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I think we might need a different track for advanced bass. From the playthrough vid it looks like Gerudo Valley is a beginner track, a very easy one at that. :)

That sucks @@missis sumner. Speed bumps are lethal! I tripped on one running across a road to catch a bus and had one of those slow mo panic moments that felt like I was in the Matrix. Managed to save myself though. :D Iknowkungfu.jpg :P (Unsliced) fingers crossed you recover quickly! :)

Oh no! :o What you done to it @@missis sumner?

YESSSS!!!! :D http://i.imgur.com/hurGne9.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/anUrDyB.png?1 Finally got round to giving Gorillaz and Fairy Feller a bash.... http://i.imgur.com/8Gym4z2.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/s20aVzr.png?1 Hell of a bassline that! Great fun...a "one day, eventually" track for sure. :) Oh and tried Audioslave a few times too, but really didn't do it justice. Love Audioslave though, so shall also be in my list of tracks I "must try harder" on. :)

Managed to play tonight with the aid of lots of micropore tape. Kept missing one note on WATC in various places, but got a couple of improvements.... http://i.imgur.com/0q3NX9O.png?1 And.....not only did I manage to finish D&C for the first time, but I did it with no red X's! Woo!! :D Ended up sticking to the silly painful charting, trying to play something different to what I see just throws me. :) http://i.imgur.com/QK0Disw.png?1 Where's this week gone? :o

What a beautiful image you paint @@NoonyDeloony! Sounds like he certainly needed more than school pva! :lol: I'm clearly just a big wuss! If it opens up again I'll try the glue. Thanks for the reassurance! :) @@Telboy - It's the antici..........pation of pain that gets me! :P BTW, can't see your screenies for some reason. @@Tonedef, there was mention not long ago about folks having their Steam accounts banned for publicly sharing screenshots of cdlc so you might want to upload to a host like Imgur. It has the advantage of letting you resize from there too.

Y....eah...um.... I'm too chicken to try it haha! :D I imagine it stings :blink: Thanks for the link though. :) And congrats @@Gamut :)

Well...tried using a pick and my big fat bandage still got in the way :lol: (Does superglue really work for cuts? The bugger keeps re-opening. Does it not hurt like hell?) Soooo....rather appropriately I channelled James Jamerson and used just one finger and actually gained a whole percent since I last played it! :D :lol: Was bum at every other track I tried though haha! :D

Right index <_< Edit: I mean, I guess I could use a pick. But bleh! Hate picks!

Nice work on Marvin there @@missis sumner. :) I want to play it now! :D I'm getting increasingly frustrated here...sliced a finger tip quite badly the other day so itching to get back on bass. :(

I tried the alternate D&C positioning in riff repeater with opens...WAY less strain, much easier! Shame I apparently still rely too much on what I see and completely blanked when it reached that part in score attack! :lol: A work in progress to say the least! :D

Fair point. I can't even physically make it through that section, I had to quit out! :lol: I don't have high hopes of increasing my stamina much over the course of one week either, but then I felt that way about Muse's "Uprising" too and managed ok by the end of that week. I just find it difficult to consider it a 7, when to me that riff is really not hard, it's just repetitive, which causes fatigue/cramp induced errors. It's a tricky one...on the one hand I feel like with a lot of practice that section would be a very achievable, but you can't practice it a lot because it's so damn painful to play! :lol:

Very fun song. That hammer on bit caught me out. Now...what are those lyrics about....? :ph34r: :lol: http://i.imgur.com/T19McWP.png?1 Played this many times before. I remember one of my earliest score being something in the 60s. :lol: http://i.imgur.com/bI8G0dc.png?1 Thought I'd nailed the song 100% this time round....but..... http://i.imgur.com/xq2DjpJ.png?1 Out of 181 notes total.... http://i.imgur.com/Pj3Fu5T.png?1 Aghhghghghghghghghg!!!! I thought I'd hit that intro! :D It SHALL be mine though. :P

