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So nothing new to report yet since I just finally found time to investigate but I bought the CDLC Firekorn showed us and I've unpacked them to show the underlying code for those sections of interest in case we choose to work in parallel to resolve this: Video 1: Slash featuring Myles Kennedey - Back from Cali The code below shows the 1st occurrence of chord followed by HO (2nd chord of the chart) - Approx 3s mark in Firekorn's link. Link to complete Lead XML ! Chord ID 1 <chordTemplate displayName="" chordName="" fret0="-1" fret1="-1" fret2="4" fret3="2" fret4="-1" fret5="-1" finger0="-1" finger1="-1" finger2="3" finger3="1" finger4="-1" finger5="-1" /> ! Chord ID 3 --> Interestingly fret4="0" so it has a chord handshape despite being a single note. I guess that's typical of the handshape marking function <chordTemplate displayName="" chordName="" fret0="-1" fret1="-1" fret2="-1" fret3="4" fret4="0" fret5="-1" finger0="-1" finger1="-1" finger2="-1" finger3="4" finger4="-1" finger5="-1" /> . . . ! Hammer On <note time="14.854" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="4" hammerOn="1" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="4" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="3" sustain="0" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> . . . ! Nothing special here <chord time="14.623" linkNext="0" accent="0" chordId="1" fretHandMute="0" highDensity="0" ignore="0" palmMute="0" hopo="0" strum="up"> <chordNote time="14.623" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="4" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="3" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="2" sustain="0" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> <chordNote time="14.623" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="2" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="3" sustain="0" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> </chord> . . . <handShape chordId="1" endTime="14.797" startTime="14.623" /> <handShape chordId="3" endTime="15.49" startTime="14.854" /> Video 2: Tenacious D - Tribute I'm not sure I understood the Tenacious D - Tribute example , so I haven't explored it yet. Link to complete Lead XML Video 3: Tenacious D - The Metal The code below shows the 1st occurrence of a sustained HiE0+B12 following by HO to B13, PO to B12, PO to B10 - Approx 54s mark in Firekorn's link. Link to complete Lead XMLEoF Import - out of curiosity if it would import fully (which it didn't: ex: no handshapes) and just to get time stamp of sequence of interesthttp://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForgeStuff/Questions%20for%20CF/HOPOonSomeStringsOfChord-GitHubIssue153/Tenacious%20D%20-%20The%20Metal%20-%20EoF%20XML%20Import_zpsn7vtajjo.png <chordTemplate displayName="" chordName="" fret0="-1" fret1="-1" fret2="-1" fret3="-1" fret4="12" fret5="0" finger0="-1" finger1="-1" finger2="-1" finger3="-1" finger4="3" finger5="-1" /> <chordTemplate displayName="" chordName="" fret0="-1" fret1="-1" fret2="-1" fret3="-1" fret4="10" fret5="-1" finger0="-1" finger1="-1" finger2="-1" finger3="-1" finger4="1" finger5="-1" /> <chordTemplate displayName="" chordName="" fret0="-1" fret1="-1" fret2="-1" fret3="-1" fret4="13" fret5="-1" finger0="-1" finger1="-1" finger2="-1" finger3="-1" finger4="4" finger5="-1" /> . . . ! No open Hi E string <note> tags! --" OK, OK I found the open E note tag!!! <note time="64.382" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="0" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="5" sustain="0.409" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> <note time="64.382" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="12" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="0" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> <note time="64.519" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="13" hammerOn="1" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="0" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> <note time="64.655" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="12" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="1" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="0" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> <note time="64.791" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="10" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="1" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="0" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0" /> . . . ! No corresponding <chordNote> tags! . . . !Sets FHP <anchor time="63.565" fret="10" width="4" /> . . . <handShape chordId="11" endTime="64.451" startTime="64.382" /> <handShape chordId="13" endTime="64.587" startTime="64.519" /> <handShape chordId="11" endTime="64.723" startTime="64.655" /> <handShape chordId="12" endTime="64.859" startTime="64.791" /> EDIT For the life of me I cannot find anywhere in any of the difficulty levels, any <chordnote> tags corresponding to that these time stamps between 64.382 and 64.859. Amazingly the single notes only chart the B-string HOPO's. No sign anywhere of an open high e string other than in ChordID=11..... Can just a <chordId> tag author a note without a corresponding <note> or <chord> tag??? I'm really surprised. Nevermind I found it! þlus it makes sense there are no chord tags since the there are no chord boxes in this sequence. I copied just the code above into a empty template XML and it authors exactly as we see in You Tube, as shown in the image below. So nothing surprising here except maybe how to author that as is in EoF. http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForgeStuff/Questions%20for%20CF/HOPOonSomeStringsOfChord-GitHubIssue153/Author%20Tenacious%20D%20The%20Metal%2053s_zpsg2dbywiz.png In the coming days will continue exploring the following: 1) try to author in EoF the Tenacious D - The Metal sequence (via EoF) 2) See if I can make a continuous handshape marking (via EoF or tweaking XML) 3) Author the Slash - Back from Cali sequence (via EoF) 4) Take raynebc's solution to the Mr.Maton example and apply it to my Blaze custom and see if various effects in EoF or tweaks of the XML can provide desireable authoring (Will play with LinkNext and LinkNext tech note, play with sustain, unaligning notes by a couple of milliseconds, adding ghost notes and handshape markings, etc).

