Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 115

[MonstaS4]

Awesome song pick @@albatross213 . Never heard of Clutch before, but after playing 1141 (the programmers here will understand  :P ), I've now downloaded 8 of their CDLC's......all of them great fun to play. Playing them well is a different story though.

 

Beginners have it tough this week. I'd call Blondie a solid intermediate song. Lots of fast shuffling all over the neck.

[Rodman]

Ah... just to remind us WHY we are doing all this...

 

 

;)

[Rodman]

@Alba

 

Yeah, never heard of Clutch - Gaaaaaa....reat!!

I hope we have more of that coming!

 

Btw how long are those guys around? The song sounds so damn great old :)

[missis sumner]

When I saw that I was classed as advanced and had Iron Maiden on my plate, I was  bit bummed. But it turns out to be a better song than I expected (yeah, not much of a metal fan).

 

I was never much of a metal fan either. ;)

 

Actually, I'm still not much of a fan - I've never heard most of these songs before (seriously), but I do quite like playing them! 

 

 

@@2groggy, @@NoonyDeloony - Slides after sustains almost always register as "early", because when the game looks for the start of the slide the sustain is (obviously) still going and thus gets detected early. It has very little to do with when you actually start the slide, or whether you start sliding early, or anything like that. On unpitched slides (where the game only seems to track that you're in the right frequency range for any part of the slide) you can keep your fretting hand anchored and it will still say "early".

 

 

 

 

Oh great master, I've been meaning to ask, what's an unpitched slide?

[Motive]

@@MonstaS4 I don`t know why all think that it very hard. I feel it very similar difficult as was one a song by Metric, all phrases learnable, usually base scales, no any shreds, skip strings and fast chords. My skill is bad, but i got >99% after a few plays, that usually is impossible for int a song. 

[genobadass]

@Alba

 

Yeah, never heard of Clutch - Gaaaaaa....reat!!

I hope we have more of that coming!

 

Btw how long are those guys around? The song sounds so damn great old :)

Early 90s... Around 91 I think

[Motive]

http://i.imgur.com/w80D5cZ.jpg

[Mortalo]

I got really close to 100% (1-2 misses) on my 1st try on Blondie. But It was the same like last weeks Everlost. @ we're just way better then other kids :lol:

[FearTheTitan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2CBpLDh4xw

Ow my forearm. Excuse the intro, don't have 23 frets and couldn't transpose in my head at the time.

[MaZtoR]

I'm enjoying the lower classes this week. :)  They are both great.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Hanging%20on%20the%20telephone%209903_zps6wcvzich.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/10001110101%20%20%2092_zpsvm6xbnru.jpg

[then3verend]

Why I hate Floyd Roses, Get all outta tune halfway through a song
http://oi68.tinypic.com/33mldeg.jpg


Then, disappointed with that run, decided to add another 5% just for gigs
http://oi67.tinypic.com/2rf55x2.jpg

[Sebastien92]

 

 

 

@@diddie17 wow, I did not expect that so it will be difficult. Sorry.

 

It might not be, it might just be that all of the alcohol that I've had over Christmas has settled in my fingers  :).  How the other beginners do will tell us if it's just me.

 

I'm ok to keep going on it though, getting the speed up is part of learning.  

 

 

I had the same feeling that you @@diddie17 with this song : before my first try I thinked that it would be easy but rapidly my smile disappeared from my face...

 

I am today confortable at the speed of 75%, and I'm not sure I will be able to play this song at 100% before next saturday. But I like this song and I'll try to practice more than usual.

 

So good work and good luck to the beginners ! :) To be continued...

 

Thanks @@Sebastien92.

 

I've put some more time into it tonight, but I'm not going to submit another score unless I get much better.  Right now, any improvement would be because I just get lucky thrashing away, and by chance happen to hit more notes than previously.

 

I'll keep practising, but realistically, there is no way I will sensibly be able to play this within a week, neither my fingers or my brain work quickly enough  :)

 

 

I practiced a little bit more too and I have stopped dreaming. I am totally awake ... I think I'll need a second brain and some more fingers to be able to play this song without frightning all my neighbours !!  :)

[NoonyDeloony]

Adv update: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=592972185  Messed up royally on the escalator run from the 4th on the G widdley bit and a little later where I accidentally muted a bit too hard and made a sound on the G which pissed me off a bit... I love Bruce's voice in this song, it's a real anthem but the bass line is really quite dull apart from the widdley bit, that if I could pull it off, would be it's redeeming feature in enjoying playing this song... it's a class tune though :)

 

My friend told me earlier I had actually heard Clutch before ( Which I had an incling but wasn't quite sure.. was possibly drunk at the time.) in the local rock club we frequent and that she's been listening to that particular song on loop for the past 6 months, she also mentioned I "danced like a big bell end" then too :) I need  new friends :/

 

I can't seem to get Stay Clean working still but I'm going to attempt the other Lemmy tracks. Now.

[NoonyDeloony]

In the Name of Tragedy: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=593004122 sounds A LOT better than the score looks

 

We Are Motorhead: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=593004024 missed a chord... sorry Lemmy :(

[diddie17]

@@MonstaS4 I don`t know why all think that it very hard. I feel it very similar difficult as was one a song by Metric, all phrases learnable, usually base scales, no any shreds, skip strings and fast chords. My skill is bad, but i got >99% after a few plays, that usually is impossible for int a song. 

@ - You're absolutely right, there's nothing complicated about the structure of the song.  It's just the sheer speed that causes the problem for me.  I can play the song reasonably at 85-90%, but that last 10-15% is a huge difference.

 

It's no problem though, I'm still practising it, and learning from it, although at a lower speed level.  I'm working to miss the least notes possible at a full play through at 90% in RR  :)

[Motive]

@@diddie17 You cool man, i like your attitude, fight and good luck. Sure if you continue practice in the end week you will have a good sounds and increased your skill. 

p.s.  It is not required to get here 100%, for good sound enough 90%.

[fiddlesticks]

 but after playing 1141 (the programmers here will understand  :P )

 

There are 10 types of people on the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

Blondie - played this song many many times before, but once more won't hurt :)

 

http://s11.postimg.org/axv7tuchv/blondie_hanging_on_the_telephone_lead.png

 

http://s3.postimg.org/hp8k99ov7/blondie_hanging_on_the_telephone_bass.png

 

Clutch - new song and band for me, like it a lot. I'm finding the 10th fret A string bends on bass and the 5th fret D string bend in the solo awfully difficult to hit for some reason.

 

http://s8.postimg.org/g7y5tyzzp/clutch_1001_lead.png 

 

http://s23.postimg.org/i7b82js7f/clutch_1001_bass.png

 

Metallica - the mighty Blackened ! Having fun trying to learn this one, but at this stage trying is the operative word ! Just an early attempt at the bass part to share for now.

 

http://s18.postimg.org/vaj7numux/metallica_blackened_bass.png

 

And finally my tribute to Motorhead. Great band, great song.

 

http://s18.postimg.org/f87hpz8e1/motorhead_stay_clean_lead.png

[diddie17]

Maybe the plays through at 90% are helping more than I thought.  Just before I shut down for the evening I had another go at score attack and whilst I still felt way out of my depth and like I was just thrashing around, I was surprised that I managed to get up a bit  If I keep running through at 90% speed, maybe I can get up over 80% accuracy.

 

Beginner Lead 75.36%

 

[franfit]

you guys are good. but i  guess that is why most of you have moved on from beginner a long time ago.

 

hanging on the telephone:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/365155533191231404/9E1A3386DD9510C458A941F3E121893AB15522CD/

[albatross213]

For the people who struggle with the bass bends on Clutch, just to prove that they're possible:

 

 

And a score.

 

Like I said, trick is mostly to train your muscles and ears to know how far to go. And then when you're playing the song, maybe going a little beyond that, because the game sometimes is a little finicky and going a bit sharp seems to get better recognition (even halsb acknowledges this). Also that the tension on bass strings is pretty damn high, and because of the extra length you need to bend extra distance to get the same proportional lengthening and consequent pitch change. I'm better at "pull" bends than "push" bends so I moved this bend to the A string so you could do that more comfortably (and it would be closer to the middle of the string). A full step bend isn't easy anywhere on a bass, though.

 

Anyway, I'm glad people are liking Clutch. They're a really fun band (and not too difficult to play), and I highly recommend seeing them live if they tour near you (they were in NW Europe a month ago. Not sure when they'll next be out there).

 

Also, Deloon of Noon (@@NoonyDeloony), may I use your playthrough vid on the record page? Haven't updated it for the newer version, so I should be updating it soon anyway.

[2groggy]

@@albatross213, can you help me with the settings for bandicam?  I saw the watermark on your video and downloaded and installed it.  So far, all of my cinematic masterpieces have been silent movies, which is a tad sub optimal for a music based game. 

 

Under game capture>video>sound ,I have checked "record sound", and "save audio tracks" (probably not technically required but shouldn't hurt), with the primary sound device as "microphone (Rocksmith USB Guitar adapter)".

 

I get no sound on playbacks of recordings.

 

Edit - I got the same result with the primary sound device set to win10 sound (WASAPI)

[franfit]

this is it for tonight. back grinding away tomorrow 

 

hanging:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/365155533191609642/CE2BF9AB4C0A15C8697D77760332A733A1DC5B8E/

[then3verend]

Eyyyy I made a video, not my best run, but currently still the best on here

EDIT: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I FUCKED THE AUDIO ON THAT, my bad

[albatross213]

@@2groggy - I think this tutorial is what I used when I set things up, and I think it's still current. From what I remember the most important thing was turning the in-game audio-exclusivity off. If that doesn't work, I'll dig into my settings and see what I have different.

[MonstaS4]

@@MonstaS4 .... My skill is bad, but i got >99% after a few plays....

 

Compared to Joe Satriani maybe, but to me you're going great!  :lol:

 

Admittedly i've only played Blondie once, but my yardstick is that i should be able to score 90+ on a first playthrough of a beginner song. I scored less than 80%. Maybe i just suck  :unsure: