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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 558 =-

=> How and Why join the Championships?
=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @jimmy655 (94.56)
- Beginner Bonus: @jimmy655 (96)
- Intermediate: @direct3r (95)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (98.88)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (85)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @lowender (74)
- Intermediate: @direct3r (94)
- Advanced: @Mikson (98.92)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (74.9)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @AndreCardoso (98.88)
- Advanced: @Daz40 (98)
- Advanced Bonus: @shotfirer (100)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (99.36)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

This week's songs are:

Honorable Mention: Rodmans new version of john denver Take Me home (its saturday so im not sure if it would be fair to add as another category but if the competition starts late and enough people try it i dont see why not? referring to the new paths)
Lead Path:
Beginner: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (3) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate: Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice (4) (Eb Drop Db) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Metallica - The Unforgiven (6.5) (E Standard) selected by week38
Advanced bonus: John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (6.5) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Masterclass: (New version by @alan24 )  Babymetal - Ijime, Dame, Zetaii (9) (C# Standard) selected by week38
(old version/ the one played week 38) Babymetal - Ijime, Dame, Zetaii (9) (Eb Drop Db) selected by week38

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (3.5) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate: Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice (4) (Eb Drop Db) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Metallica - The Unforgiven (6.5) (E Standard) selected by week38
Masterclass: New version  Babymetal - Ijime, Dame, Zetaii (8) (C# Standard) selected by week38
(old version/ the one played week 38) Babymetal - Ijime, Dame, Zetaii (8) (Eb Drop Db) selected by week38

Bass Path:
Beginner: David Hasselhoff - Dammit I Love You (2) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Beginner Bonus: Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice (3.5) (Eb Drop Db) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (4) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate bonus: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (4.5) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced: Metallica - The Unforgiven (5) (E Standard) selected by week38
Masterclass: New version  Babymetal - Ijime, Dame, Zetaii (8) (B Standard) selected by week38
(old version/ the one played week 38) Babymetal - Ijime, Dame, Zetaii (8) (C#,A,D,G) selected by week38

(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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CONGRATULATIONS @RODMAN FOR REACHING 10 YEARS OF BEING AN AMAZING HOST AND CONTESTANT!!!!!

I dont think there has been someone else or will be anyonelse as commited to achieve such a spectacular task!!! So In honor of rodmans 500 weeks of being here I decided we take back the road to memory lane of his 1st week in the championship (week 38)  and choose to play some of his picks.

Ratings might need modifiying cause I myself havent tested them out yet and the capo songs didnt have ratings yet. It's always good to know your guys opinion on the dificulty ratings so leave a number when posting! 
Also, unfortunatley the Evanescence song for the capo week is now dlc so I chose another song from them to fill in the gaps and still stay a bit true to the capo week.

Major thanks to @ kayteck  for helping me out again since I am technicly still doing this illegally 😎
Keep rocking!
 

note: i think the winners of last week might not be fully accurate as it said i was the winner of masterclass rhythm and i know razr won. i updated this post but not sure if something else needs to be done

Thank you cacahuate51 for the link, Metallica isn't working.

13 minutes ago, BetterCallJamie said:

Thank you cacahuate51 for the link, Metallica isn't working.

yup thanks for letting me know ! its now fixed!
that probably means its not the original one played that week..but ..hopefully it's alright or better since old cdlc wasnt always the best quality

I have also added an updated chart to babymetal song... apparently theres 3. Since @ Alan24 s is the most recent and he usually makes good dlcs I have linked his as the new version and still left the old one just incase anyone wants to go back to that one aswell

23 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

yup thanks for letting me know ! its now fixed!
that probably means its not the original one played that week..but ..hopefully it's alright or better since old cdlc wasnt always the best quality

I have also added an updated chart to babymetal song... apparently theres 3. Since @ Alan24 s is the most recent and he usually makes good dlcs I have linked his as the new version and still left the old one just incase anyone wants to go back to that one aswell

note new version of babymetal ic c# tuning

Is it me or does "Country Road" look much much harder than "The Unforgiven"?

1st playthrough test seems like an easy bass week


is this ai made? feels kinda uncanny not gonna lie xD rodmans taste always surprises me. although i do kinda like the ramstein esk sections


This may be one of the only country songs i have enjoyed 😛 really neat and simplish to play



I'll change the evanescence to a 3/ 3.5 its pretty simple

I forgot to take picture of bass so I had to play it again

Pinky kinda awkward but yea its ok for int since theres only like 3 sections

This seems more intermediate than advance...Maybe I'll find a song in the suggestion list but for now I think ill just give it a 5

lots of shifting but lots of straight notes as well to keep the percentage high..not sure bout rating tbh. think might be higher than last weeks 

@ cacahuate51  I started playing something and... I must say that the guitar paths difficulty ratings for John Denver's song are completely too low!
As the host of the week, you can (and should, if the ratings are incorrect) change ratings from the song suggestion sheet. In my opinion, @ Rodman  often underestimates difficulty of the proposed songs, especially if it is his CDLC.
In my opinion, lead is 7 - fast arpeggios and irregular ones (two high strings and a jump to low strings), although the chords are not very difficult, it is difficult to play them correctly while maintaining the tempo.
Rhythm is I would say 4/4.5 - the same chords but without arpeggios, we played many similar charts in the championship and they were definitely not rated at 2 (usually in the range of 3-5).

