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welcome to the  CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

- Week 121 -

 

 

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

 

Last weeks winners:

Lead:
Beginner: @@diddie17
Intermediate: @@Rodman
Advanced: @@MaZtoR

MasterClass: @@fiddlesticks

Rhythm:
Beginner:  @@diddie17

Intermediate: N/A
Advanced: @@NunoJBSilva.Guitarist
Masterclass: @

Bass: 
Beginner:  @@KJParsley
Intermediate:  @@kb10
Advanced: @@lduperval
Masterclass: @@albatross213

Congrats to all the winners

 

 

Honorably Mentions for scoring 100% to @@diddie17 and @@Vodka in Beginner Rhythm and @@albatross213 in MasterClass Bass.

 

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by @@albatross213.

 

 

 

This weeks songs are:

 

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow, so you've got a bunch of love songs.

Each for everyone - as you may spend that day in various ways ;)

Lead Path:
Beginner: Metallica - Die, Die My Darling (2) chosen by @@diddie17
Intermediate: Arctic Monkeys - You Seriously Didn't Expected Me To Write The Whole Title, Didn't Ya?  (4) chosen by @@fiddlesticks
Advanced: Iron Maiden - Running Free (7) chosen by @Mortalo

Masterclass: Dream Theater - The Looking Glass (10) chosen by @@Brutus Erectus

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: N/A
Intermediate: Arctic Monkeys - This Title Is Way Too Long, So I Won't Even Try To Write It (4)
Advanced: N/A

Masterclass: Iron Maiden - Running Free (8)

 

Bass Path:
Beginner: Metallica - Die, Die My Darling (2)
Intermediate: Arctic Monkeys - You Probably Couldnt See For The Lights But You Were Looking Straight At Me (I did told ya that it's way too long, no more words) (3)

Advanced:  Iron Maiden - Running Free (4)

Masterclass: Dream Theater - The Looking Glass (8) (B standard)

(@albatross213's version)

 

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

 

 

Exercise Challenges:

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

3rd Exercise: Blues Comping 3 in G major

 

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

exercises scoreboards

 

 

Da Capo Challenge this week is

 

The Beatles - She Loves You from week 71

 

 

Honorable list Diehard Member:

(draft - to be updated after CCL update)

• albatross213
• diddie17
• fiddlesticks
• franfit
• Gamut
• genobadass
• kb10
• koffein
• MaZtoR
• Metalocalypse
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• Motive
• Nacholede
• Rodman
• Sebastien92
• Tango
• then3verend
• Vodka

Classless, Fearless FreeBird Members:

• 2groggy
• frippchen

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

 

let's get started now

 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!

http://s30.postimg.org/frcjba04h/Running_Free_Rh.png

perfect now and big fun

http://up.picr.de/24604250wo.jpg

Running Free Lead

I haven't really played Running Free much tonight, apart form cancelling about three times in a row after missing the widdely bit at the start.

 

I have instead played some Editors, and increased my score by some 20% on some of them.  Okay - I'd only played them once before, but still 20% increase at first go tonight - not bad, is it? :D  This place and a bit of practice - fantastic!

Maybe 95% isn't dreaming, although I got this early on tonight, and got lots more 94% accuracy runs and much better streaks and scores afterwards, but couldn't beat the accuracy from this early run.

 

Int Lead - 94.65%

 

thought of some stupid mistakes I get this

http://up.picr.de/24606503gs.jpg

the harmony parts shouldn'd be played like charted, it's not the best way and much harder than I've played it. I guess the Lead path is done the same way.

working on the monkey

 

lead:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/318997198299796095/A2A3DD5C5D977AACD84264931A69184C69FE0199/

 

rhythm:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/318997198299796590/3E43C9F983CD44CFA456AABA56535F0273E10DFA/

Sightreads on songs I've never heard!

 

http://i.imgur.com/93PMcJM.jpg

 

I'm more of a fan of Portnoy DT than Mangini DT, but this tune was pretty good. Really loud, or is it just me? Maybe I just needed to calibrate.

 

http://i.imgur.com/m7sBfk2.jpg

 

Surprised I don't know this one, I'm pretty familiar with older Maiden. Best Maiden track we've had in months.

http://s11.postimg.org/oxpd5n4qr/Running_Free_Rh.png

Am I the only one finding the bass line for She Loves You to be deceptively tricky?  I'm aiming for perfection but I can't get past 99% because there are all sorts of notes that aren't quite on the beat.  I'm doing much better than when we played it many months ago, but it's still driving me nuts.

