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Let's start week 99.

Week 99 will end at noon CET!!!

READ THIS FIRST =>> How and Why to Join the Championships
Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

Last weeks winners:

Lead:
Beginner: N/E
Intermediate: @@joedoe
Advanced: @@Gamut
Masterclass: @@Nacholede
 
Rhythm:
Beginner: N/E
Intermediate: @@koffein
Advanced: N/A
Masterclass: N/A

 

Bass:
Beginner: @@slooker

Intermediate: @@avsrick
Advanced: @@Rodman
Masterclass: @@albatross213
 

Congrats to all the winners.

 

@@albatross213 made not

but

videos! Or

I can be lost :wacko:

 
The songs for this week are:

Lead Path:
Beginner:  Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On (chosen by @@PierreDole )
Intermediate: N/A
Advanced: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Hanuman (chosen by @@then3verend )
Masterclass: Fishbone - Servitude (chosen by @ )

Rhythm Path:

Beginner: N/A
Intermediate: The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (chosen by @@albatross213 )
Advanced: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Hanuman
Masterclass: Fishbone - Servitude

Bass Path:

Beginner:  Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On
Intermediate: Royal Blood - Out of the Black (chosen by @@then3verend )
Advanced: The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Masterclass: Fishbone - Servitude
 
Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).
 
Honorable list Diehard Member:

Playing in their class 4 weeks in row, one pass allowed (not yet updated!)

• albatross213 in MC bass path
• @avsrick in INT bass path
• Azrael in ADV lead, rhythm paths
• Bentron in ADV bass path
• Bruce Force in INT rhythm path
• Choaralaone in MC bass path
• franfit in BEG lead, rhythm paths
• Gamut in ADV lead path
• genobadass in ADV bass path
• Jambi in BEG lead path
• koffein in INT lead, rhythm, ADV bass paths
• Latsch in MC lead, rhythm, bass paths
• MaZtoR in ADV lead, rhythm paths
• missis sumner in ADV bass path
• MonstaS4 in INT lead path
• Mortalo in INT lead path
• NoonyDeloony in ADV bass path
• Psymanski in ADV bass path
• queengeedorah in ADV bass path
• Rodman in INT lead, ADV rhythm, bass paths
• slooker in BEG bass path
• supername in MC lead path
• then3verend in MC lead, rhythm, bass paths
• @Tong in ADV lead path
• Van-Blurten in INT bass path

 
Honorable list FreeBird Member:

Participating as a FreeBird, without a class ;)

• 2groggy
• fiddlesticks
• frippchen
• Motive

Have a great week!

Adv Bass update: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=518454310

 

 Really enjoy playing this. I can nail it perfectly at 95% speed but that extra 5% makes it just too quick for me to play it well in SA. Hopefully with a little more practice I can get my pace up. The little arpeggio thing at the end (Bridge? Solo?) was a bit of a brain fart at first but I sat in the living room this morning with Bob and played it over and over until he made me stop by chucking Lego at my head.

 

Nice play, but you should do the bass Arrangement :P It's not given in the Lead Path this week.

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/QGuzOk7.jpg

 

Bass arrangement is nearly the exact same chart. Only differences are less chugging and a couple chords and licks are an octave down. 

 

Honestly, bass emulation sucks and I have more fun with the Lead, so I'm gonna keep playing the Amp FX chart. Not like I'm in Intermediate, so doesn't really matter to me whether it "counts".

So... are you all ready?

 

http://i.imgur.com/LZ0YdUu.jpg

 

I suck at all right hand technique, knowing which string is which, and all chords (and I find it hilarious that I can fret an F power chord using only my first and second finger). Fear me!

 

I might try doing a rhythm run on Servitude just for kicks. Was feeling like I could do pretty well on it based on my bass run, then I realized there's probably palm muting and some other crap I'm probably not expecting.

 

Here's a small album with pictures of the guitar if you want to see it. My camera's not great and I don't have the steadiest hand, so I apologize for crappy quality on some of the pictures.

 

Anyway, the goal for this week is probably just to get promoted. Not sure if 99% will be easy, but it should be achievable with some practice and me getting in a run where I don't get too confused while navigating the strings.

http://i.imgur.com/c9EDxPW.jpg

 

Okay, after Riff Repeating I don't think this is MC after all. Sure is tricky for Advanced though. I think it seems harder than it is because I am not familiar with this style at all.

 

Surprised I even managed this much with how far I've got left to go. I still can't get that riff with the high E trills at all.

@@albatross213 at first I was like "wait...that song wasn't that hard on bass, how the hell?"

 

I might be getting a newcomer to my family of guitars soon as well...been needing a solid 24 fretter for awhile. Good luck! Hope to see you in MC by December :P

ok start.

 

joe cocker:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/429321685582784134/8A04EB984C5AC98C8BCBE4A82C88D793A5DF342A/

 

jackson 5:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/429321685582784682/67EB4104A2B6632DC7921518D7988450FB7CB77B/

nice to have a bit of time to pratice. it has been hard to find lately.

