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

welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 248 =-

 

 

 

 

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 :     @@Mortalo

MasterClass:  @@Stark_Knight

GOG :            @@Stark_Knight

• Rhythm:

Beginner:        @

Intermediate:   @@mackaybre

Advanced:       @@Rodman

Masterclass:    @@Fandaru

• Bass: 

Beginner:         @@starfail

Intermediate:    @@wrentheseedling

Advanced:        @@Telboy

Masterclass:     @@fjon

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

This week's songs are:

 

 
Lead Path:

 

Beginner:      Adele - Rolling in the deep (3)    chosen by @@firekorn

Intermediate:  Arctic - Monkeys - Still take you home (5)   chosen by @@Dardo

Advanced:      AC/DC - Highway To Hell (6)    chosen by @@Rodman

Masterclass:   Kreator - Gods of silence (9)  chosen by @@Anwyn

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:     Adele - Rolling in the deep (2)

Intermediate: Arctic - Monkeys - Still take you home (5)

Advanced:    AC/DC - Highway To Hell (5)

Masterclass: Kreator - Gods of silence (8)

 

Bass Path:

 

Beginner:     Adele - Rolling in the deep (3)

Intermediate:  Arctic - Monkeys - Still take you home (5)

Advanced:     AC/DC - Highway To Hell (5)

Masterclass:    Kreator - Gods of silence (7)

 

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

 

 

Rock On!

@@ZeroPingNZ  Don't kow if it helps, but the way i usually play parts that get faster like with 16th is that i still use the same 2 fingers with the same rythm but I do some kind of alternate picking where i play twice with each finger. 

Got my first runs today.

 

I must play AC/DC with the crappy guitar (rumours about buying a new one in September to play non-standard tunings). Some chords aren't always recognized. Wonder why this classic has not been included in official DLC yet. I really like the tone.

 

IMO MC rhythm should be a (9) (I'm thinking about last week's MC rhythm: that was a (9) and compared to Kreator was a lot easier). It's mostly strumming and power chords but there is a lot of fast moving up and down the fretboard and different patterns all the song.

Played it until hands became quite stiff and I couldn't improve anymore.

Some improvement on Lead...that A flat chord keeps getting me.

 

I feel like the rhythm part is picking up my chords better.

 

And you can't spell Dad without ADD, so a run on bass.

https://ibb.co/eUBdTd

Maybe this is the best i can do.

Spent a little time in RR on this one. I'm still way too sloppy on it. The note recognition is verrrry generous with the super fast strum.

 

starting the week with the Brilliant Arctic Monkeys, excellent choice

 

 

missed the screenshot for the better score,

 

 

 

can do better, slight tuning issues i think

 

 

just to join the 100% gang

 

i can't get the AC / DC song to work yet........

 

night night all

Way above my speed level. Last year I could at least play half of the solo, perhaps I can bring it back.

 

First tries on Beginner songs:

And tries on the intermediate level:

 

I'm having the same issues with the note detection in the Adele song. Feels like I should be hitting it but every 3rd note doesn't seem to register. Oh well, I'll give it a few more cracks later because it's pretty easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

edit: just realized my difficulty somehow reverted in 2 sections to less than 100%. Now I'll definitely have to replay it lol

 

Need to practice this one...

A quick disclaimer for people that have trouble with the palm muted power chord on Adele songs : switching pickup and adjusting your palm to have lighten up the palm muting can make huge difference.

 

I didn't had issue with my bridge humbucker to get the chord to be recognized 100% of the time so i can assure the track itself is not the cause of the issue itself.

 

One thing that can also make those harder is to make sure you actual play all 3 strings as keeping palm mute and large picking movement tends to be more complicated to do and RS can be a bit finicky about this.

@@firekorn and @@fkbackpack the muting parts of the adele song seemed to be OK for me.   I was able to get 99.71 for the rhythm and 98.34 for lead (I think I messed up on something other than the chords - I'll give this another run).  I do use a "softer" mute for the game with my wrist closer to the bridge and as fireforn says if the game shows 3 strings in the chord, you really need to go for all 3 strings (for some reason this seems to result in more misses if you hit just two strings).

 

(Update)

 

The part I seem to mess up (playing mistakes) are those 2 partial g form barre chord sections.  The muted parts seemed to work OK for me. 

Doing a little bit better getting consistent note detection, but I must still be fat fingering some of those chords on the verse. I don't know why it's showing <100% difficulty in 2 sections, when I played it was maxed out. Turning off dynamic difficulty in the future to avoid this.

 

 

 

Its been a busy week so far for me so i have had no time to play. But here are my scores from testing.

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Rolling%20in%20the%20deep%2098_zpseidrdi20.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Still%20take%20you%20home%2099_zpsqnajews3.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Highway%20to%20hell%2090_zpso7pnctmr.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Gods%20of%20violence%2088_zpssei44t67.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Rolling%20in%20the%20deep%20Rhythm%2098_zps7vl8jzru.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Still%20take%20you%20home%20Rhythm%2098_zpsdymu52d3.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Highway%20to%20hell%20Rhythm%2092_zps7fim4mbt.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Gods%20of%20violence%20Rhythm%2092_zpsiawdufet.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Rolling%20in%20the%20deep%20Bass%20100_zpsgdscbln2.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Still%20take%20you%20home%20Bass%20100_zpsya2cru4k.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Highway%20to%20hell%20Bass%2098_zpstupkv9xb.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Gods%20of%20violence%20Bass%2098_zpstfu20lge.jpg

Update - Interm. Lead

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1449588872

Update - Interm. Lead

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1449588872

int lead 98.2%

 

https://ibb.co/jtetW8

Wife working late so i got some time to play.

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Still%20take%20you%20home%20100_zpsab197gho.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Highway%20to%20hell%209801_zpskai82kfb.jpg

 

Went better than expected.  :)

When i Saw Adelle @ Wembley i thought half way through the show that i was watching the best female artist i have ever seen............ at the end i thought i have just seen the best female artist i am ever likely to see.

she was fantastic..... and she had a cold.

 

anyway some scores

 

 

 

 

 

and i got AC/DC working,

 

 

 

night night all

Here is my today's work.

Made some improvement. Not sure how much more I can squeeze out of this one. It's still just a smidge too fast for me

 

@@Telboy - yeah, you are right .... female artists just don´t have it  :p :p :p