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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship! -= Week 465 =- FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships? => Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules Last week's winners: Lead: - Beginner: @kayteck (94) - Intermediate: @Balage1976 (90.5) - Advanced: @Rodman (97.32) - Masterclass: @Bottledpat12 (97.43) Rhythm: - Beginner: LOST TROPHY - Intermediate: @kayteck (88) - Advanced: @Mikson (93) - Masterclass: @nlbsmglsk (92) Bass: - Beginner: @luckyoldme (99) - Intermediate: @rodentwentyten (96.04) - Advanced: @Mikson (98) - Masterclass: @Dollar Thief (98) Congrats to all winners. Well done! Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard This week's songs are: Lead Path: Beginner: Kasabian - Fire (3*) selected by Mikson Intermediate: Psychostic - BEER!! (4) (Eb drop Db) selected by nlbsmglsk Advanced: Mr Big - Wild World (6) selected by Jellisjenius Advanced Bonus: Robin Beck- First Time (6) selected by ZeroPingNZ Masterclass: Metallica - Whiplash (8) selected by Nacholede God of Guitar: Coroner - Arc-Lite (10) selected by BottledPat [Week 1 of 2] Rhythm Path: Beginner: Kasabian - Fire (2.5) selected by Mikson Intermediate: Robin Beck- First Time (5*) selected by ZeroPingNZ Intermediate Bonus: Psychostic - BEER!! (4) (Eb drop Db) selected by nlbsmglsk Advanced: Metallica - Whiplash (6) selected by Nacholede Masterclass: Coroner - Arc-Lite (9*) selected by BottledPat Bass Path: Beginner: Robin Beck- First Time (3) selected by ZeroPingNZ Beginner Bonus: Psychostic - BEER!! (4*) (Eb drop Db) selected by nlbsmglsk Intermediate: Kasabian - Fire (5.5) selected by Mikson Intermediate Bonus: Metallica - Whiplash (6*) selected by Nacholede Advanced: Mr Big - Wild World (7) selected by Jellisjenius Masterclass: Coroner - Arc-Lite (9.5^) selected by BottledPat . You can submit your song suggestions for the championship here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzgY90kLwyGqzJ-R64v8lmpeQMMhhxwGwUlenepIgms/edit#gid=6 . Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10). . Classless, Fearless FreeBird Members in their endless battle with the fb police: 2groggy Let us know your opinions on the accuracy of the difficulty scores (1-10) for this weeks songs.

