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

- Week 112 -

- 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: @@Sebastien92
Intermediate: @@MonstaS4
Advanced: @@fiddlesticks
Masterclass: @@Nacholede

Rhythm:
Beginner: @@Viltaire

Intermediate: N/A
Advanced: @@MaZtoR
Masterclass: @@albatross213

Bass:
Beginner:  @@KJParsley
Intermediate:  @@tupoloflyer
Advanced: @@NoonyDeloony
Masterclass: @@albatross213

Congrats to all the winners

 

 

Honorably Mentions to @@fiddlesticks for 100% on INT lead, @@KJParsley and @@tupoloflyer for 100% on BEG bass and @@albatross213 for 100% on MC bass.

 

@@MilkmanDan and @ many weeks ago created a monster. That monster struck again last week with another pack of videos - all should tremble as here comes @@NoonyDeloony and she's getting

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time she's even better!

 

This weeks songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: The Bates - Billy Jean (2) chosen by @
Intermediate: Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (5) chosen by @@NoonyDeloony
Advanced: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ohio (8) chosen by @@Angelina27

(fixed rhythm tuning version)

(Double drop D)
Masterclass: Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator (9) chosen by @@fiddlesticks

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Bates - Billy Jean (3)
Intermediate: Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (5)
Advanced: Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator (8)

Masterclass: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ohio (8)

(fixed rhythm tuning version)

 

Bass Path:
Beginner: The Bates - Billy Jean (2)
Intermediate: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ohio (4)

(fixed rhythm tuning version)

Intermediate 2: Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (5)

Advanced: Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator (7)
Masterclass: Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy (9) chosen by @

 

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

 

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

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Honorable list Diehard Member:

• albatross213
• fiddlesticks
• firekorn
• franfit
• Gamut
• genobadass
• joedoe
• koffein
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• Nacholede
• NoonyDeloony\
• Rodman
• Sakata
• Sargas94
• @Tango
• Viltaire

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

• 2groggy
• frippchen

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

@@Mortalo - While lack of handshapes is just cosmetic, it's pretty silly to have to take a screenshot of a chord in order to figure out how to finger it. It might not be an essential consideration for advanced or MC, but I'd argue it definitely should be one for beginner and probably intermediate. And it's another thing that can detract from a CDLC's quality that often gets overlooked.

 

Also, you completely sidestepped the issue of the tuning. I'm now almost absolutely sure the tuning for the rhythm track of Ohio is wrong. A#6/A is a weird chord and doesn't match any chord I've seen in the song charts.

You're absolutely correct @@albatross213, the rhythm track for ohio should be in double drop d. Seems like a oversight by the charter - should be relatively easy to correct ?

The opening few bars of the lead track looks like a tabbing issue rather than a syncing one, sure it sounds weird when played over the backing track, but when played alone it actually sounds fine to me.

I had to use my slapring after my thumb started to hurt, but I could

http://up.picr.de/23972977dp.jpg

also I tried the rhythm from Ohio, and you guys are right alba and fiddle, it needs definitely double drop d, in E standard it sounds awful

Some scores from the weekend:

 

Bates - cool cover of a great song. Lost some percentage points on lead and rhythm by missing a string of notes on the repetitive chord at the end, concentration went a bit I guess !

 

http://s7.postimg.org/djrfv08vv/bates_billie_jean_lead.png

http://s18.postimg.org/y3qzgpsqh/bates_billie_jean_rhythm.png

http://s10.postimg.org/6dp97lnyh/bates_billie_jean_bass.png

 

Counting Crows - man this song brings back some good memories ! I can already play my own version of the rhythm - pretty sure everyone who has ever picked up an acoustic can :)

One thing I've learned from rocksmith is that it can be a pain to try and relearn something to match the way the game wants it played, especially a strummy song like this, so I'll stick to lead and bass for now.

 

http://s21.postimg.org/8m0wkedd3/Counting_Crows_Mr_Jones_Lead.png

http://s17.postimg.org/vn0htf0vj/Counting_Crows_Mr_Jones_bass.png

 

CSNY - Ohio ranks as one of my favourite songs of all time, really looking forward to learning this one.

Just the bass done for now.

 

http://s8.postimg.org/ii6q2s985/csny_ohio_bass.png

My score, bass:

beg: 100% 1550309

int (Ohio): 100% 1165491

int (Mr Jones): 99.84% 350

http://imgur.com/a/ylaTN

..one miss on Ohio..

Wow, a week with no metal songs? I thought this was the Rocksmith Metal Championship? :P

 

http://i.imgur.com/1GK8gcn.jpg

 

Hey, I remember this song! It was on the radio for like... my entire childhood.

 

http://i.imgur.com/H0b2Oqt.jpg

 

Hey, I remember this song! My dad used to play it all the time.

After 45 minutes in RR, I have Mr. Jones on bass at over 99%

@@Gamut I'd be all for that. Make it so!

Here's a rehost of Ohio with the rhythm guitar tuning fixed. This was just done by importing the package and then changing the tuning, so it probably hasn't fixed the chord names, but it should at least fix the sounds. Won't be able to check it out myself for a few hours.

I killed my fingers after 4 hours in RR. And still yet it is fake slap.

http://i.imgur.com/wiI2awI.jpg

it´s SA and it´s the 90ies

 

http://i65.tinypic.com/2lbdjio.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Z5EBzNI.jpg

@ fake slap means you're cheating by playing normal picking or with pleck :o someone should call the freebird police  :cop:

but anyway good scores dude

@ Not , i  tried to play with slap where it marked in chart, but after 4 hours, some slap notes  a bit turned almost into usually notes, bcs of  tired fingers and pain corn. A few days and i will get this score with more right sounds.

ps. there is some note A# at 1 fret, seems must be at 6th E. And not sure that all slap setted right.

You are right about the notation. Most notes are not slap, just normal. Pops are in but all others should be slap.

While a lot more of it is slap than notated, I don't think it's all slap. A decent amount of it's an unusual hybrid of normal finger-style with pops. Check out this guy's bass cover, which looks and sounds pretty legit:

 

cool, you have to switch very fast between the hand positions and need a good compressor with a lot of attack of course

@ Yes tone in cdlc bad, slap very loud,  i did for self new with compressor.

Beginner Lead http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=575761831#_=_

 

Intermediate Lead http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=575762636#_=_

 

First play through at 100% difficulty. I'll work on it in RR this week. I had a good chunk of the chords down, just a bit slow changing them really.

Adv Bass: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=575782291

 

If I had a few weeks practice on this I reckon I'd find the riff pretty unchallenging and not nearly as fast and painful as I do at the moment... this time next year, if it's in the Da Capo challenge, I hope I can nail this mother faunicator :)

 

P.S. I'm not withholding a score, I did monetarily score better but the accuracy was 98. something, I feel the accuracy score is more important in this case ... just in case anyone was wondering why I'd not submitted the big score at the top right :)

http://up.picr.de/23982140yu.jpg

Started on Adv Lead, awesome song :)

 

http://s27.postimg.org/bddnn013n/csny_ohio_lead.png

Very sad news today: My PC, which has faithfully served me for seven years, just went kaput. :sob: :sob: :sob:  Spent all day trying obscure methods of repair, but there's no getting around it: it's beyond saving.

 

I don't have any disposable income at all, so it's going to be a verrrry long time before I'm going to be able to submit any new scores or record any new videos. :( Goodbye for now, CF! Hopefully I'll be able to make a return sooner than later.

Guitar stuff:

 

Adv lead:

http://i.imgur.com/QiVgMJw.jpgShould be able to improve a lot. At full speed my picking hand gets confused a lot and my fretting hand sometimes gets confused which string is which when switching to the F and C chords for some reason.

 

MC lead:

http://i.imgur.com/tV2cuqo.jpg

I don't get these solos at all. This was my best run by a few % so far, but I'm not entirely sure why. Might have capitalized on the few parts of the solo I can follow, or it might have been that I was damn near spotless in the verse and chorus (while my longest streak was only 96, I think I had at least a few over 50). Not sure how much I can improve from here.

 

Adv rhythm:

http://i.imgur.com/1kSzEFF.jpg

Oddly enough the times I've played it since I've done worse. I think because my fretting hand gets tired and then starts messing things up during the repeats of the chorus at the end. But this doesn't really seem that hard.

 

Probably will also give Mr. Jones a few more serious goes than my first playthrough, as that didn't go especially well.

Edit: Gave Mr. Jones some more serious goes. Didn't actually do any riff repeater to get here.

http://i.imgur.com/Q7uixRg.jpg

Also, kind of funny that both this and Ohio have both C and F chords. Don't remember having seen too many other songs with F chords, and for some reason I feel like it's been a while since I've had to do many C's. 

 

 

Now for MC bass:

http://i.imgur.com/SnSRIul.jpgChallenging myself to do this on my six string bass, as I've never really been able to do slap on it before. Tighter string spacing and greater number of strings makes it a bit harder to pick out the right strings or to sound good. Anyway, put in some practice and got a decent amount better, but still not amazing.

 

 

@@Gamut - Nooooooo! No chance of a well timed Christmas present?

Edited December 15, 201510 yr by albatross213