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

- Week 110 -

- lets get the challenge started!!! -

 

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

Last weeks winners:
 

Lead:
Beginner: @@franfit
Intermediate: @@Rodman
Advanced: @@albatross213
Masterclass: @@Nacholede

Rhythm:
Beginner: no winners here   :crying_cat_face:

Intermediate: @@franfit
Advanced: @@albatross213
Masterclass: ---

Bass:
Beginner:  no winner in this class
Intermediate:  nope
Advanced: @@ezeikiel2517
Masterclass: @@fiddlesticks
 

Congrats to all the winners

 

 

Honorably Mentions to

@@Nacholede for 100% in Beginner Lead and @@ezeikiel2517 for his 100% in Advanced Bass

 

there was one Video by @@firekorn and another one by bearded @Gamut with closed doors

 

 

This weeks songs are:

 

 

Lead Path:
Beginner: Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven (3) chosen by @@NoonyDeloony
Intermediate: Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children (6) chosen by @@Mortalo
Advanced: Foo Fighters - Miss The Misery (7) chosen by @@missis sumner
Masterclass: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (10) chosen by @@albatross213

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (2) chosen from week 83
Intermediate: Foo Fighters - Miss The Misery (5) 
Advanced: Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children (6)

Masterclass: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (8.5) 

Bass Path:
Beginner: Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children (2)
Intermediate: Foo Fighters - Miss The Misery (3)

Advanced: Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven (4)
Masterclass: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (9.5)

 

the songs are selected by RNG

Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

 

 

 

this week the  

DA CAPO CHALLENGE

is back with a song from week 52

 

The John Butler Trio - Zebra

 

the former competitors scores are there in the table - so if you wanna check your progress give it another try and kick your own score or just take the extra challenge to play an extra song competition-wise.

 

Rules? - no Rules! Rules are for church guitarists!

#Everybody is welcome to post his score!

#No awards, no points, no nothing, just fun!

 

If you have an extra song you wanna play again just add it to the Song Selection List under Da Capo

 

Exercise Challenges

 

Don´t forget to compete in our running Exercises! Every path has it's own challenge.

If we get some more scores we will add the next challenge, but now we still stick to the first ones

1st Exercise: Blues Comping 1 in A major shuffle
2nd Exercise: Blues Comping 2 in A major - straight 8ths

 

exercises scoreboards

Honorable list Diehard Member:

• albatross213
• franfit
• Gamut
• genobadass
• joedoe
• koffein
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• Nacholede
• NoonyDeloony
• pijawa2000
• Rodman
• Sakata
• Toddo
• Tong

Honorable list FreeBird Member:
Participating as a FreeBird, without a class    ;)

• 2groggy
• frippchen
• Motive
• then3verend

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

 

Have a great week!

Dying with the bloody cold again today :(

Could barely make it though a song without sneezing, which makes it quite hard to play !

 

Managed this run on Foo Fighters lead before giving up, getting some lemsip and cuddling up on the couch :D

 

http://s12.postimg.org/ttvkdib31/foo_fighters_miss_the_misery_lead.png

been a few days but,

 

miss the misery

rhythm:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401181547221422745/9CC5C865CA8C6AFA8C73144CBA79F4B6AFC08C36/

Put some more work on the Foos lead today.

 

http://i.imgur.com/YtVTe1n.jpgSo close to the potentially lead-preserving @@Gamut-buster! Played pretty cleanly throughout (phrase status), but with some pretty stupid mistakes, which made this run much worse than it should have been.

 

1) Missing some notes during the "fast octave chords" part and "lead during the chorus" part, which led to me being distracted and

2) Forgetting where the unison bends come in and instead going to the descending octave chords. Then panicking when trying to get back on track. For these actions I was awarded a strike.

 

I think there was a little bit of other foolishness in there, but those were pretty serious. That same run with 7 fewer misses (maybe a little optimistic given how I do on the unison bends) probably would be near 97% territory.

 

 

Also, since I forgot to mention this a while back... if @ was talking about the bends at the end of "All Along the Watchtower" with the fast bends, those aren't that bad to hit, as most of them are (appropriately) charted as picking a held bend and continuing the hold. Just holding that bend and picking it I was able to "only" get 15 misses on the last two sections (~127 notes), with most of the misses being due to rebends. Might be a bit easier to read if it were charted with tremolo picked bends (each lasting maybe a quarter or half note, or from one rebend to the next, or something), but as is it's charted well. Pretty sensitive to your bend strength, though, so I can miss a lot of notes during a run if I'm not paying attention.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=567916860

 

And the video that goes with it : 

A sad day , Rock in Peace Mr.Weiland :( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-3kSvAXyk xxx

piece by piece

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/vq5c8o.jpg

Intermediate Lead - 97.83%, 298 streak

Little improvement. You can take that streak @fripp.

 

MasterClass Lead - 76%, 47 streak

Hey I now this song :) Could have guess that I'll also won't do well.

Score Updates

 

Advanced Lead - 96.01% (96 streak)

Played it 64 times! I swear im having note recognition problems on this one!

