nlbsmglsk

Sight-read.

3 hours ago, direct3r said:

forgot to upload my scores for this week, was too busy but played 

it's too late I think?

Yup, you missed it. Here's a link to the new thread:

 

@ Razrshred You win on lead part. Things in my personal life panned out a little different than I had planned and now I'm just too tired and my scores keep getting worse and worse.

@ Razrshred I won't be able to post or play tomorrow, but expect some competition come Saturday.

5 hours ago, lowender said:

I've hurt my hand today so I can't play for a couple of days , but on the upside it's given me time to look for beginner lead and rhythm songs to put on the song selection list! @ Mikson  or @ Rodman  i'm not very good at giving songs a difficulty number, can I just put beginner in the comments and the mods put a difficulty rating on the song?

4 hours ago, Mikson said:

No problem, the songs are tested anyway before being selected by the host for the week. However, it is best to enter an approximate rating, e.g. 3, because it will make sorting the list easier.

I'm gonna chime in here, even if I wasn't asked.

1. While submitting with no rating is allowed, IMO any rating is better than no rating.
2. The way I do the selection is I roll the full tracklist first (usually with rng) . Then I test all the paths to see if the original ratings were ok (and that the song is playable). If I find that I disagree with the ratings I try to move stuff around to make it fit, and if that's impossible then I re-roll the least fitting song (not always the one which was rated wrong), looking at original ratings again. It's a very rare situation that I'd use a song with no number next to it.
3. If you know that a song is beginner level just rate it 2 or 3, it doesn't really make a difference. It's gonna get tested either way.
4. Diff rating is kinda a skill. No one is expecting perfection on the first try.
5. Diff rating is kinda a skill. The more you do it, the better you become at it. So just give it a shot.
6. There are no consequences if you get something wrong.

PS. The current mc song was originally submitted by me (some time ago) and I still changed the ratings when creating the week. It'll always be a approximation, there's no ideal rating for a song.

Not my final word, but it'll do for now.

1 hour ago, hellothere1 said:

Played through the song again (this time i remembered to screenshot). Weirdly enough I got some of the harmonics to register by playing them "worse", by not ringing them out as clearly. But it leaves around ~30 harmonic notes that I couldn't get to register, even slowed down in riff repeater. Probably can't improve my score then:

Only advice I can give is to check the harmonics with a tuner, your intonation might be off or something. If it's not then the problem probably lies with CDLC, but it's gonna be the same for everybody so don't give up.
 

1 hour ago, hellothere1 said:

Btw @ nlbsmglsk  can I be added to player level list?

@ Rodman does that one, I'm actually unsure on how it works.


 

3 hours ago, direct3r said:

The lowest I can be in at the moment, I try the same as with bass to grind up the difficulties, but I am native bass so it's gonna be more difficult for me 

Beginner it is. Have fun leveling up.

1 hour ago, Mikson said:

I don't understand. We have over 10 suggested songs for beginners in the selection list (it was much worse in the past). I don't know what's wrong with them that you didn't use any of them.

Looks like I was looking at the wrong list, my bad. I was tired.

Sorry, nothing special for week 520, but when you think about it, it'll only be full 520 weeks once this one ends. So don't loose hope. Also, the year is a bit longer than 52 weeks...
Other notes:
1. No rng this time to save some time.
2. 2 da capo songs from previous weeks - the selection list is seriously lacking in beginner song. If you know an easy and fun to play song please submit.
3. All diff ratings done by me, even on the reused tracks - I didn't like the original ones. Feel free to voice your opinion if you disagree with them.
4. Apologies to all bass players - I know there's 3 songs with very similar difficulty level. I was too tired redo the whole tracklist, and since it 'technically fits', here we are. In compensation I vow that the next time I'll do the selection starting on the bass path, so for once the lead players will get the shorter stick.

EDIT: Almost forgot, @ direct3r you have no class assigned in lead and rhythm, where do you wanna be?  int?

That's it folks, new week available here:

 

Lead:
- Beginner: @lowender (95.99)
- Intermediate: @Balage1976 (98.76)
- Advanced: @hellothere1 (96)
- Masterclass: @Bottledpat12 (98.52)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 2 is @Razrshred (95), 2 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @direct3r (96)
- Intermediate: @someotherbruce (96.03)
- Advanced: @Mikson (95)
- Masterclass: @Razrshred (98.22)
- God of Rhythm: Leader after week 2 is @Razrshred (96.77), 2 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @someotherbruce (96.59)
- Advanced: @Hyphema (99.77)
- Masterclass: @Razrshred (97.66)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 2 is @Razrshred (99.84), 2 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Lead Path:
Beginner: The Strokes - New York City Cops (3.5^) (E standard) selected by Week 134
Intermediate: Biffy Clyro - In the Name of the Wee Man (5*) (D drop C) selected by Shiroo
Advanced: Bloc Party - Helicopter (6) (E standard) selected by jellisjenius
Masterclass: Testament - Low (8) (C♯ standard) selected by nlbsmglsk
God of Guitar: ACDC - Back in Black - Full album (8) (E standard) selected by hellothere1 [Week 3 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Strokes - New York City Cops (3*) (E standard) selected by Week 134
Intermediate: Biffy Clyro - In the Name of the Wee Man (5*) (D drop C) selected by Shiroo
Advanced: Bloc Party - Helicopter (6) (E standard) selected by jellisjenius
Masterclass: Testament - Low (7.5) (C♯ standard) selected by nlbsmglsk
God of Rhythm: ACDC - Back in Black - Full album (8) (E standard) selected by hellothere1 [Week 3 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: The Strokes - New York City Cops (3*) (E standard) selected by Week 134
Intermediate: Bloc Party - Helicopter (5*) (E standard) selected by jellisjenius
Intermediate Bonus: Biffy Clyro - In the Name of the Wee Man (4) (D drop C) selected by Shiroo
Advanced: Testament - Low (6) (C♯ standard) selected by nlbsmglsk
Masterclass: Jamiroquai - Runaway (8.5) (E standard) selected by Week 297 [Different version than w297]
God of Bass: ACDC - Back in Black - Full album (7) (E standard) selected by hellothere1 [Week 3 of 4]

(N) - difficulty rating
(N*) - highest difficulty rating for the class (promotion to higher class possible)
(N^) - difficulty rating higher than the highest for the class (promotion possible)

New week will in about 40 mins.

7 hours ago, loudly said:

This week is so hard but I enjoy !

imo challenging yourself is the only way to progress

15 hours ago, Rodman said:

Well - i'd stick with your initial decision as the Bonus song obviously has issues.

Rod.

Sorry @ jellisjenius , we're staying with the original playlist.

4 hours ago, lowender said:

I would rather it stays as it is as the inward song has notes that aren't even on the screen,

Well, since it's not unanimous I'll leave the decision to @ Rodman .
@ Rodman What say you?

3 hours ago, someotherbruce said:

I looked at the Intermediate song and thought "no way I'm playing D Standard on 9-42's!" I need to look for a drop pedal! Then I counted guitars. And hadn't played my Gretsch Junior Jet in months and months. So I yoinked off the Bigsby B5 Vibrato I had put on it a few years back. I had already set it up with a low profile wrap around bridge, so that was good to go. Yanked the strings off. Polished it. Hit the neck with tru oil. Popped a set of 11-49's on. It's got a Lollar P90, not a requisite humbucker. But it sounded pretty decent, and now I have a guitar for playing Eb standard, D standard stuff.

Heh, I use 9-46 for D std and Drop C. 8-38 for E std, Drop D and Eb std even. Still, any reason to dust off an unused guitar is good, especially a nice one.

6 hours ago, jellisjenius said:

@ nlbsmglsk Thanks for setting up the week. As an Adv class bass player I'd like to ask that we please use Inwards for the main path song and the Steel Panther song as the bonus. 

Normally I'd say sure, no problem. But since that chart has some minor issues I'm gonna have to ask the other players for opinion.

@ADV BASS players: are you ok with the proposed change to the roster?


(if no one says no I'm switch it tomorrow).

14 hours ago, hellothere1 said:

Hey, I was wondering something: Is it okay to use Customforge song manager to transpose songs to E standard/Drop D? I'm probably not going to tune my guitar to Eb drop Db or lower

@ nlbsmglsk

Totally ok, I think @ Mikson does that all time.

13 hours ago, aNDESmASAMUNE said:

Thank you @ nlbsmglsk  for another great week!!! (By the way, if I may ask, whats is the meaning of your username??)

I has no real meaning besides being unique and unpronounceable (so people can't talk about me behind my back   ).

Notes:
- my diff rating skills are rusty, so if you see a mistake speak up - it will be corrected
- bass part for "Inwards" only gets bonus assignment because some notes are off-screen in beginning of song
- I clicked 'yes' on all the auto-promotion prompts, didn't check previous threads for opt-outs. If you're affected and don't want to level up just post.
- Selection kinda done by rng. I admit to interfering with the process a bit by not re-rolling the Steel Panther song when it didn't fit. Instead I re-rolled other paths. So, not truly random but not hand picked either.

This one is over.
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