 

cocker:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/429321685583065746/6651427037175080DECB956412AE6D7E1432005F/

 

jackson 5:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/429321685583065283/1D5691031E6DB630769D8E8190C58ABF369BC756/

The dragon has been slain:

 

http://i.imgur.com/8oY7SaC.jpg

 

Probably going to spend the rest of the week honing my picking hand technique and learning chords. The former fails me far too often even on relatively simple things, and the latter... well, right now most chords that are more complicated than power chords and the ilk are pretty much just guaranteed misses. Like in "I Want You Back" the octave chords are easy (though the strum and muting pattern isn't always), but when those other chords hit everything totally falls apart.

 

Edit: Also, I had one really stupid miss very close to the end of the song. Very glad it didn't push me under 99%!

*Albatross's quest to follow in the footsteps of then3verend has begun*

 

 

If i could wish something for a possible RS14 sequel it would (besides a DD switch) surely be a much enhanced recognition engine esp. for mutes and punishment for extra played notes...

 

Punishment for extra played notes?! Maybe in Score Attack, but please never in Learn a Song! I would go crazy if I wasn't allowed to improv solos during long rests. Hell, I find myself chugging and adding extra flairs during simple riffs to avoid boredom, too.

 

 

Yeah, on score attack - hard only would be great...

However, unlikely to happen

Advacned Lead - 88.74%, 71 streak

I won't get more without RR or playing 100 times. It's a little bit too fast right now.

Damn that last part is hard

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/09/15/c284a42fff40e5c896bbe2e7644e285e.jpg

Boom! Boom!

This week will end sooner (around noon CET) due to starting week 100 earlier.

 

 

I would like to give you at least a little bit more time with week 100, so that unpleasant change is neccesarry.

 

Never forget that weeks start on Saturday!

@@Mortalo T----today??????!?!?!?!?

fancy to play some chords  :grin:

not bad for first run without practice and not knowing the song

http://up.picr.de/23122981qk.jpg

I smashed my pinky with a hammer at work today, so its out of order for a while. Im not even going to try to play Hanuman without the use of my pinky and with a stupid bandage that gets in the way for the rest of the fingers.  So here is some beginner instead.

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/You%20can%20leave%20your%20hat%20on%209904_zpsmlsg74k3.jpg

Advanced Rhythm:
Well, not my cup of tea, but its good to listen to something different every once in a while.

Advanced Lead:
Going Intermediate next week...
Advanced Bass:
For me, these are some weird basslines :D

This week's songs are going to stay as a trivia for me :D They are interesting, but not something I would listen to.

Boom! Boom!

This week will end sooner (around noon CET) due to starting week 100 earlier.

 

 

I would like to give you at least a little bit more time with week 100, so that unpleasant change is neccesarry.

 

Never forget that weeks start on Saturday!

 

You are now back in my good books and "Nice douche" status is resumed :) Thank you for the proper notice  :wub:

 

So I was faffing about a bit today just running the bassline through my head and set myself a target to get 97.9% accuracy and this happened...

 

Update: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=518944446... I don't know if my widdley widdley mantra throughout the day in my brain helped this or I just suddenly got, good? *Upwards affliction to the voice!* Gag me with a spoon! :D

Ok, I've been a bit lax of late, but I'm back with my full attention… well, maybe...

 

First goes and impressions:

 

Joe Cocker - quite a tricky beginner song (I managed to f*ck it up - not that I'm a bass god or anything, I'm just getting quite good at Rocksmith…):

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKU3A1bTM0Vjk3NVU/view?usp=sharing

 

I'm not sure of the tone on that one either - it's a bit, well,  bleurgh.

 

Royal Blood (a band I quite like and a nice difficult advanced song):

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKU3JPVWpKMHJDdUU/view?usp=sharing

 

Sorry, did I say "advanced"? lol

 

And then there's The Jackson 5.  I've played it before.  Once.  I got 75% (yes, I actually stayed in there and finished the song).

 

Tonight I did a hell of a lot better on my second go, 84%.

 

I gave it another go on Score attack:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKTjJWZGpjVV9oVXM/view?usp=sharing

 

I need to get some practice in this week… :)

Oh, yeah.  Forgot to say - for Royal Blood, I had to stop at the start to find my 20th fret… then I didn't bother with any of the chords, and I forgot where my 20th fret was by the time it came around again… lol.

 

I'd love to practice it this week, but what wit the tuning down, and the work I know I have to do on the Jacksons, it's not going to happen. :(

http://i.imgur.com/r6X269Q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Xam7kyl.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/z3uBtDo.jpg

@ Noons - spoon????

 

Here ya go:

 

Hmmmm :D :D :D :D

 

yd was out of surpirise ... this years new guitar day ..... (i should not hold that annually, though... on the other hand... hmmm ;))

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/257ommd.jpg

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/2ijpua1.jpg

 

http://i61.tinypic.com/ev3us2.jpg

 

PRS SE 24 Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) Signature

 

Could not resist the bird inlays....

 

... ready for W100!

 

 

Cannot wait to get home to give it a proper test....

Oh, @@Rodman, what an awful shape of that guitar, bleh. Forever Strat :wub:

Oh, @@Rodman, what an awful shape of that guitar, bleh. Forever Strat :wub:

Hey - you aint bitchin about the color this time - are you allright??? :P

 

http://www.dv247.com/assets/news/dv247/prssemikaelakerfeldt.jpg