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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-=Week 368=-

 

 

 

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     => Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

 
 

Last week's winners:

 

Lead:

• Beginner: @DarthStrom, levels up - congrats
• Intermediate: @Balage1976 is leveling up and takes the win!
• Advanced: @It Happens1
• Masterclass: @Jakobgreve

Rhythm:

• Beginner: @Balage1976
• Intermediate: No participants, unless @theholydevil levels up and takes the win
• Advanced: @Wi11
• Masterclass: @Snakewizard

Bass:

• Beginner: @DarthStrom, levels up - congrats
• Intermediate: @herrp
• Advanced: @Hyphema
• Masterclass: @Snakewizzard

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

 

 

 

This week's songs are:

@emu´s choice

As i had to do selection on short notice luckywise @emu jumped in, went through his library with me in a multiplayer session and helped creating a stunning week. THX!!!!

 

Lead Path:

Beginner: Sierra - Erana´s Peace (2) chosen by retro gamers unite
Intermediate: Gary Moore - The Prophet (5) chosen by insane bend instructor
Advanced: Powerwolf - Nighttime Rebel (7) chosen by creatures of the night
Masterclass: Blind Guardian - Mirror, Mirror (8) chosen by powermetal is the law
GOG: Extreme - Get the Funk Out (10) week 1/2

 

 

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:  Pink - Try (2) lead path!
Intermediate: Powerwolf - Nighttime Rebel (4)
Advanced: Blind Guardian - Mirror, Mirror (7)
Masterclass: Extreme - Get the Funk Out (9)

 

 

Bass Path:

Beginner: Powerwolf - Nighttime Rebel (3)
Beginner Bonus: Gary Moore - The Prophet (3)
Intermediate: Blind Guardian - Mirror, Mirror (5)
Advanced: Supergroove - you freak me (7)
Masterclass:  Extreme - Get the Funk Out (9)

 

 

 

Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

 

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Let us know your opinions on the accuracy of the difficulty scores (1-10) for this weeks songs.

😓😓 Gonna have to practice those taps 😓😓

5 hours ago, Anwyn said:

I can play the solo without errors... in RR at 60%.

 

Any tips for note recognition during the tapping? I'm hitting the notes but it seems like there is a lot more missed notes than there should be. Maybe I need to tap and pull off harder. Maybe active pick ups would work better. Or maybe I'm not playing it as well as I think I am, lol.

Hello! Long time viewer of this thread. First time submission! 

https://imgur.com/gallery/nltcfvW

Interesting song for this week. Here's what I came up with after a few playthroughs..

Congrats to our Ulplevelers:

@Balage1976@herrp@DarthStrom

 

8 hours ago, Wi11 said:

Any tips for note recognition during the tapping? I'm hitting the notes but it seems like there is a lot more missed notes than there should be. Maybe I need to tap and pull off harder. Maybe active pick ups would work better. Or maybe I'm not playing it as well as I think I am, lol.

 

I find that you need to pull off the tapped note distinctively, the rest can be played legato. I do not think active pickups would make a difference, I have passive ones too.

49 minutes ago, Anwyn said:

I find that you need to pull off the tapped note distinctively, the rest can be played legato. I do not think active pickups would make a difference, I have passive ones too.

As long as you have calibrated your rocksmith and your pickups aren't super low output to begin with, you should be able to get decent note recognition for tapping. The most important thing to notice is how cleanly yout tap the note and do the follow ups with pull offs and hammer ons. If your muting and/or fingering technique is poor, you will easily get accidentals from other strings and even sympathic harmonies from open strings, if you don't cover them while tapping. The accidentals and feedbacks are only more and more audible with active pickups.

The best thing you can do is play with a distorted amp (preferrably outside of rocksmith, due to its noise gate) to see how clean your single string tapping and legato techniques really are. if you are constantly in a situation where your signal distorts heavily, then it means you are doing a poor job muting the strings. If you don't have access to a dirty amp, then tone designer from rocksmith is your friend.

