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Let's start the new year with new forces, now start week 115!

 

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: @@Mortalo

Advanced:     @@Gamut

Masterclass:  @@Nacholede

Rhythm:
Beginner: ---
Intermediate: @@Tango

Advanced:     @@MaZtoR

Masterclass: @@albatross213

Bass:
Beginner      : @@KJParsley      

Intermediate: ---
Advanced:     @@missis sumner

Masterclass:  @@albatross213

 

Congrats to all the winners

Honorably Mentions to @[member="KJParsley"] for 100% on Beginner Bass.

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This weeks songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner:        Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone   (3+) chosen by @@fiddlesticks

Intermediate:  Clutch - 10001110101                       (6) chosen by @@albatross213

Advanced:      Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great     (8+) chosen by @@Berneer

Masterclass:   Metallica - Blackened                        (10) chosen by @@Mortalo

  
Rhythm Path:
Beginner: N/A
Intermediate: Clutch - 10001110101                      (5)

Advanced:      Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great    (7)

Masterclass:   Metallica - Blackened                       (9)

 

Bass Path:
Beginner:       Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone  (2)

Intermediate: Clutch - 10001110101                      (3)

Advanced:     Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great    (6)

Masterclass:   Metallica - Blackened                      (8)

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

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RIP Lemmy.

Our tribute to Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister of Motorhead:

A song by  Motorhead - Stay Clean

 

Where would we be without Lemmy? Early on Motorhead was called the worst band ever, bacause of their fast but simple music. Style that inspired thrash metal bands that formed in early 80s. Known from being the loudest band on earth, Motohead became one of the greatest metal bands on earth. Lemmy was big part of this success. With his gavelly voice and bass that incorporated double stops and chords, he was one of a kind.

Rest In Peace mister Lemmy, we will never forget you.

 

Exercise Challenges

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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:

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(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
• @then3verend

Have fun!

Here are some scores and comments:

 

MC Bass: A lot of messed up slides in the chart. Pretty much all of the slides down from the 7th fret E should be unpitched slides. This happens especially in the pre/post verse riff but also once under the solo with the part where you're playing lots of 5ths.

 

Also, something sounded during the first verse or the pre-verse before that Edit: @@Nacholede I think it's measure 62, timestamp ~1:27 into the multitracks audio. In the song audio they're definitely playing G's, and while Lead has G power chords, rhythm and bass are chugging out E's during that measure.

 

Adv Lead: What asshole puts extra phrases into a song without DD?  :angry:

 

MC Rhythm: Only real comment is that with everything turned up, this song is ridiculously loud when playing guitar. Also I can hear the bass sometimes  :P

 

MC Lead: This stuff is all tapping, right? Either that or Kirk's got some really long pinkies.

Edited January 3, 201610 yr by albatross213

 

 

MC Rhythm: Only real comment is that with everything turned up, this song is ridiculously loud when playing guitar. Also I can hear the bass sometimes  :P

 

 

...And Justice For Jason

@@diddie17 wow, I did not expect that so it will be difficult. Sorry.

 

It might not be, it might just be that all of the alcohol that I've had over Christmas has settled in my fingers  :).  How the other beginners do will tell us if it's just me.

 

I'm ok to keep going on it though, getting the speed up is part of learning.  

failure? :)

nope, i´m ok with tat first

 

http://i66.tinypic.com/34ffof4.jpg

Doing an update on Blackened! i'm reuploading the files now

One of my nemesis, nice

better

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/2web3sx.jpg

First goes:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKeThmdGJSQ0xEY0k/view?usp=sharing

(First go today, anyway.  I have played it before).

 

I somehow managed to forget where my eighth and tenth fret are:

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

 

This one I'm really pleased with, since I didn't have a clue what I was playing:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKT0hOT0h5TXVpUFU/view?usp=sharing

 

@@diddie17 wow, I did not expect that so it will be difficult. Sorry.

 

It might not be, it might just be that all of the alcohol that I've had over Christmas has settled in my fingers  :).  How the other beginners do will tell us if it's just me.

 

I'm ok to keep going on it though, getting the speed up is part of learning.  

 

 

I had the same feeling that you @@diddie17 with this song : before my first try I thinked that it would be easy but rapidly my smile disappeared from my face...

 

I am today confortable at the speed of 75%, and I'm not sure I will be able to play this song at 100% before next saturday. But I like this song and I'll try to practice more than usual.

 

So good work and good luck to the beginners ! :) To be continued...

 

Somehow did better on MC than Adv. I got a 94% and forgot to screencap ;_;

 

I don't think i will be making any progress on this Alexander guy, the solos are just to hard for me to even spend time on.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Alexander%20the%20Great%208375_zpskhchit25.jpg

 

and rhythm is a bit boring with all those easy notes.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Alexander%20the%20Great%20Rhythm%209788_zpssiqjjerp.jpg

 

 

This song might be a bit to fast for beginner. I really had to hold my breath not to fall behind.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Hanging%20on%20the%20telephone%209782_zpshtsksmn3.jpg

First runs...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/359526106540532749/A5BE023E280514FDBD9AB036E426F401F0A8086A/

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/359526106540532544/A69A391123797FDB1EF64FFEE3CAF29292F72F3A/

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/359526106540532316/9550599EB29354A0ACEF8ACAC0F1F54E5BA47A61/

Re-downloaded Motorhead but it's still not working for me :( no idea what's going on with it, no notes, nothing :(

@NoonyDeloony 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8r9vae2838k2hae/Motrhead_Stay-Clean_v1_DD_p.psarc?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fnn2hpzy5559cy9/Motorhead_In-the-Name-of-Tragedy_v_DD_p.psarc?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d3zb7k142tpun3/Motorhead_We-are-motorhead_v1_DD_p.psarc?dl=0

Half a mind to double up baby, Three times is jive  - one or two of the slices in the very last section didn't register dammit.

