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

welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

-= Week 283 =-

READ THIS FIRST =>> How and Why to Join the Championships
Read this second =>> Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules

Last week's winners:

• Lead:

Beginner: @Sebb
Intermediate: @diceslinger
Advanced : @@meelo
MasterClass: @shaggy_malagy
God of Guitar: leader shaggy_malagy

• Rhythm:

Beginner: @Sebb
Intermediate:

@diceslinger

Advanced: @@meelo
MasterClass: @shaggy_malagy

• Bass:

Beginner: @@RdGkA
Intermediate: @diceslinger
Advanced: @@meelo
MasterClass: @@Poutzy

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

put together on short notice with the extremely comfort of getting a complete selection from our man @@Toni-Wan Kenobi - please put your hands together!!!

Help us to correct the diffratings if needed - be verbose!

Lead Path:

Beginner: Kotiteollisuus - Kruuna Klava (3.5) (@Rodman)
Intermediate: Foo Fighters - Resolve (5.5) (@@Toni-Wan Kenobi)
Advanced:Toto - Devil's Tower (7)(@MaZtoR)
Masterclass:Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley (9)(@johnal)
GoG: Guthrie Govan - Wonderful Slippery Thing @Stark_Knight week 2/2

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:Kotiteollisuus - Kruuna Klava (3)
Intermediate: Foo Fighters - Resolve (5.5)
Advanced: Toto - Devil's Tower (7)
Masterclass: Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley (9)

Bass Path:
Beginner: Foo Fighters - Resolve (3.5)
Bonus Bass: Kotiteollisuus - Kruuna Klava (2)
Intermediate: Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley (5.5)
Advanced: Toto - Devil's Tower (7)
Masterclass:Red Hot Chili Peppers - 21st Century (8) (@@Toni-Wan Kenobi
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
• Toni-Wan Kenobi

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

• 2groggy

Oh nice, more time to play Wonderful Slippery Thing. Mr. Crowley is a good song with nice guitar sections, will try to ape Randy a few times at least. And I guess I need to play that Finnish nonsense as well...

 

Nice picks

My first runs.

I want to like the Foo Fighters, but they just don't speak to me.  Maybe this week I'll grow an appreciation.  Lead is pretty fun.

 

 

Trying to stretch myself to the next class.  Toto isn't having it.  I have to say, I expected this to be a geographically inaccurate song about Devils Tower in Wyoming in the same vein as Africa.  Not sure what it is about still, but it seems like they wrote it after watching Close Encounters.

 

 

I seem to have stumbled into masterclass.  Mr. Crowley says "Get Out!"

 

And I guess I need to play that Finnish nonsense as well...

Anteeksi :lol:

So, the last 2 weeks I tried to "up my game" and go after intermediate songs.  However, they were 2 extremely frustrating weeks for which I posted no scores as I was not able to get above 85% on either song.  I am therefore stepping back down to beginner as I'm doing this for fun and not taking lessons or making specific efforts to get better, other than when I come across a song I want to learn.  Here's my effort on this week's beginner song after working on it Sunday:

 

Beginner Lead - 91.4%

 

Go Finland  :P

 

 

Need to change strings and intonate my guitar, those high doublestop slides are not happening

beginner lead: (really suck at the end slides :o)

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/995766207894531370/A68B3B9F478E707E22D4A469E2953A430B2034F6/

beginner int:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/995766207894531151/677BF09E144F296AC7EDD0091934E8F7787419BD/

int. lead:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/995766207894531594/88BE70AC29DC11133DFB00382DF85BB3352581D7/

int. rhytmn:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/995766207894531790/13A3A2AAF6D9C93EB337908CAF2F9C7C3A37939B/

1st run

 

it is 7, yup

7, too

 

cool song

 

 

Really struggling with this, realistic target set at 90%

 

7, too

 

 

A tiny bit better on my second runs, but not feeling like I'm rocking it for sure.

 

 

 

Streak building problems here. Always mess up either one of the two string barres before C->F part, or the F at the C -> F part.

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week283/lead/a04.png
http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week283/rhythm/a03.png
 

Little bit of an improvement on Beginner Lead - now to 94.1% (took some time to really tune even though RS said I was in tune - made a difference from what I could see on note detection)

 

 

 

Then took a run at the Rhythm path for Beginner - 97.4%

 

 

 

8, yes

 

 

Mr. Crowley on bass is more approachable for me.

 

Wow...that run is even harder on bass for some reason.

 

Played Resolve with my daughter and improved my lead to 93%.  She rocked it fully leveled and now she wants to be in the championships too.

 

She wanted to play it again so I worked on rhythm some more for a 90%.

+ speed is on the edge for me, needs practice

 

 

@@meelo - insane scores already!

There's something extremely satisfying about playing Mr. Crowley's guitar parts. Also I repaired Guthrie dlc so i lost the comical play count stat

 

 

 

 

@@meelo - insane scores already!

Thank you. I was aiming for insane ;)

A little more work on Resolve.  

 

Those slides at the end....ug.

 

Maybe I'll break 90% on this one before the week is out.  No strikes tho.  Can't say that about lead, I can't even fake the solo.

a lot better

 

 

Small improvements. I'm accuratelly getting to the ~96 marker (+/- 1 notes), but streak building is a mess.

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week283/lead/a05.png

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week283/lead/a06.png
 

An evening with bass.

 

 

 

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1695231354 99% though it's kinda a fake score, my fingers cannot move fast enough to pick every note in the last 3rd of the song but RS registers them anyway. Still fun but I might have to use a pick to legit, move that fast.