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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

 

 

-= Week 399 =-

Theme Week - Pandemic Vibes

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Last week's winners:

 

Lead:

•     Beginner:  @someotherbruce
•     Intermediate: @Anitomer
•     Advanced: @HollyMakrell
•     Masterclass: @Snakewizard

Rhythm:

•     Beginner: no participants
•     Intermediate: @Banjoclan
•     Advanced: @Mikson
•     Masterclass: n/a

Bass:

•     Beginner: @blucrsr
•     Intermediate: @KJParsley
•     Intermediate Bonus: @ShankD
•     Advanced: @Mikson
•     Masterclass: @Snakewizard

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

 

 

This week's songs are:

 

Lead Path:

Beginner:  Queens of the Stone Age - Kalopsia (3.5) 

Intermediate:  Vampire Weekend - This Life (4.5)

Intermediate Bonus:  Dreamshade - Stone Cold Digital (5) D Standard

Advanced:  Judas Priest - Jawbreaker (7)

Masterclass:  Avenged Sevenfold - Buried Alive (8.5)

God of Guitar:  Metallica - Master of Puppets Full Album (week 2 of 4)

 

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:  Vampire Weekend - This Life (3)

Intermediate:  Queens of the Stone Age - Kalopsia (4)

Advanced:  Dreamshade - Stone Cold Digital (6) D Standard

Masterclass:  n/a

God of Rhythm:  Metallica - Master of Puppets Full Album (week 2 of 4)

 

Bass Path:

Beginner:  Queens of the Stone Age - Kalopsia  (3.5)

Intermediate:  The Smashing Pumpkins - Suffer (6)

Intermediate bonus: Avenged Sevenfold - Buried Alive (6) Drop D

Advanced:  Vampire Weekend - This Life (7)

Masterclass:  Dreamshade - Stone Cold Digital (8) A standard 

God of Bass: Metallica - Master of Puppets Full Album (week 2 of 4)

 

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.

 

a few scores from yd

 

 

and rhythm adv

 

 

 

 

sightread bass adv, damn u 1st slide

 

 

 

4 stringer relaxing in A... ok

 

 

 

argh, so cool, (8) or the hardest 7 on earth 😉

 

 

 

90 is a beast here

 

 

 

Uff, what a cool song!!! I guess I'm intermediate now

Advanced Lead after change:

 

And improvement:

 

Bass from yesterday's playing:

 

This Life on my hollow archtop bass VI @ 98.5%.  I had to transpose the last few sections to the higher strings below the 12th fret because there is no cutaway and that's where the neck meets the body.

Here goes:

 

https://www.mediafire.com/view/1dopilvpzy8fqie/CF399_Bass_Beginner_1.jpg/file

 

https://www.mediafire.com/view/a2i08zc86d3i97d/CF399_Bass_Int_1.jpg/file

 

https://www.mediafire.com/view/699ddld5w7wsm2g/CF399_Bass_Int_Bonus_1.jpg/file

 

 

Not very impressed by this week's songs... not my cup of tea...

Classes results

 

The most  I am proud of my improvement on Master... 

I was starting @ 87%... my weak points are Interlude and solo in Master of Puppets and solo sections in Orion.

Also sliding riffs in Damage Inc. - RS is not recognising the way I play them and most of them is miss...  

 

 

I haven't played much this week. I made a little improvement advanced bass and that's it.

Too hard for me - 99% seems out of my reach.

I hadn't heard this one before. I like it!

I ironically played this while my son was in the room playing on his phone.

13 hours ago, kayteck said:

Not very impressed by this week's songs... not my cup of tea...

Would you elaborate please? I can understand if something isn't your cup of tea, although these songs cover a pretty diverse range with several different genres and decades. But saying you're "not very impressed" implies criticism of my selections and seeing as how I spent a good deal of time developing the theme and then choosing and testing the songs, that feels a bit insulting. 

3 minutes ago, jellisjenius said:

Would you elaborate please? I can understand if something isn't your cup of tea, although these songs cover a pretty diverse range with several different genres and decades. But saying you're "not very impressed" implies criticism of my selections and seeing as how I spent a good deal of time developing the theme and then choosing and testing the songs, that feels a bit insulting. 

i think i expressed myself wrong😉 basically what i wanted to saythat i am not impressed with my results and progress this week as the songs are not the style i usually play.

however trying to play them is expanding my skills, which i think this is all about, as i would never pick them myself from the list.

i am so sorry you felt like that reading the comment...

i appriciate all pile of hard work you and whole team is putting in creating the competition and would never dare to criticise anything...

 

1 hour ago, kayteck said:

i think i expressed myself wrong😉 basically what i wanted to saythat i am not impressed with my results and progress this week as the songs are not the style i usually play.

however trying to play them is expanding my skills, which i think this is all about, as i would never pick them myself from the list.

i am so sorry you felt like that reading the comment...

i appriciate all pile of hard work you and whole team is putting in creating the competition and would never dare to criticise anything...

Well then I'm glad I asked 🙂 

No worries mate, I'm certainly not opposed to criticism as long as I understand the reason for it. If I choose a song with a bad chart, bad tones, rate difficulty wrong, etc. I do want to know about it so I can do better. But thanks and I'm glad you feel like this week's songs are helping you to expand your skills.

 

 

 

Life had me way too busy the past two weeks.  Getting back into it.  

 

So I had the craziest Score Attack run...had my best start on This Life, was up to a 50+ multiplier with only like 1 missed note halfway through the song. Then suddenly the backing track completely dropped out but the bass tone and note track were still working. I continued to play and played through a whole section before the backing track suddenly came back and I was thrown back to the place where it had dropped out. I played the same section again and finished the song with what I thought was 99+% accuracy. Then I saw this:

Not really sure what to do with this...I guess it has to be thrown out but it was my best run on the song. I played again and got a decent accuracy but definitely less than that magical run: