TomSawyer2112

We must admit that guitarists are strange people, I remember talking to some real show guys years ago. WEIRD.

RS 2014 apparently sold up to 2,43 mio while

Just Dance 2014 sold over 6mio, 

So which music teaching game gets an new update every year since 2009

and I really have no idea what this music game is about, except it probably can be played with no guitar. :D

Luckily I hope we won't get a Rocksmith Disney Party :lol:

I got some thumb ache too, I wasn't relax trying to play beyond my level of speed, RS is an awful teacher in this domain.

Why does it only let you play the song slower in the Riffrepeator, and not let you reduce the BPM just a little for the real song.

I got some good advices from Youtube teacher Pebber Brown,

where to put the thumb, when you slide up and down the fretboard.

The thumb should follow the position of the middle finger. 

But when my fingers slide on the fret, my thumb often stayed in position.

Holding to tight.

My advice is, the thumb should always be able to slide at any moment.

I trained this, away from RS, and gone was the pain. 

I tried the video recording to play away from RS, and to stop / rewind the tabs. But with low obvious improvements.

But lately I'm currently completely amazed how easy I start to memorize tabs, and keep them memorized for a longer period.

It's songs that don't exceed 3 minutes.

It came as a surprising evolution,

I started to play a sector of tabs slowly in Riffrepeator.

Then I  played it without looking, until I got 0 errors in Riffrepeator, kind of self-made Mastermode 

Then I moved to the next sector.

Then I played both sectors without looking, until I got the beat right, and so on.

I also repeat the notes on an amp, without RS's stress of the real track .

It really feels different, it's more direct, you hear the slightest errors in finger positioning and string picking.

A learning software called "Guitar Scales Method" gave me the obvious idea.

The author explains learning guitar is like building a wall,

you can't build the second row, until the first row is dry.

You can't build on wet concrete.

That's however what RS14 offers : playing mostly on wet slippery ground, and that's why progression is limited.

In the future, we can always hope to be able to hide known notes, this way memorizing will be faster.

I still have a problem with speed, I just can't pass the 90%, but I'm sure, next year, I'll have that surprising evolution too.

Here's another guitar magazine "exercise" track I've done (more like an etude):

http://customsforge.com/page/customsforge_rs_2014_cdlc.html/_/pc-enabled-rs-2014-cdlc/glare-guitar-school-vol-3-guitar-inst-demo-r12916

Thanks for supporting this topic, I found another one now, now listed in the "Collection"

I never make requests, but if you ever have the time to visit my profile, maybe you like this classic, for which I can't find a tab.

And I will still have to wait a year or another before I can do it all by ear.

If I remember well, you have special abilities  ;)

I have ideas for dlc and I want to make them! how do I do it?

Check the Tutorials like this one

If you have RS12, the original, the cDLC are somewhat hard to find here, because many links have been gone.

If you have RS12, then you have the cable, in which case you should be able to find a very cheap DVD of Rs14, in a local shop where they simply want to get rid of their stock of cable-less versions.

Once you have RS14, the tutorials will make sense, and you will have fun. :D  

As usual in life, personal EGO is often an obstacle in a community to work together in harmony. ^_^  

 

@ @@TomSawyer2112 Thx guys. Removed those from list. It's quite hard now days even found any issues listed, so i think list starts to shrink soon, and that's awesome.

If you list a song any song which has an issue you should list the charter as well so they know there is a problem ( i.e. they get a notification if they are mentioned ) as I for one would like to know so I can fix it.

 

Right : I visit this page sometimes to check if none of my customs is mentioned.

I p.m. the charter to fix his Gary Moore: Midnight Blues.

Also it takes less then a minute to fix the missing bass tone, there is little hope, as he doesn't any update since feb.2014.

I will probably have to release a corrected version.

