sir_chancealot

I know this is old, but if you just want some blues licks, there are a bunch under the artist "You" (I think that is the name).  It's just short blues licks for practice.  Very fun stuff to play, and pretty short.  Not songs, per se, just practice licks.

I think I have northward of 700+ songs, dlc, and cdlc.  I don't have any problems with mine, but your mileage may vary.

You can leave steam installed, and there is a choice when you aren't connected to the internet to "Use offline" (or something like that).  Just use that, if you aren't connect 24/7 to the internet.

Two years ago, I wanted a new hobby, so I thought I would try out playing an electric guitar.  So, on Memorial Day weekend of 2014, I bought a cheap guitar and a practice amp. 

The only thing I knew about guitars were they had strings.  I practiced finger and strumming exercises for two weeks, and then bought RS1 and Rocksmith 2014.  Two years and 2300 hours playing Rocksmith 2014 later, I don't use DD at all.  (Well, 2211 in RS2014, and 84 in RS1)

However, it was invaluable when I was a totally new player.  As someone mentioned earlier, if I had been required to learn everything at 100% difficulty, and 1% speed, I would have quit in no time, as I would have been bored to tears.  It would have been more akin to work, than fun.

As it was, all those hours playing didn't even feel like practice, though that is exactly what it was. 

New players need that, unless they have the willingness and drive to be the best on guitar; in which case they would be taking lessons, and studying theory, not playing Rocksmith 2014.

I can count on both hands, with fingers left over, the number of songs I have actually used Riff Repeater to slow down and learn parts.   Out of 400 or 500 songs that I have, I can hit 90% or better on 75% of them, and 80% or better on 15% of those.  The only ones that give me trouble are fast or complicated solos, and arpeggios.  Again, only because I was too lazy to slow it down and learn it.

Oh, and apparently Rocksmith refuses to recognize the way I do bends.  Multiple computers, multiple cables, multiple guitars (3 I play, 1 right handed one for friends, and 1 bass), and I can just go ahead and count on it not recognizing any bends I play, although they sound fine to the ear.

However, with all that being said, I am VERY glad that we will soon have the option to turn off DD.  I hate having to go back into Riff Repeater and level a section back to max whenever I decide that a sip of beer is more enticing than nailing that particular section.  (As I said, it's a hobby, I'm not trying to get into a band.)  :D

If you are on a PC, I have found that if you go into riff repeater, and adjust the difficulty of the song with the cursor keys (one single push will do it), instead of the mouse, it will remember it, and not do it again.  Then you just back out of riff repeater.