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Just a start... Comping in A Maj on bass - 99% I'll fix that when I get a moment. I played around with this on two weeks ago, so this wasn't my first time through it. Rip It Up on bass 97% by the second run through - I'll move on to something else

So, it turns out masterclass is hard. My first run through in LAS was somewhere in the low 60% range (didn't screenshot for obvious reasons), which was actually surprising given how horribly I played it. Where does Rags and Bones (just for bass) rank on the MC difficulty spectrum? I haven't done a full run through the song since, but I've more or less gotten everything up to 80-85% speed in RR, with a handful of misses here and there. Getting the main groove up to speed is going to take a lot of of work though. And even then, I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to hit 80% overall accuracy with the power chord sections killing my fretting hand as much as they do. Hopefully I can build up some endurance for that/stop fretting so hard by the end of the week though.

Adv bass: quite easy other than the intro. MC bass: http://i.imgur.com/H3D2xu4.jpgI could have sworn it said "picked" in the song selection screen, and I imagine it actually is picked (and... it looks like their bassist plays with a pick). Pretty tough with fingers between the chords and the one riff which makes for an awkard plucking pattern (second section and repeats). While I've gotten better at playing with a pick due to picking up guitar, I'd rather stick to my fingers unless people make me use one. Also, it's not beat synced. From what I saw it stayed pretty close most of the time so it wasn't as bad as some others, but it's kind of annoying (especially as a bassist) not to be able to rely on the visual representation of when you play with respect to the beats.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/30ijexs.jpg While commercially Anthrax did better than Testament, Testament is the 5th member of the Big 4 Thrash bands, no doubt... This is not their usual sound though, go listen to Practice What You Preach, they're a much more groove centered Thrash band, and Chuck has such a brutal and amazing voice that isnt apparent in this song at all... and the show i saw earlier this year was still kick ass, and probably the only Thrash band to get better with age(my opinion)

Cool tune, very like to play, sure there possible 100%, but not in the next few days, bcf of i got huge callus on the 4th finger. http://i.imgur.com/TORM7Gj.jpg

Alone In The Dark (Rhythm) Alone In The Dark (Bass) I'm not good enough for the solos in Lead. And apart from that...I wished Testament would be in the Big 4 instead of Anthrax. Just my personal opinion :D

This song feels more like a guitar exercise than an actual song to me. http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Rags%20and%20bones%2090_zpst48rkcna.jpg

Fun a song, but this chart with slides... http://i.imgur.com/qwTgU55.jpg Very good exercise, had a lot practice and of course i will continue. Strings skippin my weakness. http://i.imgur.com/hGjXoVW.jpg

I got a bunch of images incoming from guitar-land: Int lead: http://i.imgur.com/ktcmC03.jpgOk, so how the hell do I fret these two (first, second) chords? And there might have been some others I found weird. Anyway, outside of the intro chords and these chords I feel like this song isn't too hard, but I don't really know what I should be doing for these chords (the first I've been trying to use my thumb, and sometimes it's been good enough to get the chord "recognized", but I find it next to impossible to get my thumb there and my pinky on the D string without muting everything else). Adv lead. Should be able to improve upon this significantly with some practice. Should be good picking practice along the way, too. Adv rhy. Crappy since it was my first time through the song without any RR or anything. Can definitely improve. Not yet sure how I'd compare it in difficulty to Alison Hell from last week. MC lead: Uh, something must have been broken :huh:. Played immediately after playing rhythm. Got totally pwnt on the solo.

New stuff!! http://i.imgur.com/XbgP1Ff.jpg Been forever since I got a pick in, it's about time! :yum: This is some good old catchy radio rock. Some tricky chords for intermediate, but all the melodic bits are easy ear candy. When I suggested this I thought it was a really good chart but actually there are a couple tabbing errors in the chorus and break, if my ears aren't lying. The sync/tones are pretty good, though. http://i.imgur.com/grIaKOZ.jpg :no_mouth: Not sure how that came out of me. Restarted it once about twenty seconds after I got the hang of the hook, but other than that this was a completely blind sightread. This is definitely harder than Cholly, too... just plays to my strengths, I guess. Enjoyable song choice, super funky and really fun rhythms. I'll tune down for Testament later.

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Nice tune. http://i.imgur.com/neWshbu.jpg blues on bass (exercise) :) Thanks Frippchen, nice tool. http://i.imgur.com/Qsla9Wv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/K0mWA8F.jpg Need tons practice. http://i.imgur.com/lIgN3Yh.jpg

After another hour in RR, What You Know on bass is up to 99+% It's time to give the advanced and master class bass tunes a listen to see which seems like more fun.

