Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 122

[missis sumner]

I seem to be in a bit of a trough at the moment - I hadn't been able to improve on anything, all week, until I made a slight improvement last night:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKYmoydWk3NTdBN3c/view?usp=sharing

 

I'm not worried, because I then managed to improve on Gary Numan, "Cars", so I'm still far better than I was a year ago.  Also I know that peaks always follow troughs… :)

 

Oh, and since we're playing long songs, here's one for you:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKT2huOXNkV2lOVDA/view?usp=sharing

 

:D

[Hughmonty]

http://s29.postimg.org/67m1d15wn/2016_02_26_00004.jpg

[NunoJBSilva.Guitarist]

Another improvement

 

Mastodon - Naked Burn - 96.20%

 

[NunoJBSilva.Guitarist]

I think the notes are showing a little bit later than the sound. Anybody feel the same?

 

Mastodon - Naked Burn - Rhythm - 97.09%

 

[Mortalo]

Welcome @@Hughmonty :)

[Fungus Diamonds]

Hey, couldn't make it last week.

I tried this song 3 times and weirdly enough the first try was the best. I really had fun playing it.

http://s17.postimg.org/5exevf34v/2016_02_25_00001.jpg
 

 

 

[Mortalo]

http://s10.postimg.org/n27v15und/2016_02_26_00001.jpg

http://s29.postimg.org/8px7nnajr/2016_02_26_00002.jpg

http://s17.postimg.org/6q9rhmo4f/2016_02_26_00003.jpg

 

I left B standard with my bass, just to realize that Train of Consequences's bass is in Bb. Argh! Yes, Youthanasia is Megadeth's best album. What a killer!

[diddie17]

Sorry all, I've just had no time to play this week with family around.  I had a really quick crack at the Rhythm tonight.

 

Beginner Rhythm - 94.49%

 

[Gamut]

http://i.imgur.com/R778LoY.jpg

 

Oh come on, really?!  :huh:

 

Whatever, I'm gonna need a few more percent if I want to get above mighty @@MaZtoR anyway!

[Oskar_73]

Will drop this here, tough one this week :) :

 

http://postimg.org/image/8pt9xxdoh/

[Gamut]

94.2! 93.7! 94.1! 94.4!

 

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

 

Finally! That will do.

[Mortalo]

@@Oskar_73 Your screenie is not valid. We need accuracy and streak. That big number is mastery, which we don't care about :)

[Gamut]

http://i.imgur.com/F2aBfCb.jpg

 

Still tons of work to do on this, but I'm pretty pleased just to be in the pack with this monster song.

 

I still find it hard to believe that I can manage to get Symphony X songs sounding good... kid Gamut would be so proud of me. :sob:

[klaw]

http://i66.tinypic.com/a2r60j.jpg

 

 

:huh:

[Sebastien92]

Back in business, at last  :)

 

Lead - Battle For Light : http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/313368966859674940/7728B01BE1F2E4DB423B234E040C767EDE68DF6D/

 

 

[then3verend]

Just ordered my guitar, should be available tomorrow afternoon.....

so uh, pics in about 24 hours :D :D :D

[koffein]

Challenging week - I do understand grade 10 on Iconoclast. Soooo beyond my capability...

 

 

 

Bass MC - 89%

 

I do not deserve this! I was all over the fretboard. Amazing bass player here - I bow my head in the deepest respect!

 

 

 

 

Lead INT - 98.12%

 

Loved this one. High energy groove!

 

 

 

[albatross213]

@@NunoJBSilva.Guitarist - I played it a few times on guitar and bass, and things did feel a bit off in places. Never checked it super closely, though.

 

Anyway, an update on lead:

http://i.imgur.com/rXWZDg4.jpgSolo still destroys me, and there are some other things that I didn't do as well as I could, but I'm reasonably happy with that. Might give it another go or two tomorrow after a bit more practice.

 

And on bass:

http://i.imgur.com/5lEYUbU.jpg

Had a decent number of really silly misses on this one. Not sure if my bass was slightly out of tune or I was actually playing some of the easy parts wrong.

 

And since people are playing long songs, here's a really long one. (I was using it as an opportunity to practice 3-finger plucking, so it's not as good as I could have done).

 

 

As for the discussion on long songs in the Championship, I agree that some songs are far too long and complicated to practice in a week. However, this is not one in my opinion. The solo is relatively short, while there are a number of riffs throughout the song many of them don't need much practice for someone at the MC level. It's definitely not easy, but it doesn't feel like an insurmountable challenge (technique wise, the chords are mostly simple variations of power chords, so the main challenges are picked speed and precision, fretting hand shifting, and tapping, and as far as tapping can go, the intro isn't too crazy but the part in the solo is), and IMO much more interesting to practice than songs that are basically trivial riffs with a ridiculous solo.

 

Short songs can be require much more practice if they have complicated structures with many difficult riffs (many Between the Buried and Me songs could go here. Some tech death could as well) and long solos, or are essentially just one long solo (guitar virtuoso tracks). Either case has lots of things that need practice but few that ever repeat for any significant duration, which make them very hard to make significant headway on in a week (or a month, or longer).

 

So, I guess my point is that Iconoclast, while a 10 minute song, still has lots of sections that have riffs repeat a few times, and these sections then repeat throughout the song (and there are also a few pretty trivial sections that I've never felt the need to practice), so it's not that much more onerous to practice than a reasonably complex 5 minute song. I'm not out here to be an asshole to the other MC players, but to try to provide a reasonable challenge that's not solely due to a crazy solo (and nothing else) or the heavy use of an unusual technique. Maybe it wasn't the best to choose a 10 minute song, but hey, we had 8 people play it on lead with a few doing multiple attempts. That's not that much different from most weeks.

[Motive]

have issue there, no one double octave (with muted 4th string) at 9-11 & 7-9th frets,  RS do not recognition.

My score:

http://i.imgur.com/zdJ6JPk.jpg

[Motive]

Week finished, scores more not acceptable.

[NoonyDeloony]

'Nother update: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=633776291

 

The last update for this week. I'd have tried Iconoclast but I've been pretty rundown and just didn't want to use what little practice time I had trying to pursue something I couldn't put 100% effort into. I really like the Supergroove track though so am hoping in the next week or so I can record it once I'm back fettling finely. Cheers folks, have a good coming week.

[NoonyDeloony]

Week finished, scores more not acceptable.

 

 

<shrugs>  :mellow:

[Oskar_73]

@@Oskar_73 Your screenie is not valid. We need accuracy and streak. That big number is mastery, which we don't care about :)

 

Ok.yep i posted that in a hurry, mistaken that for the one of the SA, its late for me to post the rigth ss by now, sorry...

[Mortalo]

Ok, so here goes final difficulty scores for week 122 songs:
Amorphis - Battle for the light: Lead 3, Rhythm 3, Bass 2
Supergroove - You Freak Me: Lead 5, Rhythm N/A, Bass 5
Mastodon - Naked Burn: Lead 7, Rhythm 7, Bass 7
Symphony X - Iconoclast: Lead 10, Rhythm 10, Bass 10
I give you one day for final comments. Tomorrow I will submit that scores.