Rodman
Posts posted by Rodman
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27 minutes ago, Vodka said:
I just burned out a little. I feel like imma not getting it out a bit. So I slowed down a little.
13 minutes ago, jasmith85 said:Same here, I’m burned out and when I’ve been playing I’m trying to focus on practising just getting better faster cleaner rather than just playing song.
Take it easy boys!! Just make sure you do a run or two each week to keep the routine! We love you being here!!!
You deffo Rock!
Rod.
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very very cool songwriting. fake-complexity
reminds me of playing Silvera from Gojira the first time (lead). wonderful
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wow lead is even harder. That song id great - made it straight to my favs
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30 minutes ago, drand said:
This is so cool man!! Again you made it your own, always end up surprising in some way! I feel like there’s this very Rodman vibe in all your covers, idk if it’s like a vague reggae undertone or what? Idk sounds like a smile
Great reverb on the guitar in the beginning, sounds cleaan and great sound on the bass, you can actually hear it unlike mine
The last part goes hard!! Is that a …vocal solo? 🫨 buuurning on the insiiiideBuurningbbbuurningontheInSidee
I think there is one part where I just hear guitar on right ear and left ear feels empty, I think I woulda liked that more if it was just the beginning bit then it filled out both sides
Lots of texture here, new drum plugin is heaaavy
& Do I hear under the bridge man making a feature?? Guitar at the end flies to the moon with some epic feedback to top it off, yesss 
this is so complex I can’t even catch everything damn
Ah.. thx! complexity or random miss of structure
The bassRodman here - ok ... yeah. Yeah - i gotta start panning PARTS of tracks - that´s what i am missing myself a bit, sometimes throwing the lead in the middle when there is no vocals or something.
Vocal solo - sure - when you are performing lowlevel - do it proud like god Wow you heard the under the bridgeguy there - yes, he is.
I really had to rush rush rush and finish cause i wanted today and tomorrow to compete. Vocals should have been cloaked with a ton of effects ... but sorry i somehow never do that.. probably a note to myself to keep working on those lazy untrained vocalcords of mine.... idkGuitar in the beginning... yeah - a part i know how to prodice by now - 2 guitarlines panned extremely to opposite directions... they both get ALSO sent to reverb/delaytracks panned to the OTHER opposite
direction.... creating so much room in the middle.
How long did it take to make yours - it´s so cool!
Rod
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lovely music, hard to play indeed (9)
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wow - quite some energy there in that song... opposite that i remember from the boys seing them live quite a few times... hmmm cool
not easy on sightread
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well.... @ drand you scarelessly open doors i would not have come close oh boy oh boy... Now that was really really a lot of work, like 10 hours, and i´ve been rushing every bit there
Bah - a whole song with a ton of guitar lines, bass, drums, quite some parts and haaaard lyrics... no i didn´t strip it down in no way
So ..... that´s already quite a project .... 13 tracks needed. What did i do?
Check the tabs .... go to sleep desperate.
Dreams about arpeggiounicorns that drop the riders over and over...
Midi drumline for a start.... and started recording Clean Guitars.... Bass.... Lead Guitars ... Rhy Guitars .... Missing partsI followed the original tabs closely until the end, there i had to do some stuff of my own.
Vocals Pah.... before i even started to do recordings my voice began do decay .... really really hard there.Threw that all into Reaper, heavy mixing - panning on the guitars that are doubled most of the time (not copied, played twice) to open the space for teh voice, experiments on the drums - ended up using that wonderful IK Modo Drums Plugin - chose the Studio Kit for that one.
About no effects used, i really should on the vocals maybe, yeah.
A lil mastering (mainly keeping all safe below cliping)Enjoy and hit me hard
Rod.
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3 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:
Kind of surprised not that many posts this week, I wonder what's up.
Well on my side i´ve been challenged to do a cover of a whole complete song brrrrrr. Scary and timeconsuming
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37 minutes ago, drand said:
I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!
