Rodman

2 hours ago, drand said:

Woow I am amazed, how??

I have been trying to make this one but it just sounds scrambled and I don’t even know how to salvage it

Ah c'mon don't give up on it! Would love to hear version of yours!

Never forget:

Your heart and your soul for that damn Rock'n'Roll!!

Rod

What do you do when you got absolutely no time and are behind everything ?

That´s right:

It felt like i was shy that one. How can i not go butchering that manifest? Can´t... not.

Well me on 2 guitarlines, the bass, my daughter doing vocals in 2 takes.
First time i programmed the drums in Reaper, some mixing.
I especially had a lot of fun with the solo... i wanted to get it really radio-unfriendly, and that didn´t take long. It´s really easy to work on something like that when one exactly knows what to do, and that is not me.

Enjoy and tell me what you think-

Rod.

3 hours ago, Daz40 said:

Ask and you shall receive

CustomsForge | Ignition4 Search | Ozz Guitar - Master Alternate Picking.Pt2 by Daz40 

Thank you Sir!

Are you ok that i add your files to the Shred Couses Page, or even more - are you planning to keep charting such and wanna join hosting the course on the page?

Those reports are none of my bussiness.

Just don´t do it - we would lose a lot of loved CDLCs and more importantly you as a rock in the comunity.

Rod.

29 minutes ago, AndreCardoso said:

Is there a thread with all the exercises?

Yes! See my signature.

I am gonna add @ Daz40 s exercises there also if it's ok with him so we have a place with the resources.

I have a lot of more exercises coming up, just gonna improve on the actual ones a bit more, flooding is dangerous also maybe there.

9 hours ago, Daz40 said:

Make a list of what you want to practice and split your practice time between these things, and stick to them for a while
If you jump between exercises to much you will never master any 
1.Left Hand
2.Right Hand
3. Scales
4,Chords 
5.Ear Training
6.Arppegios
7.Tunes and Repertoire 
8.Timing
9.Timing
10.Timing

for each there Is sub categories, 

And always put everything into a musical context
 

Psss... please upload the Trip Bursts !!!

20 hours ago, jasmith85 said:

I’d thought I’d ask this…. Overtime I’ve noticed my playing is getting worse not as quick and responsive. I don’t know if it’s the Guitar and the RGT1221 isn’t right for me and might look at a AZ2402. But I’ve only mainly played Rocksmith not practising outside of the weekly songs and I think why my playing is going downhill, outside of the Championship how do you guys sharpen your skills?

Pfew.... i am going to write a not too long answer.

Even if you feel that way - i guarantee your playing is not getting worse while practicing - you might raise the barn yourself as you get more aware about errors technically and also listening to your playing. You might get better slowly, but you basically cannot stop your progress as you play focused...

There are 2 very different sides of practicing 

- the one is thinking about what you want to achieve, sitting in front of YT vids, guitar pro files or also training the things a real life coach told you in your last lesson. That is basically hard work and in greater parts the opposite of fun. If you focus on that kind of guitarwork exclusively you are likely to let go, first stop practicing daily, develope pausing for the one week or the other and eventually put your instrument away on the long term. I am not trying to disencourage you or being rude in anyway but i do not know anyone (except professionals like Bernthi) who have kept up that on the long run. There is reason for that.. even when you chose the stony way there .... it´s way stony progress is very very slow, you are not talking days or weeks.

- the other is just playing your class in the Championships. The very easy way. You don´t have to think what to play, get a nice community and heavy motivation with your spot competing in the leaderboards and your calculated XP level increasing over time. Since i joined here i have been constantly working on and thiking about how to motivate us players to be driven to keep coming back moreless every other day, and for quite a lot of players that is working well. And you are getting better. Also usually very very slowly but without hard work and already doing what is fun - playing songs. The problem for really learning to play there is RS itself - by being very very forgiving in timing and by failing to show the rhythm pattern (i was trying to figure out a way to show the rhythm structure of CDLCs in an extra window while the song is playing for years, failed and decided to learn to read it as good as possible the way RS shows it) and it doesn´t really force you to work on sections - small sections with many notes (like solos) can be played over just doing a bit what could be on screen there  somehow and depending on #of notes in the whole song will not be a probelm in the overall SongAcc %. Third the mixing of the guitartone by default is incredibly low-volume in contrast to the bg song playing - so it does normally NOT annoy you to play totally wrong as long there are not too many misses... Those 3 points lead to you get better in finding the right spot for your fingers, you get better in switching chords but you do not get payd by being able to just play songs OFF RS, or in other words please record your guitar/bassplaying playing along your CS-song of the week and then listen to it without the background. I recommend you sit down before pressing play. Have fun. That is why i started to re-challenge everyone interrested here to go for coversidechallenge. It´s a small hurdle to take to start with it cause you cannot only plug and play but there you get payd for your efforts by really playing a song(part), you can start with easy songs with only a few chords getting used to stick to the rhythm. You also learn songs to be able to just play them when a guitar is lying around somewhere (my main goal - after 10 years of the CS i could not play one song by heart, now since Jan 25 around 10).

But the one way does not exclude the other - why not participate in the CS maintaining the fun and on top of that establishing a practice routine for goals and weaknesses!?

What you really really need to do is make sure you eliminate pure technical errors in holding the pick, placing your fingers and your thumb and your picking hand technique. There is not the one right technique, but if you go through YT for an hour you´ll likely have what´s good for you (also a bit dependent of what playing style you focus on more rhythmstrumming or more shredding eg)... that - you can then focus on playing whatever you are just playing and that will improve your playing a lot without a lot of effort. Keep in mind correcting your hand/fingerpositions will take 4-6 weeks until its the new natural way to go for your hands/fingers/muscles.

Not too long i hope. Thinking.

Rod.

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bass

Prepare for woooooooooooooor

Hell yeah! (8.5-9)

the BodomBoys

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i think it´s (8) - ultra fast tripplets, fast switches, fast solo

fast fun!

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OH YES!!!!! real music there!!!! sweeeet. love that. must listen to em guys. always ignored them. (7)

been laughing my way through... brilliant! great one also (3-3.5)

wonderful beginner song

(3)

recognition issues. cooool song, love that, you should check the vid

On 4/12/2025 at 5:05 PM, Willyam said:

Nice setup!!!

@emu does say thx!

mine is a bit messy right now

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but i love it

Great week! Thank you @ cacahuate51  - only bangers on the lineup... oh boy.

E Callboy with Elevator Operator is my most fav musicvideo of the last year - you might wanna check that out.

For the cover chalenge of the week - i read that a lot players are on an unfinished cover ...
So the challenge of the week - FINISH YOUR COVER PROJECT or create any.

sooo hard... +

+ rhythm

Some scores from a nice multiplayer session with @ emu

Keep shredding!

10 hours ago, Willyam said:

So annoyed! I can't create my cover for Black Holes! I recorded different takes for lead/rythm/bass and i don't manage to set all these takes to the same tempo with Ableton! I'll try to read more tutorial but really I want to spend time playing guitar, not with figuring out software!

9 hours ago, AndreCardoso said:

I've been wrestling with Audacity because my cover for Space Oddity is not in the same tempo between bass and rhythm (and now I'm experimenting with tempo/rhythm effects  )

It's been a learning experience 

Don't know if the result will be usable though

Boys! Been there - pain pain pain, but it´s easy to fix:

DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations, so all the software mentioned - Abbleton, Audacity, Reaper, Cakewalk....) behave unexpectedly there... 

DO NOT EDIT THE BMP IN ANY OF THOSE AFTER HAVING ANY TRACKS with guitar or bass or vocals IN THERE

The easy workflow to avoid heartattacks there is:

1) Record your tracks using a metronome or backgroundtrack or along the original song to have it syncable in the same bpm
2) Create a project in your DAW
3) Enter the BPM according to your recordings (either check songbpm.com or by tapping the tempo (type tap song tempo into goo) or if you play along Songsterr or Ultimate Guitar or a Guitar Pro Tab you get the exact bpm right there (recommended)) - you only have to enter the bpm if you plan to add a mididrumtrack or any other time-based track in your Software, if you only use your recorded tracks and maybe the track you did play to - THE BPM IN THE DAW is not used.
4) Paste all the tracks you recorded to your DAW and sync them (do not stretch them, just match the start) - and a good tip for that is start your recording with 4 clicks (precount) so you can just sync there and you are good.
5) adjust volume of the tracks, add effects if you like and
6) render the output file

What does not work:
- recording DIFFERENT tracks WITHOUT caring for tempo (metronome etc) amd sync them for tempo afterwards.
That does not matter if you only record one track, and a workaround is also record one track and record the next ones (eg vocals) while listening to the first as backing track.

Happy covering. If you need any advise just shout.

Rod.

11 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Most likely no one / looks like A.I used your picture as your score even though it says satinuke.  Just try to not post scores from other songs or table scores cause it seems to break it. (unless you want to be sneaky and win for that week)

Hopefully it wont count this picture aswell since most of its blured out but who knows. 

The main problem with ai from what ive seen is it automatically pushes the scores...I think it would make organizers life a lil easier if there would be a button for it to only do that once it gets pressed.

This would allow the host of the week to precheck the scores first and see if theres any invalid ones such as yours and mark it before pressing it. Cause right now you can make them invalid but doesnt matter once they are already on the table..

Or maybe it is set up that way and one of the organizers is just pressing gather results without checking first idk. @ avastreg  would know though.        
 

Yeah. the ReactApp is really on the forgiving side reading songtitles and puts like shredscores it in wrong shelves a lot ...
 

It´s a brilliant feature that scores are auto-added and do not have to be approved manually.
We shall work on making the detection-routine more accurate, i know @ avastreg  is constantly on it - THX!

I´m thinking on a blacklist also eg for the SHRED scores so those shall be detected right and ignored.

STILL - EVERY PLAYER shall check her/his scores in the leaderboard and report errors.#

When there are errors we admins just delete them from the lb and mark invalid in React, if there is a high score deleted from a player we shall check the list in REact if there is a score from that player for that class+path and enter that one manually for now.

Rod.