I still have pretty much no idea what to do with tones (especially for guitar, since I don't have one). If anyone could advise on the most common types of adjustments (EQ, pedals, whatever) that would be a great help!

 

I recently (as of Feb. 2016) started adding the notes.eof files to my download folders. For some of the older ones I think the .ini files were different which can cause the sync to get screwed up, so I'll try to update the older ones (I'll probably be wanting to do serious updates to lots of my older CDLC anyway). So far, my Blotted Science, Between the Buried and Me, Coroner, HeXeN, Nevermore, Skeletonwitch, Streetlight Manifesto, Testament, Vektor, and Warbringer customs have the notes.eof file in the download folder.

 

See here for the basics of how to set things up so you can use the notes.eof files.

 

Finished CDLC (organized roughly by genre):

I haven't done every custom by every band listed here, which should hopefully be obvious. Just that I've done at least one by each band (I'll try to add the exact number I've done in parentheses). If I feel a band belongs in multiple categories, I'll put them in multiple times.

 

Rock (classic/progressive/heavy blues etc.):

Blood Ceremony (1 song)

Clutch (20 songs)

Corrosion of Conformity (1 song)

Graveyard (3 songs)

King Crimson (1 song)

Riverside (7 songs)

The Rolling Stones (3 songs)

Rush (3 songs)

Steven Wilson (1 song)

Tricot (2 songs)

Yes (1 song)

 

Miscellaneous bass focused stuff:

Bob Marley and the Wailers (9 songs)

Bruno Mars (1 song)

Jamiroquai (1 song)

Michael Jackson (1 song)

Ozric Tentacles (2 songs)

Sade (2 songs)

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1 song)

Streetlight Manifesto (5 songs)

The Four Tops (1 song)

The Maytals (1 song)

The Spinners (4 songs)

The Supremes (1 song)

Vulfpeck (12 songs)

 

"Classic" style metal:

Enforcer (1 song)

Iron Maiden (14 songs)

Judas Priest (17 songs)

 

Miscellaneous metal I'm too lazy to create categories for:

High on Fire (1 song, stoner metal)

Lamb of God (18 songs, groove metal)

Moonsorrow (5 songs, epic blackened folk/whatever)

The Dillinger Escape Plan (2 songs, progressive mathcore)

The Sword (5 songs, doom/stoner metal)

 

Progressive Metal (clean vocals/Instrumental):

Andromeda (2 songs)

Conquering Dystopia (1 song)

Dream Theater (8 songs)

Galneryus (7 songs)

Haken (13 songs)

Intervals (8 songs, mostly instrumental)

Liquid Tension Experiment (2 songs, instrumental)

Mandroid Echostar (1 song)

Myrath (2 songs)

Pomegranate Tiger (3 songs)

Scale the Summit (23 songs, instrumental)

Symphony X (26 songs)

 

Progressive Metal (mixed/harsh vocals):

Atheist (1 song)

Between the Buried and Me (32 songs, mixed vocals)

Disillusion (2 songs, mixed vocals)

Gorod (8 songs)

Leprous (1 song, mixed vocals)

Native Construct (6 songs, mixed vocals)

Ne Obliviscaris (7 songs, mixed vocals)

Opeth (17 songs, mixed vocals)

Orphaned Land (4 songs, mixed vocals)

Sigh (1 song)

The Ocean (2 songs, mixed vocals)

 

Power Metal:

Galneryus (6 songs)

Helloween (29 songs)

Gamma Ray (1 song)

Iced Earth (15 songs)

Savatage (1 song)

 

Death Metal:

Amorphis (5 songs)

Atheist (1 song)

Beyond Creation (3 songs)

Blotted Science (6 songs)

Cannibal Corpse (13 songs)

Dark Tranquillity (4 songs)

Death (3 songs)

Disillusion (2 songs)

Gorod (8 songs)

Kalmah (2 songs)

Ne Obliviscaris (7 songs)

Obscura (8 songs)

Omnium Gatherum (1 song)

Opeth (17 songs)

Possessed (2 songs)

Quo Vadis (1 song)

Spawn of Possession (1 song)

The Absence (1 song)

Year200X (3 songs)

 

Thrash Metal:

Anthrax (2 songs)

Coroner (8 songs)

Destroyer 666 (1 song)

HeXeN (4 songs)

Iced Earth (15 songs)

Kreator (11 songs)

Lamb of God (18 songs, more groove)

Nevermore (15 songs)

Possessed (2 songs)

Skeletonwitch (8 songs)

Slayer (1 song)

Testament (17 songs)

Vektor (12 songs)

Warbringer (3 songs)

 

Guitar virtuoso:

Buckethead (1 song)

Intervals (8 songs)

Jeff Loomis (2 songs)

John 5 (3 songs)

John Petrucci (4 songs)

Liquid Tension Experiment (2 songs)

Rusty Cooley (1 song)

 

5-string bass (some of which has been rearranged for 4):

Blotted Science (6 songs)

Between the Buried and Me (32 songs)

Cannibal Corpse (13 songs)

Chris Letchford (3 songs)

Exivious (1 song)

Galneryus (7 songs)

Iced Earth (15 songs, only more recent stuff on 5-string)

Ihsahn (2 songs)

Intronaut (1 song)

Jeff Loomis (2 songs)

John Petrucci (4 songs)

Liquid Tension Experiment (2 songs)

Mandroid Echostar (1 song)

Myrath (2 songs)

Native Construct (6 songs)

Ne Obliviscaris (7 songs)

Nevermore (15 songs, only later songs on 5-string)

Spawn of Possession (1 song)

Streetlight Manifesto (5 songs)

Year200X (3 songs)

 

6-string bass (some of which is playable on 5 or has been rearranged for 4):

Andromeda (2 songs)

Beyond Creation (3 songs)

Control Denied (1 song)

Dream Theater (8 songs)

Haken (13 songs)

Obscura (8 songs)

Scale the Summit (23 songs)

Seventh Wonder (7 songs)

 

Collaborations:

I did much of the bass chart and some testing on Mastodon - The Motherload by @@rummhamm87

I did a little bit of testing and suggestions for an update of Graveyard - Right is Wrong by @@bernixix

Edited November 21, 20169 yr by albatross213

Love your stuff bro, I'm super stoked with actually getting to play Scale The Summit stuff.

 

I've seen your Liquid Tension Experiment and Dream Theater charts; would love for you to try your hand at Petrucci's "Suspended Animation" album -- there's a chart of "Glasgow Kiss" somewhere that doesn't have tone (at least, as far as I know) but is already pretty well made:

 

http://customsforge.com/page/customsforge_rs_2014_cdlc.html/_/pc-enabled-rs-2014-cdlc/glasgow-kiss-r19288

 

From that album, charts for "Curve" , "Damage Control" and "Wishful Thinking" would be awesome :D

 

Glasgow Kiss: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/john_petrucci/glasgow_kiss_live_album_guitar_pro.htm

Curve : https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/john_petrucci/curve_guitar_pro.htm

Damage Control: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/john_petrucci/damage_control_ver3_guitar_pro.htm

Wishful Thinking: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/john_petrucci/wishful_thinking_guitar_pro.htm

 

Hope these help man :)

Among other things, I'm going to be going through some of Iron Maiden's discography and fill in some missing gaps and fix or upload my own versions of some songs that are lacking in some areas. I've already released Heaven Can Wait, and am also planning on doing (in no particular order, and with completion dependent on wheter tabs suck or not)

 

Iron Maiden

Invaders

Genghis Khan

Losfer Words

Gangland

Prowler

Sea of Madness

Still Life

Remember Tomorrow

Sanctuary

Strange World

The Fallen Angel

Transylvania

Charlotte the Harlot

Lord of Light

Ghost of the Navigator

 

And a few that are somewhat more tentative, including

The Prisoner (+multitracks)

Infinite Dreams (+multitracks), which also has several parts where the bass is off

Powerslave, since the bass goes off the rails during the solo section

Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter

Mother Russia

 

Are there any others that I'm overlooking?