This is all I hear when I play back my singing
last step is always to lower it a couple dB but was fun making this one
Are you kidding me! HOW! What a cool groove carrying me through that song - i absolutely don´t know the original - and i don´t think i have to ..... but i think come close to your quality work there will be more than a challenge.... however see us suffer and fail!!! BRAVO
COVER OF THE WEEK IS CLEARLY CALLED:
THREE DAYS GRACE - GET OUT ALIVE-
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3 hours ago, Willyam said:
I liked it a lot. Actually went to youtube to listen to the original just to compare
I really like a retake rather than just a copy, thumbs up!
A little feedback for your sake, do what you want with it:
1) - playing the same chords for 1mn was too long for me, especialy in the age of Shorts
. I've found an unplugged performance of aha and he starts singing after 15s.
2) - i would have changed a little the melody to accomodate the singer's voice, it felt a couple of notes were too low pitch for her range.
3) - Last one I'm not sure at all since I've never processed vocals but maybe adding a tiny bit of reverb? what do you think?
Oh thank you! Please keep that coming!!!!!!
1) No - that was on purpose ... it´s one verse and one chorus - we play guitar here so you will be hearing guitar. That the minute there feels a bit long is the tribute to purifying it to 4 chords. I normally would have played the signature piano melody there - but as stated above experiment was as tiny as possible.
2) Yes - and as she sang after i did the guitar recording that would have meant going back to the starts which is always an option. Thx for having good ears and lending them.
3) checking whats on there...
small project overall
on the vocals there is only subtle mixing with a bit of reverb also
Mastering is also subtle mainly avoid clipping and background noises, and a bit of finetune
Yeah... i´m only starting on all that - i shall try to push on vocal effects a bit
Thx
R.
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On 5/2/2025 at 11:26 PM, drand said:
Why the scream at 1:49 goes so hard tho?? Deathcore Rod needs to do some Slaughter To Prevail
And the solo is impressive as hell
I def can’t pull that off
I figured out how to record Rocksmith with OBS this week and yeah the difference between using a metronome/drum track and just ripping on RS is very noticeable on playback
Hahahaha.... well it was in the middle of the night and i had to be quiet - so i quietly recorded 3 vocal lines - a "normal" one, a really high one and a growling/shouting one.... as soon as i accepted i was in the shit i was freeeee
so the growling one that would have never made it - made it to the show
Yap and thank you - the solo there is my ankor also - it get´s even more impressive when you listen that there are 2 guitars (seperate left and right speaker) and they play very very much the same in the solo section. Not all hope is lost
Rock hard and give us new covers soon!!!
Rod
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way better
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oh yes ... havent heard that forever - very cool tune, Fatboy forever!!!
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cool song
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ok... definitely a few big lessons learned....
LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK - BAD RECORDING!
So... i only share this because it holds important educational info for me, and i spent 10 hours or so that week trying to somehow get things together there. Failed.
Well, that song caught me, and after spending those hours competing on it i could play the riff, the rhyrthm, the bass quite well, everything except the solo (which does in no way matter here). So before going to sleep i just hit record, did 2 or 3 takes on lead, 2 on rhythm, 2 on bass playing along with RS and sang some bad lyriclines for fun.... and was happy.
When i sat down that changed .... Recording without starting clicks makes it a pain pain pain to sync the START of each track - when things start late (bass, vocals) and you have a song that has no (like here) clear 1-beats to hold on you are out in the shit from the beginning... i think it was 2 hours until i THOUGHT i had the tracks matched up.... then i added drums and was very very unhappy how not in tempo my guitar lines and even more the bass were thats because there was NO METRONOME while recording .... playing along RS made me think i am quite well following the rhythm, and as i am playing over my amp with hearable volume all the time - live it sounded really ok - but matched with any 2nd track it´s unusable to have a synced recording. Brrrrrr.
So i tried everything - low volume bass, rhythm, with any of the lead tracks - no decent result whatsoever possible. Sometimes i´m late, sometimes i am way earlier than the other track... ok - so to close the file i downmixed (no effects, no mastering or whatever) 2 lead guitar lines with vocals and drums, (and a bit brass at the end) to always rememberRECORD WITH METRONOME
START YOUR RECORDING WITH WHATEVER CLICK OR NOISE SO THE TRACKS CAN EASILY BE MATCHEDRod.
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1 hour ago, drand said:
What a vibeee
but I have to say I do love a good ballad!!