@@Gamut @@albatross213 I think, normal easy play it possible with capo.

And I looped back to finish this off - Blues Comping in A Major = 100%

moving on to What You Know on bass. after an hour in RR, I'm up to 97%

I was a bit ill towards the end of last week, so didn't play very much. I feel a little better today though: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKMzRKRkN4dm5ob00/view?usp=sharing

Boom Boom Boom Exercise! Exercise: Blues Comping 1 in A major shuffle Don't be scared by that name. We decided to use @ as much as we can, so we're starting an exercise. It won't be a weekly challange and there won't be a winner. But it will be there so you can post scores and see your and others progression. Exercise won't fade away, so you'll be able to post scores as long as we'll be around. Here is the new Exercise Leaderboard. Have fun with that little activity!

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/387665671585934490/F0EBA9E7A512DDA518288DFA225F8340D3611024/ Elbow is slowly getting better. I'll be back in full force at some point.

That's a rough question tho... Personally i keep playing because of 2 things or even a few more i would say. 1. I love rock/metal music but that isn't as much motivation to keep playing more like a bonus to the other reasons. 2. I want to be prepared for the wedding of my older brother, so i can show off a little bit and surprise him. He won't know what's coming ! He doesn't listen to rock/metal and stuff but even if it's 1 Song, i want to play a nice one and get a smile on his face ! So that he can remember the day he heard me playing on his wedding and tellin his children what a dumbass i am [emoji16] [emoji106] 3. And then when the times come, i'll teach his son how to play the guitar so that he can annoy him a little bit [emoji48] . 4. Obviously i want to know how to play guitar because it's cool as f*ck. 5. I want to be one the best guitarists in the world (or just my home town) even tho that will take some time and probably won't happen. But i'll try.... 5. I want to teach my children some day, to have an advantage for them girls. You know, i have to be a cool Dad in the future (hopefully). [emoji28] 6. I want to be proud to actually play my favorite band songs. That's it. I have plans for thr future and that's why i still play [emoji14] It's not gonna go as planned, but i'll try my best to accomplish all those dreams you could say.. Yeah having kids and show them what Rock has to offer \m/.

I really shouldn't respond as I just picked it back up after a year long depression and couldn't do much of anything but, right now, my motivation is because I want to be like the artists who play the music professionally. Not that I want to be a professional, but I idolize the creators and want to show myself that I can be like them with steady practice. Also, I get really passionate about certain songs and feel closer to them if I can learn them. I enjoy using my fingers to make things happen whether thats on Starcraft or on my bass guitar.

http://i.imgur.com/viYvfc8.png Hello all, I'm starting this thread for obvious reasons. Much like my Arctic Monkeys Discog project I love The Black Keys and would like to see way more CDLC from the Akron duo. So feel free to post requests and discuss all things BK. All CDLC created by me unless otherwise stated. The Big Come Up http://i.imgur.com/cOnkDIf.jpg 1. Busted 2. Do the Rump 3. I'll Be Your Man (Created by @Antithez) 4. Countdown 5. The Breaks 6. Run Me Down 7. Leavin' Trunk (Created by @BassCopter) 8. Heavy Soul 9. She Said, She Said (Created by @Antithez) 10. Them Eyes 11. Yearnin 12. Brooklyn Bound 13. 240 Years Before Your Time Thickfreakness http://i.imgur.com/FSp0HVc.jpg 1. Thickfreakness (Official DLC) 2. Hard Row (Created by @davelancel) 3. Set You Free 4. Midnight in Her Eyes 5. Have Love Will Travel (Created by @cstewart) 6. Hurt Like Mine 7. Everywhere I Go 8. No Trust 9. If You See Me 10. Hold Me In Your Eyes 11. I Cry Alone Rubber Factory http://i.imgur.com/MpXyVGM.jpg 1. When the Lights Go Out 2. 10 A.M. Automatic 3. Just Couldn't Tie Me Down 4. All Hands Against His Own 5. The Desperate Man 6. Girl Is On My Mind 7. The Lengths (Created by @Antithez) 8. Grown So Ugly 9. Stack Shot Billy 10. Act Nice and Gentile 11. Aeroplane Blues 12. Keep Me 13. Till I Get My Way Magic Potion http://i.imgur.com/HkLGNhg.jpg 1. Just Got To Be (Official DLC) 2. Your Touch (Official DLC) 3. You're the One (Created by @Antithez) 4. Just a Little Heat 5. Give Your Heart Away (Created by @Antithez) 6. Strange Desire (Created by @davelancel) 7. Modern Times (Created by @Antithez) 8. The Flame 9. Goodbye Babylon (Created by @Antithez) 10. Black Door 11. Elevator (Created by @davelancel) Attack and Release http://i.imgur.com/2tNL6Xw.jpg 1. All You Ever Wanted 2. I Got Mine (RS1 Import) 3. Strange Times (Created by @Hzredwing) 4. Psychotic Girl (Created by @PC Plum) 5. Lies 6. Remember When (Side A) 7. Remember When (Side B] 8. Same Old Thing (Created by @Hzredwing) 9. So Heat Won't Break (Created by @Antithez) 10. Oceans & Streams 11. Things Ain't Like They Used to Be Brothers http://i.imgur.com/4GRwmcd.jpg 1. Everlasting Light 2. Next Girl (RS1 Import) 3. Tighten Up (Official DLC) 4. Howlin' for You (Official DLC) 5. She's Long Gone 6. Black Mud 7. The Only One 8. Too Afraid to Love You 9. Ten Cent Pistol 10. Sinister Kid 11. The Go Getter 12. I'm Not the One 13. Unknown Brother 14. Never Give You Up 15. These Days El Camino http://i.imgur.com/edVpd46.jpg 1. Lonely Boy (Official DLC) 2. Dead and Gone 3. Gold on the Ceiling (Official DLC) 4. Little Black Submarines (Official DLC) 5. Money Maker (Created by @Hzredwing) 6. Run Right Back Created by @Hzredwing) 7. Sister 8. Hell of a Season (Created by @Hzredwing) 9. Stop Stop (Created by @Hzredwing) 10. Nova Baby (Created by @Hzredwing), My version: Nova Baby 11. Mind Eraser (Official DLC) Turn Blue http://i.imgur.com/PH7UMrl.jpg 1. Weight Of Love 2. In Time 3. Turn Blue 4. Fever 5. Year in Review 6. Bullet in the Brain 7. It's Up To You Now 8. Waiting on Words 9. 10 Lovers 10. In Our Prime 11. Gotta Get Away EP's The Moan http://i.imgur.com/3QSisbR.jpg 1. The Moan 2. Heavy Soul 3. No Fun Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough http://i.imgur.com/9j3xGyI.jpg 1. Keep Your Hands Off Her 2. Have Mercy On Me (Created by @cstewart) 3. Work Me 4. Meet Me in the City (Created by @cstewart) 5. Nobody But You (Created by @Antithez) 6. My Mind is Ramblin' (Created by @Antithez) 7. Junior's Widow (Phone Message) Other songs: 1. Chop and Change 2. Ohio 3. A Girl Like You

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Yet, if add artist "You" in to prefered and use filter, set only prefered+you in field artist, you got more clear result - almost only exercises.

@@Bentron - I'd say this is on the harder end (but nowhere near the hardest, which usually have lots of special techniques) of MC bass. The main riff isn't especially tricky, but it's fast and easy to mess up a bit on it, and it's definitely not a "gimme" (speaking of which, I would say this song doesn't really have any gimmes, which is part of why it's harder than many songs. Even on MC, almost every song has easy bits here or there). And it's harder when you move it down an octave because of the greater fret spacing. I find the part with chords to be somewhat difficult, but not too bad. If it were much faster it would be a disaster (at least for playing with my fingers), but as it is I can play it reasonably comfortably. Again, that's not to say I won't mess it up a bunch throughout the song. Just, I don't feel helpless when I get to those sections. The thing that really gives me trouble is the DGFDGF... riff. I'm not particularly good at raking, but I've gotten it to the point where I can hit it with a comfortable plucking pattern using raking at 100% speed. Just not consistently, and usually not when in score attack. It might also be worth thinking about playing this riff elsewhere. Perhaps in the 12-15 position with your pinky fretting the F (perhaps a bit easier on the fretting hand, but still hard on the plucking hand). Another idea would be to use that same position and fret it all on one string (17-15-12-17-15-12..., which I think should be within reach), or if not, then moving way up and doing it on the A string where you can reach everything on one string in the 17-22 position (way easier on the plucking hand, different kind of difficulty for the fretting hand). By moving around you might also invite more misses as you transition back to the main riff. I remember one other riff, but I think that one was pretty easy. Hope that's somewhat helpful.

