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

- Week 116 -

- new crazy week, let's 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: @@koffein
Advanced: @
Masterclass: @@Nacholede

Rhythm:
Beginner: N/A

Intermediate: @@Tango
Advanced: @@Rodman
Masterclass: @

Bass:
Beginner:  @@tupoloflyer
Intermediate:  @@kb10
Advanced: @@missis sumner
Masterclass: @@albatross213

Congrats to all the winners

 

 

Honorably Mentions to @@fiddlesticks for getting 5x100% on BEG+INT lead & BEG+INT Bass & also for the Lemmy-Bass, @ & @@Mortalo for 100% in BEG Lead, @@albatross213 for 100% on INT bass and the Ladies @@NoonyDeloony & @@missis sumner for 100% on BEG Bass.

 

we had a nice dancing video by @@NoonyDeloony, a metal video by @ and a video of a man with his big double bass by @@slooker

 

This weeks songs are:

 

Lead Path:
Beginner: Jack White - Sixteen Saltines (2) on disk song chosen by 101
Intermediate: Dropkick Murphys - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya (4) chosen by @@Mortalo
Advanced: Mr Bungle - Ars Moriendi (8) chosen by @

Masterclass: Megadeth - Fatal Illusion (10) chosen by @

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Jack White Stripes - Sixteen Saltines (2)
Intermediate: Dropkick Murphys - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya (5)
Advanced: Megadeth - Fatal Illusion (8)

Masterclass: -

 

Bass Path:
Beginner: Jack White - Sixteen Saltines (2)
Intermediate: Dropkick Murphys - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya (6)

Advanced:  Megadeth - Fatal Illusion (7)
Masterclass:  Mr Bungle - Ars Moriendi (9)

 

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

 

Instead a Da Capo Challenge we add the next Exercise

 

Exercise Challenges

 

3rd Exercise: Blues Comping 3 in G major

 

the other exercises are still running and want to be played:

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

 

Everyone can bring up new scores that will be added to the

exercises scoreboards

 

Tribute to David Bowie: + 10.01.2016

DAVID BOWIE - CHINA GIRL chosen by @@missis sumner

Honorable list Diehard Member:

• albatross213
• fiddlesticks
• franfit
• Gamut
• genobadass
• joedoe
• koffein
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• Nacholede
• NoonyDeloony\
• Rodman
• Sargas94
• @Sebastien92
• @Tango
• Viltaire
• @Vodka

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

• 2groggy
• frippchen
• @then3verend

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

:)

that is gettin somewhere

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/907fuu.jpg

I was already working on this before China Girl was chosen.  I could still improve it, but probably not make 100% due to the speed.

 

Suffragette City on bass

 

I'll work on China Girl tonight.

Bass plus

 

http://i67.tinypic.com/2usfzvp.jpg

So much work, so little improvement:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKMEtRV3ZXYUE3ME0/view?usp=sharing

 

And I had to have a go on this, on my U-bass, because I didn't want to retune:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKbzYzaWR6dk9TdE0/view?usp=sharing

 

Not my best score, but I couldn't have too many goes, or I'd have got used to the different fret spacing, which would have been no good for Megadeth for the rest of the week. :)

China Girl : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=599954539

 

Li'l tribute :

 

Suffragette City (I won't chase perfection on this one)

China Girl (still lots of work to do)

http://up.picr.de/24274796rj.jpg

Right back at ya Rman!

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0cieaxg373xjjpw/221680_2016-01-14_00001.png?dl=0

Everything today is 86%..    Maybe i should try something extremely hard.

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/China%20Girl%20Rhythm%2086_zpsvha3ks4k.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/China%20Girl%2086_zpsfak0fbhh.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Ars%20Moriendi%2086_zpsddgir1bc.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Blues%20G_zpsg5fnwzyl.jpg

Everything today is 86%..    Maybe i should try something extremely hard.

 

 

If you get 86% on Moonlight sonata by Dr.vioosy today, I'll buy you a new guitar this year

@@then3verend

 

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Moonlight%20Sonata%20fake_zpsd4ayxscn.jpg

 

no editing involved at all. :D

Right back at ya Rman!