 

I tried playing is on the travel bass and could never beat 98%.  The short scale will take some more practice time to adjust.

My tribute to Lemmy Kilmister:

http://i.imgur.com/4dPLza3.jpg

Thanks @ for the links, I'll try those shortly...

 

Now, dancing badly to Clutch :)

 

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=592145212

 

Still really bad at those bends at the end there but, what I lack in substance I clearly make up for with style! HAH! pthrrrrbt! :P

 

Oh yes, and I know I'm not in the Clutch bass category but I like the song, A LOT! So n'yer!

When I saw that I was classed as advanced and had Iron Maiden on my plate, I was  bit bummed. But it turns out to be a better song than I expected (yeah, not much of a metal fan).

 

98.84%

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=592147159

:) Yes, there still yet is  some progress.

http://i.imgur.com/ydTEQ6H.jpg

 

 

@@diddie17 wow, I did not expect that so it will be difficult. Sorry.

 

It might not be, it might just be that all of the alcohol that I've had over Christmas has settled in my fingers  :).  How the other beginners do will tell us if it's just me.

 

I'm ok to keep going on it though, getting the speed up is part of learning.  

 

 

I had the same feeling that you @@diddie17 with this song : before my first try I thinked that it would be easy but rapidly my smile disappeared from my face...

 

I am today confortable at the speed of 75%, and I'm not sure I will be able to play this song at 100% before next saturday. But I like this song and I'll try to practice more than usual.

 

So good work and good luck to the beginners ! :) To be continued...

 

Thanks @@Sebastien92.

 

I've put some more time into it tonight, but I'm not going to submit another score unless I get much better.  Right now, any improvement would be because I just get lucky thrashing away, and by chance happen to hit more notes than previously.

 

I'll keep practising, but realistically, there is no way I will sensibly be able to play this within a week, neither my fingers or my brain work quickly enough  :)

Update, reached 90%:

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

Thanks @ for the links, I'll try those shortly...

 

Now, dancing badly to Clutch :)

 

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=592145212

 

Still really bad at those bends at the end there but, what I lack in substance I clearly make up for with style! HAH! pthrrrrbt! :P

 

Oh yes, and I know I'm not in the Clutch bass category but I like the song, A LOT! So n'yer!

My couple of misses on this song were also on the bends on the G, except that I play the  on the D string instead of the A string.

 

BTW, almost all of your slides are flagged as "early".  They don't break your streak, though.  I'll have to start making videos to go and look for places needing improvement.  I downloaded Open Broadcaster, like you suggested over on TalkBass.  I just need to get around to figuring out how to use it.

Yup they're early as most of the time my slides don't register if I try dead on the note, plus my timing still needs lots of work :) it's not gone unnoticed, I just don't mind at this stage as I see improvement each week and I'm sure my timing will improve eventually... It has kinda improved a bit since this time last year :D

@@2groggy, @@NoonyDeloony - Slides after sustains almost always register as "early", because when the game looks for the start of the slide the sustain is (obviously) still going and thus gets detected early. It has very little to do with when you actually start the slide, or whether you start sliding early, or anything like that. On unpitched slides (where the game only seems to track that you're in the right frequency range for any part of the slide) you can keep your fretting hand anchored and it will still say "early".

 

You can probably get perfects if you cut the sustain off and then play a new note where the "hidden" note head is, but obviously that won't sound like what's actually played.

 

As for bends, the main thing is probably to practice with your ear or the chromatic tuner, and make sure you know what it feels and sounds like to bend from a G to an A in that position, and get in in your muscle memory. The other thing is that bend note detection only seems to care about getting the starting and ending pitch somewhere during the sustain. Use that information as you wish.

How exciting when the slightest amount of progress is made when playing one of your favorite songs from your favorite band. Monday morning after slamming my alarm shut with both fists I will have thoughts of playing this song at night to keep me sane.

 

Strange that without DD my yellow score would go up to 84%..... anyway I know it's not the one that counts.

 

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/Berneer/CustomsForge%20Championship/Week%20115%20-%20Ending%2009January2015/CF%20-%20Week%20115%20-%20Iron%20Maiden%20-%20Alexander%20The%20Great%20-%20Lead%20-%20Attempt%202_zpsptbmw2a7.png

Awesome song pick @@albatross213 . Never heard of Clutch before, but after playing 1141 (the programmers here will understand  :P ), I've now downloaded 8 of their CDLC's......all of them great fun to play. Playing them well is a different story though.

 

Beginners have it tough this week. I'd call Blondie a solid intermediate song. Lots of fast shuffling all over the neck.