-= Building a Guitar from Scratch with Absolutely No Woodworking Experience =-

Never Tried any of these contests so here is my attemp at Mr.Crowley Updated http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=552499906

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/396675411370378041/1B6FCD701F545730425E7DD76C7D4E8B6AD87225/

better...

 

this tune is so chilly

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/2n83gm.jpg

Welcome @@Goose!

Update time.

 

And the award for most out of place sounding guitar riff goes to:

http://s29.postimg.org/xbki82von/jon_spencer_full_grown_lead.png

Rocking drum intro, aggressive lyrics and vocals, and then a plinky little guitar line - I actually laughed the first time I heard it !

 

http://s16.postimg.org/8ksapro5x/la_sera_love_that_s_gone_rhythm.png

I remember playing this song the first day I got RS2014, couldn't make much inroads into it at the time and I always thought that I'll know I've improved when I can play this song. Been meaning to tackle it for a while now actually.

 

http://s30.postimg.org/yql7hno9t/nomeansno_it_s_catching_up_bass.png

Exhausting on the fretting hand ! Can only play it a handful of times before I have to stop.

Some updates n' stuff.

 

Nina Simone: I think this was my first score over 3M. Probably because everything has a sustain. Not trivial, but I found it pretty easy.

 

The Offspring: Pretty fun bassline.

 

Love That's Gone (rhythm): Yup. I still suck at chords. At this point it's mainly the F# ones that F# me up. Also, is it just me or after the intro (where there's a slide) is there any reason I shouldn't play the A and D chords starting on the A (or even the D, I guess) string? I can manage the alternative handshape, but given fret hand positions and the triviality of the "extended power chord" shape I can't see why you'd choose to play it the other way in this context.

 

It's Catching Up (lead):

http://i.imgur.com/uKJCLNH.jpgDafuq is happening in the bridge sections? Not sure I care that much, but I'll definitely need to slow it down in RR to wrap my head around it.

 

It's Catching Up (bass):

http://i.imgur.com/JarW69X.jpgI messed up one of the last notes in the verse riff before the outro. Tried playing it a few more times (Ow!) but never got better than one miss, and obviously didn't beat this streak. 100% is so close but I haven't quite gotten it yet. Anyway, I imagine it will require 100% to beat this.

working my way up.

 

begin lead:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/402305231594470962/4C04E16CF60E55B03547AC989E4442F06D114CCD/

 

begin rhythm:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/402305231594471494/E3CEAD2F677D33B5650904DF103C05EE598DC01E/

 

:plus1:

one little update

http://up.picr.de/23667614fl.jpg

After getting some dinner (a.k.a. resting my fingers a bit), I managed this:

http://i.imgur.com/xEry3wt.jpg

 

Fellow MC bassists, while I have your attention: At the moment two songs I've just selected are the only songs that have bass ratings above a 7 (though there are some others in the bass only list - if you can find any worthy guitar only songs to pair them with, I'd like to see most of those). Unless you wish to subject yourselves to my tastes/songs I want to learn, I suggest you all put one or two higher level bass songs on the SSL.

Alright, my scores for this week!

http://i.imgur.com/FYbj4ZT.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/8a8UIIM.jpg

Getting somewhat less embarrasingly bad at the int guitar parts.

 

Rhythm:

http://i.imgur.com/JmvAP57.jpgKind of randomly fell apart for one section (where I got the strike), but the rest were yellow or green. Should be able to take this to at least 97 by the end of the week.

 

Lead:

http://i.imgur.com/5Uf3ma4.jpgI suck at the C#m chord. I'm also pretty bad at the transition from the E chord to D chord. Solo isn't too bad, but I definitely won't be hitting everything in it (I tend to get the fingering backwards on some of the chords, and some of the chords with hopos I find pretty awkward). 

 

@@Nacholede - Just curious, for the rapid power chord shifts in "Pretty Fly", do you play them by shifting your hand or by alternating between 1+3 and 2+4 fingering? I remember something like the latter came up in some discussion of a Metallica song a while ago (though I guess this is a bit different because this is a full power chord rather than just the fifth).

Beginner Lead http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551460747#_=_

 

Tiny bit more progress. I can play the double stop riff at 80% speed almost flawlessly, but as soon as I try it in the song my fingers herp derp.

 

I tried love that's gone and yeah I don't see myself play it anytime soon. I'm not very good with some chord voicings and I have a very difficult time getting the finger tip joint of my ring finger to actually bend. It bends more now than it used to, but I did a lot of damage to it back in the day bowling. I think it is slowly getting some mobility back, but it's been very slow.

@@albatross213 The Offspring guitarist moves around as many other punk rock guitarist does. The spider technique which use the 2/4 for fifth is mostly exclusively used by Dave Mustaine as far as i know.

This is a start I guess.....

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fx92eo3m7og3uyj/221680_2015-11-10_00002.png?dl=0

 

....and The Offspring

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bnv7h8380zmcfnp/221680_2015-11-10_00003.png?dl=0

Tried the int lead. I know this is on disc, but I'm not sure I've ever played it before.

 

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

 

Did almost 80% on Mr. Crowley too, but ate a bunch of food and missed the screenshot. That's okay, I want an even 80 before I post it anyway.

Well, after a hiatus for a few months I've come back.  Hopefully, I'll be able to start participating in the beginner bass ranks again this week.  I'm probably going to take it a bit slowly, as one thing I have discovered is that I made some serious 'omissions' in my fret hand technique development.

 

 

Laters!

Fellow MC bassists, while I have your attention: At the moment two songs I've just selected are the only songs that have bass ratings above a 7 (though there are some others in the bass only list - if you can find any worthy guitar only songs to pair them with, I'd like to see most of those). Unless you wish to subject yourselves to my tastes/songs I want to learn, I suggest you all put one or two higher level bass songs on the SSL.

for guitar only I will do some more Jon Spencer  :D

many of them are guitar only, and almost funny

 

Just curious, for the rapid power chord shifts in "Pretty Fly", do you play them by shifting your hand or by alternating between 1+3 and 2+4 fingering? I remember something like the latter came up in some discussion of a Metallica song a while ago (though I guess this is a bit different because this is a full power chord rather than ju st the fifth).

That Metallica song was Orion, but it has different chords (I still don't remember names of many chords :P ), etc. On Pretty Fly I was always shifting, though spider technique (cool name) came handy few times in my life (literally few).

Finally got above 90. So now i can give myself permission to play something else.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Love%20thats%20gone%209108_zps3dekk8xb.jpg

 

Some increase in Rhythm as well. Getting random misses all over the place.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Love%20thats%20gone%20RHYTHM%209378_zpsqolss0nn.jpg

 

 

The riff in this is a bit to fast for me to handle.  I can get 0 misses @ 95% speed, but when i get to 100% everything goes to hell.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Its%20catching%20up%2085%20nr2_zpsdbpkok8o.jpg

 

I really enjoy the da capo challenge. It great so see our improvements in numbers.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Pretty%20fly%20for%20a%20white%20guy%20DACAPO%209609_zps2vvyx1u2.jpg

MC Bass: hit the 100%, still a long way to go to get the top score though.

 

http://s16.postimg.org/x86pyizmt/nomeansno_it_s_catching_up_bass.png

 

Edit: 100th Post, yay !

MC Bass: hit the 100%, still a long way to go to get the top score though.

If you want an early benchmark, I think my best runs got me to about 95,700 in the break after the slide at the end of the first chorus.

 

The verse riff is probably the riff I did best on, though, as I mostly (90%?) got perfects. Things where the same note is repeated (most of the chorus, long strings of A's) I mostly get goods, with a few perfects and earlies mixed in. The other riffs I think I was mostly getting goods, though I'd have expected/hoped for more perfects.

one try bass

cool song, too!!!

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/2nvgv5.jpg

Getting somewhat less embarrasingly bad at the int guitar parts.

 

Rhythm:

http://i.imgur.com/JmvAP57.jpgKind of randomly fell apart for one section (where I got the strike), but the rest were yellow or green. Should be able to take this to at least 97 by the end of the week.

 

Lead:

http://i.imgur.com/5Uf3ma4.jpgI suck at the C#m chord. I'm also pretty bad at the transition from the E chord to D chord. Solo isn't too bad, but I definitely won't be hitting everything in it (I tend to get the fingering backwards on some of the chords, and some of the chords with hopos I find pretty awkward). 

 

@@Nacholede - Just curious, for the rapid power chord shifts in "Pretty Fly", do you play them by shifting your hand or by alternating between 1+3 and 2+4 fingering? I remember something like the latter came up in some discussion of a Metallica song a while ago (though I guess this is a bit different because this is a full power chord rather than just the fifth).

Pretty Fly was one of the first songs i ever learnt, and for that part, i just shift my hand, and use alternate picking in almost the whole song! 

Still no improvement for me on Mr Crowley.

 

It seems much easier with a pick, but I'm a lot more accurate with my fingers.  Is this supposed to be picked?

 

Edit:

 

I'm quite pleased with this, though:

 

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

 

A year ago, I would never have been able to play a song like this.  I still need to work on my little finger, and sometimes these fast championship songs just don't help.  Still, I know what my problem is, as I say, I need to work on it.  This might be my warm up song from now on… :)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551962266

 

A miniscule improvement. tend to just keep playing this right the way through in SA multiple times rather than using RR. It's a nice pace already to learn I just need to be a bit luckier with note recognition then I'll be happy... 100% accuracy would be nice but I'm missing some really annoying notes that sound good to my ear but according to RS, it's a miss  :blink: