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I like them! I've never heard them before the competition, and maybe I prefer the first song, but they have a very distinctive sound anyway Steel Panther (never listened before) is the great winner this week, hilarious 80s like song with those lyrics, I will play it a lot even if it's not in my league

Some test scores

New week is up!!

My first week! Just one note: on bass I didn't change any submitter ratings, because I'm not so familiar with it (I don't even have a bass). I've checked the songs emulating the bass with the guitar and everything sounds fine, and from my limited experience I think bass ratings are absolutely plausible.

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship! -= Week 469 =- FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships? => Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules Previous' week Winners are: Lead: - Beginner: @kayteck (98) - Intermediate: @m_verd (86) - Advanced: @cacahuate51 (95) - Masterclass: @Bottledpat12 (96.85) Rhythm: - Beginner: LOST TROPHY - Intermediate: @Mattscall (91.11) - Advanced: @cacahuate51 (92) - Masterclass: @nlbsmglsk (83) Bass: - Beginner: @luckyoldme (100) - Intermediate: @someotherbruce (98.02) - Advanced: @cacahuate51 (100) - Advanced Bonus: @cacahuate51 (99) - Masterclass: @IBOE555666 (96) Congrats to all winners. Well done! Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard This week's songs are: Lead Path: Beginner: Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring On the Dancing Horses (2.5) selected by jellisjenius Intermediate: The Darkness - Get Your Hands Off My Woman (5*) selected by Toni-wan Advanced: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Desert Ceremony (6) (C♯ Standard) selected by kaytech Masterclass: Steel Panther - Asian Hooker (8) (Eb standard) selected by nlbsmglsk Rhythm Path: Beginner: Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring On the Dancing Horses (2) selected by jellisjenius Intermediate: Parkway Drive - The VOID (5*) (Custom Tuning) selected by DropZone90 [tuning is Drop C# (aka C# Drop B)] Advanced: Steel Panther - Asian Hooker (7*) (Eb standard) selected by nlbsmglsk Masterclass: Biffy Clyro - Cop Syrup (7.5) (Drop D) selected by Shiroo Bass Path: Beginner: Paleontology - Bgm12 (3) selected by coldrampage Beginner Bonus: Parkway Drive - The VOID (4) (Custom Tuning) selected by DropZone90 [tuning is Drop C# (aka C# Drop B)] Intermediate: Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring On the Dancing Horses (5) selected by jellisjenius Advanced: Steel Panther - Asian Hooker (6.5) (Eb standard) selected by nlbsmglsk Masterclass: Riverside - Story Of My Dream (8) selected by Mikson . You can submit your song suggestions for the championship here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzgY90kLwyGqzJ-R64v8lmpeQMMhhxwGwUlenepIgms/edit#gid=6 . Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10). . Classless, Fearless FreeBird Members in their endless battle with the fb police: 2groggy Let us know your opinions on the accuracy of the difficulty scores (1-10) for this weeks songs.

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I wanted to give it a try, and then I recognized the song (title didn't tell me anything) I confirm the slide recognition issues

nope, this song kills me with the mini chords. but I love it. May brilliant as usual @ cacahuate51 in Billy Talent' song, did you have the second chord (Em6) of the main riff recognized properly? thx

Please share it, I'd like to give a try!!

@ Rodman thanks for the extended explanation. I just want to align in terms of ratings so descriptions like these are very helpful @ cacahuate51 yes I know the arrangement is not very loyal to the original version, I can also hear it when I'm playing, but I think this version (and it's the only one) fits very well for beginners to play an awesome song and they will be satisfied even without the details. If this song was advanced or mc, I would not propose it. I like Billy Talent's songs, but in this one there's no way to get the E6 recognized (the second chord). Even with RR 50%, only rarely. I think there is some strange ringing in my guitar and because of that is not picked up. To my ears it sounds fine. On the contrary, the first chord is always recognized Does it just happen only to me?

I gave 1.5 for lead Green Day, don't know why is 3, maybe @ Rodman do you assigned a 3? Anyway these are my first song ratings so they can be totally screwed up or down Agree with @ coldrampage too on the too many pauses on the Queen song, but the actual guitar parts pay off incredibly well. Probably need to do a lot of RR and then do one or two complete runs

wow Working Class Hero, my first song picked! The song is pretty simple (and a bit repetitive), but it's a powerful message.. you can literally feel the grudge and the bitterness. Great week, Billy Talent and Queen, love them, and also curious about Arch Enemy because I've never really listened to them.

You're very close, i bet that with some other tries you would get 98+ so good job!! I played that song like 12 times

and that's it for me I tried to improve mc rhythm too but again a lot of recog problems so I'll leave it alone

I generally agree, but I think that the little details are the difficult part and make it low advanced. And there are a lot of them. For example the C shape with the pinky is not really obvious. The diminishing progression on the A chord seems simple but can be tricky. My opinion is based on my score: I played this a lot of times and can't reach 99%/100% yet (but I didn't RR it) Usually for me with 3 plays intermediate are in 98+

don't kwow why, maybe a different slightly downtuning, but this time it caught a lot more notes on arpeggios

pushing to armor my place on this one (yeah I'm saying that is for the score but i'll play this song again and again I think.. something magical) @ kayteck tried this to understand your question, do you mean octaves? my advice is to mute the second string from the top with the index finger on the lower string (like if you would do a barre but not pushing on the middle string) in this particular case, because you have octaves on the 5th, you can also let the middle string ring because it the same note of the above 5th fret (works just only on these notes) RS doesn't like my octave slides sometimes and it doesn't recognized them, but not always. My ears have an hard time to get the difference

@ Mikson for like 20 notes

yes me too, but the one in the arpeggio is very "objective"

Am I the only one who's getting note detection issues on the arpeggio in the song Blossom? Especially the second 4th on D (F#) after the open G string. I play it correctly but nothing to do, and also some other notes. Tried with 2 guitars, one with floyd rose, one with hipshot bridge.

Improved Ouch my sightreading is very bad on the solo

better! no streak because sometimes it doesn't pickup chords properly (or probably I'm not hitting them fully/properly)

no masterclass rhythm?? ohh I like this one, never heard it before but very peaceful to listen and play. That years seems always so relaxed I confirm the 6 for me

other little improvements

Old mid week advancement that I forgot to post