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MilkmanDan

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  1. Like the songs so much I had to bust out the guitar and try out You're Gonna on Lead: That's about my skill level for guitar... Fun to play but those bloody tiny strings cut into the ol' fingers after a while. :) --EDIT-- ...And that's clearly beyond my meager capabilities on a 6 stringer. What are these "chords" you speak of?!
  2. I think that is probably more accurate, especially if the Advanced bass participants agree. And it sounds like @@Rodman does, at least. Reluctantly. :) Sorry Rodman, but we can keep playing I'll Get Even even though it is down to Int now. Think I'm gonna have to look for more stuff from Cryptic Writings, too!
  3. After getting frustrated on I'll Get Even's detection, I went back to Bat Country: One note, pretty close to the end of the song! It was fully my fault, can't whine about detection though. Still, that was definitely the most epic run I've ever done on this song... Super pumped!
  4. I just tried several times in a row, and now I can't get the opening chords to register properly/completely. It is very bizarre -- the one on 12th fret D / 10th fret G hits. Then I slide town to 7/6, and it goes "Perfect!" "Miss!" right as that chord pops up. I think that means that It is technically registering the chord, but NOT the slide. Just tried it 5+ times in a row on both my 5 string and 4 string, and got 2 misses resulting in a strike on the first section every time. When I gave up and played through the rest, I beat my previous score but lower accuracy because I had 2 misses instead of 1: I know that it is possible to get that chord+slide to register, because I have that run with only 1 miss. Are you (or anybody else playing the song, bass path) having any issues in that part? Plus the instantaneous start? If anyone else is having issues, I might do a quick edit of the custom with an added 2-3 seconds of leading silence, and maybe removing the slide if it keeps being screwy to register.
  5. Got this out of the way so I can concentrate on getting I'll Get Even up to 100%, and whatever I can muster on Bat Country. Not a great score, but at least I hit the 100%.
  6. Tried Megadeth again to double-check my difficulty score on it vs. Metallica: I got robbed, I tell you. "Missed" the 3rd note in a quadruplet of the same note halfway through the song, when the 3 other identical notes in the same quadruplet registered fine (not to mention the many many other times that same note hit fine in the song). I'll get the 100 on it soon though. And I feel sufficiently justified in suggesting that this song is much easier (at least to me) than Carpe Diem Baby.
  7. Here's first tries (for the Championship anyway, played most of these many times before): Beg Bass: Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid Like I said before, it isn't a hard song -- but I'd put it on the high end of Beginner, if not easy Int. I think I missed one here because of detection, had just tuned my bass up from a lower tuning and it was a bit twitchy. I'll post a 100% at some point. Difficulty: 3 Int Bass: Metallica - Crappy Diem Baby Actually, this one isn't downloading for me right now. I'll try later and edit in score/comments/difficulty. Blech. Once was enough, gonna have to remove from the ol' DLC folder and try to forget this song exists. Difficulty wise, jumping strings in the way this is charted is not a real strong suit of mine, so this actually felt much harder than the Megadeth song to me. I think I would personally rate this one as low-advanced difficulty, but that is all quite subjective so I don't necessarily have a problem with this being pegged for Int if most people find the Megadeth song harder. But, worth seeing what the players in each class think themselves. Difficulty: 7 Adv Bass: Megadeth - I'll Get Even Missed the 1st-try 100% because I screwed up one of the opening 2-note chords. Be careful, because there is pretty much ZERO leading silence here, so you have to be ready immediately (although the opening note is a sustain so you can be a bit late and still get credit for it). Difficulty wise, to me the only thing that puts this higher than the Offspring song is the opening chords (which aren't hard). I'd give it a low-mid Int difficulty. Difficulty: 4-5 MC Bass: Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country I think that was with 2-3 misses, fairly random stuff. I'm not really smooth throughout, so I don't "deserve" a 100%, but with enough tries I think I could very well get it. Not going to beat the Double-Trouble Duo of @@then3verend and @@Blazikiller on score though, particularly because I won't even contemplate a Master Mode run... /bow to the Masters B) Difficulty wise, we've done harder stuff in MC. I'd be tempted to peg this as an average to toughish Advanced rather than full-on MC. Difficulty: 8 Fun stuff, gonna be a good week! -EDIT- Put in thoughts and difficulty on the Metallica song.
