welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 146 =-

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Last weeks Winners:

 

Lead:
Beginner: @@Adiosnoob
Intermediate: @@n0pers
Advanced: @
MasterClass: @@SmellsLikeMonkey

Rhythm:
Beginner: @@covinhas87
Intermediate: @@Vodka
Advanced: N/A
Masterclass: @@SmellsLikeMonkey

Bass:
Beginner: @@oler1970
Intermediate: @@covinhas87
Advanced: @@missis sumner
Masterclass: @@NoonyDeloony
 

Too many 100% too count. Seriously you're too good :D

 

Congrats

 

This week songs are

This week songs are all that were already played. Sorry we didn't had time to go with proper selection, but I think that I choosed awesomely (except MC, but I did not wanted to go only with songs that I like, some "poor" music had be selected as well :lol: )

Lead Path:
Beginner: Shivaree - Goodnight Moon (2) as played on week 85
Intermediate: Royal Republic - Underwear (5) as played on week 91
Advanced: Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (7) as played on week 109
MasterClass: Fishbone - Servitude (9) as played on week 99

God of Guitar: JerryC - Canon Rock (10) played on week 69 requested by @Brutus Erectus as Da Capo (it won't be da capo as I would like to use that impossible rhythm someday, when we will lack good MC rhythm, as this week we have one)

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Shivaree - Goodnight Moon (3)
Intermediate: Royal Republic - Underwear (5)
Advanced: Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (7)
Masterclass: Fishbone - Servitude (8)

Bass Path:
Beginner: Shivaree - Goodnight Moon (3)
Intermediate: Royal Republic - Underwear (5)
Advanced: Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (6)
Masterclass: Fishbone - Servitude (8)

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 (funky)
4rd Exercise: Blues Comping 4 in E major (shuffle)

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

Honorable list Diehard Member:
  (to be updated)

• Adiosnoob
• albatross213
• bruce717
• Brutus Erectus
• covinhas87
• diddie17
• Gamut
• Hughmonty
• iminashi
• kissa
• klaw
• lduperval
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• NoonyDeloony
• n0pers
• Rodman
• Sebastien92
• sushicat2112
• Tango
• Telboy13
• Tong
• Trevellyan82
• Vodka

Classless, Fearless FreeBird Members in their endless battle with the fb police:

• 2groggy

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


 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!

The clean sound at the end of the Medadeth songs sounds awesome.

@@n0pers True. Also that clean part is the same chord that "Call of Ktulu" uses after the intro ;)

@@SmellsLikeMonkey Awesome, I've had no idea ;p

 

Also I wrote Medadeth.... *facepalm

http://imgur.com/a/BgvXf

 

First attempt.  Decided to do the rhythm part as well this time.  I'm not sure there was a whole lot in that set list I found easy.  Some riffs that really challenge my pick speed!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=739713828

 

Servitude on bass at 95%.  RS is far too forgiving.

Hey guys. Internet problems yesterday for almost all day thats why i couldnt upload screenshots. Ill be working on the song today, tommorow and the day after tommorow trying to rechart the song in my mind without using the high e which i found out is possible and then im going to play it properly!! But that will take me a while. As of right now ive tried it 2 times to get an idea and ive got a 97% but no screenshot yet since i forgot to take one :|

Every time ive tried it, around the second chorus right before the solo my hand hurts :0 Very few songs have this effect on me... weird.

I dont know if anyone else gets that but what can i do to avoid it? Is there some excercise i dont know about?

@ I tend to get hand pain when playing at the lower end of the neck. What helps me is to slow the track down to a steadier pace and walk through the notes until it's comfortable... tweaking my hand position and relaxing my grip too helps. Speed up gradually but rest a little too so you don't strain any tendons. It might not be good for me but, I keep playing until it doesn't hurt anymore but, if someone with more knowledge than me advises otherwise don't keep playing, take their advice :) I don't want to damage you by giving irresponsible advice... this is just how I practice and try to overcome discomfort, it works for me but like I say, I might be going about it all wrong :)

@NoonyDelony Thats what i do too :) I dont know, when i started playing my hand hurt playing on the lower part  while guitarists and generally friends with musical knowledge told me they almost never experienced it. Now it happens with very few songs but from what i see 1-2 minutes of repetitive power chords on the first 4 frets cause the pain to me

I don't understand the image uploading system so :

MC Bass 100%

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9iEVYa_kDEYMFhqb0NpVUNGMDg

@ Try to stay very relaxed and avoid weird elbow angles :) Do you play it like the tab shows ? I don't like open strings (bad sound and harder to mute with precision) so I play it with 5th fret on the E string instead of open As, maybe try it this way ?

 

 

@NoonyDelony Thats what i do too :) I dont know, when i started playing my hand hurt playing on the lower part  while guitarists and generally friends with musical knowledge told me they almost never experienced it. Now it happens with very few songs but from what i see 1-2 minutes of repetitive power chords on the first 4 frets cause the pain to me

don't worry it happens with everyone

I don't understand the image uploading system so :

 

MC Bass 100%

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9iEVYa_kDEYMFhqb0NpVUNGMDg

 

 

Looks like you nailed it to me :)

 " while guitarists and generally friends with musical knowledge told me they almost never experienced it. "

 

 

Maybe they've forgotten what it was like when in your first couple of years or some folk are just blessed with the supplety of an infant :) I have heaps of friends young and old, pro and beginner and nearly all of them, despite experience on differing levels, have had some discomfort in some way, shape or form... not saying your friends are fibbing but, I think perhaps they've not found a song that gives them such issues and are playing rather basic songs ... orrrrr, they're all LIARS  :lol:

 

(supplety is not a word apparently :( but it should be a word! /grumble... if you need my language translating into the queen's English you might want to ask @@albatross213 :) .)

@@NoonyDeloony meh, everybody's uploading full pictures directly to the website but it doesn't work for me, they just don't load

I do it the same way as you because I can't be arsed faffing with hosting the image from another source other than my steam account :) I'd like to show the image so folk don't have to click a link but I'm too flippin lazy :)

@ If you use STEAM to upload pics:

1st - STEAM link does not end with .png or .jpg so it won't work on forum (for that you need hosting that produces link with proper end)

2nd - stop, STEAM can ban your uploading capabilities as well as pics (it happen to me with Metallica, Led Zepellin and Pink Floyd pics)

They put ban on me after I haven't uploaded any pic in half year. 25 pics banned from across 2 years, and 25 day ban on me. It happened to some others as well.

@ If you use STEAM to upload pics:

1st - STEAM link does not end with .png or .jpg so it won't work on forum (for that you need hosting that produces link with proper end)

2nd - stop, STEAM can ban your uploading capabilities as well as pics (it happen to me with Metallica, Led Zepellin and Pink Floyd pics)

They put ban on me after I haven't uploaded any pic in half year. 25 pics banned from across 2 years, and 25 day ban on me. It happened to some others as well.

:huh:  :mellow:  :o I guess I better borrow the other halfs cloud from now on.... or as I prefer to call it, some strangers massive hard drive.

@ If you use STEAM to upload pics:

1st - STEAM link does not end with .png or .jpg so it won't work on forum (for that you need hosting that produces link with proper end)

2nd - stop, STEAM can ban your uploading capabilities as well as pics (it happen to me with Metallica, Led Zepellin and Pink Floyd pics)

They put ban on me after I haven't uploaded any pic in half year. 25 pics banned from across 2 years, and 25 day ban on me. It happened to some others as well.

 

What was the ban for?

@ @@NoonyDeloony To be honest i do have small hands for an 18 yo :) I can BARELY do thumb chords and that with great effort! Where is a 7 string when you need it......... I have my eyes on a 7string schecter but im between that and digitech's drop but that is an entirely other matter. Tried it again and my hands are slowly getting used to it. Later Ill post my progress so far :)

@ Hand size shouldn't really be too much of an issue, your fingers, if they're short will make quicker contact with the strings so they'll be more nimble which is well suited to lead guitar... as for bass... Victor Wooten has real small hands and has no trouble melting faces :)

Really ?? :D I thought small fingers were very bad for playing music :0

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

And it works ! Thanks @@Mortalo

anyone has some songs or exercises to practice chords ? I'm quite bad at them

 

anyone has some songs or exercises to practice chords ? I'm quite bad at them

 

I'm not sure the answer to your question but on that note...does anybody know any good exercises for increasing pick speed? I have Steve Vai's 30 hour workout.  Just wondering if there are any other gems out there (especially if they are cldc)

Go to the cdlc search engine and type "picking". The 6 first results are what you need.

anyone has some songs or exercises to practice chords ? I'm quite bad at them

 

Said a man with >99% on Megadeth  :sob:  :sob:  :sob: I should to get drunk  :ambulance:

 

anyone has some songs or exercises to practice chords ? I'm quite bad at them

 

Said a man with >99% on Megadeth  :sob:  :sob:  :sob: I should to get drunk  :ambulance:

 

:) I'm okay with power chords but I swear I had a real struggle with the clean intro chords ._. 

 

And wow, I tried to make a better score but I couldn't, note recognition system was trolling me

You see that first note ? Just an open A, nothing easier. I GET MISSES ON IT HALF THE TIME

and yes, my guitar is tuned (even if it's absolute shit, detunes itself all the time, makes an awful sound and constant noise in songs with distorsion...)