TomSawyer2112

What do you mean "old man", how old ? Older then me ?

You're never to old to try some Buckethead :D

For the less "avant garde", you may try : Duane Eddy - Three 30 Blues

Well, the rules of CF are based on the fact that Ubisoft has to pay to buy the rights, so that they can claim benefits from that, and it would be unfair from us to give it away for free, which I completely respect.

Consequently, CF would risk lawsuits, even being shut down, if not kneeing before the RS creator.

Which I find hard to swallow, but then it is more intelligent to act with humility for the greater good.

So I completely agree to their rules for that reason.

If the CREATOR had to pay some fee's for the classical works is more than doubtful,

and you cannot blindly apply rules, there are always grey zones.

To understand rules or laws, which is always a must to accept them,

you have to raise above the simple texts, and question their causes, justifications, origins

and bifurcations with the different aspirations of people or organizations.

That's the responsibility of every single adult in this world, ...to make it better. ^_^

I can't see anybody having a copyright on Bach, 1685 – 1750, or other musicians without living heirs, 

long gone before some greedy guy's came up with the ominous copyright laws to prevent people to have free access to culture. 

Ok @@firekorn, let's not raise that topic again :lol:

@@hellohello I'm giving scientific facts you can read on Wikipedia and elsewhere, and I've never seen a 50ies, coming out of nowhere playing like Buckethead, it's not about will, it's about time and physical condition too, it's about motivation and interest, if it's not your main or only interest, maybe talent too, however as Steve Morse said talent is 99% work. 

What else can you add to this thread ? Your age ? ^_^

To learn a song, you have to know  its structure, and understand the variations in same substructures.

If the custom has bad section, I recommend you to import it back in EOF, and make the sections right.

(bass sections may differ sometimes from lead guitar sections, kicking in a beat/bar early or later)

Then repeat some sections (about 1 minute long) for three days, until the notes travel from short-term memory to long-term memory, and muscle memory (nerve system). This automation process guarantees that memorizing notes is stabilized. I doubt it can be done faster, unless you are experienced or advanced.

On this you can add more sections.

Looking at your fretboard instead of the screen helps to stabilize the visual memory, which later is recalled by your imagination even without looking at the guitar. After learning the notes, play the sections slowly without looking at the screen, until you get 0 errors, then speed up. This way feeling of the rhythm is improved. Looking at the screen is taking you by the hand to respect the rhythm, and that's why the ability to play away from RS is lost.

It's not how fast you learn a song, but how long you will remember it.

So yes it will take about a week to learn a song in a way that you'll be able to play it again even after several weeks not playing it.

I'm using this way, learning .i.e three songs in parallel, within a week, without ever losing it.

For youtube teacher of technique, I recommend Pebber Brown, he is not making false promises, i.e. he says scales must be exercised 3000 times to get automated in your mind and nerve system, that's why I make the scales exercises.

It has not been specified but the easy way is to:

 

 

The easiest ? What if your song has 963 notes?

with shift+L you can at least select a couple of similar notes and remove them in block.

You can all learn by yourself, but you need a hell of a discipline to improve, and a hell of a time.

This discipline in progressing, (not progressing is regressing), a teacher can give you, in shorter time, if he cares. 

But most care more for the fee. A routine teacher, nothing worse, in no time he will make you touch your guitar nevermore.

You need to feel what you want. You come home and the first thing you do is take your guitar? Then you should search for fellows who like to play together, it will give you a huge jump forward. Team play, the real thing.

You come home and watch your favorite series. Stay with RS, you are not infected by ambition. (yet)

Only now I noticed this post and realized that two of my CDLC's are here, but don't have them with the "you" name, so if I got it right, I should add "YouArtist: " and leave the rest of the name, right?

BTW, I'll be making two CDLC's with exercices from Michael Angelo Batio, should I notify you when I post them, or you just by checking the CDLC's list will see it and update this youself?

The "You Artist" has the only purpose of gathering exercises by known (and less known) artists, but some users may want them listed by the name, to find them. I usually don't start RS with a precise cDLC or artist in mind, and I forget them. 

It's up to you, you can use the real name.  Later, I list it under "You Artist", for players used to select "You" for exercises.

Hey, great thing. Here is my first practicing cdlc.

12 Bar Blues Comping in A-major

I wantet to add  a bonus track without any notes for improvising, but eof doesn't create any without notes.

I just named it You as interpret, is it right that way?

thanks for your contribution, I'll check it, to fit it in the right category.

for your bonus track, I suggest you copy any notes, and ghost them all, this should fool "EOF" :lol:

Hi, I suggest you take a look at my thread to standardize exercises, and hopefully find it useful. ;)

Anticipation is the key to smooth effective movements in all domains.

