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welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 191 =-

 

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

Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

 

Last week's winners:

• Lead:

Beginner:     @@mackaybre

Intermediate: @@Telboy

Advanced :   @@MaZtoR

MasterClass:  @@shaggy_malagy

 

God of Guitar: @kinard

• Rhythm:

Beginner:      N/A

Intermediate:   @@Telboy

Advanced:      @@Mortalo

Masterclass:   @@MaZtoR

• Bass: 

Beginner:          @@klaw

Intermediate:     @@Telboy

Advanced:     @@Fraggle Baggle

Masterclass:     @@sushicat2112

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

 

This week songs are:

 

 

Lead Path:

Beginner:         The Ventures - Batman Theme     (3) - chosen as a Tribute to late Adam West :(

Intermediate:   Dream Theater - Burning My Soul  (4)  - chosen by @@Tonedef

Advanced:       The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes (6)  chosen by @@sushicat2112

MasterClass:     Amamiya Sora - Skyreach  (9) chosen by @@earth2mars

 

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:          The Ventures - Batman Theme (2)

Intermediate     Amamiya Sora - Skyreach  (6)

Advanced:        The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes (6)

Masterclass:     N/A

 

 

Bass Path:
Beginner:           The Ventures - Batman Theme   (2)

Intermediate :    Dream Theater - Burning My Soul  (4) (Drop D)

Advanced:          Amamiya Sora - Skyreach    (8)

Masterclass :     The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes    (8)

 

 

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)
5th Exercise: Blues Comping 5 in E major (dirty Texas Blues style, shuffle) (more challenging lead guitar (adv), rhythm and bass more intermediate with a real audio track (no GP RSA converted)

Everyone can bring up new scores that will be added to the  exercises scoreboards
  
Honorable list Diehard Member:

(draft)

 

• finni_mcfinger
• Fraggle Baggle
• Gamut
• lduperval
• mackaybre
• MaZtoR
• missis sumner
• MonstaS4
• Mortalo
• Rodman
• shaggy_malagy
• sushicat2112
• Telboy13

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

• 2groggy
• NoonyDeloony
• fripponomic

I Had to play the Batman theme.  Do I get bonus points for scaling the side of a building while playing it?

 

I had assumed the Dream Theater song would be absurdly difficult, but I think that even a mere mortal like me can play this one, with a little practice.

I Had to play the Batman theme.  Do I get bonus points for scaling the side of a building while playing it?

 

I had assumed the Dream Theater song would be absurdly difficult, but I think that even a mere mortal like me can play this one, with a little practice.

This is exactly why I picked this song. Int should master it and beginners will have a lot of fun with it. I just had no idea Petrucci was as tame a Myung was on this song.

@@Telboy you really nailed that Batman bass track. Doubling me and Noony in points :P

First attempt at MC Lead:

 

http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag342/Yeezy_Chryst/20170619185252_1_zpscwysebkw.jpg

 

My note detection has gotten really bad in the past few weeks I think I'm in need of a new Rocksmith cable. My calibration, tuning and intonation is fine but Rocksmith is just not picking up notes some notes no matter how articulately I play them. :\

cheers @@Mortalo I actually found it easier than @jamespreston 's version he did by The Jam so I have sort of played it before..... just need to nail the lead now but I'm not holding my breath hahaha

Moody Blues - at 80% speed it's ok, but 100% ...

 

The streak was nice

http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t384/papillon-pb/championship/championship2014/Bildschirmfoto%202017-06-20%20um%2020.18.09_zpscikyj4eq.png

 

here's +3% and a deja vu :D ... I'm not confident that 86% is good enough to pass the score attack exam with less than 3 strikes

http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t384/papillon-pb/championship/championship2014/Bildschirmfoto%202017-06-20%20um%2020.22.52_zpsdfiatapb.png

on to Dream theatre........

 

Bass, sort of getting into this track after being unimpressed.......going to be playing it a few times me thinks

 

 

then i got to the Lead........ this was my best run by far, but watch what happens at the end when i accidentally hit the volume knob little by little until theres nothing left........what a knob !

 

 

 

i did manage to get through in the end though just not as good....

 

 

 

another t-shirt needs wringing out, hot as hell, sweating buckets, shower number 2 is calling,

 

night night all

Yikes!!!! hard :wacko:

 

http://up.picr.de/29548549fj.jpg

 

oops forgot my Skyreach Bass effort which sounded terrible and i must have looked ridiculous trying to move my hands and fingers faster than i possible can or ever could , or ever will with any sort of accuracy.

 

 

sounded a lot worse than the score suggests

http://up.picr.de/29548609wi.jpg

RIP Adam

 

that´s more my difficulty level today

 

http://up.picr.de/29548866ir.jpg
 

Small improvement.   Still need to give this some more time.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/The%20story%20in%20your%20eyes%2089_zpsyhuopcpr.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/wmm9w9.jpg

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/15mzaec.jpg

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/25zhziw.jpg

 

 

goood night!!

good enough to have not strike ... I like the riffs and my target is a 89%+ ;)

http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t384/papillon-pb/championship/championship2014/Bildschirmfoto%202017-06-20%20um%2023.10.22_zpsbknr7jcl.png

This one's deceptively tiring on the fingers...

http://i.imgur.com/ecKW6oe.png?1

 

A genuine sight read and I'm amazed I got this score tbh!  I think I got very lucky again with a couple of those fills....

http://i.imgur.com/u67R3Q7.png?1

 

 

Got a better score on advanced, sounded much better (though still appalling), but no accuracy improvement. :( 

 

 

Spent some time riff repeating The Moody Blues, got it down fairly decently at about 90% speed....at 100% speed I wondered why I'd even bothered! :lol:  Took a break, came back and managed a small +

http://i.imgur.com/FxN7Soj.png?1

http://i.imgur.com/yzvLN00.jpg

 

 

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

 

Never heard. Nice song.

http://i.imgur.com/Zi0nqsi.png

 

I have to practice this

http://i.imgur.com/4ib3BV1.jpg

This one's deceptively tiring on the fingers...

 

 

A genuine sight read and I'm amazed I got this score tbh!  I think I got very lucky again with a couple of those fills....

 

 

Batman theme is tiring on the fret hand for me too. Half way through the 2nd or 3rd try I feel like I am not going to be able to finish. As for DT, you can do it!! 100%

http://i.imgur.com/p7q4AgN.jpg

BATMAN!

 

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

Good for now ;)

Back again after letting my finger heal up for about a week. I tried to beat my Saturday Night score from last week on Saturday morning before the deadline, but I couldn't do it. After maybe half an hour or so of playing, I noticed the soreness starting to creep back into my joint, so I just stopped right then and waited another few days.

 

Anyway, after a few tries on Batman, I decided to keep going until I stopped beating my high score, and wound up with this:

 

 

Made one mistake I think. Didn't wanna push it and risk the soreness or pain coming back. I'll get that 100% yet.

 

 

 

Didn't know Adam West had died. That sucks. I think I'll go watch Lookwell again.

 

Starting to get somewhere.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/The%20story%20in%20your%20eyes%209368_zps3ojaqmyd.jpg

Tiny improvement :)  

http://i.imgur.com/11FKnxf.png?1

 

Not so tiny improvement  :D 

http://i.imgur.com/HTyeWcH.png?1

My pointy and middle finger went numb at one point i think but its an improvement.

 

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x368/Silentmetonedef/87a4c959-adaf-4cf1-9e9e-dc5927acf384_zpsp6j39qln.jpg

In the 90%, but while playing it does not sound as good as the score :D

http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t384/papillon-pb/championship/championship2014/Bildschirmfoto%202017-06-21%20um%2023.27.13_zps1llvcb2p.png

well after trying to improve my Batman Lead score i noticed that i got 95% every time i played it........ not 94.9% or 95.1% but exactly 95% every time.

i was missing all of the Chords, so i tried many times on RR and still can't get any of them to register so rather than put the Guitar through the Mac screen i went on to the other songs.

 

Skyreach, Rhythm .... don't really like this

 

 

 

Dream Theatre Lead , slight improvement,

 

 

and of course the bass, slightly improved

 

 

i also tried to better my batman score on Bass, but missed a note (99.72%).... but still got 134,000 points...... i think my Batman file has gone KAPPPOW !!!!