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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 421 =-

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Last week's winners

Lead:

•     Beginner: @ m_verd
•     Intermediate: @ Balage1976
•     Advanced: @ Mikson
•     Masterclass: @ Jakobgreve

Rhythm:

•     Beginner: @ LacrimaLuna
•     Intermediate: @ Banjoclan
•     Advanced: @ diceslinger
•     Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk

Bass:

•     Beginner: @ Cultofsolar
•     Beginner Bonus:  @ LacrimaLuna
•     Intermediate:   @ illum1naut
•     Intermediate bonus: @ KJParsley
•     Advanced: @ Mikson
•     Masterclass:  @ nlbsmglsk
•     God of Bass: @ nlbsmglsk

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:

Beginner: Scorpions - When The Smoke Is Going Down (3.5) (Requested by @ Mikson )

Intermediate:  Papa Roach - Falling Apart (5) (Pitch-shifted Drop D Version) (Also requested by @ Mikson , my bad)

Advanced: Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (6) (Requested by @ Toni-Wan Kenobi )

Advanced Bonus: Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (6) (Suggested by @ nlbsmglsk )

Masterclass:  Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (9) (Requested by @ Nacholede ) (Updated CDLC to a newer version, original link)

420 Bonus: Sleep - Dopesmoker (Special 63 minute long song addition for this week) (Suggested by @ nlbsmglsk )

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Rhythm Path:

Beginner:  Papa Roach - Falling Apart (3) (Pitch-shifted Drop D Version)

Intermediate:  Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (4)

Advanced:  Scorpions - When The Smoke Is Going Down (7.5)

Masterclass:  Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (9) (Updated CDLC to a newer version, original link)

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Bass Path:

Beginner:  Papa Roach - Falling Apart (4) (Pitch-shifted Drop D Version)

Beginner Bonus:  Scorpions - When The Smoke Is Going Down (2)

Intermediate:  Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (5)

Advanced:  Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (8)

Masterclass:  Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (9) (Updated CDLC to a newer version, original link)

420 Bonus: Sleep - Dopesmoker (Special 63 minute long song addition for this week)

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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.

Leaderboards not updated yet.

Tried to do a 420 theme week since it was something brought up but couldn't get the right mix of songs for the difficulties to make a whole list, threw a couple in there though. Thanks for the suggestions @ nlbsmglsk

@ GeoAbraxas

Thanks for making nice selection of this week!

You just forgot to add info who suggested the song, as we usually do. I see you have selected 2 of my suggestions - Scorpions and Papa Roach songs.

Regarding Papa Roach - Fallin Apart - I mentioned in the spreadsheet that there is a Drop D version - link to it here: https://ignition4.customsforge.com/cdlc/54437, because the original C# Drop B tuning may not be available for some participants.

As for When The Smoke Is Going Down, the bass path is very easy there as far as I remember, so I think it would be better if it was a bonus.

Have nice week everybody! 😀

Typical stoner, forgetting 420 songs until week 421 🤣

Rhythm:

It's an 8 max imo. Same for the lead part.

Lead:

I do not recommend playing this without the required smoke.

Good choices! A comment though:

I have always found the @ Nacholede  versions of Iron Maiden songs including Seventh Son of a Seventh Son to be superior to the other bass charts (I'm a bassist only so can't speak to the lead/rhythm parts). In this case, his version was created in July 2021 and the previous one was from 2014/15 so I think we should use the more recent and IMO better one.

Link

Bass:

I have a feeling that this goes out of sync in the second half.

First time playing chords on bass. Missed most of them.

I'm too tired to do dopesmoker again. Maybe tomorrow.

4 hours ago, nottadog said:

Typical stoner, forgetting 420 songs until week 421 🤣

This was a purposeful artistic decision. Pure genius. You just don't get it, man....

Trying to get an early start this week.

Nice song.

@ Mikson I did miss attributing the requests, that's been corrected. Got myself a bit out of sorts trying to update the song list and ended up needing a song to fit in to everything and completely forgot about checking who made the requests beforehand. I'll do a better job of checking that stuff out in the future. I also switched the beginner and bonus bass songs there, there wasn't really any decision making gone into that order, I just had Scorpions on the list first and Papa Roach came second so it just became my bonus by default.

@ jellisjenius That's my bad, I do generally look at the newer versions of the songs, but since the request was made in the spreadsheet by Nacholede I just assumed it was that version being referenced. That request might have been on there for awhile. I did update to that version in the original post but I did keep the original link for posterity's sake. I'm very sorry @ nlbsmglsk but I hope you wouldn't mind giving Seventh Son another try with the updated version. Also, if you really want to get used to bass power chords the Steve Harris way, pretty much every album Iron Maiden released in the 2000s features a crapton of them. Any song off the Brave New World album (IIRC Ghost of the Navigator and the title track are both good examples of this).

9 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

 

First time playing chords on bass. Missed most of them.

So you probably first time played Iron Maiden song on bass. Almost all of their songs I've played have bass chords 😉

Some of my scores (most of them are from old attempts or tests)

Lead:

 

Rhythm:

1 hour ago, Mikson said:

So you probably first time played Iron Maiden song on bass. Almost all of their songs I've played have bass chords 😉

I've played Maiden songs before, but it was mostly the older stuff

@ GeoAbraxas Not a problem, I have to replay the mc songs many times each week for a good score anyways.

what a nice start into that week (6)

 

 

 

2nd try way better

 

 

 

IM (8.5-9), lovely. solo a bit outa my leagur, a 9er but as always... love it

 

 

 

though i was absolutely expecting "Holy Smoke"...

nice song (3)

 

 

 

10-week leaderboards updated

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN-m8wF0lVkQ4cLWHBa009SkqDoPk0xN-C4-llcrXXs/edit#gid=1152105473

hah, total arpeggio hero

 

 

 

 

Yay BS (8)

 

 

 

better

 

 

 

 

So, this time I tried those low tunings for the first time (C-Standart and C#Dropped-B🤔). I realised that I have problems finding the right pressure to put on the strings...also I was too lazy to change the strings lenght for two songs. My lazyness produced wrong notes on the higher frets.

Example:

 

Nevertheless, for the sake of fun and XP, I tried to play Falling Apart and Dopesmoker.

63 minutes....not gonna play this one again😆...

dope week

what a beatiful voice

if i had time this is what i would try to 100%,  great and fun song

 

gotta try sabbath

there has never been a song that is over 7 minutes that wouldnt be better if it was 4 minutes long, whats the point??

 

great selection of songs, wish i could play more with u guys, have fun!

 

Opening runs at the epic Advanced and Masterclass offerings this week. 

First, intermediate...unfortunately this otherwise solid bass chart is somewhat ruined by going off sync the second half of the song. It's possible to play it correctly but it's off sync enough that it doesn't sound or feel right:

 

Sweet Leaf is relatively straightforward but Geezer makes up for it during the solo section:

 

And one of the all-time great prog epics from Maiden...tricky for me as I prefer to play chords with a pick but arpeggios/fast alternating strings with fingers. I stuck with a pick and it worked reasonably well:

I'm hoping to carve out time for Dopesmoker this week but we'll see. I'm fairly certain I can get my Sweet Leaf score up with practice.