If it feels unnatural, this may be caused by notes played before or even after.

Anticipating a single note may not be enough, more than 3 notes forward and backward maybe too far.

Looking too far ahead can be misleading, and the automated FHP looks ahead too far,

more than several bars, more than a dozen notes, to position the pinky much to early,

ignoring bends and slides, and that feels very unnatural.

If you watch live performances, the pinky isn't used that much.

To get a good/better result, positioning sectors and phrases is crucial. 

There are two ways of approach. Working from top to bottom, or bottom to top.

Lyrics are often used to get the structure of a song to set sectors and phrases, and let DD do the rest. 

But identical/similar guitar patterns are not always in line with lyrics.

A pattern may start before/after a lyrics chorus, it gets broken up, and DD will consider it different.

Also a bass/rhythm part may not be completely in line with lead part, which again may break up similar patterns, 

if you use the same sectors for all instruments.

This is working from top to bottom.

As a result, succeeding in rising DD in one sector won't rise others. 

DD lacks responsiveness in most songs.

The main purpose of DD "to rise" while playing is missed.

To find out the specific "guitar" structure, I use "catalog", to find identical/similar patterns, which may repeat in different "lyrics" sectors.

Define these patterns as phrases, and then gather a same group of phrases into sectors.

Do this for all instruments. 

It's working from bottom to top.

It gives more insight to variations the artist put in his song,

and probably a better basis for DD to be generated in the Toolkit.

Truth is Fret Hand Position is a topic that should get much more attention,

specially in case of slides, and pull off/hammer ons.

You may test that if Rocksmith runs in the background, in a menu, it doesn't remain idle, it happens to require lot of CPU and GPU power for no apparent reason. 

if you have more of bad programmed software/tools running in the background requesting full power,i.e. toolbars in a browser, then you are not only rising your electricity bill, but also heating up the stuff in your PC will shorten it's life, because the electronic parts will extend and retract causing one day sooner than it should, a broken link in the electronic circuit, it can be in a chip, or the motherboard, a resistance or whatever.

Just browsing, writing, doesn't require more than 5% of GPU and CPU power of an I7. 200w or 20w make a difference.

Keep an eye on your machine with HWINFO.

thanks @PC Plum for your advice,

the green line should always be placed on a beat ( I forgot this obvious detail)

the dummy notes, I like it (also to define FHP), I always ghost them so no need to erase, less risk of forgetting to erase one.

when something weird happened to my custom, and I suspected something wrong in the xml generated by EOF, I generated the DD, than generated the generated DD with DD remover.

sometimes magic is worth a try ?

Or maybe it's a chance by millions that the ID's of an arrangement in the toolkit might have been used, (if not a conflict in the name)

I can't see no intention to insult, I don't intend, (you may p.m. me to explain)

and about the topic, it is re-oxygenated by a larger view, which was my intention, it has its own dynamics, which flows until closed.

I hope I see some educational stuff soon, to be placed in "my" Exercise collection.

Because as I said before, the topic really started in an interesting way, but was not followed by deeds, only by words.

Art, where does it start anyway, to question it's freedom, and make you pay for it ?

How much do documentaries pay to record native cultures ?

Copyright is a typical concept of the western conquistadors.

Everything has to be owned, land, art, nature.

Next will be yourself.

A country of SACEM has given up principles of liberté,

for the sake of profit, which turns Art into slavery, and like everything, drying it out.

You can hardly find any educational and transcribed musical material from France.

Values of morality may not be identical, but they can be directly discussed by the concerned people.

Which should have been the answer in this topic.

Instead, you prefer law, discussed and answered by non-concerned people, who have foreign interests in mind, like

the predominance of the legal system and their representatives,

the protection of the economic system and their leaders,

Culture and the people, art & artists, are none of their concern. 

The more laws they make, the less they will be noticed.

I may not be above, rather beyond, 

its really nothing I ever ask myself, if its legal or not.

I rather go for "is it respectful or not, would I be offended if it were done to me?"

So simple, this natural morality.

But this notion of freedom and peace obviously disturbs those who accept oppression.

I'm sure you will have a last word ^_^

sorry @@firekorn, I'm not in your line of first degree thinking,

to judge some and ignore some other of my quotes 

which leads you to misinterpretations.

I can't understand the need to simply transfer/copy a complete DVD/Book of an author.

I don't need laws to respect their work, and to outweigh if my action is going to support or spoil their effort.

My proposal for this topic is obvious - 

get inspired by the work of others,

don't ask for permission and

don't get blocked by not knowing who is or claims holding some rights.

Just do it with a natural morality based on altruism,

free your mind,

Music is free ;)

I'm currently trying to push the educational, teaching aspects of RS, 

This topic did not advance, ended up dead, because of a presumed violation of law,

resulting in self-censorship, instead of opportunities.

