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

 

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 465 =-

FAQ: => How and Why join the Championships?

=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Last week's winners:

Lead:
- Beginner: @kayteck (94)
- Intermediate: @Balage1976 (90.5)
- Advanced: @Rodman (97.32)
- Masterclass: @Bottledpat12 (97.43)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @kayteck (88)
- Advanced: @Mikson (93)
- Masterclass: @nlbsmglsk (92)

Bass:
- Beginner: @luckyoldme (99)
- Intermediate: @rodentwentyten (96.04)
- Advanced: @Mikson (98)
- Masterclass: @Dollar Thief (98)
 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Kasabian - Fire (3*) selected by Mikson
Intermediate: Psychostic - BEER!! (4) (Eb drop Db) selected by nlbsmglsk
Advanced: Mr Big - Wild World (6) selected by Jellisjenius
Advanced Bonus: Robin Beck- First Time (6) selected by ZeroPingNZ
Masterclass: Metallica - Whiplash (8) selected by Nacholede
God of Guitar: Coroner - Arc-Lite (10) selected by BottledPat [Week 1 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Kasabian - Fire (2.5) selected by Mikson
Intermediate: Robin Beck- First Time (5*) selected by ZeroPingNZ
Intermediate Bonus: Psychostic - BEER!! (4) (Eb drop Db) selected by nlbsmglsk
Advanced: Metallica - Whiplash (6) selected by Nacholede
Masterclass: Coroner - Arc-Lite (9*) selected by BottledPat

Bass Path:
Beginner: Robin Beck- First Time (3) selected by ZeroPingNZ
Beginner Bonus: Psychostic - BEER!! (4*) (Eb drop Db) selected by nlbsmglsk
Intermediate: Kasabian - Fire (5.5) selected by Mikson
Intermediate Bonus: Metallica - Whiplash (6*) selected by Nacholede
Advanced: Mr Big - Wild World (7) selected by Jellisjenius
Masterclass: Coroner - Arc-Lite (9.5^) selected by BottledPat
 

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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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• 2groggy 

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

 

7 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

You should add more requests, that's a cool song.

thanks i think all my other requests were done too, vektor and testament 

3 hours ago, nlbsmglsk said:

You guys mean the octaves? Aren't octaves like bass playing  101?

Octaves may not be difficult if we hit them in a streak on eg 3-5 frets. They can also be difficult if the frets change quickly. Here I meant that part, but maybe you are right that it is not too difficult. Just when I played it a few times, I always got misses there.

34 minutes ago, Mikson said:

Octaves may not be difficult if we hit them in a streak on eg 3-5 frets. They can also be difficult if the frets change quickly. Here I meant that part, but maybe you are right that it is not too difficult. Just when I played it a few times, I always got misses there.

 

Can we agree on a 5 - 5.5?

Start

Easy enough, this could even be a beginner.

I tested this song a long time ago and gave it a 6 and I think it's an ok rating. Some technical chords playing. (Old screen)

6-6.5

Easy, easy, easy and solo!  So 8 is ok. 🙂

 

9 minutes ago, nlbsmglsk said:

Can we agree on a 5 - 5.5?

I think anything above 4.5 will be ok.

1 hour ago, Mikson said:

I think anything above 4.5 will be ok.

Done

Most of these need a redo, I'm not at my best today.

Player XP Levels updated

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN-m8wF0lVkQ4cLWHBa009SkqDoPk0xN-C4-llcrXXs/edit#gid=351097837

Rodman´s 10-week Leaderboard updated

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN-m8wF0lVkQ4cLWHBa009SkqDoPk0xN-C4-llcrXXs/edit#gid=587881516

Some scores from last night 

I really wanna get this solo down, but that first part especially is tough to get clean

this song is so beautiful... always a classic and a pleasure to play!!

On 9/18/2022 at 7:10 PM, nlbsmglsk said:

You guys mean the octaves? Aren't octaves like bass playing  101?

Octaves are not 101 imho, not something i've come across until now and i am definitely going to struggle on this. Compared with e.g. Blitzkrieg Bop there is a definite step up.

Octaves bass 201 confirmed. I feel it's a pretty standard technique though, depending on what genres you play.
Given how slides 201 is listed as intermediate it'd probably be fair to assume the same for this too but I doubt the rs lessons follow the championship rating system lol.


Other than that though the main tricky part of octaves is mostly the speed and I don't feel these are too fast but they might take some practice. Most of the first things tried to learn on bass were octave based though so I'm probably biased.

 

A bit too fast for my sight reading 

Whats going on guys?? opened rocksmith today and flashes up the white screen then shuts down ?? is it all over ??

 

improving

this made me suffer and sweat... and it was very bad playing 😄 I've practiced the parts but can't reach >80% / 85%  without losing a lot of control

 

would you guys still count my score if i used a pitch shifter on the customs forge song manager next time we have a song thats in a different tuning from e standard

 

Very tricky sight read for me

5 minutes ago, Bottledpat12 said:

would you guys still count my score if i used a pitch shifter on the customs forge song manager next time we have a song thats in a different tuning from e standard

I use a digitech drop for all weird tunings.   I think it should be no issue at all, however, I am not sure if there is some official rule on this. 

13 minutes ago, johnal said:

I use a digitech drop for all weird tunings.   I think it should be no issue at all, however, I am not sure if there is some official rule on this. 

yea i feel like that would be pretty much the same method overall, plus my accuracy would be much higher cause of the note detection is much better in e standard for me