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Let's start week 59.
 
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Last weeks winners:

 
Lead
Beginner:  @
Intermediate: @@lordlk
Advanced: @@Gamut
Masterclass: @Mr Pi

Rhythm
Beginner: @@Rodman
Intermediate: @@w4rl3x
Advanced: @@DaveZero
Masterclass: N/A
 
Bass
Beginner: @@KJParsley
Intermediate: @@genobadass
Advanced: @@Rodman
Masterclass: @@Neilpeart2112
 
Congrats to all the winners. And weekly 100% cover-up:

- on Lead Beginner - @, @@Joey and @@Neilpeart2112

- on Rhythm Beginner - @@Joey and @@Neilpeart2112

- on Bass Beginner - @@Blazikiller, @@genobadass, @@KJParsley, @@MilkmanDan, @@missis sumner, @Mortalo and @@NoonyDeloony

- on Bass Intermediate - @@Blazikiller, @@genobadass, @@MilkmanDan, @@missis sumner, @Mortalo, @@Rodman and @@thecatinthehat

Back to video frenzy with

by @@lordlk and @@Gamut with

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The songs for this week are:

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Beginner:    Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston (Chosen by @@Nacholede )

 

Intermediate: Muse - Bliss (Chosen by @@Shiroo )

former Intermediate: Rage Against The Machine - Killing in The Name of (became an official cdlc during the week) (Chosen by @@MilkmanDan )

Advanced: Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chosen by @@then3verend )

Masterclass: Buckethead - Soothsayer  (Chosen by @@Gamut )
 
Rhythm Path:
 
Beginner:   N/A
Intermediate: Buckethead - Soothsayer
Advanced:  Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston
Masterclass: Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin
 
Bass Path:
 
Beginner: Buckethead - Soothsayer
Intermediate: Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Advanced: Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston
Masterclass: Muse - Bliss

former Masterclass: Rage Against The Machine - Killing in The Name of (became an official cdlc during the week)
 
Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

Honorable list Diehard men, playing in their class 5 weeks in row without pass (they have little more preference when choosing a song from song selection list for next week):

• Azrael in Int lead, rhythm paths
• frippchen in MC lead, bass paths
• @Latsch in MC lead path
• MaZtoR in INT lead, Adv Rhythm paths
• @MonstaS4 Int lead path
• Mortalo in Int lead, rhythm paths
• Nacholede in MC lead path
• Rodman in Int lead, Adv bass paths
• @then3verend in MC bass path

P.s. Please, see changes in Championship Class Lists!
 
Have fun!

Awesome, hope you guys enjoy Uncle Tom's Cabin, was the first intro i learned on Guitar

 

---also, first---

@@then3verend Now, I'm sure, you have no life! :P

Here's the no-lifers first score :Phttp://s27.postimg.org/6bchfqfk3/2014_12_06_00002.jpg

Sorry other MC Bassists~

 

http://i.imgur.com/sqn8GD9.png

 

Idk if  it's different for others, but I give the chart about a 7. It's not to hard to learn and pretty repetitive with some fills, and some things in the chart are not "wrong", but they're played a bit differently, such as uhh it's hard to explain. Theres a couple times when you're in the main hook near the end such as when Rocha is yelling "F**k you I won't do what you tell me" where the bass riff just changes up a bit by playing E, F, G on the D string, rather than the F, G, and C on the low D and A. Still a good chart, but that could spike the difficulty a bit by changing the repetitiveness. And always a fun song to play regardless. Definitely will be trying the guitar arrangements for it sometime this week.

Not only do I get a song I picked, but my favourite RATM tune! I haven't had the custom for Killing in the Name Of very long, but I learned this song on my own forever ago before I knew customs even existed. Maybe I'll tidy up a bit and give video another go!

 

Alright Steve Vai week is over, we can relax, right? Nope. :lol:  I can't wait to suck at Buckethead, too! 

Looks like you've got the bass songs in the right order.  I've just got 97% on Buckethead, 96% on Warrant, 93% on Dropkick Murphys and 91% on RATM. :)

 

I won't post up the sceenshots yet, as I'm probably going to practice a little bit more.  

