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welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship

- Week 288 -

 

 

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Last weeks winners:
 
Lead:
Beginner: @Cymbrogi
Intermediate: @@ZeroPingNZ
Advanced: @@meelo
MasterClass: @Stark_Knight
God of Guitar: zZz
 
Rhythm:
Beginner: @@Bounours
Intermediate: @ZeroPingNZ
Advanced: @Rodman 
Masterclass: @@johnal

Bass:
Beginner: @@Flofloflo
Intermediate: @PinKushin
Advanced: @@pedropmf
Masterclass: @@Poutzy

Congrats to all the winners

 

 

 

This weeks songs are:

 
Lead Path:
Beginner: Green day - Macy's Day Parade  (3) chosen by @Toni-Wan Kenobi
Intermediate: Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio  (5) Played in week 212, chosen by @@diceslinger
Advanced: Metallica - King Nothing (7) chosen by @@ZeroPingNZ
Masterclass: Extreme - Get The Funk Out (10) Played in week 255, chosen by NunoJBSilva.Guitarist

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Green day - Macy's Day Parade (3)
Intermediate: Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio (5)
Advanced: Metallica - King Nothing (6)
Masterclass: Extreme - Get The Funk Out (8)


Bass Path:
Beginner: Green day - Macy's Day Parade  (3.5)
Intermediate: Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio (3)
Advanced: Metallica - King Nothing (6) 
Masterclass: Extreme - Get The Funk Out (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

Everyone can bring up new scores that will be added to the
exercises scoreboards
 
 
Honorable list Diehard Member:
(draft - to be updated after CCL update)

• 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

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!

Edited April 28, 20196 yr by Toni-Wan Kenobi

Lol, I just realized that some of the muting on electric can be done with the left hand and it made chords so much easier to play :) I guess I'll need lessons at some stage!

Yeah, basically your picking hand keeps doing 4 downstrums* per bar throughout the entire song and your fretting hand lifts up on every third strum of the bar and covers the strings so you only get a muted chug, before making the chord shape again. You can also keep the chord shape, while muting the strings with your fretting hand, but I recommend you test the difference with an amp. What easily happens when you just lift up the chord shape and try to mute the strings with that, is that you succesfully mute some of the strings, but some notes will ring out and and sound horrible (rocksmith will register them regardless of how they sound).

 

* at least they all sound like downstrums to me

 

The online guitar tutorial/lesson program I followed before buying rocksmith had these rhythmic exercises, where you'd play against a metronome, create a chord, strum down twice, then mute strings with fret hand and strum twice. Then repeat with a different chord. It helped getting familiar with chords, while forcing to maintain a sense of rhythm while thinking about what the next chord shape is.

 

 

Tried to play King Nothing again, got a bit better score

 

 

Yep, this is definitely a 5.

 

Although for most of the song this one is easy, the ending is not. There for, this is certainly a Intermediate level song. 

 

 

 

Bass day.

some more improvement

 

Still feel like I'm flailing on this one

 

 

tfw i accidentally played the wrong chart LMAO

I'll resubmit the lead of Guerrilla Radio and Rhythm later

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uZhOM4Hs8jkFfVBCFVJ021uHphSP-KGu/view?usp=sharing -Rhythm Guerrilla Radio- 95.29%
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BC1WZps1Z4wGVC6kuYjZZSsc4cWAxCeO/view?usp=sharing -Lead Guerrilla Radio-87%
 

I tried my best at Macy's Day Parade, but fuck I keep getting misses. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14xSiv_f4edy4ZoynjoFroONz6doUqf7n/view?usp=sharing -Guerrilla Radio Bass-98.2%

Grinding on this hard.  I can't believe the complete lack of a streak, but my best accuracy.  I thought maybe he does the slides at the end with a whammy pedal, but I found some videos, and he really does the slide.

 

Bass Path:

Intermediate: Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio (4) @96.05% I still hate Chords!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1729775921

Bass Path:

Intermediate: Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio (4) @96.25%

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1729820199

 

huge +

 

 

bass

 

 

A bit better.

http://u.meelo.org/.rocksmith/week288/lead/a02.png
 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1727615083 97% on RATM, I swapped to a normal 5 string set with the low B and I have not adjusted yet, good news for @@diceslinger, bad news for me.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1730254978 99% on Green day though.

 

This would almost be a socialist band week if it wasn't for Extreme and Metallica.

This is the best I can do... that slide is killing my ringer finger, already has a callus!

So close to failing :)

 

Strange, LAS attempts were better but I'm really tired and drunk now

+ rhy

 

 

if only those bends did register...

Not near my longest streak, got a strike, but still my best accuracy.  This song is a trip.

My third attempt

So little time...

So this week I learned I need to work on chord changes.  Even though this isn't that hard of a song that way, the strumming and changes had me fumbling a lot, especially that lone one that was way up at the 1-2-3-4 fret area from the 9-12 fret area and back (at the end of the song).

 

Beginner Lead 94.9%

 

 

I did play the Intermediate one too, which wasn't too terrible, but still low 80's after some off and on work.  Might try focusing on that next week, we'll see what songs get put up.

 

Hope everyone had a great week!