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Rocksmith also isn't overly concerned with how you play chords, from my experience anyways. If there's a charted D chord as long as you hit the open D string and the A on the G string it will normally be marked correctly and if you get a barre chord just hitting the power chord is normally enough, sometimes you might need to include the octave note in there too, but you can get around the more difficult chords/fingerings in this way. Sure, it's not perfect, you're technically messing up your technique to score better on a game, but we all take our own shortcuts when it comes to learning and playing instruments, and it's often better to just try to make a go at it and adjust what you need to make it work then wait for a time in the future when it will work perfectly. Works differently for everyone though, of course. I learn through mainly making a series of smaller and smaller mistakes, my brain does not let me start at level 1 and slowly increase difficulty, I always need to start where I have no idea what I'm doing and then figure it out from there. Helps in some ways, hurts in others, but it's how I've learned almost everything I know about anything. When I started actually trying to learn how to play bass I just listened to a few songs that had grooves I liked and I started working on them, they were all outside my skill level (Suspicious Minds by Elvis, I Want You Back by Jackson 5, Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel, and Maybe Tomorrow by The Stereophonics were the songs that I cut my teeth on) but after a few weeks I could handle them pretty well.

Fun songs this week. My drop pedal isn't working with my bass currently for some reason so there's a low chance of me playing a couple songs there, but I at least got some playthroughs in before last thing Saturday. Been a awhile since I've played much of In Flames. Cloud Connected onwards, meh, but this song and album are killer.

Same percentage for last try of bass here but a much longer streak so that's something I guess. Lead Summertime Blues - Rhythm

So finally got a chance to actually play the songs the tiniest bit. Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues - So from what other people said, it's true that the timing is off. Originally I chalked the "off" feeling to it just being the first time I've played the song but definitely feels like there's no time/beat changes in the chart. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son - I haven't played much Iron Maiden on bass in some time but I can definitely do better than this, just not in the timeframe of a week. My gallop muscles aren't where they used to be at all (I try to stick to I-I-M when doing gallops, once you get used to it it feels much better than I-M-I, but definitely took me awhile to get the groove down completely).

I've seen it mentioned a few times, so for anyone not overly familiar with playing bass power chords, the way Harris plucks them normally is to hold the index and middle fingers together and pluck down with them striking the strings with your fingernails. Depending on speed/song sometimes you can just sort of strum them and other times, for me at least, it's more like a flick than a strum. He also doesn't anchor his thumb so that also makes that technique easier compared to if you keep your thumb on the pickup or body of the bass since you can support the fingers with the thumb. Obviously do what works best for you, but just throwing that out there if anyone wanted to try to do it the "proper" way. This guy here also does a ton of bass playthroughs of IM songs and since the videos aren't edited by Steve Harris on a caffeine bender (nothing else explains any of their live videos since Rock in Rio, pretty sure he changes camera angles in beat with the music), you can actually see what's being played. -

@ Mikson I did miss attributing the requests, that's been corrected. Got myself a bit out of sorts trying to update the song list and ended up needing a song to fit in to everything and completely forgot about checking who made the requests beforehand. I'll do a better job of checking that stuff out in the future. I also switched the beginner and bonus bass songs there, there wasn't really any decision making gone into that order, I just had Scorpions on the list first and Papa Roach came second so it just became my bonus by default. @ jellisjenius That's my bad, I do generally look at the newer versions of the songs, but since the request was made in the spreadsheet by Nacholede I just assumed it was that version being referenced. That request might have been on there for awhile. I did update to that version in the original post but I did keep the original link for posterity's sake. I'm very sorry @ nlbsmglsk but I hope you wouldn't mind giving Seventh Son another try with the updated version. Also, if you really want to get used to bass power chords the Steve Harris way, pretty much every album Iron Maiden released in the 2000s features a crapton of them. Any song off the Brave New World album (IIRC Ghost of the Navigator and the title track are both good examples of this).