Current difficulty ratings are like this:
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston: Lead 3, Rhythm 7, Bass 6
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of: Lead 5, Rhythm N/A, Bass 7
Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin: Lead 7, Rhythm 9, Bass 5
Buckethead - Soothsayer: Lead 10, Rhythm 5, Bass 4

 

@@Blazikiller I fully agree with 7 for RAtM bass, still it makes it the most difficult bass :P

@@Blazikiller You did that in Master Mode :o Bravo!

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/141207/duwd662a.jpg

Here's some first runs! Well, actually, only the Warrant song is a real first run... the other two I've had experience with.

 

http://i.imgur.com/chi5epE.jpg

 

As mentioned, I already learned the hell out of this tune 1-2 years ago, so this score came easy. I might even be able to 100% it!

 

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

 

Buckethead!! I'm so far from doing this song perfectly, but this was score still +14% from the last time I played it. Surprisingly, I can actually nail a few of the most insane sounding parts of the solos in this. Maybe I'll actually break 80 on MC this week?!

 

http://i.imgur.com/Q2otnuA.jpg

 

And lastly, Warrant, a band I only know for Cherry Pie in GH2, with a song that's not Cherry Pie I've never heard before. It's alright, I suppose! I think my next run will be way better now that I know what to expect.

@@Blazikiller You did that in Master Mode :o Bravo!

WHAT????

Omg, you did!

Congratulations!

 

 

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Killing is a fooken awesome song! I tried to learn this not long after picking up guitar but got frustrated and let it slide for while. Now i can make it sound half decent.

 

The hardest part of making this sound right is getting the 'chuckkas' right. Registering the notes in RS is one thing, making it sound right through an amp is a lot harder.

 

Anyhow, my first score after a bit of RR and a couple of slow playthroughs.

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/o1vhy7rq2ex1bss/2014-12-07_00001.jpg?dl=0

It was a long night struggle but i got it perfect :) :

 

http://imgur.com/wA9b1SG

Ok, let's start this! I've played almost everything this week Because I really liked the songs, I've tried Soothsayer so many times before and can't get past the 80,5%. so here we go:

Beginner - Lead 97,05%

 

Beginner - Bass 98,95%

 

 

Intermediate - Lead 95,61%

 

 

Advanced - Lead 90,84%

 

Advanced - Rhytm 95,2%

Advanced - Bass 100%

 

 

Masterclass - Lead 80,5%

 

Masterclass - Rythm 87,0%

 

Masterclass - Bass 99,57%

 

I could give some more tries to Warrant and Dropkick Murphys's Rythms.
I should be able to master the bass on RATM but I can't really get any higher than that on Soothsayer's lead :)

Alright, here's my first scores for this week

Advanced Lead: 83% Accuracy, 44 Streak
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26224100552301200/532DAA8DC42960E1C17A8EB24D964A6B6EA5D92B/

Masterclass Bass: 95% Accuracy , 294 Streak
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/26224100552302407/0EFCDBD2EEAE70A425615135BB00F15439B0F873/

Overall, looks like a nice week coming up. Warrant is kinda tough to me, but fun to play. RATM on bass is pretty easy for a masterclass IMO, I only had some recognition issues with my bass. Gonna try to improve the scores before weekend, but work may hold me back :/.

Beginner Bass - 99.17%, 313 streak

Nice song. 100% is possible, but most likely I will try it on rhythm more.

 

Intermediate Bass - 98.19%, 121 streak

 

MasterClass Bass - 96%, 235 streak

To be honest, I don't like rap, neither hip-hop nor this rapcore thingy, but you can't say bad word about Tom Morello. The guy is good with what his doing and that makes RATM not bad all. It brings back memories of Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

@@w4rl3x How do you feel about Dropkick's rhythm. Is it good for Advanced, or too easy?

Or maybe you want to play only with cool kids from MC Rhythm? :(

@@Mortalo there was nothing hard about it was basicaly just 2 scale runs repeating over and over again and both look the same the only difference is that one is an octave higher. But maybe i think so because back in the day i was doing lots of scales runs (my guitar teacher annoyed me a lot with these :) ). It was a fun song anyway, the only thing i didn't like was the chorus section, not many notes but a very strange rythm wich was hard to get but maybe thats because of the quality of the CDLC. But in the end i think it was a fine song for Advanced level the reason i nailed it perfectly i think was because i know some lead too.