  8. What a weird week (in a good way!), when of the four songs selected, the Metallica song is my least favorite of the 4... :) Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid is really really fun, not difficult, but still a really great bassline. Totally recommend it for bass players even beyond the Beginner level. Try it out just for the fun factor! Megadeth - I'll Get Even. A song I like a lot, from an album with a lot of nice, later-but-still-good songs. In spite of that, I hadn't downloaded this one yet; just Trust, another favorite from the album. So, really glad this one was selected which will prompt me to get off my lazy butt and give it a try! Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country. I'd imagine a lot of Rocksmith bass players like me remember at some point loading up Rocksmith 2014 (before any DLC or CDLC) in the bass path and sorting by difficulty. And there at the bottom of the list (hardest according to Rocksmith) was Bat Country. I tried out the song in my first few Rocksmith days, and got my ass kicked. Played other stuff for a few months and came back to it -- and it still kicked my ass (but a little bit less so). So, I gave it a few days of intensive Riff Repeater time and was massively pleased with myself when I eked out a 95-96% or so. ...Fast forward to now and I still load up the song once in a while, but in a great testament to how much Rocksmith can really hone one's skills, I usually get a 99%+ without the song seeming very difficult (plenty of other songs have replaced it at the end of the "sort by difficulty" list in the meantime, like anything by Rush, etc.). Maybe with the Championship as motivation I'll be prompted to get my first-ever 100% on it ... but I doubt it. I still have a ways to go for that! Metallica - Carpe Diem Baby. Metallica has been pretty much my favorite band. A friend gave me a copied casette tape from his dual tape deck (high technology!) of the Black album (which had just come out) and Justice when I was in my early teens. Loved both of them, and loved the rest of their albums as I discovered them. Heck, I even liked Load when it came out. I was less enthusiastic about ReLoad, and St. Anger was at least different ... but in more of a lateral change in terms of my tastes. Death Magnetic kinda turned everything around for me, a pretty triumphant return to form. But Carpe Diem Baby is one of those "meh" songs on an album that I consider a low point in my favorite band's career. Still, I'd better download and at least give it a shot! Anyway, great songs selected this week -- let the festivities continue!
  9. I've only had one active bass -- my new 5 string Epi Thunderbird Pro. I still have the battery that came with it, nearly a year old, with fairly regular play. I don't ever leave the cable in when I'm not playing though. I was sort of hoping for / expecting a more noticeable difference in volume output between my passive bass and the active pickups. As it turned out, I don't really hear any volume difference when I plug them both in and turn up the volume pots to max. Extra wood mass and size of the Thunderbird (it's pretty huge) makes a very nice warm tone and much better sustain, but volume wise it seems like a wash. ...And in other news I did a New Year revamp of my computer / Rocksmith space a few days ago. Finally got my guitar neck-mount thingies anchored into the wall -- makes it nice and quick/easy to switch what I'm playing!
  10. Sorry, spam spam spam... But I couldn't wait to try it out in SA: Bit less smooth than the Learn A Song run above, but still gets me credit for the fraction over 99. I know I can push this up a bit, but can't speculate how much... Maybe I'll set a short-term goal of getting up to 99.4 or 99.5 in the next couple days.
  11. With RR going all the way to the beginning, I did a full playthrough at 80% speed and missed 8 notes total -- mostly brain farts. Then, I did this one at full speed: The slow run helped A LOT! Now I need to do it again in Score Attack to get credit for those fractions of a percent and see how high I can take it.
  12. Quick run through Dynamic Difficulty Remover fixed the Riff Repeater issue on Johnny B Goode bass -- grab here if interested: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2GRHIrNcVrSeFJ2VWlSNVJaaW8/view?usp=sharing Not changed in any way other than running through DDR.
