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

welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 181 =-

 

READ THIS FIRST =>> How and Why to Join the Championships

Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

 

Last weeks winners:

• Lead:

Beginner:      @@finni_mcfinger
Intermediate:  @@macjm
Advanced :   @@Mortalo
MasterClass:  @@JokerTheAnarchist

 

• Rhythm:

Beginner:       N/A

Intermediate:   @@vinterchaos
Advanced:      N/A
Masterclass:   @JokerTheAnarchist

 

• Bass: 

Beginner:          @@klaw

Intermediate:     @@Riffengud

Advanced:       @@Fraggle Baggle

Masterclass:    @@JokerTheAnarchist

 

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

This week songs are

 

Lead Path:

Beginner:        Blink-182 - Bored to Death                           (3) chosen by @@Hughmonty

Intermediate:    Against Me! - Black Me Out           (4) chosen by @@mackaybre

Advanced:        King Crimson - Red      (6) chosen by @fripponomico

MasterClass:   The Black Mages - Those Who Fight Further          (9)  chosen by @@Gamut

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:          Against Me! - Black Me Out (2)

Intermediate    N/A

Advanced:        The Black Mages - Those Who Fight Further (7)

Masterclass:    August Burns Red - Everlasting Ending (C# drop B ) (8)

 

Bass Path:
Beginner:           Against Me! - Black Me Out    (1)

Intermediate :    Blink-182 - Bored to Death                          (4)

Advanced:        The Black Mages - Those Who Fight Further       (7)

Masterclass :     King Crimson - Red          (7)

 

God of Guitar: August Burns Red - Everlasting Ending (C# drop B ) (10)

 

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
• NoonyDeloony
• fripponomic

Rhythm:
Black Me Out: 90.86% 91.52%

 

Lead:
Bored to Death: 94.33%

Black Me Out: 84% 91.22%

 

 

I'm having some issues with Black Me Out. It seems to not register randomly. I'll get the strums around the miss, and I'm just holding the rhythm. I guess I need new strings or to check intonation. 

Edited April 12, 20178 yr by finni_mcfinger

http://i.imgur.com/sS67vDY.png

 

So as other MC players have surely noticed, this chart isn't exactly perfect. Mutes aren't in the custom for some reason, and a couple of other techniques are also omitted. But it's close enough that it's good fun anyway. :D

 

http://i.imgur.com/qvKl4qQ.png

 

Had to restart this one a couple times before my brain would digest all these weird grooves and time signatures.

 

I love King Crimson, but I'm not big on this track. Really weird jam - much grittier sound than other stuff they've put out.

So, my first Rythm Scores for the week. Spend a considerable amount of time in RR and got close to the 90... I'll be pushing to more days. After that i'm out for a wedding.http://i63.tinypic.com/10z8unn.jpg

 

btw: How do you practice with RR? Full difficulty and working up to tempo or Full tempo and going through the difficulties??

@@domsch1988 Full difficulty and speeding up. That would be the best. Key is to learn the transition from one fret to another (same with strings). It would be impossible to learn sweeping parts with DD (unless handmade, and made well, I never trusted DDC).

I used DD when I was new to guitar and too many notes were too much to handle.

@@domsch1988 I agree with Mortalo. Generally you're trying to establish muscle memory, and the best thing you can do for that is do all the same motions at a speed that you can produce them reliably, then speed up as you get the hang of it.

 

That said!  If I'm playing through a song and a part comes up with so many notes that my brain can't hold them all, I will "level down" the difficulty in my head - that is, I will pick out a handful of the important notes and be sure to play them correctly. This method is a really helpful for learning sweeping, tapping, or weird chords.