I adopted Aerosmith's Cryin' and fixed the name to avoid conflict with Joe Satriani's Cryin

Thanks for your confirmation, raynebc,

Yes, a GP file is not reliable enough to change sync in EOF,

Even with midi import, a GP wave export may not be synced in EOF, when the GP has tempo de-/acceleration (which is rare)

The 3rd solution is a bit awkward, but working well, I just had to write it down to remember it next time. ;)

It can also be used to copy a set of notes from one position to another with differently synced beats,

with the notes "landing" on these beats.

@@PC Plum, I got aware of the problem you report, and came to nothing else but your conclusion, so you are not completely  off the topic. ;)

After having

- synced a project in EOF (with a lot of anchors and different BPM inbetween)

- added silence and an offset to 0 (additional beat)

I sometimes would like to

- import a complete alternate GP5 for comparison

- import a part of a GP5 consisting of some corrected/alternate bars (i.e. Solo)

in an unused track.

Tabs are imported in EOF at the 1st beat, with the BPM of these starting positions. 

Am I missing something in EOF, (or has this been answered before ?)

but it doesn't seem possible

to import a Gp5 in EOF at the closest/next beat of the current position (green vertical line)

and respect the BPM of these positions.

Solutions :

1. In EOF "Beat - Push Offset up" to remove the starting empty pause beat.

    Import the GP5 

    Then "Beat - Push offset back/to zero" to restore the starting pause beat.

    (only possible if the GP5 starts at the first bar/beat, not possible to insert a GP5 anywhere)

2. Adding empty bars and pauses in GP5 (the imported part gets imported at the right beat)

    a single bar (in case of importing a GP5 starting at the first beat, which will be 2nd beat in EOF)

    19 bars (in case of importing a partial GP5 starting at the 20th beat in EOF) 

3. Starting a 2nd instance of EOF

    Import the alternate/partial GP5

    Copy notes and paste them at the current position (green line) in the 1st instance of EOF

    Locate the 1st Tech Notes in the 2nd instance of EOF, move the green line to the right position in the 1st instance of EOF 

    copy and paste Tech Notes.

Or is their a more immediate way ?

I agree, I have my periods, checking theory, correcting my technique, training scales, speed, doing customs,

and I feel the puzzle completing.

And RS keeps me coming back every day, as well as this site.

Before I was "running on empty" (oh, missing custom ;) )

RS alone won't do, but it's like a good soccer coach, who keeps players motivated.  

Back in time, early 70ies, so many children got disgusted first years to "serious" music by serious "teachers", meaning "Classic",

because of all this theory stuff.

And then you could not even touch the instrument, first you had to sing the scales / notes, my God I hated to sing.

Its like forcing kids who want to play soccer to study FIFA Laws and Tactics before even touching a ball on the Field.

And then when they are allowed to touch the instrument, the ball, you give them an American football.

Practice and Theory go side by side, little progression on one side gives little progression on the other side.

It is necessary to know how, why, when to use the theory, or else it will be quickly forgotten.

Ill let you adopt this i guess, ill cancel my thread and ill keep up to date on exercises and do my best to make some and label them under "You" now.

Don't cancel your thread as you can still update by adding some features.

You may of course use the little bonus arrangements I added. 

The user still has the choice, and probably will go first on your download pages.

if we agree on the name, I'll link to your page.

The sound bug doesn't appear as long as you use the delete button instead of the escape key.

What's that Sound bug?

Riff Repeator should have options to :

stop - forward - rewind, select starting and ending point A to B (and not depend on sectors predefined)

display notes also as a real guitar tablature (top horizontal scrolling), zoom in and out.

turn off Dynamic Difficulty.

hide known notes, to make it easier to play it from memory.

And then, at Ubisoft, did they ever hear about "plugins" in many music software, except RS ?

I would like to use an Amplitube plugin.

Yes, if they don't keep backwards compatibility of .pscarc, their new baby might be stillborn.

And If they add an instrument, it better be drums, the only reason I go back to RB3, sometimes.

Project to gather, organize and standardize, and improve exercise customs

Rules recommended

1. Arrangement is in "Lead", and bonus/alternate arrangements

2. Tuning is E-Standard (except for special situations, like 5string Bass)

3. Record page (submitted cDLC) : Artist name "You", Album name "Exercises" (beware of typos)

Ignition search "Exercises" order on Artist - should give a most complete list.