I'd say they are very similar difficulty @Iduperval. Champions requires fluid movement up and down the entire neck along with big jumps, lots of variation and a few twiddly licks thrown in, but it's slow enough to nail those trickier bits. IMO a definite 6. Dazed and Confused is one of the easier Zep tracks (it's certainly no Lemon Song), it's just that goddam $*£K**!&$ 2 minute long (or however long it is) riff that gets repeated over and over that makes it hard. It's not a difficult riff, it's just a box, it's just SO long it's a massive test of endurance to nail it for the duration. Question is, is endurance factored into difficulty rating or just technical skill? I've not finished it yet. Maybe by the end of the week I'll build up some stamina (or rsi, one or the other). Yes, it's harder than Champions to me right now, BUT I can't say it's a 7 when I compare it to say Spirit of Radio which is wayyy more technical. I hope your ears were burning when I was just attempting to play it earlier! ;) :P :D

:lol: Hah! I thought "Miller time?! He's in Austria and he drinks that pish?!" :blink: ....took me a moment to realise (I know, I know, yes, I DO have the same bass as you haha!). Clearly the heat has frazzled my brain today. :rolleyes: -_- :lol:

Another + :) http://i.imgur.com/L5TgB3Q.png?1 Oh btw @@NoonyDeloony, I get what you meant about feeling like playing Uprising haha! I knew I recognised the intro, couldn't place it! I was thinking Goldfrapp (Ooh La La), just not quite. :D

Today's improvement... http://i.imgur.com/hGLEiE2.png?1

Thanks! It's funny that weekly hours count has been going down lately, I used to average 2-3 hours a day (almost every day), so that's me slacking there! :D Well, that and I'm playing more outside of RS now. I got RS2014 in December 2015 and I think I played guitar for about a month, then as with every time I've picked guitar in my life, I got de-motivated and put it down again till August last year. Since then I've played bass more days than not and I suck worse than ever at guitar so that never gets touched anymore. I just can't adjust to going back to narrower string gaps and smaller frets. -_- @@missis sumner Jeez! Ok, ok, I get it, I'm a noob! :P :lol: :D

For some reason I was having note recognition problems with Muse :huh: I don't think it was operator error (always in the middle of a run of straight notes). Odd. :blink: Anyway.....got a 600k score improvement on the last time I played this... http://i.imgur.com/Sw7woJ3.png?1 And I feel I should probably be ashamed to admit the only Deep Purple song I knew before was "Smoke On The Water"...but I'm LOVING this! Must educate myself on them now. :P First attempt, room for improvement - and I'm going to enjoy this one! :) http://i.imgur.com/FcnnkEs.png?1 And I passed this milestone tonight.... http://i.imgur.com/zTSoVwz.png

Ever get one of those blips where your brain just completely switches off mid song? I was kicking myself after this coz I missed probably half a bar (about 4 notes maybe?) from having a complete momentary brain fart! :blink: :wacko: This shall be remembered (much like fishing tales) as "the one that got away" :P :lol: http://i.imgur.com/ocvOXC8.png?1 Tried a couple more times right after and couldn't improve on the accuracy despite caffeine & concentration! Did get a platinum run, as if that counts for anything. -_-

Started off feeling a bit rusty today. It's surprising how quickly that happens. -_- Gave both of the Metallica bass tunings a go in LAS before SA, so no, not a sight read... http://i.imgur.com/Qc6S1UV.png?2 Played this before, but did improve my score by an teensy weensy smidge :P And that's probably all I'm gonna manage this week! :lol: http://i.imgur.com/nlOsVKk.png?2 I do like this song. :) http://i.imgur.com/hWiE0tT.png?1 Quite a fun little beginner track this. http://i.imgur.com/npYUz89.png?1

IRL stuff = my head's really not in it this week, even with my own song selection. :( Pushed myself to play my own class at least. Took several attempts to get out of the 97s/98s. http://i.imgur.com/JjifsYs.png?1

Yay for fractions! :D I feel like the hundo's do-able. I've kept getting improved streaks and/or scores, but first accuracy improvement today. http://i.imgur.com/sB9FHJK.png?1

Metric's always good for a hundred! :D http://i.imgur.com/XC1HBhN.png?1 I always love playing Ghost when they come up in the championship yet for some reason I never play them any other time. http://i.imgur.com/ha6QmhK.png?1 I feel like I might have got lucky through some sections :lol: http://i.imgur.com/OiGaqF5.png?1 Yeah, this one kicked my arse. :D http://i.imgur.com/gAtoGhN.png?1

:o Blimey @@Telboy. What a bunch of losers. Glad you're ok. Hi @@Tonedef, always good to welcome another fat string lover! :)