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That cult track is a toughie. Jeez louise.

Finals ^

^ both sight reads! Pretty proud of that advanced performance, I can improve. It's fun to play too.

^ Second run.

Speaking of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, he was just interviewed by Lee from Andertons two days ago for anyone interested. I found the timing serendipitous: 

This one is a lovely piece of music but a serious doozy, at least for me. ^

Too advanced for me fellas: 

Love the snow! Merry Christmas folks, and great guitar pick up @Rodman

@MrBeefindeed, The Darkness are one of my favorite contemporary bands. Happy to see them included this week. Their other Christmas song "I am Santa" is another great Christmas rock track. Encourage you to check it out, there's a music video for it on YouTube.

18 hours ago, Rodman said:

That´s so true... especially for you beg lead has been updated. enjoy.

Excellent taste my good man!

I seem to only have rhythm/bass for Wizzard I wish it could be Christmas Everyday? Is Rhythm/Lead shared this week?

This is an exciting week, merry Christmas guys!

Alright, I'll try again tomorrow morning but this is me really pushing myself and likely to be my highest score. I did four more tries and could only keep it around 86%

44 minutes ago, diceslinger said:

I have to share...I just got home from my kids orchestra concert.  My son played All About That Bass on the electric bass that belonged my dad and he rocked the solo!  My dad would have been proud!  And my daughter was so into the music playing her violin, it was great!

I want children just so I can vicariously live through them by being absolutely kickass at music at a younger age (when I wish I had been!). Congrats dude.

Not my strongest lol

New Opeth score however,  I think I may be able to hit 88-90 on this guy by the end of the week: 

10 hours ago, Rodman said:

I hear between the lines that you are joining our song learning performance club

Is that why you lot have been posting videos? I think I am not yet ready!

7 hours ago, Mikson said:

I played Opeth one more time and yes, my goal is reached!

You fellas are tempting me, perhaps I should try to hit 90. But 84 was hard enough!

10 hours ago, Rodman said:

Exactly the spirit!! Let´s raise our personal middlefingers here!  It´s year 6 for me in the CS and i did not miss a week - so was already content with my effort here, but used the pandemic to start learning songs on acoustic to be able to play from brains, over 20 so far, luckywise @diceslinger joined in there wholehearted, plus started a bit on soloing, another thing i really wanted to learn for years... I own a few guitars but i´m lacking a singlecoiler, i´m really thinking bout getting a strat thats says Corona, California at the back of the headstock when there is bright light at the end of the tunnel.

That's good, funnily enough I know very few songs by heart. Just some easier stuff (Ramones mostly). I'm very reliant on having tabs in front of me. I've heard other heavy rocksmith players have the same issue.  Regarding covid, hopefully we all found some optimism and made some lemonade out of the gnarly lemon that was 2020 for the globe -- for me that was getting to the point where I could reasonably play Aerosmith or even this Opeth track (sort of....) while being a guitar newb.

Speaking of which an Opeth update!

3 hours ago, diceslinger said:

Rockin Around the Christmas Tree sounds like a good pick.  I was thinking we should try something jazzy, and all of those 7 chords in Rocking Around should fit the bill. 

Some of my family in other states are planning a Christmas Eve Zoom call with each household doing a few readings, singing or playing some music, etc.  If I really get this one down I'll blow them all away with a live performance   With that in mind, do you mind if we take until Christmas on this one?  

I also second the request here + wouldn't mind seeing some more jazz selections if folks have them. I tried some Django and got my butt kicked.

@RodmanWow seeing you push yourself on that, maybe I should take a stab at it. But I think getting above 80 -> 90 for me will be a serious lift.

@MiksonI did say the song was pretty hard but I'm competing in the intermediate bracket, so for me just about any song in that next up is going to be a pretty challenging tab.

Just want to say I'm glad I joined this championship and I encourage lurkers to get in on the action. I've been playing about 13 months now, started in May 2019, then quit in November 2019 and resumed due to covid in April.  Covid has made me accelerate majorly and this championship forces me to play stuff I might not gravitate to which is important for improving. 

This is a hard song! I'm happy with this 80! This week I'm playing on a 76 CBS-era HT Strat:

Took a stab at advanced this week!