First scores for the week

 

http://i.imgur.com/0uSowU4.jpg

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/yJHJdu2.jpg

starting the week with one of the stranger lines i  have ever played

http://up.picr.de/28863050mi.jpg

 

2nd try sounded lots better

 

http://up.picr.de/28863151ew.jpg
 

1st try rhythm - nice to play that is

 

http://up.picr.de/28863325tf.jpg
 

that is already ok

 

http://up.picr.de/28863406mo.jpg
 

http://i63.tinypic.com/2hg8yaa.jpg

 

good evening! ;)

@@domsch1988 I agree with Mortalo. Generally you're trying to establish muscle memory, and the best thing you can do for that is do all the same motions at a speed that you can produce them reliably, then speed up as you get the hang of it.

 

That said!  If I'm playing through a song and a part comes up with so many notes that my brain can't hold them all, I will "level down" the difficulty in my head - that is, I will pick out a handful of the important notes and be sure to play them correctly. This method is a really helpful for learning sweeping, tapping, or weird chords.

 

 

I'd just like to add Scott Devine (yeah, bass, I know) suggests you play one note, then two, at full speed, then three... then four, then five, add one, repeat, repeat.  You get the picture.  So you play at full speed from the start, but only as many notes as you can handle, repeating, all the time.  It's got me through some lines when just speeding up on full difficulty on RR wasn't working. 

http://i66.tinypic.com/11jyigx.jpg

Oh, yeah, forgot to say, I did these yesterday:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKRGM2NEMxV1Zab1k/view?usp=sharing

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49Qq-EFnmrKWEUyTGoxMjI2ak0/view?usp=sharing

 

For more than one reason, I'm going to be taking it easy this week - almost no pain in my knuckle now. :)

Hi everybody!

 

I like "take me out" a lot. A good surprise for me cause I didn't knew it before.

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/5bwfue.jpg

1st try

http://i.imgur.com/ttXwml7.jpg

a great KC song

the chords are extremely hard to register on bass

http://up.picr.de/28866150iw.jpg

on guitar the sync feels a bit strange sometimes

http://up.picr.de/28866151ge.jpg

 

but a nice mix of 5/8 and 4/4

 

edit - difficult rating for that is guitar 6, bass (real) 7-8, bass emu 5 :P

Not a bad tune. I should be able to extract a couple more % out of it.

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rac8u3znomdlp5e/221680_20170411200231_1.png?dl=0

I've played this yesterday to adjust my audio settings (I know it's not the class I should play) - I had the latency value set to 5 and reduced it to the default(?) of 3. I'm not sure if the sync of this song has some flaws or if it's me - with the setting of 5 it seemed that I was always a bit late. I know that audio settings are individual settings depending on the hardware, guitar/bass - which value have other mac users?

 

http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t384/papillon-pb/championship/championship2014/Bildschirmfoto%202017-04-10%20um%2022.24.36_zpsp6ky8yzg.png

( I AM MISSING A FUCKING HIGH E STRING )

 

God of Guitar 88.77%

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

 

Master Class Lead 97.05%

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

 

Master Class Rhythm 96.38%

http://i.imgur.com/QYPUzY1.jpg

 

Master Class Bass 100% | 2,465,450 http://i.imgur.com/yN8SWQt.jpg

 

 

PS. I'm posting scores so early because I'll be gone for the rest of the week, so if someone beats my scores, screw you in advance haha :P

A little practice today, and a little improvment:

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/15pia7p.png

To papillon: sorry I'm a PC user... (sync on PC seems fine IMO)

So @@Joker that's why you don't post your scores earlier, then?  Fear of being beaten?

 

Anyway, this evening I have mostly been playing Eagles.

 

So that's why you don't post your scores earlier, then?  Fear of being beaten?

 

Anyway, this evening I have mostly been playing Eagles.

 

 

 

Obviously, @@steroma, that wasn't aimed at you.  Oh, hang on... nipple clamps - with your avatar, might have been?  lol

I'm not sure if I'll get a 90%+ in it - nice scores and I'll queue at last pos for today :D

 

http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t384/papillon-pb/championship/championship2014/Bildschirmfoto%202017-04-11%20um%2023.49.44_zpsql2rjyhm.png

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=903544523

 

thanks to the selector of this song, after a long, rough stretch at work and not having time to even pick up the bass, this one really felt good.  anxious to get back into the flow of things again.