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welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

 

-= Week 160 =-

 

 

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

 

Last weeks Winners:

 

Lead:
Beginner:           @Vodka
Intermediate:    @@Rodman
Advanced:         @MaZtoR
MasterClass:     @@earth2mars

 

God of Guitar:   @@iminashi

 

Rhythm:
Beginner:          @Hawckins
Intermediate:    @six_string_ninja
Advanced:        @MaZtoR
Masterclass:       N/E

 

Bass: 
Beginner:          @tupoloflyer

Intermediate:     @Fraggle Baggle

Advanced:          @@missis sumner

Masterclass:     @@earth2mars

 

Congrats to Winners!

 

This week songs are  

 

 

Lead Path:
Beginner:    Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (2) chosen by @@Hughmonty

Intermediate:    Kasabian - Underdog (4) chosen by @

Advanced:     Yellowcard - Only One (6) chosen by @@Vodka

MasterClass:  Victims Family - Supermarket Nightmare (9)  chosen by @@fripponomic

 

God of Guitar:  nope

 

 

Rhythm Path:
Beginner:    Kasabian - Underdog  (3) 

Intermediate:  Leonard Cohen - Diamonds In The Mine  (4)  chosen as tribute

Advanced:   Yellowcard - Only One (6)

Masterclass:   N/A

 

Bass Path:
Beginner:       Twenty One Pilots - Heathens  (1)  

Intermediate:   Kasabian - Underdog  (3)

Intermediate 2:  Yellowcard - Only One (3)

Advanced:   Leonard Cohen - Diamonds In The Mine    (5)   the Tribute

Masterclass:    Victims Family - Supermarket Nightmare   (8)

 

 

Tribute to Leonard Cohen

actually another great musician and milestone in the music history passed away.

He reached an age of 82 years and in this time he brought many cool songs to us.

Instead of starting a separate tribute list I've implement one of his songs into the actual competition.

 

 

 

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:

• AlpaQ
• bruce717
• covinhas87
• Fraggle Baggle
• @fraMTK
• fripponomic
• Gamut
• @Hawckins
• Hughmonty
• iminashi
• kissa
• klaw
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• @Nacholede
• NoonyDeloony
• oler1970
• @Rcrai
• Rodman
• @six_string_ninja
• sushicat2112
• Telboy13
• ThugRaven
• 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!!!!

Good week everyone!

Have tried Twenty One Pilots - Heathens  only. Very strange to play lead arrangement.

http://i.imgur.com/d1LEOZG.jpg

1st try rhy

 

http://i65.tinypic.com/2yjoj86.jpg

riddim is quite a bit harder than lead here,

ok try

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/2rm5mde.jpg

Had a quick couple gos on a few songs.

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/254845729779069146/B1FC9A08B1C197E7781B9F43D77524BD14A10C4D/

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/254845729779068279/6A772EF3148B4405A133A4268C368CA77DB957A0/

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/254845729779067277/8A826E9798639E27A725477B6CE7F8D87C972D70/

 

With a little practice, this should be a good week.

@@JokerTheAnarchist How the hell did you do that :P How long have you been playing ?

 

Haha thanks for the kind words, I've been playing for 3 and a half years with Rocksmith, never touched guitar before that.

first tries on Allll of the bass things!

 

This thing...B: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=799364368

 

That thing...I: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=799364455 (plat pic got in the way of the shot but can still see it.. ish... not bothered, not my catagory :). )

 

the other thing...I: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=799364591

 

Another thing... A: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=799364720 (very fun to play)

 

Ok, maybe not all of the things... MC: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=799364819

 

Shit.

One of those weeks I have no clue about any of this music. Well, except Heathens, it's hard not to know that one.

 

http://i.imgur.com/V43c60M.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/DO9IU5H.jpg

 

I usually say something about the songs, but... I was high as hell for these sightreads and I don't remember anything about either of them.  :huh: Either they weren't that memorable, or that was some potent purp... Commentary next time!

First Bowie, then Prince, now Cohen.. wtf is happening up there? some kind of legends of music festival or what?

Nice walking bassline but a bit tough for me. These basslines with notes on the same fret but different string make my ring finger stiff and I end up playing the note on the wrong string... That at best, at worst I got some kind of dyslexic attack and my sight reading goes totally off :D

Anyways, here's my better try so far for this week:

http://i.imgur.com/1P9ugYQ.jpg

These basslines with notes on the same fret but different string make my ring finger stiff and I end up playing the note on the wrong string... That at best, at worst I got some kind of dyslexic attack and my sight reading goes totally off :D

 

 

 

I get the brain farts too!  :lol: Just curious, do you play with colour blind mode on?  I do, because I usually find it impossible to id orange notes unless there's a yellow close by for comparison and even then... :wacko:  It does seem to make it harder for me to deal with greens + blues on the same fret though.  Until the day I'm good enough to play by not relying on what I see, my conclusion is contrast matters, the more the better.  I might have to try switching cb mode on/off depending on the song. If only there were a way to completely personalise your colour set!  ^_^

-= weekly leaderboard update =-

 

no leader changes.

 

 

GREAT PLAYING EVERYONE, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

http://i65.tinypic.com/nn4rhg.jpg

 

HAVE A NICE WEEK!

 

These basslines with notes on the same fret but different string make my ring finger stiff and I end up playing the note on the wrong string... That at best, at worst I got some kind of dyslexic attack and my sight reading goes totally off :D

 

 

 

I get the brain farts too!  :lol: Just curious, do you play with colour blind mode on?  I do, because I usually find it impossible to id orange notes unless there's a yellow close by for comparison and even then... :wacko:  It does seem to make it harder for me to deal with greens + blues on the same fret though.  Until the day I'm good enough to play by not relying on what I see, my conclusion is contrast matters, the more the better.  I might have to try switching cb mode on/off depending on the song. If only there were a way to completely personalise your colour set!  ^_^

 

Brain farts :D Yes, that's a good way to call them. I play with the normal colour scheme, will try the colour blind mode to see if I notice a difference. But, in my case is not about the color.. I don't know how to explain it: I can sight read at a glance changes from the 1th fret to the 16th or bigger and even nail them without looking at the fretboard (unless is a very fast song :D). But when I have to change strings on the same fret, or do constant arpeggios (like Muse's bassline last week) my brain kind of locks and I have to pause the song, riff repeat it slower or, as you say, rely on what I hear instead of what I see... But even then, sometimes i tell my ring finger to move but it don't want to :D

I suppose it has to do something with my playing technique: I started playing bass about a year ago, but seriously and with a decent instrument since February. And I'm totally self taught. I know about the one finger per fret technique, but for me is harder to think what fingers goes where while I play. If i don't care about that my fingers just flow with the groove

Now that I re read it that last sentence sound kind of arrogant, but you know what I mean :)

@@RealityPixels you will get there with practice. "Pistol switch" (original track on rocksmith) is a good song to practice for string skipping on the same fret and dexy's midnight runners "come on eileen" too. I also use colour blind mode for the same reason as @@Fraggle Baggle and it does help a fair bit. Have a dabble with some different rhythms too to help with your right hand plucking/plecking patterns. Ska P and Ninos con Bombas have some nice tracks for practice right hand technique. :)

@@NoonyDeloony Thanks for the advice! Will try to watch a playthrough of Pistol Switch and play along (don't have original RS). And I have some Ska songs: they are so fun to play. But my "problem" is with the left hand mostly. My right hand has improved a lot, I think, and I don't have too much struggles to set the rhythm with it

A couple more runs and a wee bit of improvement on lead.

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/254845729782868438/18DE3A9902BE73CAF4F6BF88A4A012D75D64A7C3/

@@RealityPixels ahh yes I see you mentioned your ring finger getting stiff, aye, same here most of my videos my ring finger is perma straight and I still haven't quite figured out to get rid of its temporary paralysis while playing. If I do find a way to get around that problem I'll let you know but for the now I'm afraid I can offer no cure or preventative measure... I know a few bassists use gloves when playing, I wonder if that'd help? :)

@@Rodman nice score on Only one.   I cant even play those damn arpeggios @ 90% speed after more than 1h in riff repeater. The picking is just to fast for me.

My first entry in the championship.

After a couple tries I got a good score on bass for Diamonds in the mine.

@@RealityPixels About notes on different strings but the same fret, i try to fret both strings (in this case) without moving my finger too much.

 

I'm useless with a guitar, couldn't get past the first section in Underdog on rhythm.

Maybe i just need to change strings.. they're all rusted and haven't been changed in more than a year xD

I did manage to get a score in Heathens on lead.

After several reps I got this

http://i.imgur.com/6voZNLq.jpg

The song sounds better with the tone from Long Live the King of Sabaton ;P

@@MaZtoR Thx m8 - i seem to have lucky fingers there, i am hellishly bad on apreggios normally, those three strings do work (did yd)

 

gotta go for int before trying harder here...

here is the int update.. man why did i not do SA?

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/21eq6tf.jpg

Argh.. thats 2 notes early in the song

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/vpzuaw.jpg

make it one (it´s only monday)

 

http://i65.tinypic.com/6e1af8.jpg

Don't know how I will play it in SA yet

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

http://i68.tinypic.com/693tcl.jpg

 

;) ciao

perhaps a little bit too competitive when the leaderboard is opened in the background   :huh:  :P  :D