How to transcribe songs. Have a thing on how I transcribe songs, there used to be a few guides on this before but they’ve seemed to disappear over the years so here’s the tools I use and my general process. First off I’d recommend these to get you started. https://www.justinguitar.com/classes/transcribing https://www.justinguitar.com/classes/ear-training Giving these a read might also be helpful for the general info they provide on basic theory but you don't need to know too much to start out other than note durations, bpm and basic time signatures. https://static.guitar-pro.com/gp8/manual/Guitar-Pro-8-user-guide.pdf https://www.songsterr.com/blog/musical-note-durations/ https://www.songsterr.com/blog/time-signature-and-meter/ The best thing you can do is just to give it a try and get started. If you’re reading this, stop putting it off and get on with it. Find a song ya like, start jamming out and write down how to play it. I thought this process was more difficult than it was at first and put off learning this for a while but once you get started you can learn your favorite songs without waiting for others to tab them first and you can pretty much play any song you want (guitar or not). From there you’ll also be able to easily spot and fix errors in other peoples tabs allowing for your charts to generally be more accurate and in general you’ll start to listen to music differently and be able to notice more details you might've missed. I can’t be too specific with how to actually tab things since the programs differ a fair bit but in general you’ll loop + slow a section and then go note by note comparing what you’re playing against the audio until you get it to match. Then once you think you’ve got it right you write it down in your tab program of choice and double check it. Sometimes before starting on a song I’ll just loop the whole thing and improv to try to figure out some parts before starting to kinda get a feel for the song and get the scale down. It’s also just fun to jam out before starting the grind. When starting out use any references you can find to help you, other tabs, covers, live videos, midi files and sheet music can all come in handy when starting out. I used to only tab songs off other peoples covers at first for a good while. Tab software. Guitar Pro 8 is pretty nice since you can sync the tab to the audio in there and bypass eof at the transcription stage. From there you can bake the bpm changes into the tab, export a midi and import that into eof to get the beatmap. After that Ctrl + Z to clean up the tab, export as gp5 and then import that into eof. It's got some handy eq features but while it is lacking in comparison to transcribe overall it's pretty good. Tux guitar is fine too, but unless you use a specific build it doesn’t support slide out/ins or legato slides which can be a bit of a pain and I don’t like the interface. You can always fix these later in eof but it’s just extra work. If you wanna go old school there’s nothing wrong with using notepad and ASCII for starting out since you can always port it into guitar pro later or stick it straight into eof. Tonelib jam and gpa are a bit of a pain and aren't really designed for making tabs so I can't recommend them for actually writing stuff but might have other uses. Tuning. In most cases you’ll just have to pick between drop or standard tuning. Some artists will just use one or the other and you can use their other songs as a reference to kinda guess their tuning once you’re used to their style. If you can find a live video you can probably just use that as reference, it’s fairly easy to see if it’s in drop or standard by looking at how they play power chords on the lowest string. If you’re really stuck you can look at other peoples covers on youtube too, which I’d also recommend for starting out as they can give you a useful visual to work off without having to deal with the live camera moving constantly. Once you’ve figured out if it’s drop or standard you’ve gotta figure out the lowest note. Once you think you’ve got it listen to the whole song and double check. You don’t wanna have to re-tab the whole song halfway in. For non-guitar stuff you can pretty much use any tuning you feel works well since you aren't tied to artist accuracy for the tuning. For example, this song (tab) I had to use double drop D on a 7 string with the B tuned up to C because of the piano chords. Sure it'd be playable in B standard but a major pain in the ass and you'd never be able to make it sound good while actually playing it. In most cases for non-guitar stuff E or B standard will probably do fine but it all depends on the song. Feel free to experiment with open, capo or just mad tunings. Other useful software (probably windows only) EOF: You’ve probably already got this one but I like it for finding bpm. The estimate bpm feature works pretty well and for the few songs it doesn’t work on you can still use the beat markers/metronome to help figure it out manually. It’s also really handy for checking note durations/timings and its slow down audio feature is sometimes all I need to transcribe a song. Also the Alt + P, Alt + I hotkeys for phase cancellation and center isolation are pretty handy. Anthemscore: I can’t really recommend this one as it only really works for fairly simple piano/orchestral/acoustic stuff. Great for clean parts or if you get stuck on chords though. When it does work it really works well and you can pretty much just copy the notes from that into guitar pro and re-transcribe it from midi to a playable song. The beatmap/bpm it generates is always ass and you can’t export a decent midi but this allows you to fix the tab as you go along. The spectrogram is also fairly handy, but to me it's just a nice bonus and not used too much. For stuff like game/anime ost it’s pretty good though and a real help, you just need a pc with a decent amount of ram or to only use it on small sections that you get stuck on or it’ll complain. Songs like this’ll work fairly well, but it’s not too great for bass. https://youtu.be/mAjIfxbofkE https://youtu.be/zbTxOHUZtPU https://youtu.be/4_mr8Lz3LUg https://youtu.be/dHyEceHbivE https://youtu.be/tzv3vFFVfTg Transcribe: In most cases all I use to transcribe a song is this, EOF and guitar pro. It’s got a looping feature, a bunch of eq presets, pitch shifting options, slow down feature, panning and note/chord guess feature. There’s a few other features but these are the ones I mostly use. I’ll loop a section, use the note guess and work off there. If I’m doing bass I’ll eq out everything except the bass and go from there. You can do most of this in audacity too but this is way more convenient so I’d easily recommend this. Spleeter GUI: I use this since I couldn't figure out the standard spleeter cli. It's a neural network based audio splitter for separating audio tracks. The results aren’t too great and they take quite a while to generate but in some rare cases it’s better than eq. Since it takes so long to generate I barely ever use it but it might be handy in certain cases. Conclusion. So yea I guess that’s it, get out there and tab some stuff. Any other useful software or tips LMK.

true (9), like being attacked by an army of bees, great!

You should add more requests, that's a cool song.

Feedback is always great! I think it´s a (6) and by that easier adv. Mix of muted and ofen chords, unique strumming pattern and few licks, might serve as a int-->adv) upleveling song also, but my feeling is adv is quite right. We will see if we get a lot of 99+ at the end of the week

I think wild world is more intermediate. Maybe is too easy for advanced? Because it can be a bit tricky at first but then is very repetitive and there is no solo. Don't get me wrong, I love the song (thanks cat Stevens) and love Gilbert and Mr big generally. Anyway it's ok for me, I'm just giving my feedback!

This is my only entry for this week as going away till next sunday. Sure would be able to squeeze this score to more than 98% or more if I had some more time as it flows pretty nice... In this one I am sure the final battle will be on 99.XX or even 100% Score attack results as song is relatively easy. had few issues with slide recognition on A between 3rd and 5th thread. Could be much better score if I would spend some more time with these leaks... I could not miss this one... Or this one ;)... sightreading... some recognition issues here... random open E misses... This one is quite nice... sightreading... surprised by A and G strings alt picking leak in the middle of the song... could be better if I practice more...

Notes: 1. The selection was done by rng, don't blame me on that. 2. The diff ratings are mine, you are more than encouraged to dispute them if you disagree. Early in the week we can make some changes. 3. Make sure you add some recommendations to the Selection List. Try to be sensible with the ratings if you can, but bad ratings are better than no submission. 4. Have fun!

So for a bit of background, about 2 and a half years ago I decided to learn bass after messing with music theory and failed piano attempts for years. Started with a random Kelly club custom hybrid my family had, swapped to a short scale beater I got to a friend, and finally the spring the following year picked up a sterling sub ray double humbuckler. That’s when I discovered my beater was a short scale and I had a bit of a jarring time trying to adjust. Up to that point I messed with some songs from a tab book(I’m someone who gels well with theory and info but my hands take forever to catch up) and had been using rocksmith for my consistent practice. Problem is I moved, life disrupted my practice and my attempt to give myself a goal for more engagement backfired(joined a video game jazz band that was way beyond my level to match with), and I just wound up going on hiatus. So a bit under a year has passed and I’ve decided it’s time to fire back up rocksmith, fix one of my issues of convenience (I finally ordered a new solid stand. My place doesn’t support my wall mounts and the stand I got with my beater isn’t very good. Plus I just cleared a spot), and hope the break will allow me to adjust to the full scale better. Even if actually playing with people is still a big question, I love music so I may as well dive back in. Probably making a new rocksmith profile and refreshing my skills too. So one of the bigger issues I have I wanted to ask for help on is that my reading skills surpass both my ear and playing skills. I can pick up the flow of a song but I suck at identifying shift points by note, the little I’ve done is with a singer on piano as lead, usually doing a simple pattern using their chords as a lead note for offsetting. But while I’m fine reading tabs I’ve had a hard time working on my ear. So I was wondering if anyone had some good advice on that. Also what’s a good rep set (stand alone and/or drill arcade in rocksmith) to work on for drilling back in the basics? Thanks, honestly I really enjoy bass, plus I have zero aptitude for strumming so my attempts to mess with the guitar or the random Mandolin I have lying around were all non-starters

Most of these need a redo, I'm not at my best today.

I think anything above 4.5 will be ok.

Start Easy enough, this could even be a beginner. I tested this song a long time ago and gave it a 6 and I think it's an ok rating. Some technical chords playing. (Old screen) 6-6.5 Easy, easy, easy and solo! So 8 is ok.

Thanks for confirming this!

That's why I rated it 6. I don't know why @ nlbsmglsk lowered rating to 4.5, because it's definitely too low. It doesn't change much, because it's still intermediate class. There used to be a discussion here on how to rate the difficulty of a song and the conclusion was to rate by the hardest part of a song. So there are easy verses in Fire (beginner level), but this alternating A and G string picking in the chorus raises the difficulty rating in my opinion.

Metallica for fun Pretty nice stuff oof

Whiplash!

Dragonforce Troopers of the stars or any other song from same the album

Whiplash! (6)

Thx! @ nlbsmglsk Great week!!!!

Wonderful article, thanks! Having previously transcribed for RockBand, I also suggest the use of stem separators like Spleeter, but be aware that sometimes some notes can end up in another stem so always remember to listen at the full audio afterwards.

"Private Hell" by Alice in Chains

Yeah, they where super-precise, even with those damned arpeggios. I didn't notice a single mistake. The only downside is I lost two evenings of practice, one for the show and one for the hangover.

One of the better and more enjoyable Yellowcard songs IMO: I do appreciate PJ Harvey but this song and chart are just kinda awkward. I don't really care to put in the time to improve my score sadly: And THIS is a masterpiece...would be happy to have Opeth in the Championship every week:

I managed to get the game working again. My problem was game "hanging on screen" when custom song loads. Beta method not worked for me. Here's what I did. Uninstall game (save custom songs to other folder and delete whole Rocksmith-folder) Install game on steam Copy custom songs back Install rs_asio ((https://github.com/mdias/rs_asio/releases/tag/v0.6.1) if needed, I've got Focusrite 2i2 3rd gen) and setup rs_asio.ini for your interface. Install CDLC-enabler (https://ignition4.customsforge.com/tools/CDLCEnabler). This will also install new D3DX9_42.dll on rocksmith-folder. Setup rs-asio.ini if you installed rs-asio. Start game and it should work.

I'd just wait for something more official. If the dll actually got updated then people that are smarter than me will post it on this forum. Until then you can just roll back the update on steam using their beta thing. Stay safe and don't download random stuff from the internet. From what I've heard update breaking cdlc is not intentional. Sounds unlikely, but they created a way to go back to version that works well. We'll see how thing will go. Just in case I already have a backup of working version of RS stored in a safe place.

Bluetac, Make sure there is not a space at the beginning and end of the password. My cut and paste caught them.

i've tried rocksmith + and its terrible, now would be time for someone to create an offline mod for rocksmith 2014 to stop ubisoft pulling these stunts to force people to rocksmith + which has to have the worst song library its complete crap