Motorheadbanger

@@firekorn Yes, but it's great only to an extent. While sometimes it detects a mistake when there isn't one, which is fine, more often it doesn't detect a mistake when there is one. That is concerning a lot of things, from playing correctly rhythmically-wise to alternate picking instead of downstrokes to sometimes outright cheating by not playing palm mutes when it's required. There was a Reddit post the other day where one person commented something along the lines of 'you know, you can play slides instead of bends', and this broke my heart. So yeah, Rocksmith is great, but it should be used with caution.

The only way to get better at playing guitar (meaning the mechanical skill) is something called 'ass-hours' in Russian - when you sit and play your ass off for hours and hours. It's usually recommended to try to play anything you play perfectly at whatever slow tempo you need to do it and increase tempo gradually. Rocksmith isn't really a good tool for this, because it judges your playing, and it does so quite bad at times. The best way to determine if you're doing good or not in the absence of a tutor is to record yourself and listen and look for mistakes. On the other hand, Rocksmith is a fun thing to do, and if you are like me and don't have a lot of incentive to play guitar at all, Rocksmith is a godsend. Regarding the Lead path - I'm not entirely sure why you would want to pick Rhythm at all. Just because lead parts usually have rhythm stuff, and rhythm parts usually don't have solos.