 

Advanced Bass - 100% (1,557,582)

Had to play this slighty out of time in order to get this score, dont know if its the emulated bass or the CDLC.

Nice tune.

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

Da Capo Lead, finally improved score since last year

http://up.picr.de/23886781mg.jpg

Int Lead

 

http://s17.postimg.org/mddnhh2z3/pat_benatar_hell_is_for_children_lead.png

 

MC Rhythm

 

http://s27.postimg.org/3nbxevhxf/jimi_hendrix_all_along_the_watchtower_rhythm.png

 

Da Capo Bass

 

http://s18.postimg.org/ej0vmj6k9/john_butler_trio_zebra_bass.png

I'm not quick enough to nail that solo. Great tune though!

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/116w94mezhqgf82/221680_2015-12-05_00001.png?dl=0

Foo lead reprise:

http://i.imgur.com/vDNynY2.jpgHad 3 stupid misses on the easy high lead part. No idea how I managed that. Anyway, this (barely) puts me in the lead with a crappy streak. Come at me, @@Gamut and @@ezeikiel2517 (winner of this week's dedication award!)! And maybe you other guys who are still pretty close.

 

Also worked on Hendrix for a bit. Here was the result:

http://i.imgur.com/NMG1fSR.jpgCould do better on some parts as is (some of the less crazy parts of the verses, some of the leads, the outro where I went off pitch for a bit), could probably do a lot better on some of the parts with dedicated RR (again, some of the less crazy parts of the verses, some of the easier leads), but I'm pretty happy with this. While there are definitely some motifs that repeat throughout the song, there's not really anything significant that's a straight repeat, which combined with the difficulty of the individual pieces means learning to play it well would take quite the effort.

 

Edit: And while I'm in Eb, why not do rhythm too? Not as painful as I found it my first time through, I think since I approached some of the chords a bit differently. Also more comfortable with the chord transitions near the end. Probably could push this a decent amount higher with practice, as this was just a second run-through without any RR.

Edited December 5, 201510 yr by albatross213

@@albatross213 , making me work!! :P

 

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

 

I really struggle to get these transitions exactly right. After some RR, I can kill it on the squealy bends, but I can't help but drop a chord or two every time I have to fly halfway across the neck. I might have a few more goes at it in the morning, but this is pretty good for now.

 

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

 

I don't even know what's going on in my brain when I'm doing this song. There's no repeated parts, I'm not really working from memory. I just watch my fingers fly around, mildly pleasing sounds come out of my speakers, then at the end my score is a percent or two higher each time. 

Not much time for me this week, SOMEBODY hornswaggled me into starting a jazz user group (check it out: BlueNote Jazz Cafe).  My feeble attempts for this week:

 

 

 

Beginner (Bass) - Pat Benatar; Hell Is for Children - 97.08%

 

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/bb91/mae1rfpwmcn17szzg.jpg

 

 

Exercises (Bass) - Blues Comping 1 in A major shuffle - 93.9%

 

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/26e2/q1ixfkhbik9lfeszg.jpg

Hi,

 

Here is my Lead score:

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=569104526

Yet another fun week. I believed that taking on a challenge with the name Jimi Hendrix associated to it only was a challenge for the guitar player - I was wrong.

 

Pulling off some parts at a decent level, and other parts was an embarrassing stumble.

 

Here is the result:

 

Bass MC - 93,08 %

 

 

 

Lead on guitar brought back some memories (yes, I am that old). A great tune! I had some trouble with the quickest part in the solo, partly due to the speed, but also partly due to the fact that I didn't really catch the musical idea - there was no "tune". It was more or less a set of notes on top of each other...

 

Lead IM - 96,06%

 

 

Finally - love Foo Fighters. Didn't put to much effort on this one...

 

Rythm IM - 94,66%

 

 

Looking forward to a new week of challenges -  :)

not lot of time these days...

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/j8isrn.png

It's something :Phttp://l38.imgup.net/2015-12-044389.jpg

I'm late, I know, but here's my first go:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKRG1hU21PdXR4Zkk/view?usp=sharing

 

I've had a bad couple of weeks.  I got stabbed by a falling chisel at work last Tuesday, right at the base of my right index finger, so just haven't been able to play.  It still feels a bit weird, so I don't know if I'll be able to do much better.  I will give it a try though. :)

This is better:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKSHE1dnd2VUhvRlE/view?usp=sharing

Owwww @@missis sumner, that really sucks, my like is for your attempt despite injury not because you are injured :) get mended soon !

After a smattering of ~96s, I think this is the best I'm going to do.

 

http://i.imgur.com/Pz4TSjM.jpg

Well played, @@Gamut!

 

Might use the remaining time to see if I can get to 97% on rhythm on Hell is for Children.

Yay!

 

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

 

That'll do for this week - fingers are killing me!

Hell is for Children update:

 

http://i.imgur.com/uN1dQaX.jpg

 

Still a bit sloppy during the faster stuff (I missed far more G# stuff than I should have), but got much better at doing the chord slides cleanly and passable at the scale run pedal point thing.