Rodman

Happy Easter and happy aniversary you beautiful CS players!

This week .... 600 (!???) ... for me personally thats almost exactly 11years... if that ain´t insane sxxx... i really don´t know.

We got something very very very special for you up and down for us all....

ALL ONLY UNRELEASED SONGS - ESPECIALLY CREATED FOR THAT VERY WEEK

I didn´t have to ask long.. after tellong what was my plan it went whooop - Miks and Caca instantly joined in and for bass i wanted to have an BassCDLC Allstar in the boat and so the legend @ JamesPrestonUK  did some Stievie W. for us. It was planned for MC but SW went easier on us than expected that time - so bass songs got setup 5 mins ago again... and order should be ok but might be subject to change.

I would like to have @ Mikson  and @ cacahuate51  to talk about their choices for themselves for me

for MC ... i knew MC files are a lot work so many weeks ago i decided to go for some real MC creating some Nita Strauss for us. I have seen her live as the guitarist of Alice Cooper i think 3 years ago... a Shredgoddess with a rhythmheart.... gotta love that. I am not sure about the tones, file shouldn´t be too bad. As always - give us feedback - we will fix all within the week!

Second.... for 10 years i was trying to get a CDLC of one of my fav songs of all time - Wanted Man by the Last Internazionale. Saw those guys 10 or 11years back at a festival, afternoon session in the sun.. and totally fell in love with that song... There is no tab whatsoever out there of that. Some wrong chordfiles and AscII fragments only... i tried to chart that 4 or 5 times over the years... now when i had to i might have succeded. Enjoy - i will big time!

For COVER Challenge we have maybe the best Pop Song of all times... The verse is more hooking and better than most of the choruses, known by really everyone... C´mon show us your version. There is the original by A-Ha, and also really cool by Reel Big Fish if you wanna start from a more punky vibe...
Let´s Roll!

Thank you all for being that outstanding comunity! To the next 600 -

Yours, Rod.

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!