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From all the Advanced Lead songs I've been seriously practicing in the RSC this is the most difficult by far

what a selection!!! Personal Jesus is one of my long loved song, but even more the Johnny Cash version. I've played Gipsy, very nice, I didn't take the screenshot so amen Also this famous song that gives a sense of freedom and those year (my bad sightreading = lowww score) And finally for mc, I agree with @ Mikson , why these Japanese songs are hard as hell? But I like this a lot, all of it. I love this genre (not a sightread, i've played 4 o 5 times): Rhythm is 6.5/7 if u don't consider the strumming that is very articulated and very difficult to reproduce accurately. Otherwise it goes up. Rocksmith is very lax on strumming so we don't notice it from the scores. And you may finish the song with the wrists burning. Lead is a hell! To understand the difficulty, I checked for some parts and I found only one partial guitar cover on youtube (like 1 minute of the song).

Yeah - i appreciate your ratings too. Usually yours tend to be .5 lower than mine but we are almost always on the same ship. Rhythm rating sometimes i feel is way harder than bass where we have it quite straight forward with speed, positionshifts, patterns and technotes and in lead where the solo or melodyparts often quickly give a strong pull towards a certain diff... For me in rhy the main diff element is (next to obviously difficulty of the chordchanges) can one make the rhythm sound like it´s played in the song. Here that riff at the beginning: Clear MC stuff with the very very fast pattern switching from muted to open - i may suck extremely there, but for me even at that low speed in RR it sounds (recording too humiliating to post ) like a lame metal-riff which it clearly is not (and it´s even charted too easy and a bit wrong, it should consist of 2 different chords if am hearing that right). A (7) at least. For promotion to MC - yeah - sometimes a chart is not optimal competitionwise - like in cases in lead where a very easy long song holds a very hard short solo that does make it a high rating - but here - those lil fills are also (7)s i tried again a few times - a 99 is there on the horizon, but doesn´t come easy everyone - let´s work together on the most objective ratings on all songs continuously! Always give us your impression and a short statement if you like. Rock! Rod.

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just gave this masterclass song a shot cause of miksons comment and i agree with his statement. this song is more doable than the current advanced song imo.

Bass It was the first time I played bass with a capo, I used a guitar capo and it worked Rather too easy for 5, more like 4.5. Diff rating 5 may cause promotions to be too easy! Here, the empty D string (blue) should be played on the 5th fret of the A string (yellow). Then it's much easier to play these mutes.

Of course! Everytime we have to tune UP a capo is a valid and counting option no matter if there is an extra alternate/bonus chart or not. For the rating... yeah 3-3.5, but as there is mainly only one riff i stuck to (3). Bend/Slide recognition issues are a true pain but don´t make the song by itself harder.

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Improvements. I managed to exceed 90% in both paths, but I don't think I can do more than that.

Perfect 90%, nice! Another difficult fight with recognition, it was close, but not enough.

Yes, I saw this before but I forgot about it. Anyway, while I often agree with your ratings, sometimes, as in this case, I completely disagree and, as you can see, other participants rate it similarly to me. Yes it's fast, but the chart has rather basic chords for an intermediate level, but the speed takes it to an advanced level (6-6.5). A rating of 7-7.5 allows you to promotion to the master class, and I think this is not a chart that should allow for the masterclass rank. If I didn't have problems with recognition, I think 99% would be too easy to achieve here. I'll try to play it again when I find time and see what I can achieve.

Hah! No - man, don´t be sorry! All is good. Great that you are here! You can send scores for ANY class every week! You actually are competing in ADVANCED CLASS for LEAD and RHYTHM if that is ok for you. Check the leaderboards here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN-m8wF0lVkQ4cLWHBa009SkqDoPk0xN-C4-llcrXXs/edit#gid=2109091018 Rock hard!!! Rod.

Hi Everyone, It's my first week, wish I'd known about this sooner. Sorry for asking dumb questions, but I'm not clear on whether one is just supposed to post a screenshot or if the scores are supposed to be typed in somewhere. Thanks, and looking forward to more!

This one surprised me. It has the sweep picking thing and then that lick on the B and E strings. Will need some serious RR to get that final section more accurate.

A little better! I'm still having trouble with note recognition with the low tuning on this one.

I did. See above: "Darkness sy - hard to rate a bit... yes (6.5 - 7) is a valid rating also. From my POV the rhythm is damn fast and very hard to make sound right, i take that into account esp. in Rhy path - so i´d go (7.5) " Rod.

Not much time to play this week... But I went to Slash's concert yesterday, nice party! Some Rhythm Good song, but difficult to championship. In rhythm path, it's even easier to have random misses than in a lead. I would say this could be 7.5 and could be a masterclass. However, the rating of 7.5 for this one is a misunderstanding. I don't know if anyone has tested this? This is 6, max 6.5, ok fast but there are no difficult chords or riffs. Unfortunately, Wednesday is too late to change songs in classes.

multiplayer with @zbb on bass

There is no need to be sorry. You did nothing wrong. Getting a class promotion is an occasion to celebrate! If you think that ADV is too much of a challenge for now, you can always appeal the promotion. Or drop down later. Don't worry, just play & post scores.

i must confess.. i didnt tune to f# i used a capo instead for all the paths. and yea japanese players are always on another lvl

Start this week I would give this 3.5 and I agree that this is suitable for beginners, but regardless of the player's level this is very difficult to get 99% here, unless someone has no problems recognizing bends and long slides. It's worth adding that the alternative lead is the same chart, but with a capo on the 2nd fret and in E-Std tuning, so I think that the scores from this should count, because, for example, I prefer to put on a capo rather than tune guitar in F-Std. @ Rodman Nice song, chill and pleasure to play. This is really difficult to achieve a high score, although I rated it 7, maybe I would give 7.5 now, but no more. When I play it, it doesn't sound bad, but missed too many notes in the arpeggios or bends in the riffs. Wtf, why do Japanese songs usually seem impossible to play for the average guitarist?

Got to play with my new pitch box for the f# tuning.I'm just a casual player so I went with this cheap mooer pitch box over the digitech drop cause it was literally 1/10 the price and it lets you shift up as well. Seems to do what its supposed to do quite well for $35. I dont notice any latency which was my biggest concern. There is a certain synthy sound that isnt really noticed in the mix but I think all pitch shifters do have that to a certain degree. Very handy tool for me since most of my basses are short scale and don't like detuning. End ad.... Does it muddy the waters to post scores from other classes? I believe I'm in intermediate but I like to try them all. Exploratory runs....

Definitely beyond my sight reading skills, but, got through it somehow. Love this song.

Followed the chart a little better that time

Fun song, will need to RR many of those riffs

wow... nearly forgot do add scores

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You got one hour! Get your scores together! Rod.

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Hi, for some reason, I cant paste image here even it is bellow size limit 303.22kb. Here is my score at advanced bass song https://i.imgur.com/yp2nv5J.jpg

some improvement YT Playthrough

playthrough video following soon

First results: I can tune my bass for drop D and it gets recognized I didn't understand this one. It didn't recognized some open strings (mostly D string) Coming along. I think I butchered some parts but they got recognized Ok. Or the first play gets some slack?