-= Building a Guitar from Scratch with Absolutely No Woodworking Experience =-

 

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 418 =-

FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships?

=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Last week's winners

Lead:

•     Beginner: @ Daz40
•     Intermediate: @ TarpMada
•     Advanced: @ Mikson
•     Masterclass: @ Jakobgreve

Rhythm:

•     Beginner: @ Daz40
•     Intermediate: @ Balage1976
•     Advanced: @ Mikson
•     Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk

Bass:

•     Beginner: @ Cultofsolar
•     Intermediate: @ ShankD - 100% accuracy in a sang rated 6, so you can level up to advanced class, if you want to!
•     Advanced: @ diceslinger
•     Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

This week's songs are:

 

Lead Path:

Beginner: Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit (3) my choice (Eb Std)

Intermediate: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (5.5) my choice

Advanced: Powerglowe - Tetris (7) chosen by @ LacrimaLuna (Eb Std)

Masterclass: Megadeth - Rust in Peace (8) chosen by @ Rodman & @ nlbsmglsk

God of Guitar: Galneryus - Angel of Salvation (9.5) - week 1/2 - chosen by @ greven98 (Eb Std)  - Attention: 14 minuts long version!!!

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Rhythm Path:

Beginner:  Powerglowe - Tetris (3) (Eb Std)

Intermediate:  Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (5.5)

Advanced: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (5.5)

Masterclass:  Megadeth - Rust in Peace (8)

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Bass Path:

Beginner:  Powerglowe - Tetris (3) (Eb Std)

Beginner bonus: Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit (3) (Eb Std)

Intermediate: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu (5.5)

Advanced:  Megadeth - Rust in Peace (7)

Masterclass: Galneryus - Angel of Salvation (8) (Eb Std) - Attention: 7 minutes version (other link than to lead)

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You can submit your song suggestions for the championship here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzgY90kLwyGqzJ-R64v8lmpeQMMhhxwGwUlenepIgms/edit#gid=6

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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.

 

This week's selection was a bit hard for me, I had too little time and the CDLC I wanted to use turned out to be bugged so I had to change the concept. The Iron Maiden song is a slightly easier Advanced class, but the Intermediate players can handle it. It's more difficult in a few parts, but overall quite easy by this band standards.  And this is good song from new album!

Championship is becoming my saturday night ritual before bed 😂 dont rly particiapte other than that 

Sight reads:

I probably didnt listen to this band for over 10 years but i can recite the whole album word for word, this is my entire childhood lol

 

who listened to this song and said "yeah this should be 8:30 minutes long"?

 

so fun, will play this again 100%

Decided to skip lead cuz megadeth but this still kicked my ass

 

Great picks@ Mikson Thank you

Have a great week everybody!

Let's do this

Love rust in peace, this is pretty much the same as rhythm so getting the rhythm parts right is key

A bit surprised my request got picked i guess, but i like playing this song, gonna be fun challenging myself with this throughout the next two weeks

Finally, I can leave that Death solo behind me. I'd rather listen to baby shark on a loop for a week than play it again.
Anyway, this week looks a lot more fun. Here are my guitar sight reads:
Lead:

I have played this before, years ago. It's really fun.

I have also played this before, but it wasn't this CLDC. I even remember trying to play this long before rocksmith was released. I'll be aiming for 100% on both guitar parts.

Rhythm:

GOG:

Not my best playing, but my fingers still tired from last week and I'm celebrating not having to play that Death solo ever again with beer, so it's expected. I really like this one, the solos have melody and make sense, to me at least. I think it's gonna be fun leveling this up.

 

All things considered, the championship makes me play a lot more than I would have otherwise. I haven't worked on my playing this hard in years, the competition is really motivating. So, to everyone involved in this, I'd like to say thank you.

Bass sight reads:

I'm getting pretty comfortable with bass playing. Strictly fingers btw, no pick.

4 hours ago, Mikson said:

•     Intermediate: @ ShankD - 100% accuracy in a sang rated 6, so you can level up to advanced class, if you want to!

WooHoo! I've proven myself! lol Yeah it's time I languish in the Advanced class for a while and get these skills up. Let's get it started.

 

 

2 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

Bass sight reads:

 

I'm getting pretty comfortable with bass playing. Strictly fingers btw, no pick.

This is the way.

What a great week, @ Mikson !!!

Thx m8

7 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

Finally, I can leave that Death solo behind me. I'd rather listen to baby shark on a loop for a week than play it again.
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All things considered, the championship makes me play a lot more than I would have otherwise. I haven't worked on my playing this hard in years, the competition is really motivating. So, to everyone involved in this, I'd like to say thank you.

I just had to leave that first quote cause it carries so much nice emotions, love it 😄

 

But the reason for that 🏤 is 2. That applies heavily to most of us who constantly participate and was the absolute motor for me to keep pushing and to invent the 10week leaderboard and xp level to keep players motivated and show ones progress.

 

JOIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP, CAUSE THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS GOOD FOR YOU!

...so im breaking my habit of lead-phobia😆

Powerchords was the only thing I could do so far, and I still have some difficulties switching strings so fast, but I am working on it.

Breaking the habit is a nice pick to practice.

Playing this Tetris version is so entertaining...just want to hop out of my chair and dance to this💃

I think I can get better results with some more practice.

12 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

I'm getting pretty comfortable with bass playing. Strictly fingers btw, no pick.

I just cant get used to play Bass without a pick. I tried to use my thumb to slapp but it sounds awful😅

Haven't been playing a lot lately.  But i still love it.

 

11 minutes ago, LacrimaLuna said:

I just cant get used to play Bass without a pick. I tried to use my thumb to slapp but it sounds awful😅

Oh, I can't slap. Two fingers only, with anchoring on the pickup and resting on the lower string. The simpler the technique the easier it is to avoid learning it wrong I find. Then it's just a matter of building up speed.

This is gonna take a lot of work...

2 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

Oh, I can't slap. Two fingers only, with anchoring on the pickup and resting on the lower string. The simpler the technique the easier it is to avoid learning it wrong I find. Then it's just a matter of building up speed.

Nearly eight minutes of only using two fingers to play the Angel of Salvation bass part - that's impressive!

35 minutes ago, Hyphema said:

Nearly eight minutes of only using two fingers to play the Angel of Salvation bass part - that's impressive!

It's hard to keep up the speed in the fast parts, but luckily rs does not care if you stray from the tempo a bit. Certainly seems easier than playing slap, at least to me.

Straight 16th notes of pain.
It'd be much easier with a pick but that's cheating.


Noice.

@ LacrimaLuna

A good way to speed up transition time is to play slow, and just concentrate on quick transition's 

When people play slow they tend to move between chords and notes slow , that then also happens when you speed up and play fast . So always no matter what speed your playing.  Make those transition fast . As always a metronome. Will help 

I can 100% but i dont know if i have the patience to do it

well i had to give it a try lol, played it on learn a song and got 91% again 🙄

Time for scores:

Pretty repeatable chart, but great for practice, I think.

This is really fun, and also good for practice soloing.

GoG - my fingers got tired too quickly so it was hard to follow the notes. 80% is not a tragedy 😉

We're able to post other categories if we're not competing in them for funsies, right? e.g. I'm fairly sure I'm in Masterclass but i can't go past playing Megadeth on bass 🙂