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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

 

 

-= Week 384 =-

 

FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships?

=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

 

 

Last week's winners:

 

Lead:

•     Beginner: @kayteck
•     Intermediate: @theholydevil
•     Advanced: @diceslinger
•     Masterclass: @veggs95

Rhythm:

•     Beginner: @railshark
•     Intermediate: @kayteck
•     Advanced: @diceslinger
•     Masterclass: @Snakewizard

Bass:

•     Beginner: @blucrsr
•     Intermediate: @jellisjenius
•     Advanced: @theholydevil
•     Masterclass: @Snakewizard

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

 

 

This week's songs are:

 

Lead Path:

 

Beginner:  Manchester Orchestra - The Gold (3) chosen by @jellisjenius

Intermediate:  The Strokes - Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus (5.5) my choice

Advanced:  Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (7) chosen by @kayteck

Masterclass:  Death Devil - Maddy Candy (9) chosen by @coldrampage

 

God of Guitar:  Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn (10) chosen by @johnal week 1 of 2

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner: Manchester Orchestra - The Gold (3)

Intermediate: The Strokes - Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus (4)

Advanced: Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (6)

Masterclass: Death Devil - Maddy Candy (8)

 

Bass Path:

Beginner: Manchester Orchestra - The Gold (3)

Intermediate: The Strokes - Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus (4)

Advanced: Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (6)

Masterclass: Death Devil - Maddy Candy (7)

God of Bass:  Metallica - (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth (9.5) chosen by @Nacholede week 1 of 2

 

 

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.

 

One song in each class, it sounds simple. Enjoy!

And watch out: GoG song is really hard for me at least, it's like a more than 3 minute riff/solo.

GoB is also challenging, the chart and notes look like a guitar path. @Rodman did a good job with this.

Sawako best sensei. I can definitely hear Blackmore and Paul Gilbert throughout this:

First playthrough this week, first 70+:

 

 

Played it with a pick first, got a similar accuracy but better score

Ugh, not going to play it again, kinda annoying

 

 

 

First attempt, sight-read!

 

10-weeks leaderboard update

 

Rock on!

 

perfect 7, great song

 

 

 

6, yeah

 

 

 

I must say, that the beginners song are harder than usual. And I think the rhythm is wrong. It looks like it's 6/4 (with 8th-notes), but sounds like 4/4 (with a lot of triplets). That does not make it any easier! And I think the other strings should have been used quite a lot more!

The intermediate is also a bit difficult, but rather fun as well... not my typical type of musik. But I forgot to take screen shot, though I'm not completely happy about it yet anyway.

The advanced is nice, but who gave the bass chords?!? I like Iron Maiden (also the new stuff), so I'll practice this one as well. 🙂 But for starters:

bass. yes, 6

 

 

 

whaaa, that was weird, 7

 

 

 

really happy with that run, 10

 

 

 

lead beg, yes, 3

 

 

 

hard on the edge to 6, yes

Great week, @Mikson, excellent ratings

 

 

 

yes

 

 

 

that´s ok

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Orkkongen said:

I must say, that the beginners song are harder than usual. And I think the rhythm is wrong. It looks like it's 6/4 (with 8th-notes), but sounds like 4/4 (with a lot of triplets). That does not make it any easier! And I think the other strings should have been used quite a lot more!

 

The Gold is actually in 6/8 time and I think the tab was in 6/4 for some reason. So it's a bit distracting but also just a tricky rhythm in general. I thought it should be difficulty 4 because of that. As for string jumping, I believe the tab is accurate to how the Manchester Orchestra bassist plays it. You can see both the drummer count in (1-2-3-4-5-6) and snippets of the bass playing in this video. Anyway, it's an amazing song from an amazing album by an amazing band so I'm glad it's in the championship 🙂

 

Still not very good at the clean bit. It is supposed to be played with a capo tho so that's my excuse lol


One miss?


No score attack for this, I'll die.

@Rodman I can see you did a lot of work this afternoon 😀 I'm glad the song ratings are ok.

Cool song, haven't heard it before. Could be better on Rhythm 😉

"Amazing,"  really??:

 

 

I enjoyed all of these. Reincarnation of BB is not one of Maiden's (or Steve Harris') better tracks but it really picks up in the second half. Manchester Orchestra's A Black Mile to the Surface and The Strokes' The New Abnormal, from which these two tracks were taken, are two of the best albums to come out in the last decade IMO. 

 

 

I used to listen to The Strokes and played a lot of their songs early in my Rocksmith adventure years ago. But they haven't released anything new for a couple of years and I haven't noticed their new album. And it's a nice album and I've already played a few songs from it. Fun to play!

This one seems more difficult the first time on Lead, but the result can be easily improved. I rated it between 5 and 6.