  13. I hear some gaps in the chart also, seems like it could use a bit of adjusting. And I noticed the same issue with RR not stretching all the way to the intro also -- I wanted to play the whole song through at 75% speed or so to build up muscle memory too! I've got an idea on a possible way to fix it by tweaking with settings in the Dynamic Difficulty Creator/Remover, or barring that I may have time to actually open it up in EOF and check out the section tags. If I get something working I'll post a link here.
  14. First tries: Beg Bass Really didn't get into this song, not my cup-o-tea. Difficulty wise, I'd equate it with low-med intermediate. Difficulty: 4 Int Bass I liked this one a lot on the other hand. Difficulty about the same, but I found this one more fun personally so it was "easier" since I enjoyed it more. Difficulty: 4 Adv Bass I like a lot of metal, but Maiden never really grabs me. This was par for the course in that way, very "meh". Could do better but don't care to try. Difficulty wise, I'd say it fits in advanced. Difficulty: 7 MC Bass Harder than it seems it should be, mainly because of the stretches (I'm not good at fretting with pinkie, so this is good practice at either forcing yourself to do that OR doing quick frethand shifts to get it done with ring finger instead). And I like the song, so this will be the one I'll work on this week -- not expecting to give @@then3verend and @@Blazikiller a run for their money or anything, but I think I can improve from this starting point at least. Difficulty is comparable to the Maiden song, but for very different reasons -- so some people will think A is harder than B and vice-versa depending on what they are most practiced at. Difficulty: 7 (I think I'd personally give the tiebreaking edge to this one also, so I approve of it being the MC song)
  15. Ah, I see that now -- got confused by the gold pick master icon. Still, 99.8% is pretty jaw-drop worthy from me anyway! :)
  16. You and the Master Mode runs ... http://media.giphy.com/media/iiS84hOJXh1Pq/giphy.gif :blink: /salute
  17. MC Bass is hard. I gave it an 8-9 after my first trial playthrough, I'll revise that to a solid 9. I thought that the meedly meedly bits would get easier after some Riff Repeater time, but so far that hasn't worked out -- not that I've spend LOADS of time on it, but usually I see a very quick improvement in overall accuracy if I play something tough in RR and that didn't cut it here. Still a good song, and fun to try to play along with, but on those tough bits I basically just resort to putting my frethand in the right position and randomly strumming... I think 94% is pretty much my limit unless I make some major breakthrough on those parts.
  18. Been a while since I've posted thoughts on song difficulties: (bass) Beginner: Elastica - Connection I played this once, and I remember it was fun and not hard, but I can't remember specifics enough to comment. I'll come back to it and edit later. Played again. Mostly static frethand position, played on 2 strings only, not fast or any big stretches... It's harder than "Black Magic", but not much. Good pick even for true beginners. My difficulty rating: 2 Intermediate: Muse - Easily Maybe I'm having an off day or something, but this one felt *hard* for an intermediate. Almost as hard as the MC song, but I guess I'd rank it just lower because this has a somewhat more regular pattern / riffs whereas the MC goes out into left field in spots. But still, lot of fretboard shifting, lot of string skipping, fast and somewhat unusual rhythm pattern. My difficulty rating: 7 Advanced: Alestorm - Walk the Plank Not a big fan of Alestorm and don't feel like tuning down to C. On the other hand, I can just tune my 5 string *up* a half step and do it that way... I might get around to it. But not just now. MC: The Fall of Troy - F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. Like I said in my comment with 1st try score submission before, a lot of this song is pretty easy... And then it goes nuts for a little bit. The harder parts aren't too long, but they catch you unaware (or at least they did me). Quick, precise shifting and positional awareness up on the "meedly meedly" higher frets is needed there. I'd give it a legit MC difficulty rating, but we've had several harder songs recently, so: My difficulty rating: 8-9
  19. Did I get the right song this time? :lol: Pretty fun, 90% of it isn't too tough and then there are some brief sections of relative insanity... Little riff repeater ought to help out with those, and the song is nice so it'll be fun to get crackin' again.
