Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 566

[aNDESmASAMUNE]

 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT IN TOKYO!!!!  

YEEAAHHH!!! 

Thank you @ Rodman  for being such a great host always!!!

And I had to join because my "compadre" @ cacahuate51  gave me a shout! VIVA MEXICO CABRONES!!! 

OK, here we go!!!

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I have a lot to say about "Ichizu"... I'll start with this comments:

- I always have doubts about the ratings... When I proposed making a thread about discussing ratings for songs added to the SSL, I was precisely having troubles rating this song (actually the guitar, maybe the bass not so much). That's because I felt it was out of topic discussing a rating of a song I am adding to the SSL in the current Championship week. I think @ cacahuate51  ,  (and @ BubbleWrapDragon  at the time) were the only ones who understood what I meant... although I am very grateful to @ Rodman that we now have a compendium for ratings... I am planning to contribute there as well.

- I was planning to do a "Japanese themed week" in the future and include this song... didn't expect that it would get chosen!!!  

Anyway... I played it just to rate it when I was still in advance bass, and got like 63% at the time... I am surprised I reached the 90s in my second try! 

 

 

 

 

 

[lowender]

First  bass scores for this week!! 

[Vodka]

One poor note missed 

[johnal]

 

well, that was humbling.

[cacahuate51]

4 hours ago, aNDESmASAMUNE said:

 

And I had to join because my "compadre" @ cacahuate51  gave me a shout! VIVA MEXICO CABRONES!!! 

- I was planning to do a "Japanese themed week" in the future and include this song... didn't expect that it would get chosen!!!  

 

ahuevooo!!! you're back!  /m/

that japanese week sounds like fun! even without this song  dont really know many japanese songs so that would be cool to try something new 

[Vodka]

Slides and bends are problem here (for me). But at least I did it without strikes 

[johnal]

[johnal]

[Mikson]

First scores

Oh this is hard, although it's mainly a chord chart, these are awkward chords to play and you have to switch quickly. 6 most likely, or maybe 6.5. 

@ aNDESmASAMUNE  good you're back! 

I really like this! This arpeggio riff is quite problematic for me, I don't know if I can master it well.

Also pretty good.

[johnal]

 

Hmm. I think I would rate this a 7.5 or maybe even an 8.

[Daz40]

Bass scores

[pedropmf]

hi,

[loudly]

Thanks for new week and I'll enjoy.

 

Maybe my tremolo picking is too slow.

↓They are very famous in Japan. This song is very difficult. I could get higher score for me but maybe my sound is very dirty. 

I should play this song clearer.

[direct3r]

 

[BubbleWrapDragon]

[pedropmf]

Hi,

[Vodka]

Tried to beat yesterday's myself. But nothing. Rhythm don't wanna be completed and pushes me miss in different positions even if I don't change left hand position and don't change right hand strings punishment.

Lead part a little better. But I made a lot of mistakes and slides almost all are wrong.

I'm not happy with myself today.

[aNDESmASAMUNE]

 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT!!!!! 

YEEAHH!!! 

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At the time I rated this, I was intermediate. I thought I would never achieve advance, but could play more or less the main chord-riff of this song after quite some practice, so my understanding was that, if I could manage to play this, should be intermediate... I think I rated it a bit too low, but it is hard to clearly recognize the boundaries between intermediate-advance, and advance-masterclass in guitar! 

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As always, It's a struggle for me to belong in advanced class in guitar!!  But I am happy to have this challenge! 

I needed a Zen monk  like concentration to play the arpeggio through the song!!!  

This is the best I can do for now after a deep RR session...

 

 

[aNDESmASAMUNE]

Regarding King Gnu and Ichizu, as @ loudly  also pointed out, its very mainstream in Japan. This is the kind of band you would go to see at a Rock festival, but at the same time this song and others by them have been used as a theme songs for anime and other things. I think it is very cool that the kids are also listening to this while watching anime. I follow the Youtube channel of the music producer Rick Beato, and he is always complaining that the songs at the top of the charts in the US are not bands playing instruments anymore, but that is not the case at all in Japan. I checked again quickly and this song was in the top of one music chart in 2022.  Here  I post the links of the music videos (original version and anime version) in case you are interested. 

 

[johnal]

[johnal]

1 hour ago, aNDESmASAMUNE said:

Regarding King Gnu and Ichizu, as @ loudly  also pointed out, its very mainstream in Japan. This is the kind of band you would go to see at a Rock festival, but at the same time this song and others by them have been used as a theme songs for anime and other things. I think it is very cool that the kids are also listening to this while watching anime. I follow the Youtube channel of the music producer Rick Beato, and he is always complaining that the songs at the top of the charts in the US are not bands playing instruments anymore, but that is not the case at all in Japan. I checked again quickly and this song was in the top of one music chart in 2022.  Here  I post the links of the music videos (original version and anime version) in case you are interested. 

Thanks for this, it was interesting to watch how they are picking this.  I need to rework what I am doing to match the muting better and make that upstroke more dramatic.

[lowender]

Getting better!!!  Should be able to get 100% on advance bass this week!

[AndreCardoso]

Probably only shot this week (I'm in the middle of moving house), but I didn't want to miss the week :

 

 

Very fast and there were some unexpected transitions 

 

If I have some more time, I'll return to this

[Mikson]

Rhythm

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Oh no, more arpeggios 

[Vodka]

A few slides and string skipping part broke it but I really glad I beat 99%. Really interesting and enjoyable to play to this song.