welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 269 =-

 

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Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

 

Last week's winners:

• Lead:

Beginner: @@diceslinger
Intermediate: @@blejusca
Advanced : @meelo
MasterClass: @Stark_Knight

• Rhythm:

Beginner: @

Intermediate: @@RSjeffH
Advanced: @meelo
Masterclass: @@MaZtoR

• Bass:

Beginner: @@alexgagi
Intermediate: @@diceslinger

Advanced: @@meelo
Masterclass: @Poutzy

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

 

The songs for this week are:

Lead Path:

Beginner:  Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (3) (chosen by @@Toni-Wan Kenobi)

Intermediate: Leprous - The Cloak (4) (chosen by @Gamut)

Advanced: Amorphis - Brother and Sister (7) (D Standard) (chosen by @@Anwyn )

Masterclass: HeXeN - Desolate Horizons (9) (Eb Standard) (chosen by @Desolation)

 

GoG : The gods rest... for now...

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner: Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (2)
Intermediate: Leprous - The Cloak (4) 
Advanced: Amorphis - Brother and Sister (6) (D Standard) 

Masterclass: HeXeN - Desolate Horizons (8) (Eb Standard)

 

Bass Path:

 

Beginner:  Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (2)
Intermediate: Leprous - The Cloak (4) 
Advanced: Amorphis - Brother and Sister (6) (D Standard) 

Masterclass: HeXeN - Desolate Horizons (9) (Eb Standard) 

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:

• Angelina27
• Anwyn
• Birdassasin
• blejusca
• Bounours
• Cymbrogi
• diceslinger
• Fandaru
• fjon
• fkbackpack
• fmsjames
• Hughmonty
• mackaybre
• MaZtoR
• meelo
• PinKushin
• Rodman
• RSjeff
• Sebb
• Stark_Knight
• Telboy
• vjohnal
• wrentheseedling
• ZeroPingNZ
• Mellonfarmer

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

• 2groggy

Rock On!

managed a quick half hour tonight...

 

 

 

night night all

A small update, but it's not enough! I keep messing up the intro riff. That one minute wait before the song start is killing me. Just went an hour without actually playing the song past the intro, because of misses, then went to riff repeater and completed the first two phrases 5 times in a row without any misses. I shall gitgud tomorrow!

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week269/lead/a04.png

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1590185399

 

Guess I'm playing the beginner song this week, it's the only one that's not dropped tuned.

Here's another 100% on the masterclass bass. Fell short score-wise, but Im proud of myself http://i64.tinypic.com/20say48.png

Aww yea, did better on try 2.http://i65.tinypic.com/6jpkrp.png

My bass is strung with some really light strings that don't work well down-tuned.  So this week I'll stick to the only Standard tuning track

 

Do I Wanna Know on bass = 100%

Digging this weeks mc song. Gonna try participating a bit more this week before I go on a 2 week hiatus for a vacation.

 

I personally think beginner rhythm is harder than beginner lead. Difficulty 2 for lead and 3 for rhythm. Just need to swapped the raitings around  :) Purely for the slides in Rhythm. Also a quick question for anyone able to answer …. How do you play open string harmonics? Is it the same as pinch harmonics, but on the pickups not the frets? 

 

https://imgur.com/a/rZkVAew

 

Photobucket is a piece of shit!!

Are you talking about natural harmonics? Those you play by lightly touching a string at the designated fret. Dont press down though, let physics do the work. You should hear a higher pitched, clear note. A few tries should help you figure out how hard to touch the string. Most common ones are at the 5,7, and 12 (and 17,19, and 24) frets cause the rest don't fall precisely on a fret.

 

I personally think beginner rhythm is harder than beginner lead. Difficulty 2 for lead and 3 for rhythm. Just need to swapped the raitings around  :) Purely for the slides in Rhythm. Also a quick question for anyone able to answer …. How do you play open string harmonics? Is it the same as pinch harmonics, but on the pickups not the frets? 

 

https://imgur.com/a/rZkVAew

 

Photobucket is a piece of shit!!

Are you talking about natural harmonics? Those you play by lightly touching a string at the designated fret. Dont press down though, let physics do the work. You should hear a higher pitched, clear note. A few tries should help you figure out how hard to touch the string. Most common ones are at the 5,7, and 12 (and 17,19, and 24) frets cause the rest don't fall precisely on a fret.

 

I think he means an actual open string harmonic. Some rocksmith tabs have a harmonic notation on top of an open string. Which is just incorrect tabbing as far as I can tell.

You can do an open string pinch harmonic. Pinch harmonics operate on the same concept as natural harmonics, its just you are using your picking hand to create the node. Kinda odd that it would be used over a natural harmonic though, and it probably -is - incorrect tabbing.

@@meelo @@The M

 

Doesn't matter anyway. That open harmonic was on the inaccurate rhythm section for the acrtic song. 

 

Cheers though

Speaking of pinch harmonics. I'm actually hitting every single pinch harmonic correctly (afaik) in this Amorphis song. That's exciting! \o/

Bass day

 

having a hard time playing this one.

 

https://youtu.be/i7E_gqEKhL4

 

At least 3 places to punch me in the video. Find 'em all!

Another stolen 30 minute session resulted in this great streak just one from @@Anwyn

 

 

so why not have another go.....

 

 

 

night night all

 

 

hey @@Vodka good to see ya mate

A little bit better...

I think that the sync is out when playing that alternating E and D strings in the third fret, or maybe it's just my sync but on;y at that spot. Song is a let down after Last week.

 

 

I shall get that missing note tomorrow!

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week269/lead/a07.png
 

I realised today why I kept messing up that intro so many times. For some reason I kept adding an extra power chord to the transition where it goes from F5 to D5 to F5 to B#5 to G5. I even went from 90 to 100 % speed with 1 % increments playing the wrong F5 D5 E5 F5 B#5 G5. Clearly that extra E5 made me be late from the F5 and B#5.

 

And this one is begging for another go. Just random misses at this point.

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week269/rhythm/a03.png
 

a run or two bass

 

The long intro is frustrating on this one.

I've missed battling alongside Vjohn.

 

Sorry for less than ideal difficulties across several classes this week, folks. Little out of practice at rolling these. Will put extra effort into the next batch.