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

welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 224 =-

 

 

 

 

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

Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

 

Last week's winners:

 

• Lead:

Beginner:       @

Intermediate:  @MrGrogro

Advanced :     @MellonFarmer

MasterClass:  @@Nick K.

 

• Rhythm:

Beginner:        @@vinterchaos

Intermediate:  @@Anwyn

Advanced:      @@Telboy

Masterclass:   N/A

 

• Bass: 

Beginner:          @@PinKushin

Intermediate:    @@Schma

Advanced:        @Toddo

Masterclass:     @stijnw2000

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

This week's songs are:

 

 

Lead Path:

Beginner:        System of a Down - Atwa (3) (Eb Std) chosen by @@RoR as played week 33

Intermediate:    Graveyard - Submarine Blues (5) (D Std)

Alt. Int:             Insomnium - Winter's Gate I (6) (D Std) chosen by @@Kosa

Advanced:       Thrice - Black Honey  (6)  chosen by @@Gamut

MasterClass:   Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase (8) chosen by @@Gamut

 

GoG Week 2:  Ne Obliviscaris - Forget Not (9) chosen by @@Kosa

 

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:        N/A

Intermediate:   Insomnium - Winter's Gate I   (4)  (D Std)

Advanced:      Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase (6)

MasterClass:  Metallica - Orion  (8) as played week 84

 

Bass Path:

Beginner:        Insomnium - Winter's Gate I  (3) (D Std)

Intermediate:  Thrice - Black Honey  (5)

Advanced:      Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase (6)

MasterClass:  Metallica - Orion  (9)

 

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)

• Anwyn
• Gamut
• klaw
• macjm
• MaZtoR
• MellonFarmer
• missis sumner
• Mortalo
• Nick K.
• Poutzy
• Rodman
• RSjeffH
• sakkidaisuke
• stijnw2000
• sushicat2112
• Telboy13
• wrentheseedling

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

• 2groggy
• NoonyDeloony
• fripponomic
• Tonedef

 

 

Now go forth, and rock!!

 

 

I don't think its as easy as you have made it sound, at least not for me. I do agree with that it should have a cleaner tone in some parts of the song, it sounds bad and my lack of ability makes it sound even worse.

 

Maybe you right, it's difficult to tell where people may have problems without seen them playing it. My guess though - is it intro/main riff? I can see it been hard with the way it's charted. It really should be charted in a 'chord-y' fashion considering both strings should ring. The whole thing should be just forming a single shape with 2 fingers and moving the thing around. Playing it in classic position with suggested shifting is just - no.

 

Edit: something like dude plays it here:

https://youtu.be/iz_4921tUmY?t=44s

Somehow, I got absolutely the same score even though the multiplier and accuracy are different. What are the chances? :)

 

@ZeroPingNZ    992,453 is not the same as 1,043,612.   :lol:    You might be looking at the high score.

Daaaaamn :P Masterclass is starting to get serious again :ph34r:

 

ALMOST FC'ed this one... one damn note...

My guitar is a piece of crap and note detection is steadily getting worse these past 2 months...

@ZeroPingNZ    992,453 is not the same as 1,043,612.   :lol:    You might be looking at the high score.

Lol, right :) 10 hour of work and a glass of wine can do that :D

Daaaaamn :P Masterclass is starting to get serious again :ph34r:

 

ALMOST FC'ed this one... one damn note...

My guitar is a piece of crap and note detection is steadily getting worse these past 2 months...

 

Must be something with the game or the CDLC. Because I'm having the same issue as well and nothing has changed for me. I'm struggling to get above 98% because the game randomly decides that I missed notes. But on other songs I won't have an issue

Lead Latest:

Not had too much time to play over last couple of days but I've been struggling with the chord slides, i think mostly down to the speed of the song and i may also be pressing to hard. Plenty to work on!  :)  

Has Lead, Intermediate, been replaced?

 

Winter's Gate is still on the scoreboard?

Has Lead, Intermediate, been replaced?

 

Winter's Gate is still on the scoreboard?

It is listed as Alt. Int Lead in top post so I don't see why it won't be on scoreboard.

lead, 1st try

 

http://up.picr.de/31767618bw.jpg
 

rhythm, lead ;)

 

http://up.picr.de/31767982oy.jpg

 

minimal +

 

http://up.picr.de/31768098sm.jpg

 

bass... argh, that middlepart took me by surprise

 

http://up.picr.de/31768143yg.jpg
 

true adv rhy ;)

 

http://up.picr.de/31768312zz.jpg

 

First 2 times i started this song i quit before i had finished it, because is went to damn bad,   after i played it all at 70% speed a few time i managed to play it in full speed and getting 84%.    Now i have spent a few hours playing it at varying speeds and a bunch of times at full speed in LaS. So finally manage to get a score that I'm happy with.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Hand%20cannot%20erase%209425_zps2fh7j6bs.jpg

 

 

Also made some improvement in my own class.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Black%20honey%209855_zpsdq3uyblo.jpg

 

Has Lead, Intermediate, been replaced?

 

Winter's Gate is still on the scoreboard?

It is listed as Alt. Int Lead in top post so I don't see why it won't be on scoreboard.

 

 

It's not on the scoreboard because I don't know how to add stuff without messing up the auto sorting.  I'll leave that to the big boys.

The solo could use some work, but that's a start.

 

 

 

Has Lead, Intermediate, been replaced?

 

Winter's Gate is still on the scoreboard?

It is listed as Alt. Int Lead in top post so I don't see why it won't be on scoreboard.

 

 

It's not on the scoreboard because I don't know how to add stuff without messing up the auto sorting.  I'll leave that to the big boys.

 

Me too. lol

Practiced this song for an hour... need more :)

Took me three days to beat my own best score...

Nice picks Gamut.  I'm happy to have the Steve Wilson, even though he's too advanced for me to really sightread.

 

I gave the Intermediate Lead a try this week as well, cause I really like Graveyard:

 

And finally there's the INT Rhythm which I hope to improve upon.

 

 

 

And here's the BEG lead.  

Scene: FreeBird Police Headquarters - two portly officers sit in a dull room eating stale donuts

 

Rookie FBP Officer: Things have been really calm and restful here recently.  All the rock 'n rollers are behaving like good little rock 'n rollers.  Aren't you glad that that wonky FreeBird 2Groggy hasn't been around much?

 

Old FBP Officer: DON'T SAY THAT NAME OUT LOUD!

 

Rookie: What?? 2Groggy ??? Don't be superstitious.  2Groggy, 2Groggy, 2Groggy!

 

Old Fat FBP Officer: NOOOOOOOOO!

 

 

 

Meanwhile, in the sub-terrainian FreeBird workshop, 2Groggy and his minion gNat have meticulously assembled the required parts to give their respective garden variety partscasters "Secret Agent Man" and "The Scream", insidiously excruciating neck extensions.  What are they building?