avastreg

better

For those who don't know it Ayreon is a individual project, and the composer is a multi instrumentalist born keyboardist (this is why there are keyboard/synth solos)

I played the rhythm version a lot in the past, I find it very funny to play.

thanks @ Mikson  for doing a selection and not a capo with such short time! great job

I love Ayreon, and this song has a very nice atmosphere, rhythm, and melody

I will get this to at least 95 to pay my respects!

What a song!! Power/epic metal is where I'm at home, and this is near.

Super cool, super tight, very difficult. I will definitely put the time to RR if I find it

As always my sightreading with fast songs is horrendous, so the score, but I think I can get in the 85-90 range

24 minutes ago, nlbsmglsk said:

Yeah, I found a one that I can live with and I use it on almost everything with even a hint of distortion. In most cases it's an improvement over the tone included with the song imo.

this is a good suggestion but the problem is when you have clean and distortion alternating... do you have a footpedal or something like that? do you quickly press on keyboard/joypad to change the tone?

I only have an audio interface at the moment, no amp o ABY or something else

mc rhythm (badly) covered

16 minutes ago, Mikson said:

To be honest, I haven't tested the bass path in this song.  I tested the guitar parts a long time ago and bass rating was done by @ jellisjenius  and I chose this because I know he does rather good bass difficulty ratings.
And I think as @ It Happens1 wrote you can add +5 frets and go a string higher (in Rosksmith view). Then it should be much easier, and from what I can see in the screen, there is plenty of time to prepare to play the chord.

I tested both guitar and bass part for a previous selection but didn't noticed it (I think I'm biased by emulating the bass with the guitar, so maybe it's because of that)

improved mc lead

ok now I've paid my tribute!

I agree with @ Rodman , the chart is slightly off and there's the long void at the end. Sorry for submitting the sloppy chart I didn't noticed or remember that

PS: this song let me achieve my longest streak ever, I think (thanks to one note palm muting beats).

High scores and streaks even if easy are always good for the mood!

They have a unique style, but I liked more the other championship song some weeks ago ( @ Mikson  you probably remember the name of the song)

here there is margin for improvement but the quick slides between power chords are not my best

On one of my favorite Kamelot songs I got 94, for me is unacceptable, I will give it proper attention later in the week 

7 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

 

Maybe I can push it to 99%, but 100 is out of reach for me with the note detection on the slides.

@ It Happens1 3 out of 3, your move.

@ avastreg I know that you're busy rn, but pls don't make me wait till Saturday with your scores.

@ coldrampage Where are you?

Yep work, sickness and my child took most of my time

I am RR a bit testament to be competitive, but that's your thing so I doubt to be a challenge this time

ouch I didn't think a 4-chord song with no solo could be so difficult 

and I RR repeated it, doing it well till 75%

I will abandon my goal of reaching 97% on Mindtraveller, got no other time to play and my arm is soared from the vaccine puncture done today

1 hour ago, Mikson said:

Some parts are weirdly charted for me. Using 1 or 2 strings and flying multiple frets. I fought for 90% of what was my goal and now I'm giving up.

yes I agree, fingering is weird sometimes

score from yesterday, I'm close to my goal of 97%! but not right there

my goal is at least 97 for this one!

1 hour ago, nlbsmglsk said:

I'm currently working on a OCR solution, but sadly I'm way off schedule (life gets in the way). I'd be more than happy if you can beat me to it.

As you like, I tried two or three things, and just found a quick low-cost solution that seems to work pretty well on the first tests. I can elaborate if you want.

The longest (and most boring) part is the scraping of the forum, where essentially for a thread I need name and images' links (name/imageurl tuples will be ok) for all the pages of the thread. I know how to do it but it takes a while.
Do you have something already made for that? Also @ kayteck  @ Rodman  do you know if some machine readable feed of the forum does exist?

9 minutes ago, Mikson said:

This is very nice vibes. Unfortunately, no hand shapes in the arpeggio parts meant that I didn't know how to play them.

 

they are essentially basic chords, like A, E, F#, C#7 or 9 (the only one peculiar), F#/D, E and so on
but it's very very fast, a lot of string skipping and with some extra passage notes

On 1/2/2023 at 9:47 AM, Rodman said:

@ avastreg - honor battling with you - obviously you are not on our level - make sure you give those mc monsters a hard time now after your adv vacation.
 

On 1/2/2023 at 7:45 PM, Mikson said:

I have no doubt that @ avastreg would beat me in a all-year competition in lead path, but he competed too short in my class.

Thanks, I'm not that far! And advanced is such a great class, always great songs, had a great time!! I started in April. And now let's return to suffer more 

I'm grateful for discovering the championship (even unfortunately so late) and how you are so inspiring by carrying on with it over the years with a very slick organization! 

1 hour ago, nlbsmglsk said:

Well, if @ Bottledpat12 posted more I wouldn't have a chance to tell the truth. Regardless, I still hoped for a win by persistence.

Still, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, I'll take it.

Yeah, I don't even compare to Bottledpat. @ nlbsmglsk  in reality i'm not even on your level, but I will play the same strategy you have with Bottledpat, i.e. persistence 
@ johnal I think we can duel pretty well, if it happens

4 hours ago, kayteck said:

There is no rhythm path....

sorry I forgot to add that the lead track should be used for rhythm (because it's essentially a rhythm track). 
Updated the post

@ Rodman I checked Falconer's rhythm and yeah it's more difficult because it was transcribed in E standard, so it's a bit of mindfuck when you play lead and then rhythm, because it's the same song but played almost completely in a different way (and the E std version is harder)

PS: I tried Hook's alt rhythm and I think is a good high int bonus, what do you think?  Can I add it?

1 hour ago, Rodman said:

exactly.. i´d recommend dropping In Flames and putting Hook (8.5) mc

Done! I chose to put Hook rhythm as adv bonus because I rated it too low I guess and I needed a rhythm mc

1 hour ago, Rodman said:

way harder than lead (8)

are u sure? I don't agree but I will check. Lead has rhythm and the lead parts

1 hour ago, Mikson said:

What?  In Rocksmith 2014 Championship file, you have the Add new scores sheet, enter scores there and click the green add scores button. But maybe I don't know something and @ Rodman implemented such technology?

39 minutes ago, kayteck said:

LOL... I wish i am capable enough to implement such solution, but at this stage we have to go through the posts and we do "manual" OCR (aka reading) and enter scores manually through the AddNewScores sheet in Leaderboard file.

lol sorry I made the tech mental jump seeing the scripts, the sheets and everything  

Now that I know I will fill them (and maybe I can try to build something to recognize scores if I find the time, then @ kayteck we will integrate it, in case)

25 minutes ago, Sharuh said:

omg finally managed to barely scrape myself over the 95% mark even though I made some huge mistakes and one of my previous runs got me a higher score(but lower accuracy) 

The notes on the C# string during the verse seems a bit out of sync to me got way more consistent hits when I deliberately hit them early but idk maybe I'm just a potato that can't keep pace. I also played some stuff i thought was missing during the chorus and fills added some bends.

this is a great song! The only issue I found is that in the verse the tone is too low on volume, but it's acceptable, but I found it in sync. But maybe I haven't noticed it!

22 minutes ago, Mikson said:

And were you able to enter scores into the leaderboard before? Maybe something with sheet edit permissions?

Aren't they picked up automatically with some OCR recognition from screenshots?

16 minutes ago, Mikson said:

@ avastreg

It looks like you didn't enter the missing scores last week before posting the new one, so the list of winners may be wrong e.g. I achieved the best score in advanced class on bass.

I will update the leaderboard soon, so please update the winning list.

Thanks, I didn't know how to do it.
I tried to add scores using the button but the sheet was empty and I noticed something was off , since also my 80% score on DT was not picked up, but I thought it was an issue from my screenshot.

Winners updated!

I love this song, and I think is also very fun to play. I will study it properly.
Maybe it's more an 8 than a 7.5 (which was the rating I gave it a while back), mainly for the intensity (the whole song is pretty tight)

New week is up (the first of 2023!)

Hi, new week will start later in the evening, probably after midnight (Rome time)

Happy new year to everybody in the meantime!!!

As usual, all selections are random, but looking at the quality and trying to keep the number of songs at minimum (so prioritizing songs with lead + rhythm + bass).

This week no 9s or 10s in the masterclass (it happened with the randomness), and  we have advanced and masterclass lead very close, so if you prefer we can switch them. Guitar ratings on both are mine so may not be accurate!