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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 489 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @Mattscall (96.06)
- Intermediate: @Balage1976 (86)
- Advanced: @LuZifeR (98.69)
- Masterclass: @Bottledpat12 (97.94)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @lowender (82)
- Intermediate: Daz40 (97)
- Advanced: @Rodman (95.15)
- Masterclass: @nlbsmglsk (96)

Bass:
- Beginner: @luckyoldme (99.9)
- Intermediate: @lowender (99.2)
- Advanced: @Mikson (98.88)
- Masterclass: @coldrampage (95)

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (3.5^) selected by Mikson
Intermediate: The Specials A.K.A. - Gangsters (5*) selected by jellisjenius
Advanced: Accept - Race to Extinction (7*) selected by zoutje
Masterclass: AC/DC - The Razors Edge (8) selected by Rodman
God of Guitar: Mastodon - Capillarian Crest (10) (D standard) selected by nlbsmglsk [Week 1 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Specials A.K.A. - Gangsters (3*) selected by jellisjenius
Intermediate: Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (5*) selected by Mikson
Advanced: Accept - Race to Extinction (6) selected by zoutje
Masterclass: Mastodon - Capillarian Crest (8.5) (D standard) selected by nlbsmglsk

Bass Path:
Beginner: The Smiths - How Soon Is Now (4*) selected by jellisjenius
Intermediate: Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (5.5) selected by Mikson
Advanced: The Specials A.K.A. - Gangsters (7) selected by jellisjenius
Advanced Bonus: Accept - Race to Extinction (6) selected by zoutje
Masterclass: Mastodon - Capillarian Crest (9*) (D standard) selected by nlbsmglsk

 

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Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

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From testing...

This was fun:

 

This is overall enjoyable and not too difficult but there is one tricky extended string skipping section 2/3 of the way through that is more Adv level:

If you can get down the repeated octave run it's not too bad:

Hoo boy...this earns the 8.5-9 difficulty IMO:

 @ jellisjenius  @ Rodman

If the Mastodon song is indeed a 10 (I haven't tested it) shouldn't it be selected as GoG?
If the difficulty rating is confirmed, I propose to make it Gog (Lead path) for 2 weeks, and as a masterclass lead add a song that has only lead path (there are several in the song selection sheet).

Could one of the mods change me from intermediate bass to advanced bass please.

3 minutes ago, lowender said:

Could one of the mods change me from intermediate bass to advanced bass please.

Done! But remember that in the advanced class there is a very tough competition. 😉

1 minute ago, Mikson said:

Done! But remember that in the advanced class there is a very tough competition. 😉

I think i'm ready 🙂 i've won intermediate bass the last few weeks so I think its only fair to give someone else a chance.

2 hours ago, Mikson said:

 @ jellisjenius  @ Rodman

If the Mastodon song is indeed a 10 (I haven't tested it) shouldn't it be selected as GoG?
If the difficulty rating is confirmed, I propose to make it Gog (Lead path) for 2 weeks, and as a masterclass lead add a song that has only lead path (there are several in the song selection sheet).

I'll leave that up to you and the Lead competitors. I don't see a need to add an extra song if it's above Advanced level, as there is no GoG "class" technically. I tend to think of GoG/GoR/GoB as primarily for full albums or other special cases. But if the people want the change to be made, no problem. 

2 hours ago, lowender said:

Could one of the mods change me from intermediate bass to advanced bass please.

Done... welcome to adv!

As promised! God Of Guitar is back!

Lead update:

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (3.5^) selected by Mikson
Intermediate: The Specials A.K.A. - Gangsters (5*) selected by jellisjenius
Advanced: Accept - Race to Extinction (7*) selected by zoutje
Masterclass: AC/DC - The Razors Edge (8) selected by Rodman
God of Guitar: Mastodon - Capillarian Crest (10) (D standard) selected by nlbsmglsk [Week 1 of 2]

 

oh i can do better here

 

 

 

nice to play (3.5-4)

 

 

 

ah.... what a good version by @ GoatHerd , great Int tune exactly (5)

 

 

 

As always my sightreads for this week!

 

Cool band, cool tune. I only knew the song in the official RS list before this one.

Not a Ska Fan but it had some cool riffs and some nice solo parts!

 

Far From my Favorite Accept Era/Song, my favs are the amazing Balls To The Walls and Restless and Wild albums. Although I think all the post-2010 stuff isn't far behind some great riffs and Wolf is one of the most criminally underrated players! 

 

Great to see God of Guitar is back. Love the addition! More songs equals more fun! Although this is way beyond my skill level!

I just saw the change so the AC/DC track will be played soon! 

oh boy... Accept ... fast as a shark - gotta have to quickly find that in spoty... ok running - for comparison - yeah, my memory didn´t fool me - no big difference in that hammer guitar licks by Wolf Hoffmann, the vocals clearly not on the level of UDO, but not bad. cool song (hard 7)

 

 

 

that´s better

 

 

 

so much fun to play that line (6)

 

 

 

short, not easy (7)

 

 

 

Didn't know mastodon was this progressive/technical, sounds sick.

Aw man,  I love The Specials, and Gangsters comes up the week that I hurt my wrist shoveling the foot of snow that we got.  Maybe I'll be able to play later in the week.

Great songs, still working on them

To finish my sightreads this week. Pretty tricky for an AC/DC song!