Leaderboards not updated yet. Tried to do a 420 theme week since it was something brought up but couldn't get the right mix of songs for the difficulties to make a whole list, threw a couple in there though. Thanks for the suggestions @ nlbsmglsk

New week is up

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship! -= Week 421 =- FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships? => Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules Last week's winners Lead: Beginner: @ m_verd Intermediate: @ Balage1976 Advanced: @ Mikson Masterclass: @ Jakobgreve Rhythm: Beginner: @ LacrimaLuna Intermediate: @ Banjoclan Advanced: @ diceslinger Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk Bass: Beginner: @ Cultofsolar Beginner Bonus: @ LacrimaLuna Intermediate: @ illum1naut Intermediate bonus: @ KJParsley Advanced: @ Mikson Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk God of Bass: @ nlbsmglsk Congrats to all winners. Well done! Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard This week's songs are: Lead Path: Beginner: Scorpions - When The Smoke Is Going Down (3.5) (Requested by @ Mikson ) Intermediate: Papa Roach - Falling Apart (5) (Pitch-shifted Drop D Version) (Also requested by @ Mikson , my bad) Advanced: Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (6) (Requested by @ Toni-Wan Kenobi ) Advanced Bonus: Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (6) (Suggested by @ nlbsmglsk ) Masterclass: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (9) (Requested by @ Nacholede ) (Updated CDLC to a newer version, original link) 420 Bonus: Sleep - Dopesmoker (Special 63 minute long song addition for this week) (Suggested by @ nlbsmglsk ) . Rhythm Path: Beginner: Papa Roach - Falling Apart (3) (Pitch-shifted Drop D Version) Intermediate: Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (4) Advanced: Scorpions - When The Smoke Is Going Down (7.5) Masterclass: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (9) (Updated CDLC to a newer version, original link) . Bass Path: Beginner: Papa Roach - Falling Apart (4) (Pitch-shifted Drop D Version) Beginner Bonus: Scorpions - When The Smoke Is Going Down (2) Intermediate: Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (5) Advanced: Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (8) Masterclass: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (9) (Updated CDLC to a newer version, original link) 420 Bonus: Sleep - Dopesmoker (Special 63 minute long song addition for this week) . 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.

Hey, sorry for the zero notice, but I'll be posting the new week in just a few minutes so any scores posted after this won't be included in determining top scores.

@ Mikson Hey, sorry, had some stuff happen this week that was less than good and haven't had a chance to really play guitar or visit the site much. Last week was all home renovations so I've been mostly out of the loop there for a couple weeks. Honestly, I'm not really your guy for stoner or psychedelic music, which considering how much weed I smoke is something that maybe I would want to get around to fixing. Most songs that I know that fit that theme are either already ODLC or aren't CDLC. So our options here are: 1. Everyone throw out some suggestions and we can see what sticks. 2. Someone with more knowledge picks it up for this week, I'll make an extra week up in the near future. 3. Just do a regular week. Personally I wish I could just do it because I actually really like theme weeks and would like to put one together.

Got some playing in today. Bit of a mix in the uploads, I kept forgetting to take captures of my tries in other songs for whatever reason today. Dig - Bass I Want To Know What Love Is - Lead (I'm really bad at triads, getting better but should have been able to do better for a beginner song) Call Me a Dog - Lead I Want To Know What Love Is - Bass (Loved playing this, will definitely be playing it more for fun) Jawbreaker - Rhythm Couple screenshots have some performance info from me doing some testing where some bottlenecks on my game are coming from.

Time zones being what they are I'm probably too late. 11 minutes too long but there's The Color Out of Space, it's a Nic Cage movie on Netflix in most places I do believe and it's based on the HP Lovecraft story. Me and the wife watched Werewolves Within recently. It's not overly gory but it's a decent werewolf horror/comedy (the comedy in this case is more a reflection on the character personalities and the degree to which they deal with the situation and less so with there just being jokes thrown about). Nobody is a John Wick-esque movie staring Bob Odenkirk of all people. It's just him getting the shit kicked out of him for 90 minutes but just not stopping. What We Do in the Shadows is a recommendation I try to always make, it's a vampire comedy, it's gained some popularity because the TV show has gotten quite popular over its three seasons, but if you haven't seen any of it I really suggest to watch the movie first as it explores the movies general conceit quite well but also it's a lot more understated than the TV show and doesn't feel quite as good when you go back to it. that's more a reflection on how good the TV show is than any comment on the movie.

