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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 422 =-

Theme week: Rainy songs - part II

FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships?

=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Last week's winners: (update soon)

Lead:

•     Beginner: @ Daz40 - over 99% accuracy in the song rated 3.5, so you can level up to Intermediate class if you want!
•     Intermediate: @ Banjoclan
•     Advanced: @ Rodman
•     Advanced bonus: @ Mikson
•     Masterclass: @ Jakobgreve
•     Special 420 song: @ Jakobgreve

Rhythm:

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

Bass:

•     Beginner: @ Cultofsolar
•     Beginner bonus: @ LacrimaLuna
•     Intermediate: @ GeoAbraxas
•     Advanced: @ Rodman
•     Masterclass: @ nlbsmglsk
•     Special 420 song: @ jellisjenius

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:

Beginner:  The Jesus & Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (2.5)

Intermediate:  Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Raindance Maggie (5)

Advanced:  In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain (6.5) (C Standard) - E Standard version

Masterclass:  Avenged Sevenfold - Acid Rain (8) chosen by @ jellisjenius

God of Guitar: Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain (10?) week 1/2 (B-Standard!)

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Rhythm Path:

Beginner:  The Jesus & Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (2.5)

Intermediate:  Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Raindance Maggie (5)

Advanced:  In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain (6) (C Standard) - E Standard version

Masterclass:  Avenged Sevenfold - Acid Rain (7)

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Bass Path:

Beginner:  Avenged Sevenfold - Acid Rain (4)

Beginner bonus:  The Jesus & Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (2.5)

Intermediate:  In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain (5) (C Standard) - E Standard version

Advanced: Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Raindance Maggie (7)

Masterclass:  Haken - Eternal Rain (8.5)

God of Bass:  Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain (9.5) week 1/2 - Bass is E Standard

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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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Classless, Fearless FreeBird Members in their endless battle with the fb police:

• 2groggy 

Let us know your opinions on the accuracy of the difficulty scores (1-10) for this weeks songs.

 

50 minutes ago, HamSalad said:

Am I allowed to resubmit? I can do it tonight after work if so

 

You can post your results as often as you like. It is no problem to post iterative improvements. Look how others do it, it is most entertaining if others can follow your development and you share  some of your thoughts about quality or difficulty of the song. I tend to post my first complete playthrough, my first Score-Attack and the best result at the end of the week (if time permitted me to improve on my first tries).

19 minutes ago, Anwyn said:

You can post your results as often as you like. It is no problem to post iterative improvements. Look how others do it, it is most entertaining if others can follow your development and you share  some of your thoughts about quality or difficulty of the song. I tend to post my first complete playthrough, my first Score-Attack and the best result at the end of the week (if time permitted me to improve on my first tries).

Awesome! Thanks so much!

In Flames Is awesome and playing songs in C Standard is fun on my 5 string, tune up semi-tone and give that 5th string a workout! 

 

 

Giving this dead pinky of mine a workout

+ lead

 

 

 

+ bass

 

 

 

10 week leaderboard updated

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

Seems like everybody loves in flames, maybe I should give them another try... My favorite band from this week is definitely Haken. Also google won't let me download the RHCP and Mary Chain songs. Is it just me, or did their policy change or something? Turns out I can't even make an account without giving them my phone number.

Anyways, it's a busy week for me so no sight reads. I'm probably going to just post the mc scores on Saturday, but here's the only competitive one I got so far:

Bass Beginner. Acid rain  4  like this one first attempt 

Second attempt improvement 

Beginner bonus great begginer song 3

Intermediate Bass no more than a 5. another great song though first attempt

And improvement 

Improvements intermediate Bass

Better

And got it 

Now i can tune the bass back up .lol

Sorry, I am not competing this week. Those chords are still to difficult for me to play (the only chords I know are e and e-minor😅...and I can tell powerchords by name at this point...🙃).

Im not going to rush into this stuff...prefer to take my time learning properly.

 

Have a nice week🤗

Bass advanced. 6. easy-ish once you learn the two patterns

2nd play

And 3rd

11 hours ago, LacrimaLuna said:

Sorry, I am not competing this week. Those chords are still to difficult for me to play (the only chords I know are e and e-minor😅...and I can tell powerchords by name at this point...🙃).

Im not going to rush into this stuff...prefer to take my time learning properly.

Have a nice week🤗

Do you mean Lead or Rhythm beginner? Because it's really hard to find something easier than this week's Beginner Lead song, where most of the chart are simple power chords. In terms of Rhythm indeed, transitions between bar chords can be difficult for someone without practice. Still, I find you let it go too easily 🙂

Rhythm scores:

This chart is on a very similar level of difficulty as last week Scorpions song. Totally arpeggios chart. @ Rodman probably regrets that it is a master class this time 🙃

Bass:

I have a bit of a problem with that. Get too many misses on this repetitive riff 😕

Good song from interesting progresive metal band.

Playing this is a crazy roller coaster ride. Great chart showing Tony Levin is a real bass monster. I recommend everyone to try it!

I think i'm gonna submit more Haken to the selection list.

First tries this week:

A7X has really grown on me over the years:

Not a big IF fan, but this is solid and I will always be willing to play a chart from @ firekorn

I'm so close to mastering this one, no issues with the octaves but that 7-10 fret pinky stretch is not picking up consistently for me in RS:

Haken has some good stuff but it's just a bit above my level. Nonintuitive rhythms but overall not too bad for a first run:

19 hours ago, Mikson said:

Do you mean Lead or Rhythm beginner? Because it's really hard to find something easier than this week's Beginner Lead song, where most of the chart are simple power chords. In terms of Rhythm indeed, transitions between bar chords can be difficult for someone without practice. Still, I find you let it go too easily 🙂

Rocksmith also isn't overly concerned with how you play chords, from my experience anyways. If there's a charted D chord as long as you hit the open D string and the A on the G string it will normally be marked correctly and if you get a barre chord just hitting the power chord is normally enough, sometimes you might need to include the octave note in there too, but you can get around the more difficult chords/fingerings in this way. Sure, it's not perfect, you're technically messing up your technique to score better on a game, but we all take our own shortcuts when it comes to learning and playing instruments, and it's often better to just try to make a go at it and adjust what you need to make it work then wait for a time in the future when it will work perfectly. 

Works differently for everyone though, of course. I learn through mainly making a series of smaller and smaller mistakes, my brain does not let me start at level 1 and slowly increase difficulty, I always need to start where I have no idea what I'm doing and then figure it out from there. Helps in some ways, hurts in others, but it's how I've learned almost everything I know about anything. When I started actually trying to learn how to play bass I just listened to a few songs that had grooves I liked and I started working on them, they were all outside my skill level (Suspicious Minds by Elvis, I Want You Back by Jackson 5, Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel, and Maybe Tomorrow by The Stereophonics were the songs that I cut my teeth on) but after a few weeks I could handle them pretty well.

Rhythm Beginner  Happy when It Rains .2 if you can Barre 

Attempt 1,2,3

There is something definitely off with the timing on this song. It seems to start off strumming on the beat, and then switches to off beat some way through ??

Hello guys, after a long absence I finally got a new guitar and have time to participate again 😄

 

My only worry is meanwhile I moved to Germany which is very and I mean very strict on piracy, so are any of you guys from here and have any info whether it's okay to Download CDLC or not. 

 

Also I guess I should downrank to advanced this week? 

 

ok, not bad this week

+, rhy

 

 

 

+ a bit

 

 

 

lead mc