Most often it's recommended to have a wider view of things, no matter what they are called.

Law is a government language and as such, you should be aware of possible "newspeak"

Copyright, Trademark, Patent is all about disproportionate "EGO",

motivated by greed instead of sharing.

These laws may not always be fair.

A violation of law is not something that "is", by nature, that people can see or judge.

Only judges of up to the highest courts can do this.

And even then, its contestable.

“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.

Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.,

Justice is something we have to fight for, as well as Freedom.

Fighting means taking risks, constantly, it's not coming for free. 

That's particularly true on the Internet. And this site.

Most artists don't care about copyright.

Copying among artist is done permanently, they call it inspiration.

Worse, their companies urge them to do commercial conventional stuff.

That's why they end up with the music styles of the 60ies, 70ies, 80ies ...

Check out the reason behind the making of "2112"

Of course, big money artist, under heavy contracts and grip of managers have no choice, no freedom, losing their creativity.

They end up singing the same couple of songs, that's why Buckethead left that big business band.

There is no reason, why we could not use an exercise that may have been used in a book.

Some teaching DVD's use drum patterns, and do we have to be afraid that our drum pattern has been used somewhere ?

I suggest to avoid Trademark names in exercises and not to copy exact lessons which are not  declared free by the author.

Complete Lessons with a pattern of exercises accompanied by instructions and theory may have a copyright issue.

Let's get inspired of official teaching exercises, and build some of our own, and why not, work together, and forget the ego for once.

I'm not practicing law and I'm not giving legal advice. And I don't threaten anybody, either. ;)

I'm adding an opinion about how I feel on application of laws, not about theoretical writings, which must have a purpose of public interest. How about Monsanto's claims of copyright,  yes, it's about patents, not trademarks.

Ever heard of "externalities"?

Applications may vary from country to country, and investors will not claim copyright infringement in undeveloped country against people who have nothing to pay. They rather become busy in a rich country like Sweden than the Island of Réunion. 

There is a relationship between Trademark and Copyright, as one helps to justify the other.

Justice will also respond differently, depending on the pressure a Government can put on another Government.

Laws are made to cause fear, and to keep activities restricted to the few hands of business, preventing people to have free access to educational material and exercise and distribute their culture freely.

Copyright may have an indirect effect of limiting creativity (human activity) for the sake of individual greed. Just check out what a free artist let loose, like Buckethead, can create, instead of having his activity restricted by contracts with the business world. :lol:

And I'm sure he will not sue me for my customs.

If I'm making money by teaching kids guitar, using my customs, which I happen to do, would that be illegal ?

If the bank is busted and I can't have my money back, but I still have to pay back my debt is that illegal?

As a born Freebird, I'd rather follow David Icke's philosophy : I don't give a shit. :lol:

Probably the only way is to select B-Tuning (for Guitar), as the Bass is then almost always in standard B-Tuning of a 5 string bass

Spending my time each day

- on real training : exercises also away from RS : probably about 3*20min

- on learning a song to memorize : easily an hour

- on playing around in RS with your cDLCs : another hour

That's easily 3h / day - however very often / constantly interrupted by family business.

I never watch TV, not a single minute, wasted time.

My TV is Youtube.

Studying Music about another hour here.

I agree, this would not be possible with a wife. :lol:

When I do a custom (which I repeat playing ad nauseam before releasing),

the topics above melt as it always requires searching some new technique (i.e tones, amps)

That's at least 4hours a day, and I do nothing else then.

The kids don't care, but the dog starts complaining. :D

So that's it for this topic? It started really interesting and ended up in some weakly motivated self-censorship.

1. Copyright laws never had as main intention to protect the artist, but to protect all kind of investors (managers, publisher, distributors) to calculate their profits. The artist will allow, he wants to be known, the investor wants his money back, or even some of his lost investment on a marginal artist.

2. There is absolutely no copyright infringement by transposing a DVD from a teaching artist, publishing it for free and educational purpose, giving the teacher more visibility for his product : It's free advertisement for the guy, and his money-givers.

3. There is still no copyright infringement if there is a complaint against the charter or the site. However the site administrators are well advised to keep the vulture eyes of lawyers away, by prohibiting Brand names (Petrucci) being used in exercises.

4. There is copyright infringement when the court, at the last available appeal, has decided so. Of course noone wants to go all that way.

We can all borrow parts of exercises here and there, and noone will notice or look inside the cDLC, to claim rights.

Just don't use names. There is copyright on the "Name" not the exercises included.

Songs are creative, and belong to artists,

exercises are not, they belong to nobody anyway, they have all been done before, long before, 1000 years before, they are public domain.