Thanks firekorn. You seem very well versed in ODLC, unlike me who buys tons but forgets to play them, and that is very valuable that you remember these so well. I'll buy these CDLC and examine them and their XML's more closely as soon as I get a chance. I'd like to try to test how to do the last video's high open e string sustain over the B string HOPO.

Let me know how I can help you test anything to spare you any effort possible. Thanks!

Hi @@raynebc and @@Alex360 I'd like to apologize to raynebc and Alex360 for my inconsistent participation in our community. Just tough to always stay on top of things for me with all I've got going on, which makes me respect you both even more for managing to do it! THANK-YOU! As a result of me not noticing, let alone answering, the above post from raynebc to revive the issues, Alex360 was not alerted that he was closing GitHub Issue #153 on April 4, 2015 despite it being unresolved. I don't blame you Alex for closing it, since I neglected to push for any status updates, assuming the issue was in queue at a low priority. :) The basic issue was the need from @@mrmaton and @@cstewart to apply a HO and/or PO on only one string or a subset of strings of a chord while the remaining strings continue to sustain. I summarize this whole issue in the Tech Notes Tutorial Figures 9 to 11 and the text surrounding those figures in Question 11, which is the question dealing with "Tech Note known limitations". At around Hotfix 1300, raynebc introduced the "LinkNext tech note" to serve a dual purpose of a) turning the subsequent chord following a LinkNext tech note into single notes rather than chordnotes in the XML and removing the note head on a subsequent note. The issue was that with this new LinkNext tech note, the note head randomly showed up in-game when it should have not appeared and other times the LinkNext worked as expected, removing the subsequent note head. In the GitHub ticket #153, in the 3rd to last post, (as well as in Post #21 here), I presented an observation of a failure pattern that seemed to indicate that only the second note head our of several behaved undesirably, but we didn't dwell on it because raynebc found a neat solution which he believed he could possibly implement in EoF. This solution was introduced in Post #29 of this thread and tested by myself in Post#31. The reason it was not implemented, I presume, is because we never got feedback from the Toolkit Developer's with regards to raynebc's implementation questions in Post #34 of this thread. So that's the background in a nutshell. Now that I am authoring a CDLC again, this issue has just resurfaced for me. http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForgeStuff/Questions%20for%20CF/HOPOonSomeStringsOfChord-GitHubIssue153/SatS%20Intro%20single%20string%20HO%20on%20chord%20-%20Question%20GitHubIssue153_zpsnph4ryii.png EoF Output (my full XML here) <chord time="4.563" linkNext="0" accent="0" chordId="0" fretHandMute="0" highDensity="0" ignore="0" palmMute="0" hopo="0" strum="down"> <chordNote time="4.563" linkNext="1" accent="0" bend="0" fret="2" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="2" sustain="0.227" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0"/> <chordNote time="4.563" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="0" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="0.000" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0"/> </chord> <note time="4.793" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="2" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="2" sustain="1.845" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0"/> <note time="4.793" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="1" hammerOn="1" harmonic="0" hopo="1" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="1.845" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0"/> Tweaked XML (My full tweaked XML here) <chord time="4.563" linkNext="0" accent="0" chordId="0" fretHandMute="0" highDensity="0" ignore="0" palmMute="0" hopo="0" strum="down"> <chordNote time="4.563" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="2" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="2" sustain="1.800" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0"/> <chordNote time="4.563" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="0" hammerOn="0" harmonic="0" hopo="0" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="0.000" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0"/> </chord> <note time="4.793" linkNext="0" accent="0" bend="0" fret="1" hammerOn="1" harmonic="0" hopo="1" ignore="0" leftHand="-1" mute="0" palmMute="0" pluck="-1" pullOff="0" slap="-1" slideTo="-1" string="4" sustain="1.845" tremolo="0" harmonicPinch="0" pickDirection="0" rightHand="-1" slideUnpitchTo="-1" tap="0" vibrato="0"/> The only change made was "The chordNotes that had linkNext status are made longer and the corresponding single note tag is removed. " (Direct quote from raynebc in Post 29. :) ) I simply extended the sustain of the chordnote to approach the next note in the chart. Given my CDLC's openB string anti-intuitive charting, ideally we'd get LinkNext to work and for the sustain to stop as the HO kicks in, which is depicted in my first image at the top of this post. I will try manipulating the XML manually a bit more to see if I can achieve this since the perfect solution you intended to incorporate into EoF is great providing there are no open strings upon which a HO is applied..... Any ideas? If not so be it... it shouldn't stop the wide appeal of this solution's implementation. Your sendspace project, raynebc, with initial solution you created in March 2014 in Post #29 of this thread is now a dead link so I will post here a link to the pre- and post- XML tweaks of the MrMaton solution you conconcted which generated this. It occurs at approx. the 14 second mark in the XML. http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/SmithyAnvilStuff/Authoring%20chord%20with%20some%20linknext%20and%20some%20HOPO/raynebc_moddedXML_test_linknexted_made_longer-in-game_zps3c870d72.png Looking at this image I am wondering if the "handshape" marking will possibly extend the lateral blue highlights to show that the chord must continue ringing during ther HOPO. I'll tinker with this too and report my findings here when I find time. @@fabianosan initially wanted to make sure this request was doable in RS by way of an example using ODLC, but I'm afraid I've run out of time to search, but what I can provide is a YouTube video of my current custom (tab here) in which the intro from the beginning to the 1:30ish mark is all about those HO's on one string of a chord and it sounds so awesome that I'm pretty sure it's gotta be found in many songs. Just an example. If someone wants to make a D-Dsus4-D progression, which is common, that could benefit from this logic raynebc proposed. Shall we re-open Github Issue #153 or wait till raynebc confirms the implementation of his solution? Fingers crossed we solve this in the short term. Would really be cool to have this! Including in my custom.... ;) Thanks again guys!! I think once I have to add the Let Ring open A string from my CDLC's tab, that's also going to be problematic... we'll see what combination ghostnotes/handshapes/crazy status might be able to achieve... Disclaimer: I didn't have time to reread mrmaton's peripheral questions peppered throughout this thread so I am only addressing here the orginal issue as documented in GitHub Issue #153.

Thank-you very much firekorn and raynebc for the quick responses! I will try this ASAP.

Hi all, So one of the joys of learning a song in RS is to see an intimidating flurry of notes and then with some Riff Repeating, certain patterns become obvious and the impossible becomes possible. What I prefer to do when creating a custom is give the user cues on how to use the optimum strategy to master a phrase. Example on my current custom is this. Messy in my opinion, not in EoF but in-game on fast scroll http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForgeStuff/Questions%20for%20CF/Partial%20Handshape/As%20Imported_zpskzb00xzw.png What I would like to do is mark the above phrase as a Handshape. Since the LowE and G strings remain unchanged throughout the phrase I attempted to see if I can provide a partial handshape to whatever is static throughout the phrase but EoF returned the following: http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForgeStuff/Questions%20for%20CF/Partial%20Handshape/Can%20I%20used%20handshape%20as%20follows_zpsejd4542f.png I guess it doesn't like partial handshapes. So trying to get my head around Ghost Handshapes I wondered if this could work with single notes instead of chords so I tried the following. http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForgeStuff/Questions%20for%20CF/Partial%20Handshape/Trying%20Ghost%20Handshapes%202%20strings-frets%20fixed%201%20variable_zpsq8krg1si.jpg but it doesn't seem the Ghost Handshape logic is meant to do for single notes what it does for chords since I now get the same thing as the first image except now I get the blue highway highlight due to marking the handshape. (As I was just testing the Ghost handshape idea I didn't get around to applying fingering to this above test since this idea didn't end up working) I then noticed this post today in raynebc's EoF Hotfix thread and it seems like either this idea has already floated about and is authorable or under consideration. I'm still not a hundred percent clear on what the purpose of overlapping handshapes is for. Is this needed in order to have chords inside of a handshape/arpeggio? Or for having fretted/open gems inside a handshape that aren't used in the handshape's base chord? I guess I would just like to know if there is currently a "best practices" way of authoring, through EoF, the partial handshape I seek or if what I want to do is not (yet) doable. I was going to try modding my XML to test how to shoehorn partial handshapes but perhaps I've been out of it long enough that my question is actually a noob question. Thanks! P.S. I guess a partial handshape, if it were possible, works fine for my example, but I recognize there certainly exists a more complicated variant to my example: If one wished to encapsulate a phrase in a handshape where there may be the occasional different notes on the same string as those cemented by a handshape (fingerprints). Example D/Dsus4/Dsus2 type shift like in PC Plum's Sweet Child O Mine.

Awesome idea. I've always wanted to see charter name next to each custom in Learn a Song. Now it's possible and doing in CFSM will be precious and quick! Thanks Lovroman for all work hard work.

Hi Maiden fans! For those of us who haven't followed up on Blaze Bayley's solo career after he left Iron Maiden, I think it is safe to say he's had a prolific and exciting follow-on. Here is a Wikipedia link to each studio album he has released after parting ways with Maiden. Silicon Messiah (2000)Tenth Dimension (2002)Blood & Belief (2004)The Man Who Would Not Die (2008)Promise and Terror (2010)The King of Metal (2012)Infinite Entanglement (2016)@PC Plum has gotten us started with a challenging and invigorating set of songs from the Silicon Messiah album. Blaze obviously had something to prove when he left and, in my opinion he's had a great solo career. Word to the wise, don't pass up on these albums and the corresponding growing set of customs for Rocksmith. Blaze has made me realize that there is great music in the Indie scene. I've added the following section just under the Bruce Dickenson Solo Album section of the OP. Blaze Bayley Solo Albums (Iron Maiden singer from 1994-1999) Motherfuckers R Us (from Silicon Messiah) - PC Plum - Submitted for RS2014 - v1.0 - RR - LRBV Born As A Stranger (from Silicon Messiah) - PC Plum - Submitted for RS2014 - v1.0 - RR - LRBV The Hunger (from Silicon Messiah) - PC Plum - Submitted for RS2014 - v1.0 - RR - LRBV Silicon Messiah (from Silicon Messiah) - PC Plum - Submitted for RS2014 - v1.0 - RR - LRBV The Brave (from Silicon Messiah) - PC Plum - Submitted for RS2014 - v1.0 - RR - LRBV Evolution (from Silicon Messiah) - PC Plum - Submitted for RS2014 - v1.0 - RR - LRBV Stare At The Sun (from Silicon Messiah) - Upcoming by Berneer - RR - DD - LRBV Have fun!! Here's a pretty terrific playthough of Born As a Stranger from @@Xyber for you to sample and enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90o2dgAOh3A

Excellent tutorial GTLO. I knew I wold manage to learn at least one new thing despite being familiar with this. I always wondered how people go about synching with no notes imported. Made no sense to me until you explained that you simply ensure the 2nd and 4th beats are typical in rock music and will form a consistent peak in the waveform. raynebc told me once that when you slow down the playback speed and since that is resource intensive, you can reduce that resource hogging by unticking the TimeStretch option just above the 100% speed option in the menu. It did help because leaving it on would show different synch every time I played back a tiny part due to being on a budget PC. Plum's right good charismatic narrator voice.

Hehehe divisive question :) I think I am in the minority of people but I personally prefer to have the arrangements as they are played live. So I like to know that I am playing the Dave Murray arrangement or the Adrian Smith arrangement. I prefer that over a fictitious arrangement. I know from a skill set and points accumulating perspective that may be annoying to have a solo in a rhythm arrangement, especially given there are only a few solos I can actually play. just want to feel like a Rockstar, not just say I can play rhythm components of a song I love. If I go to a party I'd love to have the skills of both a lead and rhythm guitarist to entertain people with a combination of power chords and well-loved riffs. Just playing rhythm might not be as entertaining for them. But that Is just my opinion. Of course which ever way you choose I will be most pleased with your gift to us.

Good job posting tabs for songs! Neat idea! We maybe don't have much in terms of ODLC but SmellyOrc has been heroically churning out most of the discography. We are so lucky!

