstaS4 in INT lead pathMortalo in INT lead path@Nacholede in MC lead pathNoonyDeloony in ADV bass path@pijawa2000 in ADV lead pathPsymanski in ADV bass pathqueengeedorah in ADV bass pathRodman in INT lead, ADV rhythm, bass pathsslooker in BEG bass paththen3verend in MC rhythm, bass pathsTong in ADV lead path@TrbInTrbIn in MC rhythm pathVan-Blurten in INT bass path Honorable list FreeBird Member: Participating as a FreeBird, without a class ;) 2groggyfrippchenMotiveHave an awesome week!

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/th_Jailhouse%20Rock%2091_zpsiyinmng4.jpg http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/th_Jailhouse%20Rock%20Rhythm%2089_zps5ok1mdwh.jpg http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/th_Comfortably%20numb%2082_zpsdhsj99uc.jpg http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/th_Comfortably%20numb%20Rhythm%2088_zpsd7vra22g.jpg http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/th_Seek%20and%20Destroy%20Rhythm%2092_zpsvh7csplv.jpg http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/th_Stairway%20to%20heaven%2068_zpskud0puca.jpg

Kept you waiting, huh? http://i.imgur.com/6RKUs05.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MMnMZz0.jpg

>Be Me >Held the Bass #1 Rank since who knows when >Plans to be a freebird at 7 am tomorrow >Albatross has the higher score >wait >be known for last second posts >Who the hell wakes up at 7 am on a saturday? >nobody >wait until albatross is asleep >mission is a go >Post new score >http://oi58.tinypic.com/2ykywsj.jpg >win >#LastWin

First out. http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Seek%20and%20Destroy%2088_zpsuln0hfst.jpg

and that's a good plan so we have proper and good Songs in all classes and paths. And we have week 100 only one time.

We played Stairway to Heaven (though not live version) on week 17. We played World on Fire on week 60 and Lemon Song on week 74. I decided to use this songs only because I wanted something really cool this week, and I would use other past played songs to fill other gaps, but fortunately there were none. And I wanted different song for MC bass this week, but couldn't get good quality version of it, so had to go with plan B (and I'm quite sad about that, as that bass song was great and I don't like Lemon Song :( ). There was only one instance when participant was allowed song that we already played. That was Hotel California - but it was played in dark ages and I couldn't say no to @@missis sumner. Though I use songs from the past as an emergency replacement (when song is too hard, or there is something terribly wrong with it) or when, again, I don't want to one class had no song two times in a row. But I try to keep it to absolute minimum.

Oh my god.. Seek an destroy... My most fav 'tallica track by far.. Never dared to try to play that one so far (!) Just ended up with my first rhy adv win... I fear not gonna happen this week again, but lets c... Very good aniversary song selection, m8! To the next 100, i'd say! Have one helluva week!

This might be too late http://s13.postimg.org/cldx699xj/2015_09_15_00001.jpghttp://s18.postimg.org/3lwimat55/2015_09_15_00002.jpghttp://s24.postimg.org/6nowsa93p/2015_09_16_00001.jpg

This was just for fun (not for any class). Ended up liking the song plenty! :D http://i.imgur.com/A1yRtL2.jpg

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

I was on a roll today so why not? :lol: http://s11.postimg.org/l6wa3pd9v/2015_09_19_00002.jpg Intermediate Lead - 90%, 39 streak I almost mastered the chord part. Though solo is where the battle will take place :) Advanced Lead - 93%, streak 198 I played other versions (they do not differ much) a lot and it's not my best. That part before solo, was always killing me in Guitar Hero. Nothing has changed :( MasterClass Lead - 75%, 37 streak That felt like Jimmy Page! :lol: Haha, everytime when I hit this hybrid-picked chords I feel like lord of the universe. Most of the song is insane, even this Am7s gives me trouble. At least the power chord section is easy :P

@@Nacholede It's good that you have working guitar. Or should I say - it's bad for your opponents :lol:

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

http://i.imgur.com/S4jaiCf.jpg First play to see it off. Never heard of it before. Cool song. Also! I'm maybe recording a video?!?!?! :open_mouth: For the first time in months! :open_mouth: Because I finally fixed my laptop!! http://i.imgur.com/FKB9sbu.jpg?1 Are you all ready to see my sexy self miss all the licks at at Out of the Black MM?! :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

@@Mortalo - You dealt with that a lot more tactfully than I would have! Anyway, if you ever need work on a bass chart, let me know and I'll see what I can do. And I'm sure @@bernixix would also be happy to help out or offer suggestions. So if you need anything for next week, now's the time to ask! And I should probably get to work on this week's songs. Should be a lot to keep me busy!

Welcome to the wonderful world of custom making :D It's not wasted time, it's all part of the learning process. You'll be better next time.

Nice one @Nacholede! and just 1 try o.o

just checked and found my first go around was week 51. looking forward to week 100 and than week 103! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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.

@@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.)

@@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.

Now I'm not going to RUSH to any conclusions, but I would guess Mortalo was WORKING on making that bass happen MAN

I was traveling all week and couldn't bring a bass. I'm planning to build a travel bass, but it will take a while. So today's scores are hampered by fat finger syndrome. Jailhouse Rock - after score attack, I must have pressed the wrong key instead of [F12] because the screen shot is nowhere to be found. It was high 90s, no red "X" marks, but could still use some tidying up. Comfortably Numb - 96.45% and most of the errors seem to timing related. So I have a couple of things to work on this week, and a couple of ideas of how to offend the FreeBird Police.

Also on Songsterr you can download the Guitar Pro files of the songs, if you can find them there. I've also found a few on other sites by just googling: artist - title guitar pro. If there are really no tablatures there is no other option than getting a copy of Guitar Pro and charting it yourself from maybe text tablatures, a tablature book or recognizing the notes. Also I have to move this topic to 'Help & Support' since this forum to ask people to help you with some specific part of a CDLC like testing it. Maybe creating a tone for you.

http://www.songsterr.com/ You have to create an account to download the GP file, but they have some songs that UG don't.

The solo in this version seems a lot easier to play than the old version i had. Still lots of work to do here though: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/uare0s9f0j0b107/221680_2015-09-20_00001.png?dl=0 One of my all time faves. Apart from the solo, i can almost make it sound good! http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/yc6pplhvbkaqcjr/221680_2015-09-20_00002.png?dl=0

I had no idea this thread existed. So much concentrated funk in one convenient location. I'm all about the soul/funk and will be making regular contributions to the soul/funk basslines. Glad to be here guys.

List has been updated with the latest posts, including no less than 5 Stevie Wonder hits in 2 days! Special thanks to @@JamesPrestonUK and @@Anthem(0)

I will accept scores (for Championship Class Lists) for next few hours. So you can still post to save your DHM status.

Are you sure you're clicking on a different beat marker before adding each new section? By default when you open/create a project, the first beat marker (-->) is automatically selected. If you don't manually click on a different beat marker, all Rocksmith sections you place will be on the first beat marker instead of where you want them to be. The Info panel will indicate which beat marker is currently selected (with Beat = #).

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.

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

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

@@Sakata Welcome!

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.

@@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

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: