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

welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 153 =-

 

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: @@Hughmonty
Intermediate: @
Advanced: @@MaZtoR
MasterClass: @@AlpaQ

 

God of Guitar: @@AlpaQ

 

Rhythm:
Beginner: @@Rcrai
Intermediate: @
Advanced: @@MaZtoR
Masterclass: @@AlpaQ

 

Bass: 
Beginner: @@Fraggle Baggle

Beginner 2: @@Fraggle Baggle

Intermediate: @
Advanced: @@missis sumner

Masterclass: @@fripponomic

 

Congrats

 

This week songs are  

Lead Path:
Beginner: Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice (3) chosen by @@Trevellyan82
Intermediate: Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song (5) chosen by @
Advanced: AC/DC - Hells Bells (7) chosen by @@fripponomic
MasterClass: Dream Theater - 6:00 (9)  chosen by @@Steven Briquette

 

Rhythm Path:
Beginner:  N/A
Intermediate: AC/DC - Hells Bells (4)
Advanced: Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song (6)
Masterclass: N/A

 

Bass Path:
Beginner 1: Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice (3)

Intermediate: AC/DC - Hells Bells (3)

Advanced: Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song (5)

Masterclass: Dream Theater - 6:00 (9)

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:

• Adiosnoob
• AlpaQ
• bruce717
• covinhas87
• @Fraggle Baggle
• fripponomic
• Gamut
• Hughmonty
• iminashi
• kissa
• klaw
• @koffein
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• NoonyDeloony
• oler1970
• Rodman
• sushicat2112
• Telboy13
• 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!!!!

@@Vodka, it's the opposite case than ThugRaven said, your bends are too strong. This bends are only quarter steps, only a half half. Try to bend them very very slight. Your bends sounding like a half step or more. If you play a light string cauge you have to be more careful about that. I made a little vid that may help. Also try to slow down in RR and focus on the bend strength. good luck

 

edit - @@Gamut the chart is good, I made it ;)

Beware

"'Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
Well, I'm back in black
Yes, I'm back in black"

 

Hello everybody, it's been a while!

 

I've got few time to play guitar now, but I can't miss this one.

 

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Good luck everybody!

gooood evening!!

 

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hey steroma, still alive :)

didn't play for 2 weeks, but my song has been chosen so hey guys

@@sushicat2112 is right, I probably overestimated the difficulty. 7 or 8 would be more accurate.

still one of my favorite songs to play

http://i67.tinypic.com/9s9hyr.jpg

Well, that's certainly impressive, well at least I did good for a 15 year old.

After ignoring wrist pain for several days and continuing to play I'm now sitting in considerable pain after playing earlier today.  It's going to kill me to rest it, but for it to be hurting now while not even doing anything....I get the message, body, gahhh!  :(

After ignoring wrist pain for several days and continuing to play I'm now sitting in considerable pain after playing earlier today.  It's going to kill me to rest it, but for it to be hurting now while not even doing anything....I get the message, body, gahhh!  :(

Are you working too hard?  By "too hard", I mean fretting and plucking with the iron-fisted-white-knuckle-grip-of-death.  You only need to fret hard enough to make the note sound clean.  Fretting too hard will only pull the notes sharp and waste energy.  Plucking too hard will only increase fret buzz.  Work on using a lighter touch and not only can you play longer before getting tired, but you will be able to improve your speed and tone too.

 

If you want to be louder, you can just turn up the volume without actually working any harder.

@@Vodka, it's the opposite case than ThugRaven said, your bends are too strong. This bends are only quarter steps, only a half half. Try to bend them very very slight. Your bends sounding like a half step or more. If you play a light string cauge you have to be more careful about that. I made a little vid that may help. Also try to slow down in RR and focus on the bend strength. good luck

 

edit - @@Gamut the chart is good, I made it ;)

 

I see now! I was confusing the song track with Vodka's guitar.  :ph34r:

 

After ignoring wrist pain for several days and continuing to play I'm now sitting in considerable pain after playing earlier today.  It's going to kill me to rest it, but for it to be hurting now while not even doing anything....I get the message, body, gahhh!  :(

Are you working too hard?  By "too hard", I mean fretting and plucking with the iron-fisted-white-knuckle-grip-of-death.  You only need to fret hard enough to make the note sound clean.  Fretting too hard will only pull the notes sharp and waste energy.  Plucking too hard will only increase fret buzz.  Work on using a lighter touch and not only can you play longer before getting tired, but you will be able to improve your speed and tone too.

 

If you want to be louder, you can just turn up the volume without actually working any harder.

 

 

 

Thanks @@2groggy.  I don't believe I'm working too hard, I can play for long periods now without feeling tired.  What I do have a big problem with is having very small hands and trying to span 4 frets on a bass.  I can only JUST reach that 4th fret with my pinky and I feeeeel it!  I'm stretching before playing and regularly throughout the day, but nothing's going to magically grow me bigger appendages, no matter what those emails said.   :lol:   So I've been adapting how I play and it's probably very far from the ideal technique.

 

Had been considering getting a tutor for a while to correct my rookie techniques early on, I think that's going to be a certainty now.

dhm bass

 

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yeah, ftl

 

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-= weekly leaderboard update =-

 

 

leader changes:

@ - INT Bass

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!

 

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Have a nice rest of week and a helluva new one!

@ @@Gamut @@fripponomic thank you very much guys. Will try be more gentle in my fight with that hell's bends.

still can't catch the moment of the bend. some of attempts are successful. but i think it's just a luck.

Back from holiday.

 

Good to see Soulwax making the weekly choice as its probably a band people are unaware of.

 

Hope to improve on this later

 

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s622/trevellyan1/20160930201609_1_zpsvfvnkzzr.jpg

 

didn't play for 2 weeks, but my song has been chosen so hey guys

@@sushicat2112 is right, I probably overestimated the difficulty. 7 or 8 would be more accurate.

still one of my favorite songs to play

http://i67.tinypic.com/9s9hyr.jpg

Well, that's certainly impressive, well at least I did good for a 15 year old.

 

thanks a lot mate ! you did pretty good too, and one thing I'm certain of is, I practiced this song more than you :p you probably can do better. 100% is reachable on this song. I'm 16 by the way :p

 

 

 

Well, that's certainly impressive, well at least I did good for a 15 year old.

 

thanks a lot mate ! you did pretty good too, and one thing I'm certain of is, I practiced this song more than you :P you probably can do better. 100% is reachable on this song. I'm 16 by the way :P

 

You two could be a grandchildren of some other participants. So cool to see so varied people here :)

:lol:

Finally this song pissed me off

http://memegenerator.cc/templates/desk-flip.jpg

Last nights improvements concentrating on the Riverboat song only.......

 

Lead scores depend on hitting the purple and green strings at the right time on the right frets and the double orange + green string bends, as the 'Da Da DaDa Da Da' bit is now second nature after playing it so many bloody times.

 

but getting there.....

 

Rhythm is a bit easier and I could do better (and still might) but happy with this score beating my previous best by loads....

 

 

finally the wrist breaking bass, a true test of stamina, grit and determination......... unlike @@Fraggle Baggle I have large hands but stubby fat pork sausage fingers so I understand the work involved to get a good score.

 

i also blame my fingers for not being able to do solos as when i place my finger skilfully on the fret i want on exactly the string i want it also touches the strings either side....which i don't want.

 

not such a problem on bass, which is probably why my bass scores are usually reasonable.

 

 

still got today........

I'm off to buy a new car today, so as it's a little early for bass at the moment - that's probably it for me for the week. :)

@@Fraggle Baggle, don't stretch! You can microshift your hand placement so instead of contorting your pinky to extremes a little shift of the hand will relive that pain pretty quickly. I have freakishly large hands but occasionally I did have pinky trouble when playing tracks like "full steam space machine" , "danger danger! (High voltage)" and "two door cinema club's, what you know". My pinky still flicks out from time to time from over stretching but when I do practice those three tracks microshifting the fret hand is a lot more energy efficient. Give those songs a try at about 75% speed while you get used to moving your fret hand between the frets on the repetitive notes. :) hope it helps a bit.

Thanks @@NoonyDeloony I'll definitely give that a try next time I play. :)

 

Edit:  Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! @@NoonyDeloony  I just saw the front page there!  :tada:  :tropical_drink:  :beer:   :tada:

Another improvement.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/The%20riverboat%20song%209321_zpsjkd4s22n.jpg

Happy birthday @@NoonyDeloony. I hope you'll enjoy all your presents today :D

 

And 6:00 lead:

http://i.imgur.com/lGQb73r.jpg?1

I like Petrucci's tones but can't get into DT.

Happy Birthday @@NoonyDeloony! Hope you've recovered from illness enough to enjoy a few bevvies.

 

Great tunes again this week. Struggling with OCS and this is the best i've managed this week:

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/l4ku16u5vnknsg8/221680_20160930205717_1.png?dl=0

 

Love me some AccaDacca! I've tried this quite a few times but with a previous version. This one is much nicer to play.

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/o5pnr28qjort7b6/221680_20161001181312_1.png?dl=0

These guys like bends a lot more than I do  :P

Thank you to those who were posting tips!

 

AC/DC -- Hells Bells

Lead