CoachL23

Hi,

Has anyone noticed that their Mastery is really high on songs they have barely played?

I have a number of songs that I went through and maybe hit the correct notes once but had loads of missed ones but it's marked me as 100% mastery!

What is this dark magic!?!  :D

Are you getting the same?

Man - it´s great to read your progress posts .... you will have heard that ;) but:

 

i really really really you should join in and play in the championships every other week.

Do not try to learn keyboard also... focus on your guitar.

 

Rock,

Rodders

Cheers Rodders!! I did get the piano and I am on day 8 of a minimum of 15 mins a day.

Simply piano it a great app and I feel I am making good progress.

A strange thing has happened though I have actually picked up the guitar more!! I find that I am learning a riff slowly on the piano then picking up the guitar and doing the same. An the interest in music is strong right now.

Discovered John Mayer - Neon last night OMG why did I not know this existed!!

I'm doing some finger picking practice I really need to get that skill.

In other news I found a interesting post on Reddit about using Rocksmith effectively, it's a lot of what people have already told be with a few tweeks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rocksmith/comments/4529dt/a_guide_how_to_use_rocksmith_efficiently_also/ 

Happy new year Forgers!! another January is apone me and musical ambitions are still here. I have had a change of circumstances later part of last year so I plan on using the extra time I have constructively. I picked up the guitar for the first time in a few months and felt a bit lost straight off. Had a shocker on a few new songs that came up easy difficulty on the filter list. Cochise....I guess but working out how to place your fingers in the best way to hit the riff felt hard.

Thought I could not finish on a low so the all time favorite "Do you wanna know" Arctic monkeys  played a solid 85% felt better so finished with "fluorescent adolescence"

will keep plugging getting the songs i like playing good sounding.

I also bought a keyboard so I got hopes that progress on one will feed the other.

 

hey, was just thinking, i dont use learn a song much, go straight to score attack, as long as its got dynamic difficulty ,

i just got highway star from official site. and made it to the end on easy.with the headphones on it was epic.

sadly a lot of cdlc dosn't have DD, i always send a thank you, to the people who take the time to add DD .

keep rockin.

ps i learnt a bit . by watching uploads of rocksmith videos , on YT, really helped.

I found a few times where DD actually made playing a song more problematic than it needed to be e.g. providing odd fingering, which when DD is increased to 100% turns out to a barred chord or similar, I find often the best route is crank DD to 100% and drop the song to 50% speed, then increase 10% each time you've nailed it completely, up until 80% then increase  in increments of 5% speed.

 

Yes I have tried DD and found that it changes the some too much. have 100% of the song chopped into sections with RR and know the speed down. This seems the best way to take it in.

Cheers

Doing good with the 10 min a day just picking up and trying to play this weeks championship song  Insomnium - The Gale

The lead path was not going well only 62% so I switched to rhythm and managed to get 82%

Its not a hard song and with (D std) tuning I know some notes are not getting picked up still go confidence boost.

When back to the lead path and made a little improvement. Relaxing the left hand move gets me to the notes quicker.

On a side note I am also dabbling with some beginner piano. got a Flowkey free trial and been using YT channel HDpiano for learning sections of songs.

Good way of finding practice time when away from a piano is load a app called perfect piano on the tablet. set it to 12 key view as this makes the keys the size of my real keyboard. I can practice on this with headphones in lunch hour or any other moment I get. I will try and link it to flow key today via a usb cable see if it works.

Cheers 

Yes! and I have found that I get lost in a song if I exclusively use Rocksmith. I have made more progress going on youtube to a Justin or Marty tutorial and getting the cord and more importantly the strumming pattern. I think this is the thing that was kind of forgotten with this version of RS. They should have added a bunch of strumming pattern techniques in the lessons section and then they could tag them in the song to have same or similar. 

I tried the Championship beginner song (lead) this morning and RR the first section which took me about 15 mins to get 0 notes missed then blew the rest of the song.

Not putting lots of pressure on myself to do hours of practice just a minimum of 10 mins a day, that seems to be helping.

@@brubeck99 Sound's like if you play them on YT first then maybe turn on master mode and see if you need the screen? "Use the force Luke.... Let go" :)   

Feeling a little less of a beginner!!.....

I really don't know what happened yesterday but I played a song.

I had the evening to myself and sat in the lounge with my acoustic guitar.

First some finger picking - the pattern the teacher showed me din not sound that good tbh

second major chords - I tried holding the guitar differently. with it in between my legs resting on the sofa and the neck up near my face like classical. I found the changes easier and could see clearly my finger placement. strummed with my thumb ditched the pick for now.