Glad to see people are enjoying my selection of Killing in the Name Of on both guitar and bass -- I think it is a good song to listen to and even more fun to play.  And I'm in awe of your skills @@Blazikiller -- big salute for 100% on MasterMode!!!

 

 

Didn't end up getting much time to play last week, and I've been sick the past couple days but I will definitely put in some more time this week.  I don't think I've got a 100% in me (definitely not in MM) but I'm hoping I can improve on my personal best of 99.5ish on my old profile.

 

Here's my first time on the song since it being selected:

Detection wasn't great, I think I should have had a bit over 99% but my bass always takes some time to settle down after tuning out of E Standard.  Also, I've noticed that in anything Drop D or lower tuned, I get issues with notes being well sharp (up to 20-25 cents or so) at the moment of attack for a quarter second or so and then leveling out to in tune.  If I tune the string to that quarter second of sharp, I get better detection for most short duration notes (but still not perfectly reliable because the amount the note is sharp is pretty dependent on how hard I pick / finger the note) but sustains go flat.  If I tune so that the sustained pitch is on target, detection on quarter and eighth notes is quite bad.

 

Anyone know if that is a fixable hardware problem, or if I need heavier gauge strings or something?  It definitely gets more solid if I tune down and then let the bass sit for a few hours and tweak/try again, but the issue persists somewhat even after that especially in Drop tunings.  Eb Standard seems to be immune, and D Standard isn't as susceptible as Drop D or Drop C.  Pretty weird.

 

--EDIT--

Oh, my thoughts on difficulty: I think 7-8 is a good difficulty rating for Killing in the Name Of, for the bass part.  Too easy to be a true MC with 9-10 difficulty, but average or slightly harder than average Advanced difficulty, so I think I'd personally lean towards 8.  If more people think it is 7 (or lower), I think that works too.

 

Not sure I'll get healthy enough and time enough to try all the other songs this week, and definitely going to concentrate on this one.

First try of the week.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Killinginthenameof81_zps4ef554ab.jpg

Hmm.  Largely solved my detection and sharp attack issue by playing on my 5-string instead of my 4.  I'm a bit butterfingers with the different string spacing, but I'll "glass half full" that and say this provides good motivation to overcome that...

 

Anyway, I can't blame detection on any of the misses here:

May be my personal best, I can't remember exactly what I had on my old profile.  But I think I can take it a bit further!

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/ImShippinguptobostonRHYTHM77_zpse52f4cae.jpg

 

It is a bit to fast for me.  Hopefully it gets easier when i get some muscle memory. But i liked to play it and i like the song.  So im going to try.

 

Also. I need to change guitar for this one. My SG is a lot easier to play on the higher frets than my crapocaster.

1st bass runs...

 

Bass BG:

http://s6.postimg.org/i65086hjl/RS2014_CF_Championship_Week_59_Bass_BG_1_98.jpg
 

Bass IM:

http://s6.postimg.org/9ce3r2ukx/RS2014_CF_Championship_Week_59_Bass_IM_1_98.jpg
 

Bass ADV:

http://s6.postimg.org/5u23uotox/RS2014_CF_Championship_Week_59_Bass_AD_1_96.jpg
 

Bass MC:

http://s6.postimg.org/7admctwlt/RS2014_CF_Championship_Week_59_Bass_MC_1_98.jpg

Not everyday i sight read a 100%

so i gotta 100% in MM hmm? lemme see what I can do about that

http://s30.postimg.org/mfcakeui9/2014_12_07_00001.jpg

First tries so far 

 

Killing in the Name of

 

Uncle Toms Cabin

This one caught me quite by surprise. Totally failed that intro haha and i wasnt prepared for those solos.

Nice song, never gave Warrant's Discography a listen

 

Soothsayer

Already had this one on my disk but only played it 2 times or so. Awesome song, hope I'll have more time to practice this week.