Everything posted by wrentheseedling
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Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 304
wrentheseedling replied to DropZone90's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Alright trying something new this week. I'm going to sight read practice the song once a day, ascending in difficulty of the bass. Why the hell not? So first night, we are playing on my most familiar bass. My Fender MIM precision bass, using D'addario flats. This is definitely the bass and neck I'm most comfortable with, so best for that starting sight read. And out the gate not too bad 96% to start. Tomorrow I'll be swapping off to a jazz style bass, with the Sire. Still a really comfortable bass for me, and my second jazz bass, but I've played the precision style probably twice as much. I know each time I'll become more familiar with the song, but less familiar with the instrument, so we'll see how that affects the score. Then at the end I'll score attack on the precision. Instrument 3 will be my 5 string, I know I'm only using 4 of them but it's definitely not as comfortable and the extra fretboard length should throw off my left hand placement a bit. And finally the fretless, which I'll probably have to stare at my hands most the time. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 303
wrentheseedling replied to Mortalo's topic in Rocksmith Championship
And no further comment for this week, I've been really busy. Now Shoo Go worry about your own playing and stop looking at my grammar errors. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 300 (!)
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Well at least I get more time to get the pattern down for this one. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 298
wrentheseedling replied to Mortalo's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Meh, Meh, Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 297
wrentheseedling replied to MaZtoR's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Barely an improvement, clearly it's my fault I press the strings too hard when I'm in drop D. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 297
wrentheseedling replied to MaZtoR's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Yeah I'll take that as a sight read. If I get a chance before work I'll see if I can improve it, I just have to turn the volume way down so it feels like A7x is yelling at me less than usual. I'm not saying I don't like them. I just don't like 75% of their songs I hear. Which honestly isn't that bad of a percentage. I mean I don't like 75% of the people I meet. Maybe that's generous, I meet way too many people. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 296
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
And for fun, yes this was without any slaps. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 296
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Yeah and sports tape doesn't work for me. I have a very low platelet count to start with, so my better half gets upset if I allow things to keep breaking open. Just takes me a little extra time to heal. But good news, back to practicing and not a bad score. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 296
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
This week in a couple more days I should be able to start practicing again. Time for the excuse for last week! The reason I had no score last week is I decided to poke a hole in my plucking hand for fun. I was under the impression that less weight on my hands would make them move faster so I carved a whole through my finger. By the by, this didn't work. My wife yelled at me because I would sneak to practice and start bleeding again. But it seems to be holding together just fine now. Yeah good stuff, but the way I used a cable tie to do the damage. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 293
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Not even time to make excuses this week. I'll work harder on the excuses next week. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 292
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Vacation was cancelled had to go out of town for the week instead, So heres what I played. I'll be out of town again this week visiting family in humid uncomfortable florida. Yeah the state doesn't even deserve a capital letter. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 291
wrentheseedling replied to Mortalo's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Not much time this past week, but things should calm down for a bit now. Fretless does not like not E standard tunings for me. And I almost can't play it with the drop pedal because I'm playing by ear and it makes it even further off. Practice and more practice it looks like. On my good old P-Bass On the fretless --Wren If I haven't said it in a while, thanks goes out to all the mods and the participants for keeping this thing going! -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 290
wrentheseedling replied to MaZtoR's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Good thing I have a cheap drop pedal, my basses don't like going under Eb, well except the five string. Also new strange toy that I'll be attempting the intermediates and beginner pieces with for a bit. Ordered a fretless precision bass, ended up with a Pbass body and a Jbass neck, serial numbers all match up. Think I'm going to keep it. Everything fits and aligns perfectly on it. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 289
wrentheseedling replied to MaZtoR's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Well I sucked at it, but at least it gives me more practice on the 5 string, even if I only used 4 of them, and poorly at that. And I really need more practice with picks on a bass . . . but I don't wanna. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 287
wrentheseedling replied to Milo's topic in Rocksmith Championship
And on another note, I like the 5 string version better, but here's the 4 string bass part just because. I'm shutting up now. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 287
wrentheseedling replied to Milo's topic in Rocksmith Championship
And not to complain, but the Dream Theater song is a lot more fun than the Iron Maiden one. Okay maybe it was to complain. Dream Theater definitely hurt my hand more, but I'd rather practice that any day of the week. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 287
wrentheseedling replied to Milo's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Been a while, might as well get started here. As usual more insanity and complaining to come. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 279
wrentheseedling replied to Milo's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Not my kind of song, but acceptable sight read I think -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 275
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Just can't beat that 1.6Mil mark on hammerfall, guess I'll take whatever place I land in. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 275
wrentheseedling replied to Rodman's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Missed a week, then back for an easy side of advance bass song. Life is good? Someone smash my score's face in so that I can try to get my score higher or meh, maybe I'll practice that thing with 6 strings on it. Or maybe I'll get distracted by . . . hey what's that! --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 273
wrentheseedling replied to Toni-Wan Kenobi's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Better than the 80% with low dynamic difficulty I started with at least. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 273
wrentheseedling replied to Toni-Wan Kenobi's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Now if I could be more consistent, the score would be better . . . oh yeah that's the point of practicing isn't it. Crap I forgot to save the image from my lead guitar runs. -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 272
wrentheseedling replied to MaZtoR's topic in Rocksmith Championship
My pinky still doesn't work right, and maybe with the amount of times I've broken it, it might never work 100%. So I'm slowly figuring out ways to work around it, it's okay for a few notes here and there but lots of use between 3 and 4th finger and my hand locks. End Whining. 17% increase from my sight read, so I don't feel too bad. On the other hand I scored the same on beginner lead as I did on advanced bass, not sure how I feel about that. --Wren -
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 272
wrentheseedling replied to MaZtoR's topic in Rocksmith Championship
Starting up practicing guitar again so I'd like to level back down to beginner. Test run on this weeks song was a 70 percent. Now let's see if I can get my fat bass fingers to hit those little skinny strings. --Wren