I just love being able to practice some of my favorite music, also I enjoy the challenge of playing a song that's way to hard for me :D

For me , I'm just getting over a major depression bout. Rocksmith and making cdlc's has been great therapy for me. Although life and work are getting in the way of my guitar now :)

Added Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Glass Onion and One After 909 by The Beatles, and I hope that not too many people notice that I've put The Lady in Red on too. Just added Market Square Heroes by Marillion. Not too sure about this one to be honest. Hoping for some feedback from bass-playing Marillion fans.

I'll see if they care if i give those out they dont have them posted online they make people ask for them for some reason I don't know if theres any reasoning behind it or what. It took like 2 months to get a reply the first time but the second was only a week or two.

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Hush little @@ShrillBear52, don't say a word And never mind that noise you heard It's just the beast under your bed In your closet, in your head

Mini update on Cholly, I am actually trying to 100% this but there's always just 1 or 2 notes that I miss in random places: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=532840075

Whoa, this is great music. How have I never heard of this band? I will be adding this group to my to-do basslines queue. Thx a million for this. It's becoming increasingly rare I run across such good modern music which I had no idea existed previously. This whole album sounds like it was recorded in the late 60s/early 70s.

So close... http://s12.postimg.org/boc008eal/annihilator_alison_hell_bass.png Gotta head out now so that's it for this week.

http://i.imgur.com/sBMtNZf.jpg I get 86-87% four more times in a row. Finally I do some extensive Riff Repeating, score 89, except oops, I got downleveled during the bloody harmonic rush!! Argh. :rage: Also I scored higher on Cholly, but I uh... forgot to screenshot it! Yeah, let's say that.

Sounding confident for the future! Well, I'll look forward to doing bass battles with you soon, and perhaps also guitar battles before too long. Anyway, some updates: MC bass: http://i.imgur.com/hsjBLxb.jpgThis run was going splendidly until after the last chorus, where I got a (deserved) miss in the last hard lick then a few (undeserved) misses in the part after that. Oh well, it was still pretty damn good. Int lead: http://i.imgur.com/QNUQZ1J.jpgEventually had a bit of a breakthrough. The thing that took the longest to get down was making sure every finger stayed on the right fret during the repositionings in the chorus. Probably won't try to reach whatever score @@Mortalo decides is appropriate for advancement, though. Adv lead: http://i.imgur.com/umk9UYD.jpgBit of an improvement. Still can do better, but probably won't try to before the end of the week.

I'm trying :) But I think you'll be safe enough this week.

they're probably feared of the MC songs and it's a piece of cake to master them if you're good enough, even Advanced bassists should be able to learn most MC songs in a week Fixed xD But seriously, people are getting good, dont be afraid of a challenge, embrace it

A while ago i did this, it's a semi translucent .png to put on any .pdf tabs (needs to be resized & copy/paste) it's not what you're looking for but it may be usefull/give ideas for someone else: http://s27.postimg.org/62hmrszb5/Capture.jpg http://s27.postimg.org/49eq3he4h/calque_pro_4.png

I started playing guitar because I am in love with the sounds that the instrument can make. I keep playing because every time I play, there's a little less resistance between my musical thoughts and what actually comes out of my hands. It's addicting.

Compare it to making love with your partner. After a while, you don't need to do it everyday or 3 times a day. Eventually that passion will mellow and age, like a fine bourbon. Don't feel guilty about that. The music is your love, playing guitar is your expression of that love, but you don't need to express it (in that way) every day. Some days I won't play, but I'm on youtube watching lessons or on this site looking for new songs. As for my partner, she turned out to be a bitch so she had to go, but I do still enjoy some fine bourbon! haha! But not everyday. :D But I play guitar when it suits me, and I do sometimes go a week or so without playing. That's what is so great about a hobby, you can do it when you want and that's it. No expectations from anyone else.

But nooo, don't do that! Please! Please be aware that pushing the offset to zero will unsync the bars/measures of your charting. Since end of september I have "fought" for the removal of this prompt: Please see this thread: http://customsforge.com/topic/12197-problem-due-to-reset-offset-to-zero/ What you should do instead (how official DLC are produced) is use the function "push offset up", to produce only full bars before your first note. This means in a 4/4 time signature, you have to push offset up 4 times (or eight). If you want to now why it is useful to have the bars in sync with the music, please read this thread: http://customsforge.com/topic/13688-how-to-add-a-metronome-to-any-song-metronome-bonus-arrangement/ In section (4) I also better explain the procedure above. And while you're there, use the EOF function to place events (shift + e) to place count-in metronome ticks in the bar before your first note... just like it is done in official songs. This is the best guidance to know when the song actualy starts. This is what you actualy want to achieve, right? I know you are someone who cares for his customs, so please get rid of the bad remove-offset-habbit! I beg you :D