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welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 251 =-

 

http://www.paulterry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/encore.jpg

 

Well.... week 250 anniversary selection brought us outstanding songs.

Everybody really should try more tan one and one week also seems a little short here.

So, after 250 weeks for the first time we will try to give the selected songs another week.

This is a single event and we orgas, including me are very unsure if this is a good idea. :wacko:

But we shall see... So - winners have been awarded but your scores stay in place - so make sure this doesn´t happen again or if you are the leader - fight for your crown!

 

If there is anyone really getting bored - excellent time to check out the championship exercises (see links below) or go back and work on improvement on one of the hundreds wonderful already played songs.

 

We hope you enjoy!

 

 

 

 

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

Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

 

Last week's winners:

 

• Lead:

Beginner:       @@MentalSharps

Intermediate:  @Hughmonty

Advanced :     @@Molice

MasterClass:  @

 

leader in GoG: @@Stark_Knight

• Rhythm:

Beginner:        @@MentalSharps and @@diceslinger

Intermediate:   @Hughmonty

Advanced:       @@Telboy

Masterclass:    @

• Bass: 

Beginner:         @@Saturnation and @@diceslinger

Intermediate:    @wrentheseedling

Advanced:        @@lduperval

Masterclass:     @@Poutzy

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

This week's songs are:

 

 

Lead Path:

 

Beginner:      Motorhead - Louie Louie (3)   

Motorhead? Beginner? With Fast Eddie's solo? Yes it is a reality :)

 

Intermediate:  The Beatles - Help! (4)

One of the biggest classics of one of the biggest bands of all time.

 

Advanced:      Scorpions - Wind of Change (6)   (@PC Plum's version)

Big song that happened when communism was leaving Europe to give us some freedom.

 

Masterclass:   Santana - Europa (8)

How long it took us to finally play some Carlos Santana? Way too long. Prepare your bending skills, 'cause you will need them.

 

God of Guitar: Racer X - Scarified (Eb Standard) (10) - we are going to play both Lead and Rhythm as a GoG - winner will be selected by the best sum of both arrangements!

Don't be scared, try it at least :lol: What an amazing and short instrumental. I wish you all 100% here one day.

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:     Motorhead - Louie Louie (2)

Beginner 2:     The Beatles - Help! (3)

Intermediate: Scorpions - Wind of Change (4)

Advanced:    Simon & Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter (6) as played on week 84

I know only two S&G songs and that's one of them. And it's so good.

 

Masterclass: Pantera - Cemetery Gates (8) (official song) as played on week 148

Pantera - one of the greatests metal bands of all time. Sadly, on June 22nd, Vinnie Paul, Pantera's drummer and brother to late Dimebag Darrell died. Week 250 is a great way to pay a tribute to him.

 

Bass Path:

 

Beginner:     Motorhead - Louie Louie (2)

Beginner 2:     Scorpions - Wind of Change (2)

Intermediate:  The Beatles - Help! (4)

Advanced:     Santana - Europa (6)

Masterclass:    Racer X - Scarified (Eb Standard) (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)
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:

• @Birdassasin
• @Bounours
• @diceslinger
• @Fandaru
• @fjon
• @fkbackpack
• @genobadass
• @mackaybre
• MaZtoR
• MellonFarmer
• Rodman
• RSjeffH
• @Sebb
• @Stark_Knight
• Telboy
• wrentheseedling
• @ZeroPingNZ

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

• 2groggy

 

 

Rock On!!

Simple chords and arpeggios, and look at this mess.

Next month I am going to look for a teacher, and no doubt I'll have nightmares.

Once again doing a bit of a participation. Good news though is that everything seems to be back to normal so next week or the one after I'll be back to full participation. Steam also still doesn't work right for me but luckily I can take pictures with geforce experience.

 

 

Note detection doesn't work well for me so I'm just gonna take the participation award

 

 

Not part of the official challenges this week but its always fun to play pantera 

 

 

Well, after going through riff repeater and roughly 90 minutes each night this week other than Wednesday night, I can do no better than my previously posted Rhythm score and can't replicate my lead score from last week.  I don't know what it is, I seem to miss about every 5th chord, even though I think I'm playing it right.  Oh well, something to keep working on I guess.  I'm done for this week I think.

I liked the encore week as it gave me an opportunity to keep working on Europa. I can't quite get the 18th fret double stop bends to register with any sort of consistency. But, it is a fun song to play.

 

-= weekly leaderboard update =-

 

leader changes:

@ - Mc Lead

 

 

 

Great Playing Everyone!!!!

 

Give Your Heart and Your Soul for That Damn Rock´n´Roll !!!!

Hi!

Long time no see. Is it too late to submit for this week? I'd like to return to the Championship  :D 

Edit: got the bass in too. Very easy this week

Some bass for this encore:

And almost the same % in master mode:

 

I tried again the rhythm guitar for Louie Louie, but despite the fact I know the structure of the song (master mode bass), I cannot get more than 95% with the guitar. I don't get the strumming pattern and if I try to strum more than necessary, it doesn't get all the notes and I have stamina issue :(

Had a play at Winds of Change. It reaaally sucks missing a note close to the end since it's so long but I managed to 100% it. 

Also tried my hand at the intermediate bass and was pleasantly surprised!

Well i tried and tried with the scorpions song but got more and more frustrated (angry) i just can't do it  :(

 

so i went on to the ADV Rhythm to get a better score.....just

 

 

 

then onto ADV Bass because i just knew i could better that,

 

 

 

and the Beatles just deserved some more work......

 

 

 

 

as did Motorhead

 

 

 

Flushed with success i went back to Scorpions......... and i still can't get over 83 Bloody percent !!!!!

 

i give up.

 

can we have a nice easy (easier) ADV Lead this week please ? 

 

Tiny improvement

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/Europa%208868_zpsvs1wujp4.jpg

No improvement for bass track (same picture as week250)

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week250bass_adv03.png

 

 

@@Telboy - jup, really hard to improve on wind of change.. no + all the week here

This week's closed! Next week will be posted soon...