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Let's start week 64.
 
READ THIS FIRST =>>  How and Why to Join the Championships
Read this second   =>>     Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules
 
Last weeks winners:

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Lead
Beginner:  @@Jambi
Intermediate: @@Mortalo
Advanced: @@Gamut
Masterclass: @

Rhythm
Beginner: @@franfit
Intermediate: N/A
Advanced: @@MaZtoR
Masterclass: @
 
Bass
Beginner: @@KJParsley
Intermediate: N/E
Advanced: @@genobadass
Masterclass: @@Blazikiller
 
Congrats to all the winners. And who's going to be honorably mentioned this week? This guys and ladies and their 100% scores:

- on Lead Beginner - @, @@Latsch and @@then3verend

- on Rhythm Beginner - @@Joey

- on Bass Beginner- @@KJParsley, @@Joey, @@missis sumner, @Mortalo, @@NoonyDeloony, @@punchyrumble and @@then3verend

- on Bass Intermediate - @@then3verend

Who did Master Mode runs? @@Blazikiller with 99.63% on MC Bass and @@Latsch with 99.13% on Beg Lead and with 92% on MC Rhythm. Great work!

Videos? @?

! @@Nacholede?

! @@then3verend?

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The songs for this week are:

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Beginner:   Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good (Chosen by @@missis sumner )

 

Intermediate: Gotcha - Naked (Chosen by @ )

Advanced: Marty McFly And The Starlighters - Johnny B. Goode (Chosen by @@Nacholede )

Masterclass: Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name  (Chosen by @@Mortalo )
 
Rhythm Path:
 
Beginner:   N/A
Intermediate: Gotcha - Naked
Advanced:  N/A
Masterclass: Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
 
Bass Path:
 
Beginner:  Gotcha - Naked
Intermediate: Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
Advanced: Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name

Masterclass: Marty McFly And The Starlighters - Johnny B. Goode

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):

• Birdassasin in Adv lead path
• Blazikiller in MC bass path
• franfit in INT lead, BEG rhythm path
• frippchen in MC bass path
• @Gamut in ADV lead path
• Latsch in MC lead, rhythm paths
• MaZtoR in INT lead, ADV Rhythm paths
• missis sumner in ADV bass path
• MonstaS4 in Int lead path
• @Mortalo in MC bass path
• Nacholede in MC lead path
• Rodman in Int lead, Adv bass paths
• then3verend in MC lead, bass paths

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

bass line is f'ing gorgeous on this :)

 

Aye. :D

 

Not sure what is going on but I am unable to play my Bass with Rocksmith as it is not outputting any sound. Its not the wire as I have tried a spare cable and my guitars all work fine using the same cable. This just started happening to me today as I haven't had a chance to play for a few days and wanted to play the bass but now I cannot. I tried switching from emulated and back and have tried the same cable on my Xbox One and I am having the same problems. I have connected my Bass to my amp and am getting output there so I know it can't be the Bass as its a Brand new bass as well. If anyone has run into this problem and been able to fix it please let me know. For now I will play the guitar tracks until I can figure this out. 

 

Silly question, but have you gone through calibration?  Also, it doesn't have active pickups, does it - battery flat?  On second thoughts, you'd get nothing through the amp with a flat battery either...

 

 

As it turns out the Bass does have active pickups (didn't know that) and thankfully I had an extra 9v battery lying around so I was able to replace it and low and behold it is now working. How a battery that came with a brand new Bass goes flat in less than a month is beyond me and whats funny is that the battery states right on it extra long life. Well I learned something new today thankfully. 

Update: securing second for now, time to put the solo in RR and see what I can milk out of ithttp://s29.postimg.org/at6dpvjzr/2015_01_14_00001.jpg

 

 

Not sure what is going on but I am unable to play my Bass with Rocksmith as it is not outputting any sound. Its not the wire as I have tried a spare cable and my guitars all work fine using the same cable. This just started happening to me today as I haven't had a chance to play for a few days and wanted to play the bass but now I cannot. I tried switching from emulated and back and have tried the same cable on my Xbox One and I am having the same problems. I have connected my Bass to my amp and am getting output there so I know it can't be the Bass as its a Brand new bass as well. If anyone has run into this problem and been able to fix it please let me know. For now I will play the guitar tracks until I can figure this out. 

 

Silly question, but have you gone through calibration?  Also, it doesn't have active pickups, does it - battery flat?  On second thoughts, you'd get nothing through the amp with a flat battery either...

 

 

As it turns out the Bass does have active pickups (didn't know that) and thankfully I had an extra 9v battery lying around so I was able to replace it and low and behold it is now working. How a battery that came with a brand new Bass goes flat in less than a month is beyond me and whats funny is that the battery states right on it extra long life. Well I learned something new today thankfully. 

 

Don't leave the 3.5mm (?) jack plugged in to it.  On mine, it constantly drains the battery, apparently.

I thought about that too and you are correct that I do leave the 3.5mm jack plugged into the bass at all times so I will start removing it when I am done playing. I didn't realize that the Bass had active pickups so I didn't know doing that would drain the battery so fast. 

also a nice update

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150115/kfmuvfai.jpg

A slight improvement, and a video! Was trying to break 2million but not enough time this eve. @@Joey and @@missis sumner I have the same issue, My Peavey takes 2 9v's so I invested in a battery charger takes approximately 12 to 15 hours to recharge and I play my cheapo jazz copy between charges, but it's saved me a fortune in extra life 9V's ;)

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=375182174

 

http://customsforge.com/videos/view-1305-amy-winehouse-you-know-im-no-good-charted-by-yledbetter-played-by-noony/

Don't  known what issue you have with battery on active pickups.  In instruction is description, what need unplug jack when do not play. Because inserted  jack closes power from battery to pickups. I`m use EMG on all my guitars, one since the beginning of last year and bass, from mid-summer. No once  changed batteries. Always pull the jack after play.

not bad but one unexpected part throw me out for a short time

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/150115/yr8hgarw.jpg

I've only had one active bass -- my new 5 string Epi Thunderbird Pro.  I still have the battery that came with it, nearly a year old, with fairly regular play.  I don't ever leave the cable in when I'm not playing though.

 

I was sort of hoping for / expecting a more noticeable difference in volume output between my passive bass and the active pickups.  As it turned out, I don't really hear any volume difference when I plug them both in and turn up the volume pots to max.  Extra wood mass and size of the Thunderbird (it's pretty huge) makes a very nice warm tone and much better sustain, but volume wise it seems like a wash.

 

 

...And in other news I did a New Year revamp of my computer / Rocksmith space a few days ago.  Finally got my guitar neck-mount thingies anchored into the wall -- makes it nice and quick/easy to switch what I'm playing!

 

Two questions, @@NoonyDeloony.

 

1. How did you change the colour of your strings?

2. How did you get the note names to show up on the fretboard?

 

Very impressed, BTW.  I still haven't got up to 100% in that song. :(

Two questions, @@NoonyDeloony.

 

1. How did you change the colour of your strings?

2. How did you get the note names to show up on the fretboard?

 

Very impressed, BTW.  I still haven't got up to 100% in that song. :(

Thank you :) you'll get the 100%, I didn't think I was going to manage it either, my nerves played havoc with me on this track :phear: use colour blind mode for my strings. It only changes yellow to green. Before my muscle memory improved, it was useful because the yellow/red/ orange strings being in close proximity made it hard for me to tell the difference, the green broke them up nicely enough to get that all important "mumemo" working. The fret board skin Kajin linked to me, I'll try dig out the link for you :)

 

Here is my result for Intermediate Lead: 98.26%

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=375013123

 

I have to admit that I don't really like this song... (not the CDLC*, but the song itself)

 

*although I feel like the tone changes are too late sometimes, right?

that's right. But if I change this the stats of the CDLC will be reset? I'm not sure about this, and if new points of tone changes will reset the stats, how can I avoid this?

 

 

To be honest, I have no idea how you can even manage to make the stats reset!

The only sollution I could think of is to make a new Toolkit project for the update, or change the arrangement IDs manually.

 

When I do an update, all I do is overwrite the old REAL_PART_~ files with the new ones in the folder they are in. Then I click "Load Package", select my Toolkit project, change the version number and click generate.

How do you do it?

 

If you are unsure, you can just try it, but save the old psarc file in another folder. If the new psarc doesn't have any stats, you can always put the old one back in and your stats should still be there ;) (I think there is no such thing as "resetting" stats for a song... RS just sometimes sees a new version as a completely new song and thus starts with empty stats.)

@@MilkmanDan - As good as it gets :)

I love your speakers !

-= weekly leaderboard update =-

ski holidays make that come a bit late in the week - happy to find time right now

 

 

Leader changes:

@palaty              BEG LEAD

@frippchen         MC LEAD (heavy battle)

 

http://i62.tinypic.com/2d91yqs.jpg

 

Nice rest of week everyone!!!!

99% should be possible, but for now this

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150115/6jetrtfe.jpg

and again sorry Latsch

 

 

Here is my result for Intermediate Lead: 98.26%

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=375013123

 

I have to admit that I don't really like this song... (not the CDLC*, but the song itself)

 

*although I feel like the tone changes are too late sometimes, right?

that's right. But if I change this the stats of the CDLC will be reset? I'm not sure about this, and if new points of tone changes will reset the stats, how can I avoid this?

 

 

To be honest, I have no idea how you can even manage to make the stats reset!

The only sollution I could think of is to make a new Toolkit project for the update, or change the arrangement IDs manually.

 

When I do an update, all I do is overwrite the old REAL_PART_~ files with the new ones in the folder they are in. Then I click "Load Package", select my Toolkit project, change the version number and click generate.

How do you do it?

 

If you are unsure, you can just try it, but save the old psarc file in another folder. If the new psarc doesn't have any stats, you can always put the old one back in and your stats should still be there ;) (I think there is no such thing as "resetting" stats for a song... RS just sometimes sees a new version as a completely new song and thus starts with empty stats.)

 

I think I do it the same way: if I do any changes in EOF just save and create  with the new Real Part file(s) new custom with the saved toolkit file. Just if any notes were changed its a complete new CDLC, with new tone change points I don't now, have to try this...

I really think you should ask some of the devs... I can change notes to what ever extend I like without RS thinking it is a new CDLC.

Man i'm so happy, in 3 days i will see Foo Fighters here in Argentina :D

Today I went to RR and improved a lot:

 

http://i58.tinypic.com/1496zvb.jpg

Beginner lead:
http://s24.postimg.org/ej346a9b9/2015_01_15_00002.jpg

 

Intermediate lead:

http://s14.postimg.org/jvbh0kldd/2015_01_15_00007.jpg

Bass scores

 

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

 

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

 

http://i.imgur.com/3ChfQhn.jpg

 

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

http://i.imgur.com/9fwKMiG.jpg

Man i'm so happy, in 3 days i will see Foo Fighters here in Argentina :D

Is it possible to "like" this more than once?

99% should be possible, but for now this

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150115/6jetrtfe.jpg

and again sorry Latsch

 

i want to see that 99% score!

Hallowed Be Thy Name Rhythm