I had the same EXACT problem you guys are having. Here's what you have to do. Now in the tutorial it said that you had to make sure steam was running and I wasn't really sure what that meant but got frustrated enough to go take a nap. Upon waking I thought maybe he meant that Rocksmith had to be open and running through Steam. So I tried it and it worked perfectly. No more stalling out with just amps and no fretboard. Ok. So. here it goes. Open Rocksmith through steam. Then minimize Rocksmith to access your start menu then navigate your way to through program files > Steam > Steam apps > common > Rocksmith 2014 > then double click the Rocksmith Patcher. A black command prompt screen or whatever is should come up that say something like trying to locate game, game found, game already running, patching. (I haven't tried it with the dll file) when patched it should say Done! you can now play custom cdlc! or something like that. I was very happy to finally figure it out. So I hope this helps everyone that is stuck at the amps and no music screen. Also to note : all of the cdlc songs that I have tried with riff repeater only allow for adjusting the speed NOT the difficulty, however I believe that to be dependent upon the creator of the cdlc. So remember, Open RS14 through steam. Let it load and all that to maybe when you see the learn a song menu. Then Minimize RS. Then navigate all the way to the rocksmith patcher file and run it. It should take you right back to your game through steam... Et Voila! you can play your cdlc songs =))