Used a few hours to tidy up the leaderboards....

XP Levels Updated

Take a closer look HERE if you like!

Rock, Rod.

2 hours ago, Snakewizard said:

https://imgbox.com/2FxMrJmD
https://imgbox.com/THtAeC5h

 

if you copy the "image location" instead of the raw URL, you can embed those images directly to the post, which makes it easier to see and register your scores. This can be achieved by right clicking the image and choosing "copy image location".

Our man Fripples aka @fripponomic will be live on stage soon inviting us all to join the livestream

  

On 11/8/2020 at 1:13 PM, fripponomic said:

Ladys and Gentlemen,

I like to invite you all to our Concert on Saturday 28th November 2020.

We're allowed to play this concert without real audience via Livestream, the first live gig we play after 9 months.

It should start at 6 pm UTC+1

Sparton live  at HDJ

 

Hi Everyone !

This week is hader than the two previous for me, lower tuning and note recognition is a bit lost sometimes...

But here are the results :

Beginner : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282183604

Bonus : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282184369

Intermediate : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282184717

Advanced (my rank, i'll improve if i have time for) : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2282185266

Masterclass : total fail, 3 strikes before the middle of the song, its too fast for my snails fingers T_T

 

Good luck to everyone 😄

First tries.

2 hours ago, MaZtoR said:

First tries.

  

Hmm, so there is something wonky about the Prophet. I had the same kind of mismatched mastery and accuracy glitch on my LAS attempt as well. Unexplainable few percent difference.

9 hours ago, meelo said:

As long as you have calibrated your rocksmith and your pickups aren't super low output to begin with, you should be able to get decent note recognition for tapping.

 

Besides playing technique and good muting of ringing open strings, I noticed that the note recognition improved when I started to use RS-ASIO. Low latency helps.

10 hours ago, Anwyn said:

I find that you need to pull off the tapped note distinctively, the rest can be played legato. I do not think active pickups would make a difference, I have passive ones too.

Thanks Anwyn. I'll give that a try.

 

9 hours ago, meelo said:

As long as you have calibrated your rocksmith and your pickups aren't super low output to begin with, you should be able to get decent note recognition for tapping. The most important thing to notice is how cleanly yout tap the note and do the follow ups with pull offs and hammer ons. If your muting and/or fingering technique is poor, you will easily get accidentals from other strings and even sympathic harmonies from open strings, if you don't cover them while tapping. The accidentals and feedbacks are only more and more audible with active pickups.

The best thing you can do is play with a distorted amp (preferrably outside of rocksmith, due to its noise gate) to see how clean your single string tapping and legato techniques really are. if you are constantly in a situation where your signal distorts heavily, then it means you are doing a poor job muting the strings. If you don't have access to a dirty amp, then tone designer from rocksmith is your friend.

I'll try recalibrating and see how it goes. I feel like my tapping is decent enough to where there shouldn't be 20+ misses, even at slower speeds, but that is a good point and another thing for me to check out. Thanks meelo.

8 hours ago, meelo said:

Hmm, so there is something wonky about the Prophet. I had the same kind of mismatched mastery and accuracy glitch on my LAS attempt as well. Unexplainable few percent difference.

I'm getting this too, what's up with it?

Let's start!

 

This Garry Moore song is not particularly difficult. Unfortunately, I have a guitar with 22 frets, with regular strings now, so part with bends on high frets I play with low accuracy 😞

 

The verses are not too hard, but the solo parts come up to the masterclass level. I think it could be 8. However, this song sounds pretty good.

 

And this could be 9, but ok.

 

 

 

Never heard the song before but so fun and easy to play

 

Uhm, tapping...

 

My best attempt so far. I really struggle with bends above the 15th fret

Pretty fun song

 

thats a cool beast

 

Damn I'm not even on the score board, ROOKIE lol

 

Its Like starting all over!!! Those are Hard ass working hands Damnit!!

https://imgbox.com/Zuzth7YR