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

welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 169 =-

 

 

 

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

 

Last weeks winners:

   

 

Lead:
Beginner:       @mackaybre
Intermediate: @@PlanetDisco
Advanced :     @MaZtoR
MasterClass:   @JokerTheAnarchist

Rhythm:
Beginner:       n/a

Intermediate:  @Telboy13
Advanced:      n/a
Masterclass:   @JokerTheAnarchist

Bass: 
Beginner:        @schma

Beginner2:       @@klaw

Intermediate:  @@guijappe

Advanced:          @@missis sumner
Masterclass:    @JokerTheAnarchist

 

Congrats to all winners and 100% scorers. Well done!

 

 

This week songs are

"...surprisingly cool..."

 

  

Lead Path:

Beginner:        Deftones - Xerces (2) chosen by @@Shinyditto12

Intermediate:   Krakatit - Nachbarschaft (5) chosen by @@fripponomic

Advanced:       Tsuneo Imahori - H.T. (7) chosen by @@Gamut

MasterClass:   Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (LIVE VERSION) (8) chosen by @

 

God of Guitar week 2/2: Billy Cobham - Quadrant 4 (BONUS LEAD!) chosen by @fripponomic

 

Rhythm Path:
Beginner:        Deftones - Xerces (3)

Intermediate    n/a
Advanced:       Tsuneo Imahori - H.T. (7)
Masterclass:    Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (LIVE VERSION) (7)

 

Bass Path:
Beginner:          Deftones - Xerces (3)

Intermediate:    Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (LIVE VERSION) (4)
Advanced:         Krakatit - Nachbarschaft (6)
Masterclass:     Tsuneo Imahori - H.T. (7.5)

 

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)

• bruce717
• Fraggle Baggle
• fraMTK
• Gamut
• Hawckins
• Hughmonty
• iminashi
• JokerTheAnarchist
• klaw
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• Nacholede
• oler1970
• Rcrai
• RealityPixels
• Rodman
• six_string_ninja
• sushicat2112
• Telboy13
• ThugRaven
• tupoloflyer
• Vodka

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

• 2groggy
• fripponomic
• NoonyDeloony
• Steven Briquette

 

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

 

Rock On!

http://i65.tinypic.com/21ltt87.jpg

 

;)

Small improvement.  Couldn't play long today, fretting fingers are sore from jamming them in a car door yesterday.  :unsure:

 

http://i.imgur.com/oTxwS3V.jpg?1

http://i67.tinypic.com/oh1j5i.jpg

 

good night

Here's my Bass contribution....straight into second place......

 

 

 

 

 

The technical problem has been sorted but not before causing a lot of swearing and throwing picks about the room.

 

The good news is that my guitar now works but the bad news is the smoke detector does not   :blink:

 

I was trying to play the Nachbarscaft song but kept getting really bad recognition issues and the sound was pretty shit, eventually I managed to get a score......

 

 

then I swapped the battery for my EMG pick ups with the smoke detector and tah dah.......

 

 

 

I will get better at this I promise now the bloody guitar is working properly.

 

night night all

Despite seeing and hitting the bends I hadn't noticed before all this time on the Nachbarschaft, I couldn't improve, so I gave this another go:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKRmhwN2NnbXI4dlk/view?usp=sharing

*Riff Repeats H.T. solo*

 

*riffs like a machine*

 

*aces the solo*

 

http://i.imgur.com/tb5W3BB.png

 

*crashes spectacularly on the last couple riffs *

 

Well, at least it's only a minute and a half. I can do this!!

@@Vodka that's not a bad score, higher than Gamut & Maztor

That was like that actually:

http://i.giphy.com/3oEduHoDCYiNcSNdpC.gif

So Gamut & Maztor are playing better I guess.

Great little solo on this one, but I'm having a hard time to get the strum/mute pattern right.  (But Rocksmith does not really care about that)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Nachbarschaft%209827_zpsstcqmyzb.jpg

 

 

This is fast and intensive, makes my hand hurt after just 2 runs of this short tune.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/H.T%209653_zpsp8smee7c.jpg

 

 

And since i like Gary Moore i had to play rhythm to.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Still%20got%20the%20blues%20live%20Rhythm%2091_zpsmbodnhwk.jpg

I cannot 95 H.T. - it´s that tiny winey damn bit too fast for me - no chance to improve over 90.

 

so - if i am too slow i think there is one thing i should go into...

 

>´Slayer Therapy´<

 

http://up.picr.de/28066657xf.jpg

 

:)

 

and it proves i have gained speed - might be a long hard therapy lesson now :D

Improvements all 'round:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKaGQ5NjhoX2g0ZGM/view?usp=sharing

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

 

When I say improvements, I mean minor, and all 'round means just Adv and MC.

 

However I still maintain that the MC is easier than the Adv - H.T is not really fast - it's just the scroll speed! ;)

now I got this tiny pulloff right after the bass solo

http://up.picr.de/28068676cb.jpg

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=846066839

Beg Lead 95.66% highest streak 58, score 261,629  I don't want to play it again. 

 

No Int Rhythim apparently, but the Advanced Rhythm (albeit fun) is rather impossible for me. Ah well.  Rocksmith isn't Mad at me for getting only 53% accuracy, it's just disappointed...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=846066879

Here is my attempt at Xerces.  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=846259164

 

I may try it again to get a better score, but it's kind of frustrating to play.  At times RS seems to have trouble detecting notes on the E string when tuned lower than standard.  But at least I am improving my playing, which is all that really matters anyway.

http://i65.tinypic.com/zu0fps.jpg

 

:(

So, my exam session is finally over. Too bad now rocksmith won't register like 60% of the notes i play, i'm definetly sure to hit the right ones (and let's face it, Xerces isn't really the hardest song to play) but if i don't tap the fret instead of holding my finger on it the note just won't register...

 

Tomorrow i'll try to change the strings and see if that solves anything (they are not the newest and i don't really think that's the problem but worth giving it a shot i guess), also my guitar doesn't really like drop tunings. I guess i should maybe start looking into a better one because i'm kinda fed up with all these problems and right playing gets pretty frustrating pretty quickly...

Last try on Xerces.  Slightly better than before.  Very slightly.  http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=846642570

Another good week! This one hurt my wrist -- I think I got too tense trying to keep up. Will return to it as I get better though.

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/2vxkoxl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kTPMZzr.png

 

Now I comboed most of the song, but sucked at the solo. One of these runs I'll get both of them...

Here's some send of week scores, some improvements some not so good, some in dire need of Improvement......

 

hopefully ill get a bit of time later to up the scores a bit...

 

 

can't beat @@Vodka on this due to inconsistent recognition issues.

 

as there was no INT Rhythm i had a go at the others...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

couldn't leave the bass out,

 

looks like i'll loose some pretty picks this week  -_- but i tried.....

 

good morning all

borrowing a new lead, back in the game

http://i66.tinypic.com/a32y5j.png

guitar didnt like drop tuning

http://i66.tinypic.com/fnk2s.png

ha nice little rhythm workout

http://i63.tinypic.com/2a4ttte.png

i feel like i recognise this from somewhere?

http://i66.tinypic.com/2h7zygm.png

no 22nd fret. great tune

when do i get an official class? I think I saw im in both advanced and masterclass right now, which is probably about right

 

bit of time to practice today, il add any improvements here

http://i68.tinypic.com/29wlrn7.png

http://i68.tinypic.com/168abmu.png

@@shaggy_malagy you're in Advanced. That little * next to your name means that it's not your class :)

http://i.imgur.com/6HA1Om9.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/u5Ay8WX.jpg

really easy song this week got 100% in my second go pretty fun to play i liked how short it was... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4zebKHkDZhIMW1vNzltVmIzUzg/view?usp=sharing