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

welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 162 =-

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: @JokerTheAnarchist

God of Guitar: Leader after week 1/2: @JokerTheAnarchist

Rhythm:
Beginner: @@Hawckins
Intermediate: @
Advanced: @@six_string_ninja
Masterclass: @JokerTheAnarchist

Bass:
Beginner: @tupoloflyer
Intermediate: @Fraggle Baggle
Advanced: @@missis sumner
Masterclass: @JokerTheAnarchist

Congrats to Winners!

This week songs are

Lead Path:
Beginner: Edguy - King of Fools (3) chosen by @@Gamut (Eb)
Intermediate: Biffy Clyro - Wolves of Winter (5) chosen by @@Shiroo (D Drop C)
Advanced: Tomahawk - God Hates A Coward (6) chosen by @@fripponomic
MasterClass: Metallica - Spit Out The Bone (9) (Nacho´s version) chosen by @@Nacholede

God of Guitar w2/2: Heavenly - Lust For Life (10)


Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Edguy - King of Fools (3)
Intermediate: Biffy Clyro - Wolves of Winter (4)
Advanced: Metallica - Spit Out The Bone (7)
Masterclass: n/a

Bass Path:
Beginner: Edguy - King of Fools (3)
Intermediate: Tomahawk - God Hates A Coward (4)
Intermediate Alternative: Biffy Clyro - Wolves of Winter (5)
Advanced: Metallica - Spit Out The Bone (6) thx for fixing @@Nacholede!
Masterclass: Death Angel - Don´t save me (9) as played in week 90



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:
(draft, to be updated after CCL update)

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

YEAH! =)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xUm7ttoUHI 

 

Sorry. I can't play pinch harmonics =(

bah, who wants 99 or a million anyway ;)

 

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on fire

 

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My score:

My dif rate 5+:

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And more easy a song, my  dif rate 4.

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I foresee an evening of tone designing ahead! :P  On the topic of which, what tones do you guys have on your hotkeys?  I'm guessing it's a good idea to have one clean, one distorted, but what else?

 

I don't.  I turn the bass right down in the game and send my bass signal directly to my amp.  That way I can actually hear how I sound (bloody awful, usually lol).

 

how do you do that ? bass into amp with jack then amp into PC with real tone cable ? can't this damage the cable or something ?

I use a splitter cable (Y-cable) to send the signal from my bass to my amp and Rocksmith cable at the same time.  Then I just run a 3.5mm cable from my laptop to the Aux input on the amp for the background track.

I keep missing random chords here and there, i think because sometimes i only hit 2 strings instead of all 3...

 

P.S. @@Vodka will you ever get tired of winning beginner lead week after week? :P

 

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Damn you, @@Vodka!

 

My hand, and especially the thumb, definitely doesn't like playing this song for too long, but I tell it to go screw itself. It does not like that. Not one bit.

 

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Still working on latency settings.  Such a pain that the pinch harmonics don't register properly either.  Part sounds so Meh without it.

 

Closer though!

 

Beginner Lead now 99.02% streak 177 score 636423

 

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Happy Birthday, @sushicat2112 !  :clap:

Happy birthday @@sushicat2112!

Halfway done the week already? Some midpoint improvements:

 

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Not sleeping great, so this 100% is still eluding me. Done a bunch of -2s now.

 

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Edguy was my first power metal concert! I'll always have a soft spot for these guys.

 

Worth pointing out that this chart shows natural harmonics instead of pinch harmonics, which would definitely take this song out of beginner level.

 

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Probably due to attack the score on Metallica, but it is the worst feeling playing 5 minutes of a 7 minute song only to get booted on the solo. :sob:

Sorry. I can't play pinch harmonics =(

Don't worry, me neither :lol: (ok, sorta :D )

 

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I agree that it is more difficult then Advanced one. Still a solid 5, me think.

@@Rodman You thought that you'll keep on playing intermediate songs after leveling up to Advanced? :lol:

 

 

 

I foresee an evening of tone designing ahead! :P  On the topic of which, what tones do you guys have on your hotkeys?  I'm guessing it's a good idea to have one clean, one distorted, but what else?

 

 

I don´t any more, i am using an real amp (line 6 spider 15) with floorboard - and there i have 4 tones (and a volume/wah pedal):

Clean / Rock (Acdc) / Distortion (Metallica Rhy) / Lead (Megadeth Dist - Lead).

For Bass i have a Bass amp with a clean / distorted tone.

Gives me zero.zerozero lag and i don´t really like RS tones at all.

 

(The Guitar signal goes to a ABYbox with 2 outputs

- one feeds the RScable and goes to PC - so standard recognition in RS with mixer down to 0 or 20% and

- the other one goes to the amp, from there lineout to PC linein so it can be heard (and recorded) over the normal pc speaker setup)

 

Very easy and relatively cheap solution that i am 100% satisfied with.

 

I agree that it is more difficult then Advanced one. Still a solid 5, me think.

@@Rodman You thought that you'll keep on playing intermediate songs after leveling up to Advanced? :lol:

 

 

Got me ;)

 

No. @Fripples had it at 6 and my testscore said also clear 6 (must have been low 80, dunno ... in any way humiliating) while Biffy was a 93 first try.

I think 5 and 6 respectively is right, easy adv, scores go high cause it is really really short and only has few parts, but from technical aspect i´d still tend to 6 over 5.

-= weekly leaderboard update =-

 

leader changes:

@@tupoloflyer - beg bass

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

 

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HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

I'm sorry @@The Postman, @@fraMTK  :crying_cat_face:

Happy birthday @@sushicat2112!

 

I don´t any more, i am using an real amp (line 6 spider 15) with floorboard - and there i have 4 tones (and a volume/wah pedal):

Clean / Rock (Acdc) / Distortion (Metallica Rhy) / Lead (Megadeth Dist - Lead).

For Bass i have a Bass amp with a clean / distorted tone.

Gives me zero.zerozero lag and i don´t really like RS tones at all.

 

(The Guitar signal goes to a ABYbox with 2 outputs

- one feeds the RScable and goes to PC - so standard recognition in RS with mixer down to 0 or 20% and

- the other one goes to the amp, from there lineout to PC linein so it can be heard (and recorded) over the normal pc speaker setup)

 

Very easy and relatively cheap solution that i am 100% satisfied with.

 

 

I'm definitely intrigued to try an amp setup.  I only have a little practice amp for now (Blackstar Fly 3 Bass), but it's got to be better than some of the RS tones.  I'm just wondering now how I'd hook up a gramophone! :P

I hate to restart my song when i play, and for that reason i don't like chasing 100%.  But this song is fun to play.  2 misses now. 

 

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This is too fast. I didn't get into any note.

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And naturally it sounded like a tons of noise.

4 tha lead, all but one

 

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managed to get a bit of practice tonight.......on the 6 string

 

 

 

i'm liking this song the more i play it so i expect a bit higher tomorrow,

 

so happy with this i tried the Lead ......

 

 

 

i might have missed a couple of notes near the end i think,

 

bit more practice and i'll get this.....hahahaha

 

misses is shouting now.... 'The Missing' is on the telly box..... final episode

 

see ya

Im dont know how to tag but thanks for the birthday wishes im really impressed i dont even remember my friends birthdays...

good evening!! ;)

 

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