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0cieaxg373xjjpw/221680_2016-01-14_00001.png?dl=0

Congrats man, i am guitarless till weekstart.

I would have loved to fight this one to death :)

Alrighty then, scores! 

http://i.imgur.com/a89FQK9.jpgI love Dropkick Murphys, and i love this song

http://i.imgur.com/y2pNgze.jpgTried Albatross version! but the first solo is still killing me, definitely i need a new guitar

Hardly worth posting really:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKNUg2SER0eXc4OFU/view?usp=sharing

 

A worse score and streak. :(

 

Anyway, I've been so disappointed with having to stay in D standard tuning this week (my other bass for other tunings is at my mum's house - I couldn't fit it in the car to bring it back after Christmas) that I've "accidentally" bought another bass on Ebay.  Wooops!

 

I don't like retuning too often because strings are so expensive… :D

@@MaZtoR

Man rocksmith is harsh isn't it? When 86% is considered a bad performance

 

 

Your air guitar is in the mail :)

 

Thanks for that laugh, I needed it

MC Bass:

 

http://s15.postimg.org/ko9fk95a3/bass1.png

 

the 8 to 13 slides on the e string are tricky to hit every time

 

Bowie bass:

 

http://s12.postimg.org/jj47js6xp/David_Bowie_China_Girl_Bass.png

 

Blues 3 Lead:

 

http://s14.postimg.org/rstl5q4ap/blues_3_lead.png

Minor improvement in lead, and first score on Rhythm

 

Beginner Lead - 92.14%

 

 

 

Beginner Rhythm - 96.93%

 

This fucking hurts!

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/359527056811980124/6D519D017F5E431BD3DEC938554194C2935CAF2F/

Hmmm Getting better and I'm having fun on this one. Who thought? :)

 

98.39%

 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=600597250

 

L

Took a little break from charting bass by ear (which is a pain, by the way!) to do some grinding on the Adv.

 

http://i.imgur.com/L6eOUDf.jpg

 

Once you get over all the weird unexpectedness in this song, there's actually not that much learning to do. There's a lot of dead space between riffs, and those riffs are very fast but pretty simple. I feel like I could 100% this if I tried hard enough, but I still haven't even touched the MC for this week yet, so I doubt I'll put that much effort in. Maybe another couple percent!

Hello everyone. 

 

This is my first post on these forums. I've been playing RS awhile (125 hours according to Steam).  I only started custom DLC a few days ago when I signed up.  I was just thinking.. wouldn't it be really sweet to have Dream Theater or whatever else I could think of on RS.  I am excited to have that happen here.  

 

I like the idea of a weekly challenge to actually get me to focus rather than playing a bunch of random stuff once through.  

 

Can you please put me on the list for Lead Intermediate. 

 

Thanks.

 

 

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa369/terraborian/6f909afb-b3bd-4d7b-b0c7-92fc18eea1a5_zpsmxajy5jm.jpg

little+, honestly dunno where that last 5% is, I can nail that first solo like nobodys business
http://oi67.tinypic.com/dyqipw.jpg

@@kito1985 - Welcome! I think you'll find this is a great place to push yourself to improve!

 

 

MC Bass:

 

 

the 8 to 13 slides on the e string are tricky to hit every time

 

Well, you'll need to hit them every time:

http://i.imgur.com/WXGwBg6.jpg

 

:D

 

Also played Bowie, but forgot to take a screenshot. Cool bassline, though, so I might revisit it to get something official.

 

Finally, did the blues comping.

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

Pretty tough on the fretting hand - I don't think I could take too much longer than the short duration of the song before my hand turns into a quivering mess. Also good practice for small, quick, precise shifts. Nice bassline!

 

 

Also, after charting and playing lots of Vektor (if you like thrash and haven't checked them out, then I question your priorities. I won't take it personally if you don't like the vocals, though) I think I should be able to handle Megadeth speed a lot better with a pick, so I'll probably try to give a go at 100% on that tomorrow or early on Saturday.

 

 

Well, you'll need to hit them every time:

 

 

 

I assumed as much!

Got the 100%, still working on topping the score.

 

http://s24.postimg.org/7xnsel94l/bass1.png