This was all going well so I though I would look up some songs on YT found a few ED Sheeran I love but out of my skill level at picking. Then remembered that many moons ago in my 20's I was trying to lead Good Riddance by Green day. Mary Music had it so put it on. I was actually keeping up with the chord changes!! strumming pattern was rough but still slowly changing chords and then getting faster was feeling good.

looked up a few more songs and found myself watching the video then going on the guitar tabs app on my phone to find the chords and started to make the shapes. Even did F in places.

3 hours later and some soar fingers I found the chord names and shapes are in there. My whole body was relaxing more going though them.

I felt for the first time last night I let go of what I was doing wrong all the time and enjoyed what I was doing right.

Still a long way from where I want to be but that one song is now my gateway I will get it down and then get the next one.

Feeling great right now!!     

Has really been over a year!?! life is getting on at a rate.

So what have I done....

Bought the new guitar. a Eko acoustic travel. Love it and after trying a few guitars can feel the difference playing it to others.

Tried with Justin's beginner course again this time tracking my progress through notes. Fell off that again as I seem to have been doing the basic stuff forever and I still can't play a song.  

Lessons...been to two guitar teachers both seem very similar in approach. I tell them I want to play songs and the types of music and they just tend to say just learn the songs. No real progressive course of pathway. I get a feeling that they have plenty of young students that have bags of time to devote to practice so they can't really help much until I have put in enough time.

Gaming...gave it up. It was easy to spend free time doing so decided to hang up my controller and pickup the guitar more.

I am about to hit 40 and I really have got to pull my finger out. I want this, and I also want to be around a peer group who also love music.

I think the Championship is the only way, have to fight through the time restraints I have with work and family and just get my best effort on that one song a week.

If there is anyone in the Suffolk area PM me. Kind of getting board of telling people about Rocksmith and them looking at me funny.

Hi,

I am very grateful for all these posts. This community is really one of the best I have been a part of on the net.

I am making my "January push" as I do every year where I remember to get on the guitar more often. I am doing the following things;

The new app from Justin Guitar looks interesting and I might use it for my chord change practise as it's easier than keep writing my results down.

Looking at some acoustic guitars tomorrow, as I am really not enjoying playing my borrowed Yamaha acoustic. Compared it to a friends and instantly felt it was easier to play.

Ask my guitar teacher about a price for a full course. giving me a deadline each step. As suggested by TomSawyer2112

After all that....

The Rocksmith Championship.

Thanks again for all of your advice and sharing your experiences. 

Quick update,

Lesson schedule fizzled out to make was for other things.

Recently seeing my niece who had a guitar bought for her 2 years ago, pick it up the last few months has motivated me. With her basic chords she rattles through rhythm on songs and made me realise keeping it basic will help.

I am concentrating on Rhythm path finding song with basic chords and to be honest i have notice a good amount of progress. Strumming patterns that are not covered in RS have been found on YT and started to up my percentages.

The last post is spot on enjoy it and it does not feel like practice.

I am enjoying my time at the moment, and not getting stressed if I have not had 20 mins lately on the guitar.

The "remastered" issues did hinder me at first and I hate not having my RS1 content as i missed the steam pack but never mind I will just have to dust off my ps3 when i want it. 

Thanks guys, I have felt more comfortable just picking up the guitar and playing around with a scale fret 5-7 or 7-9 going up and down making the notes transition clean. I then improvise and it's good fun. 

Still doing set lessons for basics and just going back to the game recently. 79% on R U Mine a PB!!

Thanks for the comments, it's good to know I am not alone.

I did the Championship a few times but found that a week of practicing one song did not stay with me as I went back to that song a few months later and was starting again from scratch.

The 1 min chord changes have stayed though and if you tell me that knocking on heavens door goes G D Am it stays.

I think Rocksmith should should look at a more conventional beginner course for their game, even castle of the chorded does not even cover a major scale until later levels. 

I wait for the day when I can put RS on and choose any song and just play along. 

Hi,

I though I would post my progress as I have been a big user of Rocksmith the past few years.

I got into a habit of playing a good 20mins a day booting up the PC on the morning and doing one lesson practice track and a run of what ever song I am working on.

I have found I flitter between songs often depending on what I am listening too at the time.

I got a little down the other day when I realised that I don't feel I am really making the kind of process I need to. I still can't play a full song and and totally messed up when a new chord is shown to me in a song.

I decided to try a different approch.

I went to Justinguitar.com and started his beginner course. I have done this before I had Rocksmith, but now find it much easier to get through the practice sessions and the concepts. Seeing how these skills translate into a song makes practicing much easier. I don't think that I would have this appreciation withough seeing a song flow in the rocksmith format. The speed of changes etc is hard to conprehend just by listening to a track.