  20. Doh! Didn't have much time for Rocksmith last week, and then on top of that I played the wrong Slayer song for my MC Bass "entry". I should have more time this week, and hopefully I'll download the right song... Gonna have to go back and play the other Slayer song too, even if it isn't for "points". :)
  21. Very late, lots of New Year stuff going on. But, here's a first try MC Bass: ...And now I think I'll practice it again. At full volume. So some of these annoying visitors take the hint and leave my house. :D
  22. I'll stick to MC Bass this week, although I did a SA run on Int because I knew that I'd already got a 100% on it: And main event: A bit tricky, but I got in the groove after the first bit and had that miss-free streak. I think this may be one of those songs where I struggle to match the accuracy of this first playthrough... I should be more solid in the early going, but it might be tough to match the run I had here. We'll see how it goes!
  23. My first bass was an Ibanez GSR200, and it is still my primary bass. I fully agree with the idea that one should try out several options and choose the one that feels right, but that wasn't a great option for me. My hometown was quite small (5,000 people) with no music stores, so I chose that bass because A) it was close to the cheapest option in my Musician's Friend catalog, and B) I liked the looks of it. But as it turned out, I actually like it as an instrument quite a lot now. Setup wasn't bad on delivery (15 or so years ago), and tweaking it to be pretty much perfect (took out a slight neck bow with truss rod and fixed some minor intonation issues) was quite easy. I actually really like the stock strings that came with it. I kinda prefer a low setting on the tone knob, and generally prefer the dead thump of well worn in strings -- so I actually am still using those stock strings today (15 years of off-again on-again play later). Balance is really good, it isn't heavy, neck width and cross section feel right to me, passive pickups are simple and perform more than adequately, etc. Only cons I have with it are that it tends to go a little wonky for a while if I change the tuning -- going from E Standard to anything lower than Drop D needs a few hours to settle in and be really stable, and anything really low like Drop C needs beefier strings to be very sensible. I bought an Epiphone Thunderbird Pro 5 about 9 months ago because I thought that I was due for an upgrade and wanted to get a 5-string option. I chose the TBird mostly because I like the looks of it, and again I don't really have a local music store so I got it by mail order through a store in the US when I was on vacation. Cost close to 3 times what the Ibanez cost, and I can tell that a LOT of it really is quite superior in construction. The neck, finish, bridge, tuners, etc. are all real quality hardware... BUT, the active pickups seem to have grounding issues and pick up a LOT of buzz and noise. Touching the strings doesn't help -- I can cut down on the noise by 85% or so by touching the metal pots (not convenient when actually playing), but not the strings or bridge. The tone and sustain are better than my Ibanez, but that noise is killer. I think I may have to look into completely replacing the pickups and electronics, because at this point I end up playing my no-hassle Ibanez most of the time just to avoid the LOUD noise. So, I guess I lucked out on a mail-order purchase, and then had a moderate snafu with the next one... Glad that you got to go hands-on and pick out one that really works for you -- I really SHOULD have gone that way also! (sorry to ramble) Oh, that reminds me. When I was debating about whether or not to order in the TBird 5 without actually playing it first, I was wondering how much of a learning curve the 5 strings vs 4 difference would be. So, I wanted to try SOME 5-string just to make sure that my brain wouldn't melt making that adjustment or anything. The shop (Guitar Center in Las Vegas) gave me a 5 string real-deal Fender P-Bass to try. I think it was over $2,000 list -- and in just a quick play on it, even I could tell that it would be totally worth it in the hands of a pro. It "felt right" to me bigtime -- although that price was way out of my budget range. One thing that amazed me was that I *suck* at slap/pop. I just can't do it at all on my Ibanez. But on that Fender, it was real close to being easy. Totally blew me away. I'm happy enough with my TBird Pro -- especially if I can eventually sort out the noise issue by some means that doesn't break the bank. But if I had the money to spend, I think I'd be real happy with a genuine article Fender.
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