Hi everyone, exciting news. I asked Blaze Bayley (former Iron Maiden singer in the 1990's) directly for tabs for his solo career masterpiece Stare at the Sun (see Link to YouTube in my signature to hear the song) since I could not find any tabs on the Internet. I asked extra nicely and explained the Rocksmith concept and he said he would be glad to ask a friend to tab it out for me. He is a really nice man! Received the tab last night and I will get to work immediately. Must admit, I feel the pressure now... :) Especially since he just wrote me the following: "Soooooo glad it's worked. Really looking forward to hearing what people think of the song. My Canada tour is already booked for next October so I hope to see you then. Cheers B" I guess I will have to make sure you all have great comments/playthroughs ... :) and encourage him to join CF in order to see them. :) I am terribly excited!!!!

You mean if there is a capo and you want to show what chord sound or chordshape is charted?

Wow, of the 99 Iron Maiden songs for which we have customs, 23 have been made by Nacholede. A huge ovation to Nacholede for his 2nd Maiden 3-pack in a week: This week he adds 3 songs from the new album: Empire of the Clouds, If Eternity Should Fail and When the River runs Deep. Epic! Epic! Epic!!

Sorry. I had a crashing issue I wanted help with but I resolved it. Unfortunately I cannot delete my post so sorry for polluting. Thanks for asking and once again great thread. Thanks for all the hard work.

Sorry for the disturbance. I fixed my issue posted here earlier. Please ignore.

Simply incredible!!! I'm speechless.

I am so upset, tickets just went on sale for Book of Souls tour for April 1, 2016 and the best I can find is the "cheap" seats ($108) in the remote very top corner of the arena. Or buy platinum seats for $475 in the bottom 3rd of the arena. Boy oh boy, miss a couple of tours and things totally change on you. I would pay that $108 to see barely anything but then I press "Checkout" and the promoter charges a $25 "CONVENIENCE FEE" ..... WTF is that? What convenience? Of saving them time and resources by buying online? I love you Iron Maiden, but I'm out. Speaking with my wallet on this one! I'll get front row seats for the eventual BluRay of the tour... :( thanks for enduring my rant... I'm incensed..... In an effort at great parenting..... I wanted to actually bring my then 4 year old to see Maiden which he loves to listen to with me.

Argh, double post.... sorry. Dunno why it this happens..

Hi everyone, Couldn't miss a week with a Maiden song could I? Despite CF having labelled me as a Touring Guitarist (LOL) I guess it's procedure to say that I'm in Beginner class but I really wanted to play this one in the higher class. Great job @@albatross213! This is a really fun custom!! Thank-you! http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForge%20Championship/Week%20105%20-%20Ending%2031Oct2015/CF%20-%20Week%20105%20-%20Iron%20Maiden%20-%20The%20Duelists%20-%20Lead%20-%20Attempt%201_zpsvatptcl9.png

HI Kryptonite, I not well versed enough to offer hardware specific advice, but something I realized is I no longer subscribe to the philosophy of "buy a starter hardware". Without necessarily breaking the bank, I think, why add more obstacles to the learning curve when the most fragile part of learning (the beginning), is the perfect time to be wowed. Sure some features and nuances will fly above a beginner or intermediate player's head, but isn't it reassuring when you know you are the sole culprit when facing a challenge? I could only imagine that under a certain price a hardware cannot be manufactured to exacting standards. As a kid I took violin lessons. My dad obviously bought me an economical $300 violin. It felt fine since I didn't know any better. Then my teacher let me try hers, and that thing sounded like gold and sang out and resounded like the Sirens in Ulysses. Even her expensive bow slid on the expensive strings majestically.

Happy Birthday. Any new guitar toys?

Has anyone noticed the stark resemblance in guitar riffs between Empire of the Clouds and The Legacy on the A Matter of Life and Death album. I first noticed it near the 6 minute mark of Legacy of Light. It's not only similar, it's almost identical. Odd that they'd do that.

Put like that in one big list it is amazing how much goes into making this site fantastic. Thank-you to all and congrats to all those promoted. They all feel like great choices. Some names I am not familiar with. Welcome. Didn't know Maveth was still around. Hi Maveth. Long time no speak. Glad you are back!

Thanks @@eezstreet, I will take a look Love Lightning Strikes Twice!! I am a bit busy at the moment but I can eventually look at it if someone hasn't looked at it yet.