Among other things, I'm going to be going through some of Iron Maiden's discography and fill in some missing gaps and fix or upload my own versions of some songs that are lacking in some areas. I've already released Heaven Can Wait, and am also planning on doing (in no particular order, and with completion dependent on wheter tabs suck or not)

 

Iron Maiden

Invaders

Genghis Khan

Losfer Words

Gangland

Prowler

Sea of Madness

Still Life

Remember Tomorrow

Sanctuary

Strange World

The Fallen Angel

Transylvania

Charlotte the Harlot

Lord of Light

Ghost of the Navigator

 

And a few that are somewhat more tentative, including

The Prisoner (+multitracks)

Infinite Dreams (+multitracks), which also has several parts where the bass is off

Powerslave, since the bass goes off the rails during the solo section

Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter

Mother Russia

 

Are there any others that I'm overlooking?

I would love to play The Mercenary, but the tabs i found were terrible 

@@Nacholede - Yeah, bad tabs are a bummer. Thankfully they happen relatively rarely with Maiden.

@@Nacholede - Yeah, bad tabs are a bummer. Thankfully they happen relatively rarely with Maiden.

Agreed! Now that i have more free time, i will chart The Great Unknown

Sweet! I've been wanting Still Life for a long while.

So, with the announcement of the Rush Pack, it seems that all versions of Working Man have gone missing from the site. I've also noticed that Fly By Night, Closer to the Heart, and La Villa Strangiato are missing (in addition to the already known Freewill). Think that's the pack for Tuesday? If it is, then that's a very good pack.

 

@@eezstreet - I just noticed that The Pilgrim is bass only. Are you intending on finishing that?

hi, what's up ?

can you (or Nacholede) please do:  John Petrucci - Jaws of Life ? :D

(it would have to be B Standard tunning i guess)

I just updated a bunch of songs with 5-string and 6-string bass tracks so that the chords detect better. I think I also made some small changes to the charts on a few of them. The songs are 

I Cum Blood by Cannibal Corpse

Omnipresent Perception by Beyond Creation

Choir of Spirits and Centric Flow by Obscura

Spark of the Archon by Native Construct

Atlas Novus by Scale the Summit

Zodiac by Chris Letchford

 

Those are some of the ones that I think had the most chords, but there are probably a few others that I'm forgetting. @@Zoopador, @@theoogy70, can you guys think of other ones that have lots of chords that I haven't updated already?

 

There will be some new stuff on the way soon (another Obscura song, some Scale the Summit, and a song from the rather Scale the Summit-like Pomegranate Tiger) but I think I'm going to try to wait for the deluge to subside before posting anything new.

 

@@DanPro777 - I'm not planning on doing it, because it's a 7-string chart that both makes heavy use of the e string in soloing and has riffs that pedal off of the low B. It would be very hard to pull something off without throwing away a significant part of the track.

Hi Albatross,

 

Great job with the Moonsorrow CDLC! :) 

 

Do you have any more in the pipeline? (<cough>Jotunheim</cough><cough>Jaasta Syntynyt/Varjoijen Virta</cough>) Either would be epic :D

 

\m/

@@phobos_a - From what I remember, the tab for Jaasta Syntynyt was bad enough that fixing it would take way more effort than I want to put into a custom. Jotunheim... I think was mostly OK but had enough details off that I don't think I'll be finishing it soon. Tabs for Varjoijen Virta don't exist, so if you want that to happen your best bet is probably asking @@Fyres.

 

Anyway, Haaska and Jumalten Kaupunki are the most likely to show up soon by my hand. Or something off the new album if the guy who tabbed the other songs shows up with a new one soon, since his tabs are usually quite easy to work with.

I wanted to thank you for all the hard work and good music you've been making available for us, as well as make a suggestion that you check out Slough Feg (also operated under The Lord Weird Slough Feg for awhile) if you've never come across them. I think you'd really dig them and there's a bunch of their songs that'd make good customs. Tiger! Tiger!, Warriors Dawn, Eumaeus the Swineherd, Vargr Moon, The Wickerman, and their cover of Dearg Doom are all great tunes, as is most of their catalog.

@@delwin - I actually have materials ready to make a decent number of their songs, but I've always found something else to focus on instead. I'll see if I can find time to fit in at least a song or two of theirs soon.

Well, if you do, I know one person who will play them. 

There will be Dream Theater song pack For 9/27 ! :D

 

http://theriffrepeater.com/song-speculation-dream-theater-makes-rocksmith-debut-metropolis-petrucci-myung/

@@DanPro777 - Awesome that we're finally getting it! My guess would be Metropolis Pt. 1 (confirmed), Pull Me Under, and one of Panic Attack (possible with the new approach to low tunings. Possibly explaining why we'd get a pack now and not previously) and Fatal Tragedy, but lots of other stuff could show up (that I'm sure I'd find lots to appreciate in, even if it's not one of my favorite DT songs).

Bit of a random question, but I'm  not exactly familiar with the majority of your customs and those genres, but I love playing stuff like Petrucci, Jack Thammarat, and Galneryus, (and Growing Up by MintJam, which I made) for the relatively conventional advanced sheddyness. Got any suggestions? 

@@Zooropa_Station - At the very least I'd recommend checking out some of the instrumental songs that I've done, of which there are a bunch...

 

At the top of the list would probably be the Intervals songs, which are ridiculously fun and catchy and, while technical, not overwhelmingly difficult.

 

Scale the Summit is also really cool instrumental stuff, but a lot of their songs are very technical and make heavy use of really advanced and fairly specialized techniques (namely arpeggio tapping). I'd say a lot of their stuff is worth learning, but you should expect to be able to sightread very few of their songs at any real level of competence.

 

Then there are a few shreddy instrumental songs, the Jason Becker, Jeff Loomis (and while not instrumental, he was in Nevermore which also has some really cool riffs and solos, and Rusty Cooley songs. These are all ridiculously challenging, but can be pretty fun. I guess Blotted Science could go here as well.

 

Then there are instrumental tracks by bands that are mostly non-instrumental. Chromatic Horizon and Elevation Path by Beyond Creation, Orbital Elements by Obscura (both technical death metal bands, but only Chromatic Horizon is particularly tech-deathy as a song), and probably a lot more that I'm forgetting.

 

Then there's lots of other stuff with vocals, but a fair number of those use harsh vocals so that will depend pretty strongly on your tolerance of different varieties of harsh vocals. Of bands with clean vocals, I'd definitely recommend Symphony X (who I hope you've check out before) and Hibria at the very least. Probably Haken, Shadow Gallery, and Green Carnation too.

Dream Theater Pack:
Pull Me Under
On the Backs of Angels
Metropolis Part I: "The Miracle and the Sleeper"

 

 

I think i requested exactly these songs a long time ago. XD

I hope there will be second pack in the future with other good songs we are missing.  :)

I'm loving all of these great metal cdlcs.  Any chance we could get something by Overkill when you have time?  Maybe Horrorscope, Overkill, Evil Never Dies, or Feel the Fire?   

@@chickentacos - I'm not planning on doing much Overkill. Not because they're unworthy, but because the tabs I've looked through were pretty uniformly terrible (missing solos, wrong riffs, wrong song structure, or some combination thereof). If you know any tabs that you can pretty much guarantee will work I'll be happy to work on them, but I've given up on looking for good tabs that seem to be the proverbial needle in a haystack.

ok, didn't know about that.  I just noticed that there weren't any Overkill cdlcs, so I figured I'd ask.  Honestly, I wouldn't know a bad tab from a good one, I'm really just learning how to play bass.  

I've updated all of my customs (with 3 or so exceptions that didn't work) to fix the 100% bug, and they should all be done uploading now. If you have any problems with newly downloaded (sometime after the time of this post) customs, let me know so we can figure out what's going on with them.

Went to pick up Iron Swan after the LFS stream I popped into, and it turns out that was you all along. xD

Hi there. Anything from Plini would be greatly appreciated, as well as anything from G.O.D. (Guitarists on Demand). I know they have official tabs and lessons on their site, but I'm not sure if they're accessible online otherwise.

 

But their stuff just looks soooooo fun to play:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-tZ2n4Bxgs

 

Edit: I should mention that the one custom for Plini is an objective mess and its album cover for the file belongs to a song of the same name by Coldplay  :mellow: