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Let's start week 114!

 

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

Last weeks winners:

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Lead:
Beginner: @@diddie17
Intermediate: @@Rodman
Advanced: @@MaZtoR
Masterclass: You need more then 79% :P

Rhythm:
Beginner: @@diddie17
Intermediate: @@Tango
Advanced: @@MaZtoR
Masterclass: N/A

Bass:
Beginner: N/E
Intermediate: N/E
Advanced: @@Toddo
Masterclass: @@albatross213
 

Congrats to all the winners

Honorably Mentions to @@albatross213 for 100% on Advanced Bass and @@albatross213, @@fiddlesticks with @@koffein for 100% on MasterClass Bass.
You can't miss

video with @@NoonyDeloony and her little boy.

 

This weeks songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Black Keys - Fever (3) chosen by @@Nacholede
Intermediate: In Flames - Everlost (Part I) (4) chosen by @@firekorn
Advanced: Alice Cooper - Poison (8) chosen by @Mortalo
Masterclass: Megadeth - Good Mourning/Black Friday (9) chosen by @@then3verend

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: N/A
Intermediate: In Flames - Everlost (Part I) (4)
Advanced: Alice Cooper - Poison (7)
Masterclass: Megadeth - Good Mourning/Black Friday (10)

Bass Path:
Beginner: Alice Cooper - Poison (2)
Beginner 2: Black Keys - Fever (3)
Intermediate: In Flames - Everlost (Part I) (4)
Advanced: Megadeth - Good Mourning/Black Friday (7)
Masterclass: Rush - Working Man (9) (Played on Week 81 without bass)

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

"DA CAPO CHALLENGE"

Bee Gees - Night Fever played on Week 56

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
• franfit
• Gamut
• genobadass
• joedoe
• koffein
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• Nacholede
• NoonyDeloony\
• Rodman
• Sargas94
• Tango
• Viltaire
• @Vodka

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

• 2groggy
• frippchen
• Motive
• @then3verend

Have fun!

In Flames - Everlost (Part I)

That's not that hard?

 

Alice Cooper - Poison

Some great classic rock for you. Killer song to end the year.

 

Megadeth - Good Mourning/Black Friday

I heard that some bass ladies like some Megadeth :)

 

Rush - Working Man

As we've got new version, let's give it a go!

 

And Night Fever! We end the year with some true disco!

 

 

 

It took some long because of Gravity and Pitch Black. Christmas and family afternoon with cake and candy :lol:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Fever%2088_zpsuaubehzy.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Everlost%20Part%20I%2096_zpseqiyyzjd.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Everlost%20Part%20I%20Rhythm%2097_zpsqomdfhwj.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Poison%2089_zpshq25mqqx.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Poison%20Rhythm%2089_zpshf1olqvs.jpg

Woo hoo!  Let's go!

 

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tomorrow… :)

Not a tune i'd go out of my way to listen to but surprisingly fun to play.

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/npmire27573lkd8/221680_2015-12-27_00001.png?dl=0

 

I'll be giving Alice a nudge too this week. I can remember playing air guitar to this back in the day when i was a youngster!

I played Poison on bass once in RR and then had at it - 100%

Not a song I enjoy playing, but I'll get a score on the board.  I like the look of the In Flames track (intermediate), so I'll see if I can play it, it might be a bit fast.  I can always come back to this later if I struggle at intermediate.

 

Beginner Lead - 98.15%

 

I had a very nice Christmas this year. The missus did well. http://www.schecterguitars.com/international/images/stories/virtuemart/product/omen-extreme-bch-2012-downshot-highres-copy.jpg

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/359525062637382491/16FF4F970652C18B8226582E352AB001C16C0472/

 

The challenge is real! My hand hurts like I just started. The muscles used are different than the bass it appears. got the claw hand going.

Some MC stuff. None of these are sight reads - I think my sight reads on Megadeth were ~84% and 86%, and for Working Man something in the 97% range.

 

Lead:

http://i.imgur.com/9Qmzxhw.jpg

 

Rhythm:

http://i.imgur.com/CdEYz5j.jpg
I don't really see the argument for this being harder than the lead. The arpeggios are tricky at full speed, and the palm muted riff shortly afterward is pretty challenging too, but I don't see those elevating this to a 10, much less making it harder than lead. While lead doesn't have those two sections, it has two riffs later that are more challenging than the rhythm equivalent. And while the solos don't have much bending or weird, challenging techniques, they're still fast as hell and hard to hit many of the notes. I'd probably rate rhythm a 9 and lead a 9.5.

 

Also, my fretting hand does not like that trill riff. Gets tired out really quickly by it.

 

Edit: Also, shouldn't we have played this about a month ago?

 

Bass:

http://i.imgur.com/5AmJliE.jpg

Fun to play. Will be nice to see what I can eke out with riff repeater. I think some of those really fast fills under the solo will be targets.

 

 

@@genobadass - Great present! Chords are definitely a very different beast than what you're used to on bass. Bends on the little strings can also mess up your fingertips a bit. Have fun learning how to play!

Edited December 27, 201510 yr by albatross213

My best attempt of the night http://s15.postimg.org/70zpjhrqj/black_keys_fever1.jpg

 

I've been playing this same song all morning and finally got this.....

 

http://s11.postimg.org/dbaoa90df/black_keys_fever5.jpg

@@Mortalo - perfect selection to end the year!

 

Yeah, cant wait to give those a first run.

 

@geno - whoooooooo, i hope you settle in INT Lead soon for some horrifying battles ;)

@Noons - any chance for an alterative link to that helluva xmas vid of yours the evil antixmastrolls decided to block....

I'll see what I can do later with Vimeo @@Rodman :)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Everlost%20Part%20I%209891_zps0flxsqxm.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Everlost%20Part%20I%20Rhythm%209931_zpszmqya6ta.jpg
 
That damn last chord gave 3 misses both time i played lead today.  In case anyone else misses it its a Open E chord with a muted g string slowly strummed from the high e. (bottom one)

 

@Mortalo I dont know why i gave it a 6 rating before. I think you are right with the 4 now.

@@MaZtoR On Everlost the most misses I had was 2 (on either lead or rhythm). I will push and get 100% on it. It's just the right tempo for me.

 

@@genobadass Woo, nice one!

No beginner rhythm :cry: 

why do you do this to me :cry: :cry: :cry: 

@@Vodka Bee Gees lead is just like rhythm. But yeah, it sucks.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen! I am back to the challenge for this one or two holiday weeks.

 

http://i.imgur.com/la35g0H.jpg

Happy birthday @@diddie17 , I'd usually do a little famous birthdays bit but I am a bit tipsy and no fit form to operate a search engine :) hope you're having a good day and no one bought you a Christmas/birthday present instead of.getting one for each occasion, that is just not cricket! :)

Happy birthday @@diddie17 , I'd usually do a little famous birthdays bit but I am a bit tipsy and no fit form to operate a search engine :) hope you're having a good day and no one bought you a Christmas/birthday present instead of.getting one for each occasion, that is just not cricket! :)

Thanks @@NoonyDeloony, I had a great birthday!  In some ways not a great time of year to have a birthday, but on the flip side, I've never had to work on my birthday, and I pretty much always get to spend it relaxing and having fun with the family :)  

I'd usually do a little famous birthdays bit but I am a bit tipsy

Ooh, I'll fill in for you!

 

Johannes Kepler

Louis Pasteur

Mike Pinder (of The Moody Blues)

Mick Jones (of Foreigner)

Gerard Depardieu

Terry Bozzio (of Frank Zappa)

David Knopfler (of Dire Straits. The less famous Knopfler.)

Salman Khan (why do I know his name? He's a Bollywood actor)

Guthrie Govan (of... Guthrie Govan. Also played on Steven Wilson's latest)

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2 time gold medalist 100 meter sprinter)

Hayley Williams (of Paramore. They have an on disk song)

 

Pretty solid company. Enjoy the time with your family!

Happy birthday @@diddie17! You share birthday with Johannes Kepler, Gérard Depardieu, Masi Oka and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. That's some really interesting names.

 

PS. On 27th December 537 - Hagia Sophia was complited.

Damn you @@albatross213. It looks that you haven't watched Heroes :lol:

Also @@diddie17 you share your birthday with my #1 son's dad, bassist of Buffalo Riot, up and coming band from northwest England, they have a couple of albums out but more to come in the new year, keep your ears peeled :D

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone, It looks like I'm in good company with the day.  Listening to Buffalo Riot on Soundcloud right now!

 

I had a crack at the intermediate lead and am struggling.  First score is here, but I'm struggling with the speed in certain areas, and also the note recognition at the standard D tuning.

 

Intermediate Lead 79%

 

now this is what i call a Good morning...am i rite?
http://oi63.tinypic.com/2eao1zt.jpg

That first solo is still one of my favorites to play