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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 411 =-

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Last week's winners:

Lead:

•     Beginner: @ Daz40
•     Intermediate: @ TarpMada
•     Advanced: @ Mikson
•     Advanced bonus: @ Mikson (After a very fierce competition!)
•     Masterclass: @ Ls1997

Rhythm:

•     Beginner: @ Daz40
•     Intermediate: @ kayteck
•     Intermediate bonus: @ kayteck
•     Advanced: @ Anitomer
•     Masterclass: @ coldrampage

Bass:

•     Beginner: @ LacrimaLuna
•     Beginner bonus: @ LacrimaLuna
•     Intermediate: @ ShankD
•     Advanced: @ Mikson
•     Masterclass: @ coldrampage

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:

Beginner:   Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (3) my choice

Intermediate:  Coheed and Cambria - Red Blood Summer (5) chosen by @ Toni-Wan Kenobi

Advanced:  Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy (7.5) my choice

Masterclass:  Metallica - Fade To Black (9) chosen by @ Anitomer

GOG:  Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut Full Album (10) week 3/4

Rhythm Path:

Beginner:  Coheed and Cambria - Red Blood Summer (3)

Intermediate:  Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy (5)

Advanced:  Metallica - Fade To Black (7.5)

Masterclass:  Metallica - Fade To Black (7.5)

GOR:  Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut Full Album (8 ?) week 3/4

Bass Path:

Beginner:  Coheed and Cambria - Red Blood Summer (3)

Intermediate:  Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (6)

Advanced:  Metallica - Fade To Black (6.5)

Masterclass:  Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy (7.5)

GOB:  Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut Full Album (7 ?) week 3/4

 

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.

 

 

Got the solo that time, I think, but botched some of the muffled single notes.  Pretty happy with this run, not sure if I will try again.

Need to work on the fingering for some of the arpeggios handshapes pls.


Lead for fun.


Nice song. Got a good rhythm on the bass track, quite enjoyable.

First tries this week:

Totally botched the little run of chords, going to try this with a pick:

This is one of those songs that just clicks for me right away, some fantastic grooves:

I totally lost track of time last week and never posted any of my scores🙃. 

Here is my entry for beginner. 

Got it now. mr blue sky bass

All green and purple but no cigar I've got to 100% this. Even though dont want to over play it as it is one of my most favourite songs.

And master 

Oh forgot to give this a difficulty rating. 7 

Oh and shame that  one part is wrong in the chart . I guess you all know this though .

Scores time:

Like EOL, nice easy solo in this song.

Not a fan of this vocal, but the song has a nice chart and it's fun to play.

Astronomy is my favourite song from Blue Oyster Cult. Interestingly, I heard it for the first time as a Metallica cover (and I didn't know this was a cover 😄). A great song!

And this is probably my favorite Metallica song. I like every part of this composition, and a strong lyrics. A masterpiece composition!

Rhythm:

I'm pretty bad at these acoustic parts...

Had this in my imgur library 

Bass beginner 

I really should upload scores as I do them .  God knows how you guys keep on top of the scores. Lol

Is there anyway you can get notifications when someone posts a ne score ?? . 

Beginner Rhythm - not a fan of the vocals on this but a fun one to play.

 

Lead - this is a good beginner song, still figuring out how to play solos effectively in general but doesn't look to hard so may be able improve

 

Way above my level but had to play this one as one of my favourite songs.  Been trying to learn it for a while; Intro - Fine, Chorus - Fine, Bridge - Fine, Outro - Fine, Acoustic verses - No chance (had to turn the DD off as it kept dropping me down😅).  Will have to commit to learning this properly now, any tips on how to play these sections?

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5 hours ago, Daz40 said:

Is there anyway you can get notifications when someone posts a new score ?? . 

You can follow the topic, then you get a notification for each new post in the thread based on your notification settings.

There's another follow button when you scroll all the way up, but this ones more convenient if you're posting stuff anyway.

1 hour ago, Mattscall said:

Way above my level but had to play this one as one of my favourite songs.  Been trying to learn it for a while; Intro - Fine, Chorus - Fine, Bridge - Fine, Outro - Fine, Acoustic verses - No chance (had to turn the DD off as it kept dropping me down😅).  Will have to commit to learning this properly now, any tips on how to play these sections?

Watch Carl's lesson (Guitar365) on Youtube, the rocksmith chart was too confusing for me so I watched it just to get the hang of the chart and now i just RR it.

 

I really enjoy playing this one, pretty sure i can learn the solo if i spend enough time on it.. Too bad this song is in the same week as Fade to Black 😅

 

I´m on my minimal holiday setup that week which means Squier strat mini (pink) and laptop, maybe not really competitive, still so much fun

 

 

 

I enjoyed playing this weeks song selection for beginner. They were so much fun to play 🙂

 

 

Just wanted to test those murky intermediate waters:

*BRRRRR*...nope...still to cold 😅

I'm also throwing my hat in the ring for the GOB! I don't think each song individually would be that hard, I would say they are on the harder side of intermediate (or maybe on the easy-side of Advanced) but playing the whole album all at once straight through makes is super challenging!! 

 

Here is my entry for Intermediate as well. Mr. Blue Sky is a favorite!!! 

I totally lost track of time last week and never posted any of my scores🙃. 

Here is my entry for beginner. 

Some Lead improvements:

And Bass start:

Improvements

With enough practice I can definitely perfect this

On 9/6/2021 at 11:38 AM, Daz40 said:

Right slowed down mr blue sky to 30 % still cant get it.  So going down the tab route. Gonna be a whole week on this one song . Walking bass part does me everytime 

Dude I spent probably 40-50 minutes JUST practicing the walking part. Super fun, but was real dang hard to get.

Fade to black advanced 6.5