diddie17

Maybe the plays through at 90% are helping more than I thought. Just before I shut down for the evening I had another go at score attack and whilst I still felt way out of my depth and like I was just thrashing around, I was surprised that I managed to get up a bit If I keep running through at 90% speed, maybe I can get up over 80% accuracy. Beginner Lead 75.36%

@ - You're absolutely right, there's nothing complicated about the structure of the song. It's just the sheer speed that causes the problem for me. I can play the song reasonably at 85-90%, but that last 10-15% is a huge difference. It's no problem though, I'm still practising it, and learning from it, although at a lower speed level. I'm working to miss the least notes possible at a full play through at 90% in RR :)

It might not be, it might just be that all of the alcohol that I've had over Christmas has settled in my fingers :). How the other beginners do will tell us if it's just me. I'm ok to keep going on it though, getting the speed up is part of learning. I had the same feeling that you @@diddie17 with this song : before my first try I thinked that it would be easy but rapidly my smile disappeared from my face... I am today confortable at the speed of 75%, and I'm not sure I will be able to play this song at 100% before next saturday. But I like this song and I'll try to practice more than usual. So good work and good luck to the beginners ! :) To be continued... Thanks @@Sebastien92. I've put some more time into it tonight, but I'm not going to submit another score unless I get much better. Right now, any improvement would be because I just get lucky thrashing away, and by chance happen to hit more notes than previously. I'll keep practising, but realistically, there is no way I will sensibly be able to play this within a week, neither my fingers or my brain work quickly enough :)

It might not be, it might just be that all of the alcohol that I've had over Christmas has settled in my fingers :). How the other beginners do will tell us if it's just me. I'm ok to keep going on it though, getting the speed up is part of learning.

When I saw the song I thought I was going to enjoy this one. In reality though, it's way too fast for me at my level, I'm comfortable playing it at 85%, struggle at 90% and am totally lost at 100%. We're here to improve though and so I'll keep going at it :) . Just as a marker though and to give at least a target to beat, first score is - Beginner Lead - 63.28% (played on score attack easy, but I don't think that's an issue as there's no DD)

Had a go at the intermediate Rhythm. I'm not sure I'm going to make much progress, but thought I'd get a score up at least. Intermediate Rhythm - 86.84% Streak - 57

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone, It looks like I'm in good company with the day. Listening to Buffalo Riot on Soundcloud right now! I had a crack at the intermediate lead and am struggling. First score is here, but I'm struggling with the speed in certain areas, and also the note recognition at the standard D tuning. Intermediate Lead 79%

Thanks @@NoonyDeloony, I had a great birthday! In some ways not a great time of year to have a birthday, but on the flip side, I've never had to work on my birthday, and I pretty much always get to spend it relaxing and having fun with the family :)

Not a song I enjoy playing, but I'll get a score on the board. I like the look of the In Flames track (intermediate), so I'll see if I can play it, it might be a bit fast. I can always come back to this later if I struggle at intermediate. Beginner Lead - 98.15%

Just got around to the Rhythm sections - Beginner Rhythm - 97.09% Intermediate Rhythm - 95.09%

Well, it is ultra close at the top of the bottom :). I switched guitars to the strat with 10's on instead of the Brian May with 9's on to see if I could get better note recognition. It gave me a little, but not enough to beat @@franfit , only to draw, but with a better streak. Hopefully that's enough to take me back to the top by the tiniest fraction. Sorry @@franfit, although I'm pretty certain you've got more in you yet :) Beginner Lead - 93.29% - 148 Streak

I did have a crack at intermediate, but its pretty clear that I'm not good enough for intermediate yet. I still need my training wheels :). There were several sections of the song I couldn't get anywhere close to. I couldn't get more than a third of the way through on score attack, but eventually managed to get enough of the hard sections on "Learn a Song" to get a play though without DD kicking in. Intermediate lead - 85%

I guess I need fingers that move faster for Christmas. After playing this for what seemed to be a million times, but Rocksmith says 36 times, I got a small improvement. I'm not sure I can do any more, so I'll have a go at the intermediate and see if I can get a score that's at least not too embarrassing. Beginner Lead = 93.01%

These should help get us in the mood, at least if I have any time to play around doing the last minute stuff :). I thought I'd have an early go this week, but it definitely needs work. Beginner Lead - 89.38%

Been a while since I played after breaking my left wrist falling off of a bike. I know, stupid thing to do. Beginner Lead - 98.36%

At a subjective level, I just had a quick go on easy, and it doesn't seem to change my scores any, so probably it makes zero difference. I'll probably stay with hard, and use easy only if I can't get through a song without 3 big red X's :)

I could well be wrong, but I thought I had read somewhere that the timing tolerances were more forgiving on easy than hard and so even with DD removed I thought we were required to submit hard score attacks and not easy ones. As I said though, I could well be wrong, and I'm happy for someone more knowledgeable to educate me.

Last update for the week. My arms are tired and I've just had so many goes trying to improve by fractions of a percent. I don't think I can do any better than this.

After a long battle another percent or so. Not that it matters, but I don't really want to be bottom 2 weeks in a row :-)

Small improvement

@@Collision - Nice score, glad to see you stuck with it. I'm struggling with it a bit this week :-)

First worthwhile score of the week

@@Collision - Don't give up! Different songs work for different people. I couldn't even post a score last week, Just couldn't get to grips with it. I must admit I'm not a hugely competitive person and so it doesn't bother me when I'm at the bottom, but I do try to use it as inspiration to improve. I look at the improvement @@Smile has made and it gives me hope. Of course he practices until his hand is about to fall off. I don't think i have that dedication and time. He has gone from beginner through to MC in an amazingly short time though. As long as you can see any improvement over the last month or so then it's worth it! What are you having issues with? I only ask as it might be something like note detection or something holding you back and someone might have some good tips to help.

Updated score :-)

First score for this one. I quite enjoy playing it, but there are parts of it that are beyond me and even through the main section I struggle to keep up.