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

-= Week 113 =-

- lets hoho go!!! -

 

 

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READ THIS FIRST =>> How and Why to Join the Championships

Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

 

Last weeks winners:

Lead:

Beginner: @@diddie17

Intermediate: @@Tango

Advanced: @fiddlesticks

Masterclass: @Nacholede

 

Rhythm:

Beginner: @@Vodka

Intermediate: @@Tango

Advanced: @albatross213

Masterclass: @fiddlesticks

 

Bass:

Beginner: @KJParsley

Intermediate: loose trophy, anyone???

Advanced: @NoonyDeloony

Masterclass: @@albatross213

Congrats to all the winners

Honorably Mentions to @Frip, @, @NoonyDeloony @fiddlesticks for 100%s on bass.

 

 

This weeks songs are:

"... Rods XMAS Special ..."

 

... i´m quite a xmas-head; there are quite a lot of xmas songs in the database by now.... and last week i have played them all :) to come up with a decent mix to rock us through the coming days ...

 

Lead Path:

Beginner: Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (3) chosen by @Dasher

Intermediate: Relient K - We wish you a Merry Christmas (6) chosen by @Vixen

Advanced: Spinal Tap - Christmas with the Devil (7) chosen by @Prancer

Masterclass: Steve Vai - Christmas time is here (10) chosen by @Donner

Rhythm Path:

Beginner: Relient K - We wish you a Merry Christmas (3)

Intermediate: Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (5)

Advanced: Spinal Tap - Christmas with the Devil (6)

Masterclass: N/A

 

Bass Path:

... there are quite some bass-only xmas songs in the database... after playing all :) i decided to give the bassist their own arrangements this week, all classic tracks that deserve their slot in the CS. To keep it simple i skipped the other 2 bass arrangements. Feel free to post RELIENT and SPINAL TAP bass scores out of competition, too ...

 

Beginner: WHAM! - Last Christmas (3) chosen by @Cupid

Intermediate: Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody (6) chosen by @Dancer

Advanced: Temptations - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (7) chosen by @Rudolph

Masterclass: Jackson 5 - Santa Claus is coming to town (7) chosen by @Blitzen

I am not sure If Rudolph or Santa is the real harder line, but as a matter of fact i wanted to gift :gift: Rudy to my mighty mighty sidekick @Deloon of Noon, so decision is final :P

 

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

 

"DA CAPO CHALLENGE"

 

last xmas week 61´s - John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over) (Chosen by @@Merry Christmas )

 

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!

#Everybody is welcome to post his score!

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

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:

(draft - 2 be updated after CCL update)

• 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
• Motive

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/395553315342579701/125021C0C00A8CD178CE9C93889B55DA163DB84B/

Hello everyone! I want to say Thank you very much for this site and for this challenge in particular =)

Wish you a Merry Christmass and a Happy New Year! Heavy riffs, head-breaking solos and shiny guitars and strings!

 

That's enough for my fingers for today:

http://snap.ashampoo.com/uploads/2015-12-20/L069GeDU.png

hope santa brings new skills for christmas 

 

beginner lead:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401182814322326384/938811AD4B1137DFF24CECCE555F43A4AEB11D16/

Merry Christmas Everyone!

 

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I wish you all a merry merry christmas and a lot of hapiness and gifts  !  :)

 

My first wish is a lot of improvment in playing power chords ... 

 

Beginner lead : http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/395553315343172877/F20B98B65551D15F12AB7BFAF13AE48C958B3A03/

 

 

After another hour in RR, I'm up to 97% on bass on Santa Claus is Coming to Town

So... we just upload whatever song we want this week? Had I know, I would have taken more screenshots!

 

Santa Clause is Coming to Town (J5): 86.5%

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580174410

 

Merry xmas Everybody: 80.6%

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580174372

 

'tis the season to learn songs for your family, that you wouldn't do any other d*** way!

 

L

Took a few SA tries at MC bass to see how high I could get. Still some room for improvement (obviously, as someone's above me on the leaderboard), but I'm pretty happy with this.

http://i.imgur.com/Z5yUZdd.jpg

I expect I'll get beaten by score here, though.

Despite spending about an hour in RR on the temptations I found it harder than the Jackson 5, which I only played once and straight away in Score attack:

 

Adv Bass, The Temptations: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580174073 indeed a true advanced song for the bass :) This one will be fun to improve, I'll be very pleased if I can 100% it... watch this space.

 

MC Bass, The Jackson 5: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580174965 Really good fun, again I concur with the adv' category.

 

Int Bass, Slade:  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580175577 I found this surprisingly hard to play but it's REALLY good fun!

 

Beginner Bass, Wham: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580176230 Fluffed it a wee bit, a nice steady rhythm with a little bit of string skippy stuff :) Nice to play if you're into that kind of music.

I guess I need fingers that move faster for Christmas.

 

After playing this for what seemed to be a million times, but Rocksmith says 36 times, I got a small improvement.  I'm not sure I can do any more, so I'll have a go at the intermediate and see if I can get a score that's at least not too embarrassing.

 

Beginner Lead = 93.01%

 

we wish you a merry christmas.  we do. we do!!!

 

rhythm:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401182814324098798/184408CD1DBD45A56D5A7A9271FBD3E9FD35E45C/

Merry X-mas Everybody!!!!!!!

 

rhythm:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401182814324128847/A272B208398E7DD506C0C498879ACC0E2EFD718F/

I had tons of recognition issues with the slides, but it's a really hard song from the master, Mr. Vai!

http://i.imgur.com/oq2ONCY.jpg

Christmas with the Devil is always disappointing  :goberserk:

 

lead:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401182814324150108/7331BC1C716F01545F94114B03154D54F56D0467/

 

using the @@Rodman method of posting. paste until you drop  :D

Ok some improvement on Rudolph (92.93):

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580308476

 

And on Merry Christmas Everybody (91.41):

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580308496

 

I'll work on the Jackson Five another time. 

 

You know, my impression of Tito Jackson has been tainted by Eddie Murphy jokes. After trying to play a few of the early Jackson Five songs, all I can say is: Respect!

 

L

Nope. Not happening

 

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Happy birthday @@feiffer, @@Goose and @@Van-Blurten. May your guitars and basses sound good for all year :)

Heh. Beat myself today.

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Why not to try =)

 

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Busy week, but gotta make time for Christmas songs!

 

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A little Improvement http://postimg.org/image/4nroicgvl/

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I did have a crack at intermediate, but its pretty clear that I'm not good enough for intermediate yet.  I still need my training wheels :).

 

There were several sections of the song I couldn't get anywhere close to.  I couldn't get more than a third of the way through on score attack, but eventually managed to get enough of the hard sections on "Learn a Song" to get a play though without DD kicking in.

 

Intermediate lead - 85%

 

Warning, this post contains many many images. Now to figure out how best to arrange them.

 

Slade - Merry Christmas

Bass is fun, unfortunately the guitar parts bear no resemblance whatsoever to how the song is actually played. Good powerchord and strumming workout for a beginner though.

 

http://s13.postimg.org/ers5rwzon/slade_merry_xmas_bass.png

 

Reliant K - We Wish You a Merry Christmas

I do love a good punk style cover :) Lead still to do.

 

http://s7.postimg.org/6t8cc96iz/reliant_k_we_wish_you_bass.png

http://s3.postimg.org/5qbzvcs43/reliant_k_we_wish_you_rhythm.png

 

Spinal Tap - Christmas With the Devil

They can do no wrong in my eyes. Lead still to do.

 

http://s9.postimg.org/rhnm9lxcv/spinal_tap_christmas_with_the_devil_bass.png

http://s10.postimg.org/59ikuv4ax/spinal_tap_christmas_with_the_devil_rhythm.png

 

John Lennon - War Is Over

Love this song, rhythm is slightly frustrating, constantly getting random misses.

 

http://s17.postimg.org/rcotm57hr/john_lennon_war_is_over_bass.png

http://s14.postimg.org/an9grzu1t/john_lennon_war_is_over_lead.png

http://s9.postimg.org/fwmmtdqn3/john_lennon_war_is_over_rhythm.png

 

The Bass Only Songs

 

Much like the common cold, Whams Last Christmas continues to sicken me every single year. It's been 30+ years people, can't we just let this one die ?? 

The others are awesome in their bassy-funky-ness.

http://s24.postimg.org/wzyrwlyfp/Wham_Last_Christmas_bass.png

http://s13.postimg.org/e7ms0325j/temptations_rudolph_bass.png

http://s23.postimg.org/hglmdbquj/jackson_5_santa_claus_is_coming_bass.png

Adv Bass Update: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=580852276

 

It doesn't sound too bad to my ears but could make this sound much better as the score reflects the worstness of the rather generous accuracy... not enough time tonight, fingers crossed I can get this nailed before christmas day :)