avastreg

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
 

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You can submit your song suggestions for the championship here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzgY90kLwyGqzJ-R64v8lmpeQMMhhxwGwUlenepIgms/edit#gid=6

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Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

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Let us know your opinions on the accuracy of the difficulty scores (1-10) for this weeks songs.

New week incoming in about 1 hour, more or less!

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

7 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

@ avastreg  ah okay! I mean to be honest for the "loyal" aspect/ nitty picky things  i wrote earlier I probably should've just commented on the cdlc post instead of here. As the one who might do something on that topic is the cdlc maker. Overall, I agree its a great song and im glad you and rodman choose it for the competition. 

Heck i even liked it so much I tried to do my own cdlc version but the version on here is definatley more suitable for the competition as its actually fcable. Meanwhile the version I have done i currently cant fc the guitars..not sure if its cause of eof skills, guitar skills, wacky recognition or a combination of all of those xD Still glad i gave it a shot though because I learnt a couple of interesting things (atleast for me)...like the song is in 3/4 and every phrase lasts 7 instead of an even number or that green day didnt use a click track because the bpm fluctuates a bit. and the solo kind of reminds me of the vocal melody to house of the rising sun

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?
 

3 hours ago, kayteck said:

My ratings for my class songs:

Lead Path: Beginner: Green Day - Working Class Hero is 1.5-2, definitely not 3...

Rhythm  Intermediate: R.E.M. - Man On The Moon are pretty much standard chords... i would not rate it 5.. maybe 4 or 4.5... 

getting serious recognition issues... got 85% at 1st play when I thought it will be approx 95-98%... disaster... it soes not recognise the slide with C chord.

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.

3 minutes ago, Mikson said:

@ avastreg and @ cacahuate51 are on a different skill level so I have no chance to compete with them, but I'm happy with this improvement.

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

2 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Great tune, I really enjoyed it !
I would consider this song an intermediate song for both rhythm and lead though (i know im a bit late). Mostly cause its just a G C D  song and thats like the first campfire/ fake guitaring progression seen in many songs( joker steve miller, la bamba, barbra ann beach house boys etc) . Int over beginner because of the embeleshments and the descending chord progression but nothing imo that would make it advanced.  Regardless its still a great song that ill keep and play!
 

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 

43 minutes ago, Mikson said:

I think I also had a bad note recognition on this CDLC. And not only in the arpeggios, but even the power chords registered worse than usual.

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

35 minutes ago, Rodman said:

Great!!!!!!!!!

I´ll pm you and hit you with details soon.
Fear not, it´s pretty straightforward and easy!

Thx!

Everyone else - if you also got some time you can commit to our great lil competition thing - join in!!!

good, if you want I'm ready for this week, but I need to prepare it a bit before because I will be out on saturday afternoon

7 hours ago, Mikson said:

I'm not sure you understood @ Rodman request right. EVERYONE can add suggestions for songs to be played in the championship (Song Selection sheet is open for everyone). So any suggestions are welcome. You don't need to submit ratings for Bass if you can't test this path for CDLC.

And Rodman's request was to find people who could create a new championship week (what I did this week).

Ok yes I misunderstood! 

Then, I'm available to do the selection and create new weeks. I need to understand better the generation of winners/scores of the previous week. Do you have a script for that? I've seen the sheet with the scores, that is clear for me, but I don't know if there is something more.

Unfortunately I will pick bass ratings for granted