4. Exercises should list together in RS14, sorted by Artist 

"You" display under "Y",  not overloaded letter.

"You Bass" for Bass only Exercises
"You Artist" for Exercises by Artists
"You Riff" for practical Exercises

5. Filenames (no space), "YouBass, YouArtist,YouRiff" ....psarc

followed  main topic exercised, sub-topics (style, root notes), origin, charter.

For easy updates, save all exercises in a subdir of DLC (DLC\Exercises)

I renamed customs (original name and charter is part of the new name)

Download by clicking on "You": (not this  :lol:)

Or jump to the charters page to use the original custom/name

USE Customsforge Manager

An almost complete collection can be downloaded as a zip file (170mb)

(this collection has not yet been updated to the remaster version)

List of Exercises in RS14

vTS means, I have improved the custom

Picking Exercises

You : Alternate Picking - Heavy Metal Guitar School part 1 (by DeadlyPower)

• 5:04, 10 patterns, repeated twice
• no guitar track, no beat, patterns easy, except 2) 

You : Alternate Picking to Solo (by DeadlyPower) 

• 5:04, 14 patterns, 5 solo riffs
• no guitar track, no beat, 3/4bars, exercises what it claims, shows me how much I suck in this topic
• excellent 

You : Alternate Picking (by blackened)

• 7:30, 56 patterns
• guitar track without beat, needs instructions in lyrics, heavy focus on finger/hand position change may loose concentration on alt.picking of other hand)

You : Alternate-Picking vTS (by Sharkman828)

• 6:02, 10 patterns (Frets 9 -12, 9-13)
• no guitar track, no beat, last sector no notes for 5:00!, start delay too short
• unfinished rather useless
• Cdlc corrected, now 3:28, 3s delay, pattern repeat faster on fret 5, faster above my ability on fret 12, metronome in bonus, 
• get 95% without cheating on alt.picking   ^_^ )

Arpeggios

You : Arpeggios Fingerpicking Basics v1 (by blackened)

• 4:22, 6 patterns, 4 riffs
• guitar track without beat, easy patterns for beginners, steep increase in difficulty for riffs, sustains should be removed for readability
• useful

You : Arpeggios and Sweeps Melodic Metal vTS (by blackened)

• 0:36, 2 Riffs
• guitar track with beat, only 2 long sectors, 
• short but useful
• I've divided riffs in more sectors, to easier memorize, optimized some fret-hand positions, original arrangement kept in bonus arr.

You : Arpeggios and Sweeps Advanced v1 (by blackened)

• 1:32, 3 patterns, 3 riffs
• guitar track without beat, easy patterns for beginners, steep increase in difficulty for riffs, sectors too long

Chords

You : Chords Part 1 (by blackened)

• 3:17, 9 openchords, 6 powerchords, 
• guitar track without beat, 5 increasing speed sectors of simple 4/4 down-strums,
• very useful for beginners

You : Chords Part 2 (by blackened)

• 6:04, 14 barréchords
• guitar track without beat, 5 increasing speed sectors of simple 4/4 down-strums, basic chords
• very useful

You : Chords Progression 12 Bar Blues v1 (Guitar & Bass) (by iWolf)

• 2:58, 7 patterns, 3 keys (C E G in difficulty levels)
• no guitar track with beat
• bebop & basic jazz blues for advanced users
• barré chords only
• excellent 

You : Chords Trainer ADE v1 (by apollo6655)

• 2:29, 3 open chords A D E (without open string)
• no guitar track with metronome
• simple down-strum 4/4, constant slow speed
• useful for beginners

You : Chords Trainer CGAm (by apollo6655)

• 2:32, 3 open chords C G Am (with open string)
• no guitar track with metronome
• simple down-strum 4/4, constant slow speed
• useful for beginners

You : Chords Advanced v5 (by darrko1984 )

• 9:25, 49 patterns
• no guitar track with beat, uncommon chords with muted strings, confusing and difficult to register in RS
• limited useful for beginners

Finger Exercices

You : 4 Fingers Exercises Guy (by  pollo_28)

• 7 customs
• up to 20:00, probably any possible pattern (704)
• no guitar track without beat 
• no pauses, no visible sectors, difficult to pick up a set of pattern
• Training on the 1st 4 Frets only 
• This is HUGE!

• I added bonus arr. (Root fret on 5, 9, 12) and a beat 
• inserted pauses and visible sectors to better differentiate different patterns
• currently for the 1st cDLC only, if you want more p.pm. me)

You : 4Fingers alternate picking and sweep kingkill_33 v1 (by a.peter)

• 1:10, 5 patterns
• guitar track no beat, acoustic tone 
• increase/decrease 1st-4th string / or 6th to 3rd with fret increase for each finger, every pick
• nice crossing pattern
• suggested picking alternate or sweep
• very useful to train strings change with each pick

You : Finger Independence and Speed v1 (by darrko1984)

• 2:16, 12 patterns
• guitar track no beat, distortion tone
• chromatic patterns, a minor & major scale with hand position shifts, hammer on / pull offs
• single string and all strings patterns

You : Finger Independence and Speed v1 (by DeadlyPower)

• 5:04, 5 patterns (non-linear sequences of major scale G), repeated 3x
• no guitar track no beat, distortion tone
• irregular speeds

You : Finger Spider Sequence Pebber Brown vTS (F A C E frets) (by DeadlyPower)

• I added bonus arr. (F A C E Root fret)

You : Finger Warm Up 1 Lesson Guitar vTS (original by Sharkman828)

• 2:30, 29 patterns

You : Finger Warm Up 2 Lesson Guitar vTS (by Sharkman828)

• 3:36, 26 patterns
• 2 nice quick exercises to play through or train by sector 
• no guitar track, no beat, ends in long sector with no notes, waiting for the score...
• I removed the last sectors, add drum & bass tracks,and a bonus metronome arrangement.
• I corrected sectors to match start/end of a pattern, and start/end of fret hand positions.
• I suggest this as an exercise template.

Rhythm

You : Rhythm Metal Riffs low tone (by darrko1984 )

• 7:32, 11 exercises/riffs with powerchords and muted open strings
• metal guitar track with no beat, guitar tone is low
• useful, unequal difficulty 

You : Rhythm Strum patterns in DD Level 120bmp v1 (by iWolf)

Scales

You : Scales Blues : Lesson Guitar v1 (by DeadlyPower)

• 5:14, 1 pattern, linear sequence, changing root constantly
• lyrics indicate root note on low E-String
• speed may a bit too fast to keep it for 5:00 
• blues scale is NOT RIGHT, missing 4th note on the G string 
• with other 4 patterns and more sequences in difficulty levels would be a perfect scale exercise
• useful, but unfinished cDLC

You : Scales Natural Fretboard A B C D E F G (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie) 

You : Scales Harmonic Fretboard A B C D E F Ab (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie)

You : Scales Pentatonic Fretboard A C D E G (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie)

• All 3 customs last 4:00, 17 patterns (single & double picks, up & down the Fret in 2 diff.levels)
• no guitar track with beat, plays same notes all over the fretboard,
• excellent ear-to-fretboard notes learning .... if played notes were displayed in lyrics ...

You : Scales Runner A vTS(Guitar&Bass) (by PyroBillie)

• 4:08, 11 scales, 1 position on root A (5th fret), sequences of scales linear
• no guitar track with beat, scales from RS12 game, double pick, up/down, speed levels in difficulty levels, great idea for extensions.
• add repetitions where possible, corrected 1st invisible sector, completed lyrics to display scale names longer, 
• add clean tone, original arr. with distortion tone in bonus
• add 2 difficulty levels for guitar with non-linear sequence, three notes 123,234,345... and thirds 1-3,2-4,3-5..., up/downwards
• Perfect exercise in all aspects, should serve as an exercise template

You : Scales Runner C vTS (Guitar&Bass)