For the lead!

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/fqcs1y7hipgguti/221680_2016-02-16_00002.png?dl=0

for Running Free Rhythm it is better to play the harmony part(s) like this instead on one string moving down all 3 notes

http://up.picr.de/24609511jx.png

also the part later is more easy like this

http://up.picr.de/24609537mw.png

edit- sorry, but I think those two powerchords are D5 E5, not A5 B5, so one string up. I made this today from memory. Yesterday after playing I was too tired...

Edited February 16, 20169 yr by frippchen
correction

lead, +

 

http://i66.tinypic.com/2sal1tf.jpg

Let's start from here:

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/97ku9l.jpg

 

http://i66.tinypic.com/9sqpms.jpg

 

http://i65.tinypic.com/2efng60.jpg

Small improvement in accuracy, but my skill level and the sound is just as bad as the first time. :(

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Running%20free%2091_zpstz7qryjk.jpg

Hello everyone.

I hope his darling is dead now! Because I can't play the easy song. Again!

I can't find the golden mean on the 2nd fret of 6th string! And I guess on the 5th string too.

I can push the string till the end or I can just press it a little.

And all the time I get that annoying "Streak broken", "Streak broken", "Streak broken". Broken and broken again and again!

 

http://i.imgur.com/SfE3cQ9.jpg

The Dream Theater cdlc looks good to me except a few things, like @@albatross213 mentioned, the solo needs definitely cut into at least 4 or more sections. Noone will learn it decent in only one long section. @@Nacholede Please if you redo the custom, arrange the solo into practicable sections. Best is always to make a section after every played prase which makes sense.... Then I noticed any unpitched slides sometimes that shouldn't be that way, don't know which exacliy at the moment. And another thing is, like also already said, also by albatross, the G#maj7 chord 466044, it sounds just crap with the open G string (and is no pleasure to grip). You can build a G#minor chord of it just 466444

So after getting two more 99.9%s tonight, the last one being the most frustrating because I cracked under pressure and failed on one of the last notes of the song, I went off, had another beer, and played some other songs.

 

Of course, I had to have one more go before hanging up my bass for the night, though:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKZ0g3V21pZ0JQTkU/view?usp=sharing

 

I am slightly disappointed that despite the extra beer, I still panicked a bit at the end and didn't hit the notes exactly when I wanted to, but 100% is 100%, and it's the first time I've done it in Advanced. :)

@ - I fixed a bunch (maybe all?) of the things you mentioned in my version. I also recently (like a few minutes ago) fixed the time signatures (don't import) and added in the harmonics that were missing (from the import?). At this point I think I've done just about everything I can do in terms of polishing. If you notice anything else off, the notes.eof and guitar.ogg files are in the folder so you can add whatever modifications you want on top of mine.

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

 

Less than 5% until 90 on this.

 

I'm realising lately that, whenever I accidentally score 99% on Advanced one of these weeks and get to MC, I might be able to keep decent pace against the pros if I just get less LAZY. :unamused: I'm actually so lazy about practising things (especially solos :laughing:). I've played it 3 times now; you'd think I would have stopped at some point to figure out those chorus arpeggios. But nah! I just barely chug through them every time, and think "this is fine since I 100% the other half of the chorus". So lazy!!

http://i.imgur.com/IFj1QpM.jpg

 

Oh, I played this too! I'm just gonna call it You Probably. Was unfamiliar until now, but I fucking love You Probably. What a banger!

Hi guys first week in the championship glad to be apart of the group.

 

Here's my first attempt I'm fairly happy with the score but will push for a better score in the week.

 

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s622/trevellyan1/2016-02-16_00001_zpsq0g2v9hu.jpg

Hello everyone.

I hope his darling is dead now! Because I can't play the easy song. Again!

I can't find the golden mean on the 2nd fret of 6th string! And I guess on the 5th string too.

I can push the string till the end or I can just press it a little.

And all the time I get that annoying "Streak broken", "Streak broken", "Streak broken". Broken and broken again and again!

@@Vodka - You said that last time and then came back with a score of 100%  :)

 

Keep fighting!

Still haven't played since Sunday! :( kids are off, working weird shifts, crocheting a frog for my #1 son that turned into "the thing that should not be" (it's quite hilarious, my son however will be deeply disturbed by the monstrosity I created). I am hoping I can get to play DT tomorrow, it's been painful not being able to practice :( and i miss you guys' :(

Welcome @@Trevellyan82