Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 569

[Mikson]

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 569 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ lowender (89)
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @ Satinuke (97)
- Advanced: @ cacahuate51 (96.93)
- Advanced Bonus: @Mikson (92)
- Masterclass: @ RaZrShReD  (93.81)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ BetterCallJamie (98)
- Intermediate: @ direct3r (98.3)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ Satinuke (96)
- Advanced: @Mikson (96.1)
- Advanced Bonus: @Mikson (96)
- Masterclass: @ RaZrShReD (94.07)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @ loudly (97)
- Intermediate Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Advanced: @Mikson (99.09)
- Advanced Bonus: @ lowender (94.51)
- Masterclass: @ pedropmf (94.97)

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: The Ramones - Beat on the Brat (2) (E Standard) selected by @ Daz40
Intermediate: HAIM - The Steps (5) (E Standard) selected by @ jellisjenius
Advanced: The Night Flight Orchestra - Burn For Me (6.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Rainbow - Gates of Babylon (8) (E Standard) selected by @ Emmy-Dell
God of Guitar: Seventh Wonder - Alley Cat (10) (Eb Standard) selected by @ RaZrShReD [Week 1 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Ramones - Beat on the Brat (2.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: HAIM - The Steps (5*) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius [capo required]
Advanced: The Night Flight Orchestra - Burn For Me (5.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Seventh Wonder - Alley Cat (9*) (Eb Standard) selected by Razrshred

Bass Path:
Beginner: The Ramones - Beat on the Brat (2) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: HAIM - The Steps (4.5) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius
Advanced: The Night Flight Orchestra - Burn For Me (6.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Rainbow - Gates of Babylon (7.5) (E Standard) selected by Emmy-Dell
God of Bass: Aram Bedrosian - A Dark Light (Instrumental) (10) (E Standard) selected by Mikson [Week 1 of 2]

(N) - difficulty rating
(N*) - highest difficulty rating for the class (promotion to higher class possible)
(N^) - difficulty rating higher than the highest for the class (promotion possible)

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[Mikson]

I didn't have much time for testing so I chose some songs that I tested earlier plus some new. The ratings may require a little polishing but should be ok.

I'll try to add GoB, but it's hard to find a really difficult bass track, if anyone has a suggestion please let me know.

Have a good week!

[jimmy655]

[jimmy655]

I didn't get around to playing Jamiroquai last week, but I was digging dirt in the garden for a few days, so I think my forearms took about an equivalent amount of punishment - cramping a bit on this one... 

[jimmy655]

Was not ready for that one harmonic... 

[jimmy655]

Wasn't ready for that entire  ascending scale .... 

[jimmy655]

 

 

[jimmy655]

5 hours ago, Mikson said:

I'll try to add GoB, but it's hard to find a really difficult bass track, if anyone has a suggestion please let me know.

I've got a few jazz-oriented bass suggestions to check out.  I'm still not that confident about the numerical ratings criteria on the Championship, but safe to say these ain't easy. 

 Here is a nice hard tune by the legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus.  This  one is no longer listed on CustomsForge, the link goes to the copy I downloaded some years ago: 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/10sp3vpcn9w464i63pvz1/CharlesMingus-HaitianFightSongDD_p.psarc?rlkey=wj18tfm5vv0cmy8e09i7ld04z&st=wcoy2sej&dl=0

There are currently several bass songs by the equally legnedary jazz-fusion bassist (and inventor the fretless electric bass)   Jaco Pastorius on CustomsForge.  These all tend to be quite difficult - but rewarding:

https://ignition4.customsforge.com/artist/1429

A jazz-fusion classic is Chick Corea's Spain, this one with Stanley Clarke on bass:

https://ignition4.customsforge.com/cdlc/55177

 

[Rodman]

Leaderboard created, React App started - we should be on the motorway.

[Rodman]

Yay - just anthemy, like every time with NFO. I´d go (6.5), rather (7), the main part is 6, of course, the short solo not

 

 

 

[Rodman]

Nice, harder int (5)

 

 

 

[Rodman]

the boys are back in town, yeah (2)

 

 

 

[Rodman]

wow - another epic song i didn´t know. that went rather well

 

 

 

[Rodman]

great GoG (10)

 

 

 

[Rodman]

yes (7.5)

 

 

 

[Rodman]

a bit better

 

 

 

[Mikson]

I played a few guitar tracks again and, taking into account @ Rodman  suggestions, made a few changes.

Most important!

I swapped intermediate and advanced songs in rhythm path and adjusted their ratings.

All changes:
Ramones song difficulty ratings: L - 2, R - 2.5, B - 2
HAIM song difficulty ratings: L - 5, R - 5. I tested this a long time ago and when I played this again I found that I was a bit wrong, lead and rhythm are more or less at the same difficulty level.
NFO song difficulty ratings: L - 6.5 (I know solo is 7, but it's very short, and rest of the song is 5.5 in my opinion), R - 5.5 (because it's a very similar chart to lead but without solo).
GoG rating - 10

I created the leaderboard again with changes.

I'll look for an additional GoB song - thanks @ jimmy655 for the suggestions, I'll check if there's anything suitable in terms of difficulty.

 

[Rodman]

1 hour ago, Mikson said:

I played a few guitar tracks again and, taking into account @ Rodman  suggestions, made a few changes.

Most important!

I swapped intermediate and advanced songs in rhythm path and adjusted their ratings.

All changes:
Ramones song difficulty ratings: L - 2, R - 2.5, B - 2
HAIM song difficulty ratings: L - 5, R - 5. I tested this a long time ago and when I played this again I found that I was a bit wrong, lead and rhythm are more or less at the same difficulty level.
NFO song difficulty ratings: L - 6.5 (I know solo is 7, but it's very short, and rest of the song is 5.5 in my opinion), R - 5.5 (because it's a very similar chart to lead but without solo).
GoG rating - 10

I created the leaderboard again with changes.

I'll look for an additional GoB song - thanks @ jimmy655 for the suggestions, I'll check if there's anything suitable in terms of difficulty.

Thank you! Absolutely agree on that (6.5) also, solo is very short. Not an upleveling song.

Excellent week! Rock on.

Rod.

[Rodman]

+ lead, already a good try

 

 

 

[Rodman]

+

 

 

 

[Rodman]

That´s about the song i guess

 

 

 

[lowender]

First bass scores for this week!! 

@ jimmy655  I missed that harmonic as well! 

Love the Ramones!!

[Vodka]

Have a nice musweek!

Let's get started!

BegRhy - Nothing hard but accuracy required to not be wrong. BegLe - chords... my love.

 

IntRhy - ogh my left hand. IntLea - interesting to play actually. Even if it's hard for me.

 

NFO - lots of wrong positive reactions...

 

Very very hard.

Very very very very hard.

 

[Mikson]

Announcement!

I was looking for a chart for GoB and it wasn't easy, because @ cacahuate51  set the bar high last week, rating Jamiroquai song at 9. In my opinion, this could have been even 9.5 and would fit GoB, so it wasn't easy to find something more difficult, but I managed to do it! 

So I added GoB path to the selection:

God of Bass: Aram Bedrosian - A Dark Light (Instrumental) (10) (E Standard) selected by Mikson [Week 1 of 2]

For me this is impossible to play correctly so good luck! 

[bodolza]

First time participant. Hopefully I'm doing this right. I might need to bump up my level, but I found the translated piano chords on "Burn for Me" extremely difficult to play with my hands.