someotherbruce

This was fun.

Will we count Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do for Intermediate Rhythm as well?

Had some more fun. And enjoyed breaking out my "Pandemic" guitar my son gave me. It's been a while since I played the Jr Jet.

Darn it @ aNDESmASAMUNE ! I think you are ahead of me by .3 points in Intermediate Lead! I think we are both competing in Intermediate Lead - I'll check. You did really good. That is an awesome score. You should have a nice cold beer and relax tonight. And not check the scoreboards at all. Nope. Not even once. Is @ aNDESmASAMUNE not looking? I might have to practice more tonight. Shhhhh.

A little better.

Will need to work on this one some more tonight.

And rhythm:

Didn't think I'd like this, but it is a fun bass line. I put a little bit of overdrive on my amp and turned the bass up.

I looked at the Intermediate song and thought "no way I'm playing D Standard on 9-42's!" I need to look for a drop pedal! Then I counted guitars. And hadn't played my Gretsch Junior Jet in months and months. So I yoinked off the Bigsby B5 Vibrato I had put on it a few years back. I had already set it up with a low profile wrap around bridge, so that was good to go. Yanked the strings off. Polished it. Hit the neck with tru oil. Popped a set of 11-49's on. It's got a Lollar P90, not a requisite humbucker. But it sounded pretty decent, and now I have a guitar for playing Eb standard, D standard stuff.

Very different style for me. But interesting.

This was fun.

Set to Attack Lead @ Mikson - what an excellent job making a CDLC for this. Each part was great, and it played well through my amp and through a low end headset. Having tried to make CDLC, I appreciate how really well you did yours now that I have a better feel for "meh" versus really good. (not that I'm going to fix my "meh" CDLC, but at least I recognize the good stuff!)

Enjoying working on this one.

Thanks for the info. I was able to create a CDLC. My timing is a bit off. It's an older song (1963) that kind of wanders around between 169-170 bpm, with some bars slowed a bit more. Need to spend some more time in EOF. And maybe set anchor points? Anyway, time to read some help files or watch some videos on EOF. The song seems good at full speed, but slowed down to 50%, it's easy to see where notes need to be shifted a bit.

I used EOF and Song Creator Toolkit in the past to make CDLC. I want to try making a new CDLC and was trying to figure out DLC Builder but I am lost. Does anyone have a tutorial for DLC Builder? A short youtube walkthrough? When I start up DLC Builder and go to Configuration - what should go in the Paths section for Profile File? On the main screen in the field for DLC Key - what goes there? I get that artist name, artist title and album name would be the file I am working on. If my audio file is mp3, do I have to convert it to ogg? Or does the DLC Builder do that? In EOF, where I add the 3 seconds of silence to the start of the audio file, how do I do that in DLC Builder? I am completely lost. aaaannnnndddd - I'm more confused. I upgraded my wwise. I found and set my profile. I used audacity to convert my mp3 to ogg. I created a psarc file - but no where did I see where to edit the file for note placement. How do I do the work that I would normally do in EOF? Or do I build my eof file first and then import it into DLC Builder?

Thanks. I'm hoping to free up some time. I think I did okay on The Astronauts Baja and The Bel-Airs Mr Moto CDLC. I went to a paid tabs site and had some good tabs created. I did miss marking the hand mutes on Baja. But I also did some CDLC from free tabs at UG, and, well, they are not so good. And I didn't know how to mark a slide on The Asronauts Surf Party, so when I play it, I kind of ignore my CDLC. I have a lot of learning to do, both in how to read tabs in Guitar Pro and how to edit them. Guitar Pro 8 looks cool, as you can synch a recording to the tabs. That's how I quickly learned the tabs I had for Link Wray's Jack the Ripper was missing some bars. I probably just have to repeat a few bars and would be good to go. Anyway, I have a lot of learning to do to get to a point that any CDLC I make is correct. Like learn a song. Edit tabs to make sure they are correct. Learn how to mark hand mutes, slides and vibrato.

I'm still playing almost every night. Playing really helped rehab my broken arm. It was broken at the elbow, and fretting helped get manual dexterity working again quickly. I have been focusing on lead guitar and playing The Shadows, The Ventures, The Spotnicks, the one or two songs by The Atlantics, The Chantays, The Marketts, ... Also trying to lean Dick Dale, The Bel-Airs, Los Tiki Phantoms. Basically - surf instrumental (no singing! no Beach Boys - although they're fun), and early instrumentals like Duane Eddie. There is only one Link Wray tune in Rocksmith, so I've wandered over to Ultimate Guitar to try some Link Wray. And other instrumentals like Bullwinkle Part 2, Malaguena, ... It's funny how you can hear a song. You can look at charts for it on other sites. You can play it and think it's right, but then try and line it up with a sound track and realize it's missing several bars. But anyway, I pick an early guitar instrumental or a surf song. I spend a week (or two or three) trying to learn it by watching Youtube tutorials, looking at bar charts, then going through Rocksmith at a slow pace. I need to spend some time learning how to make accurate CDLC, as some standard surf music isn't represented, and there is no Jack the Ripper by Link Wray! I listen to my part through my amp, not the tones Rocksmith has. So built up a pedal board with delay, reverb, tremolo (for the surf sound), overdrive (for Link Wray - might need to add a little fuzz), and a vibrato pedal that needs to come out of the mix. Thinking of adding a second delay pedal to get the Hank Marvin sound (well, as much as you can without a Strat and a Vox tube amp).

I know score is the same. Mastery only up one point, but streak is better. I'm not competing on this song, but it is worth the effort.

I really like this song.

Thanks for the instructions. I got RSMods installed. The profile backup would have helped when my profile got nuked a while back! I'll start poking around to test out the options. Thanks again.