You : Scales Runner Open vTS (Guitar&Bass)

• 2 identical customs added on root fret C, and open string (root E or F)

You : Scales Runner Metal (Guitar&Bass) (by SA PyroBillie) v1

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Major F A C (by TS2112) 7:07

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Minor F A C (by TS2112) 7:34

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Pentatonic Minor F A C (by TS2112) 5:18

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Pentatonic Major F A C (by TS2112) 5:19

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Blues Minor F A C (by TS2112) 5:57

You : Scales Melodic Sequences on Blues Major F A C (by TS2112) 6:25

• 6 sequences non-linear (group of 2,3,4 with interval 1 and 2) (12,23...; 123, 234...; 1234, 2345... and 13,24...;135,246...;1357,2461...)
• no guitar track with beat, acoustic tone
• scales on 3 fret positions (F, A, C) 
• info in lyrics

You : Scales Lesson Guitar v1 (by Sharkman828)

• 10:03, 59 patterns
• no guitar track, no beat, 3:00 useless silent end sector with no tabs 
• no scale information in lyrics, causes more questions than teaching
• rather unfinished useless cDLC

Speed

You : Speed Exercise Lesson Guitar v1 (by Sharkman828)

• 3:02, 20 patterns
• no guitar track, no beat, 2:00 useless silent end sector with no tabs 
• chromatic, pentatonic, major scales, riffs, pull off, slide - 
• no clear topic separation, no understandable rise in difficulty, no lyrics giving info
• rather unfinished useless cDLC 

You : Sweep Picking Exercise vTS tuned E & Eb (by Izzy)

• E-Tuning added, Eb tuning set in bonus arrangement

Artists

YouArtist : eZUKA from GRANRODEO : Glare Guitar School vol3 guitar inst demo v1 (by th1rtyf0ur)

YouArtist : Hizaki : Glare Guitar School v2 (by Tiothae)

YouArtist : Paul Gilbert : Intense Rock 1 Sequences and Techniques v1 (by BX5)

YouArtist : Paul Gilbert : Intense Rock 2 v1 (by BX5)
YouArtist : Steve Vai 30 Hour Workout v1 (by th1rtyf0ur)

Bass
YouBass : Bass Finger A.Sklarevski Ch.2 v1 (by darrko1984)
YouBass : Bass Finger Chromatic James Jamersons (by justgimmethefunk)
YouBass : Bass Finger Stretching v1 (by Izzy)

YouBass : Bass Rhythm Song-1 (by Vartok)_v1_1
YouBass : Bass Rhythm String Muted A.Sklarevski Ch.1 (by darrko1984)
YouBass : Bass Scales C (5 String Bass) v1  (by Tysylio)

Riffs

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 1 in A major_v2 (by frippchen)

YouRiffs : Blues Comping 2 in A major straight 8ths_v2 (by frippchen)

YouRiffs : Country - Licks v1 (by TS2112)
YouRiffs : Metal : Rhythm Thrash Guitar & Bass 1st Lesson v1 (by blackened)
YouRiffs : Rock : 100 Chicago Music Exchange v1.2.1 (by haarek)

Below, I'll link to songs with undeniable learning effect 

- Minuet : From First To Last (by s37h) (Arpeggio chords finger stretching)

  (this is my corrected version 1.1. jan.2017)

- Blackmore's Night : Memmingen (by SmellyOrc) (finger picking)

- Aquarium : Gorod Zolotoy (by Obvilion) (finger picking)

Suggestions to add / improve customs / exercises are welcome.
 

Further suggestions :

Aim is quality in form and content in the making of exercises. 

• guitar mp3 track only if useful (to rhythm or melody)
   (no guitar track allows more arrangements in different keys, tunings, root notes
• drum/beat track is alive, better then dead boring metronome
• metronome bonus arrangement added by checking Metronome in Toolkit/arrangement window
• notes must be on beats!
• no empty last sector
• lyrics (long duration) for each sector to recall the topic exercised, player's focus
• divide exercises in logical sectors, optimize fret hand positions
• constant increase in difficulty ( not jumping from easy to hard back to easy)
• don't overload a custom with different topics, tabs or riffs, 4-5 minutes duration optimal
• use clean tone (except if Metal...)

(... to be continued)

I'm always interested in Exercises, Lessons or as we used to call them in the beginning "You" play.

Unluckily the search engine in RS is non-existent, so it's hard to locate them (I gather them in a folder).

I liked the "You" artist name, because there are not many artists with a "Y".

Also doing exercises is not easy, because of the responsibility of teaching others.

I still don't feel ready to make a complete lesson of a subject, and give the necessary recommendations to do it right.

Nothing worse in learning then having to erase a bad habit.  :angry:

Of course a simple custom may evolve until complete.

But I didn't see evolutions in the submitted cdlc, 

Either the difficulty may not have linear progression, or the taught subject may not be described.

Which leaves me longing for something different.

95% of my training, I do it outside RS following Pebber Brown and Jim Bowley.

And the etudes.psarc can be converted back to GP5.

For the practical side, the Guitarnick is amazingly well done, with a lot of variety.

I adapted "The Lonely Man Blues" which however is easier to learn by video than by RS14.  ;)

so basically, nothing much new in win10, hardware related,

Microsoft tries to steal lazy clients, who never change default configuration, by taking abusive measures with its OS. 

For 30 years now, I never paid a single $ to that corporation, and avoided its product wherever possible,

without falling for the other abusive corporation and its IOS. 

You want to support democracy on the internet,

you want independent sites like customsforge, made by people for the people, 

support small companies and opensource. :ph34r:

I suggest you check the power management of your USB ports.

Which Windows do you use ?

About your noise, maybe my thread about ground loop noise can help.

:huh: RS14 for the PS4 ?

with the laggy HDMI audio output, or less laggy nevertheless laggy optical audio output?

then fiddling with some jail-break tools?

You better keep the cable, sell your DVD  :unsure:

and buy a PC version which can now be found for less then 10€ (without cable).

@@TrbInTrbIn, I agree, a cpu running at 99% for hours at 40° environment temperature will not heat if well cooled. 

but sometimes there isn't much choice on some laptops, 

on a PC, you can even install a water cool system. :lol:

@@DevStereo, 4 years a same system ? Well that was definitely before win 8   :lol:

Instead of cleaning all the shit in my pc that i gathered, i would rather put up a fresh os if malware and all that shit's causing my cpu to overheat (not that it happened to me). That's just my opinion, because i would have no problem reinstalling the most part and keeping my pc clean tho.

I'm sure it's a even faster option, if the cause is taking too much time and effort to find.

But even if not, just cleaning would do the job, but there would be still some shit left that will slow down your pc. Well there will be always some leftovers tho.

 

If a hardware component is casuing all this heat try to save it or if the cpu won't cool off. You'll have to buy a new one instead.

I don't agree : (with my modest 35years experience) 

installing my win8 then upgrading to win8.1 needs at least 3-4 hours,

Cleaning the pc first time, once the right tools installed and running, (takes 1 hour), 

(don't buy these optimizer tools, they do more wrong than right, causing blue screens of death),

takes 10 minutes every 2 weeks.

Unless you know how to do it right, I won't recommend to renew the paste on the CPU,

though it's true that the old paste might have been "cooked" and lost its qualities.

Overheat may occur, when a - lets say - not up to date cpu has several apps running. 

Specially malware can cause this, I've assisted some people in that way.

It's just incredible the shit they install without their knowledge, specially these free browser toolbars don't do you any good.

Check your taskbar and processes.

I use Ccleaner and Spybot to keep my PC ...clean.

I've stopped 25 processes in the startup-sequence  ;)

To check the heat I use HWinfo64, for some people my rescue came to late,

they had their cpu running constantly on 90° for several days/weeks because of malware running in the background.

The temperature on fast enough PC, the CPU and GPU (Graphic card)  should not rise above 60° at normal environment of 20-22° (correction : my GPU heats up to 80°C, running at full speed with RS running in the background in the song selection page)