I spent about 10 years ( from ages ~17-27) being one hell of a metal elitist, I definitely have spent a lot of time insulting pretty good bands as fucking terrible (sorry The Beatles) and honestly I probably still will because that's just my nature. The last 10+ years has seen me mellow a lot, I still largely listen only to metal but I appreciate a lot more music and one of my favorite bands is a power pop band that I really need to get around to chart some songs for (The Posies). I will pick up a ball you dropped there and say that I honestly think The Pixies are a terrible band. They are incredibly influential and some artists I truly respect love them but I have a visceral reaction to their music that I cannot describe nor explain and I don't see how they appeal to anyone. I can acknowledge the legacy they hold but can still be confounded by it. I think my growing up here is that I can dislike a band without insulting the people that like them directly, just indirectly by digging at something they like. I think 311 fits this same mold for me, they're super influential, been around forever, and yet, garbage. Go figure

Just to throw a molotov out there, Nickelback > Incubus (not knocking anyone that likes Incubus but I've not heard a single song by them I've liked and there's like 3 Nickelback songs I like, but since I'm in Canada I also heard the band before they became wildly famous and started writing the same song over and over). I'm hoping to get some scores in this week. Last week my family came down with some sort of death plague (was worried it was covid, it still won't actually go away and I could barely move, but it's not) and I couldn't pick up a guitar let alone play one and this week I took vacation for home renovations which with being so sick last week is taking much more time than it should since I didn't get to prep anything.

Slightly better rhythm score ( @ Daz40 I haven't participated in Rhythm in the championship yet. I would be in either Intermediate or Advanced, probably Advanced really) Got a better on the lead here, just had to get used to jumping to the soloy part.

I'll look at updating the leaderboards later today, pretty sure I flaked on that whole part tbh.

Okay, hopefully past week's winners are all updated and good. Here's my updates for this week so far. I'm getting a bit of weird interference with my main guitar, seems to be throwing the note recognition off a tiny bit. Pretty sure it's a loose connection so I think I can tighten these numbers up some. I tried to practice the Soundgarden song but turns out end of the day I don't really like it, so I'll focus on the ones I do. BGM20 good 4 u Vacant Planets

Okay, so song classes are reordered, @ Rodman is now the rightful winner of the Advanced Bass crown and Mourning Palace has been replaced with Judas Rising by Judas Priest for the Intermediate Bass slot.

Thanks, @ Mikson I'll update the classes then, I like Death more than Soundgarden so it'll go a class up. For Mourning Palace it looks like I downloaded it in the past which is why I can access the page. Google Drive access updates have been a pain in the ass, I'll have to find something to replace it.

Let me take a look, I tested it without an issue

I had more than a couple PC problems posting this, it looks like there were one or two submissions after I had already started getting this together, sorry if you were missed in that window.

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship! -= Week 417 =- FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships? => Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules Last week's winners Lead: Beginner: @ kayteck Intermediate: @ m_verd Advanced: @ Anwyn Masterclass: @ Jakobgreve Rhythm: Beginner: N/A Intermediate: @ Banjoclan Advanced: @ Mikson Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk Bass: Beginner: @ LacrimaLuna Intermediate: @ kayteck Advanced: @ Rodman Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk Congrats to all winners. Well done! Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard This week's songs are: Lead Path: Beginner: Paleontology - Bgm20 (2) - @ coldrampage Intermediate: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (4) - @ Shiroo Advanced: Soundgarden - Rusty Cage (7) - @ jellisjenius Pitch shifted E version Masterclass: Death - Vacant Planets (9) - @ Snakewizard . Rhythm Path: Beginner: Paleontology - Bgm20 (2) Intermediate: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (5.5) Advanced: Soundgarden - Rusty Cage (7) - Pitch shifted E version Masterclass: Death - Vacant Planets (7) . Bass Path: Beginner: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (3.5) Intermediate: Judas Priest - Judas Rising (6) (From way back in Week 61. Original Dimmu Borgir fill-in wasn't accessible due to Google being Google) Advanced: Soundgarden - Rusty Cage (7) - Pitch shifted E version Masterclass: Death - Vacant Planets (9) . 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.

lol, I'll say you got about 30 minutes

Got two songs in, not much but at least I tried I...did not like this song. It's become very apparent to me that no matter how much they're loved I really do not like any song by The Pixies I've ever heard. With a bit of practice I'm sure I could hit 80%. It's my turn to be posting the new set of songs, so I'll be posting Week 417 soon, just giving some fair warning.