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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 547 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @lowender (97)
- Intermediate: @Amisslamb44 (99.23)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (98.6)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (97.87)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @lowender (93)
- Intermediate: @gamestab (98.39)
- Advanced: @Amisslamb44 (99.55)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (99.69)

Bass:
- Beginner: @zbb (99)
- Intermediate: @smitty901 (99)
- Advanced: @direct3r (100)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (100)

 

 

 

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (3*) (F# Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy (5*) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius
Advanced: The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See (7*) (E Standard) selected by SpankNass
Masterclass: LizNoir - Darkness sympathizer (9*) (Eb Drop Db) selected by gamestab
God of Guitar: Brothers of Metal - Prophecy of Ragnarök Album (10) (C# Drop B) selected by Nacholede [Week 1 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy (3) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius
Advanced: The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See (7*) (E Standard) selected by SpankNass
Masterclass: LizNoir - Darkness sympathizer (7) (Eb Drop Db) selected by gamestab
God of Rhythm: Brothers of Metal - Prophecy of Ragnarök Album (7) (C# Drop B) selected by Nacholede [Week 1 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (2.5) (F# Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy (5*) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius
Advanced: The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See (6) (E Standard) selected by SpankNass
Masterclass: LizNoir - Darkness sympathizer (8.5) (Eb Drop Db) selected by gamestab
God of Bass: Brothers of Metal - Prophecy of Ragnarök Album (6) (C# Drop B) selected by Nacholede [Week 1 of 4]

(N) - difficulty rating
(N*) - highest difficulty rating for the class (promotion to higher class possible)
(N^) - difficulty rating higher than the highest for the class (promotion possible)

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New week already up. Old one will still be open for scores until 8pm CET today, so good 3 and a half hours left - get your scores together.

Please give us your ratings for the songs played, especially if something needs to be tweaked!

Have a great week!

Rod.

Ok. Winners updated. XP Levels and 10 weeks leaderboard is updated. Auto-fetching of scores already running.

Rod.

surprised this classic from depeche mode hadnt gotten chosen in the 547 weeks!



i think the solo / last half makes this one of the hardest intermediate leads ive played in a long time! pretty cool. kinda dissapointed there was no path with chords altho tbf im not sure if its actually a guitar doing the chords or the catchy simple melody





i think this ones bass path is alot more easy than the fleet wood one

im not too good with arps..and i think itd be nice if it had some hand shapes even if it is mostly just the d chord/ variations. 
but yea pretty challenging for me atleast

had to start with that one

 

hmm... fun story about that. That´s my own cdlc. After spending 2 days on creating it i found out that the song has recently been published as ODLC which was not yet listed in ignition.... so that´s my very personal jesus 😉

 

 

skipped tuning cause of course i will manage to transpose on the fly - yes.no.

 

cool song (3)

 

very cool. starts like a bassline. (5)

 

 

 

wonderful adv song (7)

 

 

 

excuse my performance, a 10-hour trainride and after that lack of sleep seems to be bad for guitar playing...

also cool on rhy (7)

 

 

 

nice relaxing rhy there (3)

 

 

 

way easier when you can use open strings... still missed to register so many bends (3)

 

 

 

songorder is ok lead and rhy

I Would give personal jesus 5.0 difficulty because of the tuning and tone

darkness sympathizer i would give 6.5-7.0 this one is fast and pretty hard to hear the guitar (maybe because the tuning is not 440 but can also be because of the volume of the tone)

easier mc rhy here (7-7.5)

 

 

 

oh yes - a hard one for the masters.. you can argue (8.5) but i think its more a legit (9)er

 

 

 

14 minutes ago, gamestab said:

I Would give personal jesus 5.0 difficulty because of the tuning and tone

darkness sympathizer i would give 6.5-7.0 this one is fast and pretty hard to hear the guitar (maybe because the tuning is not 440 but can also be because of the volume of the tone)

 

(5) is too high: it´s one riff only with the one bend the E String. You could argue (3.5) fur the non beginner tuning and for it´s rather fast. But (5) means you master that and you advance to Advanced Class, and you got one whole week. In comparison to our library it feels an ok challenge for beginners if they make the 99 over the week they make it to Int class - that´s somehow the (3) definition.

Darkness sy - hard to rate a bit... yes (6.5 - 7) is a valid rating also. From my POV the rhythm is damn fast and very hard to make sound right, i take that into account esp. in Rhy path - so i´d go (7.5)

Rod

@ gamestab  - not to forget: Great that you are here!!! Keep posting songs to the SSL and please keep giving feedback on the diffs. Make yourself comfortable and if you think the CS is a place for you to stay you might consider joining the orga team for selection and week starts.

Rock!

Rod.

also a hard one (8-8.5)

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, Rodman said:

@ gamestab  - not to forget: Great that you are here!!! Keep posting songs to the SSL and please keep giving feedback on the diffs. Make yourself comfortable and if you think the CS is a place for you to stay you might consider joining the orga team for selection and week starts.

Rock!

Rod.

thanks! and im still learning more about how it works , and i will keep posing songs 🙂

damn hard

 

 

 

 

 

 

First impression is more like a 7.5+ to me, dozens of parts and 6 minutes long but we'll see. I'll practice it for an hour each day 

@ Rodman  The list of winners is a bit unusual. There are participants who won in two classes at the same time, this is probably due to the fact that these are new participants without an assigned class. This players should be assigned to specific classes because it gets messy.

Nice songs this week. Hopefully can improve on the below:

 

Got to play with my new pitch box for the f# tuning.I'm just a casual player so I went with this cheap mooer pitch box over the digitech drop cause it was literally 1/10 the price and it lets you shift up as well. Seems to do what its supposed to do quite well for $35. I dont notice any latency which was my biggest concern. There is a certain synthy sound that isnt really noticed in the mix but I think all pitch shifters do have that to a certain degree. Very handy tool for me since most of my basses are short scale and don't like detuning.   End ad....

Does it muddy the waters to post scores from other classes? I believe I'm in intermediate but I like to try them all.

Exploratory runs....

Start this week

I would give this 3.5 and I agree that this is suitable for beginners, but regardless of the player's level this is very difficult to get 99% here, unless someone has no problems recognizing bends and long slides.

It's worth adding that the alternative lead is the same chart, but with a capo on the 2nd fret and in E-Std tuning, so I think that the scores from this should count, because, for example, I prefer to put on a capo rather than tune guitar in F-Std. @ Rodman

Nice song, chill and pleasure to play.

This is really difficult to achieve a high score, although I rated it 7, maybe I would give 7.5 now, but no more. When I play it, it doesn't sound bad, but missed too many notes in the arpeggios or bends in the riffs.

Wtf, why do Japanese songs usually seem impossible to play for the average guitarist? 😆