Y'all really made it your own here, always impressed with your ability to understand a song beyond the tabs and get creative, I think Izz is on to something though I think there is room for a little more razzle dazzle on the guitar
No doubt about that!
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updated with @Daz40 OzzGuitar Excercises!
Thx m8-
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On 4/22/2025 at 1:07 PM, Shroud said:
I am having second thoughts... maybe I should pick up my guitar more often and try out some of your exercises
How do these work actually? Do you put them in the game the same way as normal CDLCs?
Do you slow then down from riff repeater and then gradually increase speed, or does each exercise include different speeds and you pick/repeat one section appropriate to your level?
NO!
I made them in so many speeds so you don´t need the Riff-Repeater. Just put them in the dlc folder (you can use a shred subfolder if you like), they will show up and - the upside of not RR-ing is they will show you your progress by acc%Rock and tell us about your progress!
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On 4/21/2025 at 2:21 PM, Yolo321 said:
Following Bernth routine and exercices have skyrocketed my technical level to something i never was able to reach. After stoping for a long time, i don't really have the motivation to start it again and stick to it. Somehow, starting rocksmith is giving me this energy and consistency, i'm glad i can find these exercice here, Thanks for doing these !
Sure thing - keep us updated - maybe you can share a video of where you are right now for motivation and from time to time track the progress showing us your fingers fly over the fretboard!
Rock, Rod.
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On 4/28/2025 at 1:26 PM, Daz40 said:
I thought I wrote out a whole routine for you.
You want better technique I guess
you need a metronome and get your timing down . there Is no instant gratification as satinuke said You have to enjoy and endure the boring stuff to get betterI don't know what level you are at but I was 20 years In when I thought F!!! this time to get serious .
I went completely back to basics and rebuilt my whole technique
A good teacher Is always going to help you progress faster but they are hard to find especially in these days of Every other person on youtube Is trying to sell you their bullshit!I would start here
I use to spend 6 hours a day doing this stuff
Start with downstrokes 1 note per click maybe 60BPM try to get the metronome click to disappear. then 2,3,4,5,6 notes per click
do this also with upstrokes start slow and after a time speed it updo the same with alternate picking on single string up to 10 notes per click
Practice this on all strings everydayTrill with the left hand single finger and all finger combinations
try for 1 minute on each do a few different combo's a dayI run through chromatics most days, I will run though spider exercises when my hands feel stiff
Ladders on bass everyday
I will run through some scale shapes on most days
if I'm really on It I will go through all Interval and numeric combinations, and scale triads seventh's, forwards backwards, up and down Then coils
I actually find grinding exercises fun (sick I Know)
Oh and I am finally after years starting to crack sweeping,But mainly I'm trying to up my time On RS my sight reading sucks!!
my RS plan
1. Championship
2.play through all old Championship songs
3.play all RS1 songs sorted by difficulty all paths
4. Play all bands in collection with over 10 songs and rate by difficulty
5.Play all odlc and dlc from 2014 by difficulty.For your last part i just wanted to point out / make sure you know there is a list with all all all all all all ever ever played songs in the CS with difficulty rating.
nicely sortable by diff class or diff rating each class, updated every week
Most important points yes - to point out - you will not progress in days or single weeks, it´s multi-months - so you gotta fond a routine that is FUN also while practicing or you will stop. So - playing the Championships plus downloading and doing an hour of Shred excercises from here:
(i am also trying to collect other charters files there, hope i will update that weekend thx @ Daz40 )
... is a very good start or even routine forever. Youtube might help as well as distract you (there is a flood out there), a teacher might help but does not take away the practice you gotta do every day.
You need to make the way your goal.Rod.
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Brrrrr
Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 602
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Ah man! Thank you so much! That one was really pushing my limits there..... i am learning so much doing that stuff... it´s incredible. It pushes my playing really. Any week i do a cover the song of the week seems clearer to play.
Can´t wait to have you back full force here throwing in your covers and kickin some!
For the HumbleBundle - thanks yeah that´s exactly from where i gotr modo drums and bass and all the phenomenal instrtuments from SampleTank 4.... I shall be throwing in some someday maybe....
Rod.