I am finding that in a short time of recording my chord changes in a min and breaking down parts of songs in the "beginner song list" I am remembering major chord names and the sound they make without the backing track that Rocksmith seem to have on all songs and practice tracks.

No don't get me wrong I love Rocksmith and it has helped me keep motivated and given me the goal of playing my favorite song on it, but I don't feel that it nurtures the beginner in the right ways. The Major chord scale is the main one for me as soon as I focused on getting these to memory it made me feel like I was progressing.

I hope this helps someone that is in the same situation.

Cheers

doubt It will end up as CDLC but I aim to play this one day.

Over the weekend I decided to go back to RS1 for a bit just to see the difference. Wow that was weird, I forgot how bad the note recognition was compared to 2014.

I do like the path stuff though driving you forward with songs and forcing you to work on them to move on.

The one major thing I found, and this backs up  what Rockinbiscuit was saying is hearing what you have played back to you. This was so helpful, and really allows you to asses what needs work.

I think it's crazy they took this out but I can understand it as it must have been the cause of the long load times.

I will be trying to record my playing more, I think this will help.

@@Nocaster_ Thank I will listen out for it. I need to change the strings in a month or so anyway, The teacher said they could do with changing. I will work a stinging tutorial in to my next lesson.

Feels like there is a lot to learn.

Thought I would update this. I pussied out on making any adjustments to the guitar, Even though I will use this thread for the future when I get more brave and have a area to work on it.

I took a lesson and the teacher is also a guitar tech. He said he could setup the guitar for me but he said it was not needed. It was a good guitar and played fine.

I came to the conclusion that its the interface between the chair and the fret board :)

Thanks for your advice, I will keep practicing. 

If your starting out. I would suggest going on the rhythm path to start and work through major chords. E A D G C song I have been playing  are Knocking on Heavens door, three little birds. throw in some black keys and Arctic monkeys here and there to add some string plucking tunes to keep yourself interested.

I have done this the last month and have improved a lot.

Riff repeater full difficulty speed at 50% each section and accelerator to move you up.

Good luck

Maybe RS2016 should collaborate with Marty Schwartz or Justin Sandercoe as online references to compliment their product.

In your experience is it best to just return to a guitar teacher once you have mastered the things he has asked you to work on? or keep the trips regular weekly / monthly. I worry about spending £26 and he just telling me to learn 3 more chords.

thanks 

Hi,

i have not posted in a while as I have not been great with making time for my practising.

To be honest I found myself in a "Rocksmith rut" I have been following the lead path since RS1 and apart from some basic picking and hammer on skills (very basic) I felt at though I was still very far away from where I wanted to be.

I decided to find a guitar teacher and take a lesson. I figured he could tell me exactly where I am and what I need to be doing to move forward. This would also keep me accountable if I know that I have spent money on a lesson I better put the practice in to make it worth it.

It did wonders for my confidence and also felt good to have someone there focusing on you rather than you go to a mates house and they just showing you what they are doing on a guitar.

He said I seemed to be going well and gave me a few exercises to work with. The two main points were learn some theory such as what the notes are on the board like where # and b come in. The second was the major chords, just get those major chords down.

I went back to RS this time moving to the rhythm path. There are so many good songs that are just major chords, for the first time I feel I'm playing something and could also do it without RS. I also looked again at the lessons, and if you go further down into the chord sections they get into major chords in section 2 and 3. I think they should have started with these myself.

These things helped me out and have got me back on track.

I would recommend spending the money and getting a guitar teacher, and using it with Rocksmith. RS alone might keep you in a beginner state longer than you want, get some guidance and then use the game to make your practice easier.

Hope this helps 

I describe it as Learning software to mates who play guitar and stress it's with a real guitar. The minute you say it's a game they switch off with the thought of guitar hero.

@Attitude Thanks for this, good advice

Wow! So much information I will look into the truss rod as the buzz is 3-24.

I am not saying that the guitar is unplayable just wonder if I am making it harder to progress.

What tools will I need for the truss rod adjust?

£40 is starting to sound quite attractive looking at all these scary tech terms.

@@snowdog @@thlunasa

I have replaced the strings with help. I used some Ernie Ball super slinky custom gauge 2223

Buzz is on the Low E from 3rd fret down.

Thanks for all the advice I will look into the DIY setup it could be a good project.

Hi,

I bought a Ibanez GRGR121EX Electric for my first guitar 3 years ago from cash converters. £90

I have been using it to learn on seriously the last two years with Rocksmith and it's been pretty good. I am now noticing fret buzz on the thick strings and also have to hold quite hard to get my chords to sound clean.

I am wondering if I should start looking for a new guitar? or pay the £40 to a guitar tech to get it properly setup?

I like playing mainly Rock on it but aspire to blues at some point.

Thanks