2 hours ago, Mikson said:

@ cacahuate51  I started playing something and... I must say that the guitar paths difficulty ratings for John Denver's song are completely too low!
As the host of the week, you can (and should, if the ratings are incorrect) change ratings from the song suggestion sheet. In my opinion, @ Rodman  often underestimates difficulty of the proposed songs, especially if it is his CDLC.
In my opinion, lead is 7 - fast arpeggios and irregular ones (two high strings and a jump to low strings), although the chords are not very difficult, it is difficult to play them correctly while maintaining the tempo.
Rhythm is I would say 4/4.5 - the same chords but without arpeggios, we played many similar charts in the championship and they were definitely not rated at 2 (usually in the range of 3-5).

After testing them i can agree with @ BetterCallJamie  and you that they are pretty low

lead- the chords seem pretty standard to me but the fact that there is no hand shapes can make it difficult to sight read.
the picking style however is constant throughout...thumb thumb midle pointer..or down down up up if you are savage and are picking that XD...soo thats not too bad
The thing that is hard like you mentioned is the tempo. pretty hard to do that at that speed atleast for me it is.
 And personally i dont really hear the song actually playing those notes in that way...seems more of a rendition/cover/inspired piece ...which can also increases the difficulty 

The rhythm i partially agree with you? like above... theres no complex chords and only a handfull of them maybe  6 ? but mainly 4 .. I do acknowledge, though bar chords can be a bit of a pain for beginners.. however its not dificult enough imo to be intermediate.. how bout we meet in the middle with a 3.5? 
 

Lead scores:

I prefer the path on r+ which is something i thought i would never say xD

yeah...ez intermediate song. i nailed it😎



tough

rhythm test:


chord detection is always a bit funky for me




i think this path is tabbed harder than nesecary in some parts? seems a bit weird to me..i wonder if this song is on r+..


pretty hard but i guess more doable than the plini song we had

First results of the week (hope I didn't mix any version of Evanescence or Eurythmics):

 

 

 

 

 

I must have lost a printscreen 🙂

Some improvements:

Keep missing the transitions (but really fun to play) 🙂

Keep missing the multi strings plucks (or are not detected)

I have a question about the alternate version of the Babymetal song.  I don't have a bass that can play B standard.  I can just barely tune down to Eb drop Db as on the alternate version.   I noticed the difficulty of the alternate version is rated 8 vs 7 of the B standard version.  Is there actually that  big difference between the difficulty of the two versions, or is that just that they've been rated by different people who might not be in agreement? 

Based on @ cacahuate51  initial scores and my first runs, gonna have to put in some work this week.

My first 100% on guitar - now if I could only come close to that when there are some chords... 

This is a shot at the "old version" (rated 8). The bass tuning is actually C#,A,D,G, so just one string feels like a floppy rubber band. Work to be done... 

 

This one is really fun to play 

On 6/30/2024 at 10:23 AM, cacahuate51 said:

CONGRATULATIONS @RODMAN FOR REACHING 10 YEARS OF BEING AN AMAZING HOST AND CONTESTANT!!!!!

I dont think there has been someone else or will be anyonelse as commited to achieve such a spectacular task!!! So In honor of rodmans 500 weeks of being here I decided we take back the road to memory lane of his 1st week in the championship (week 38)  and choose to play some of his picks.

Ratings might need modifiying cause I myself havent tested them out yet and the capo songs didnt have ratings yet. It's always good to know your guys opinion on the dificulty ratings so leave a number when posting! 
Also, unfortunatley the Evanescence song for the capo week is now dlc so I chose another song from them to fill in the gaps and still stay a bit true to the capo week.

Major thanks to @ kayteck  for helping me out again since I am technicly still doing this illegally 😎
Keep rocking!
 

Hahahahahaha... when i started downloading the songs i thought.... damn what a damn great week! It´s almost as if i would have handpicked a few diamonds there. Well.... somehow that post clarifies why i like it. Thx you @ cacahuate51 , thank you people! Has been a blast all the 10 years and i am not stopping. Oh no. Have been just working with @ kayteck  to have the 10week leaderboard autoupdated every week, or rather he has been working, i might have been shouting from the sidewalk... Still so much fun and so much to improve everywhere and most of all it´s just amazing that 10 years after the software was released, now even abandoned still more and more players are joining our lil fiesta to rock with and against each other week by week. Yay. In the words of Joe Biden "Let´s keep going!"
Love you all 😘

At @ Mikson  - we shouldn´t mix things up: YOU are the one UNDERestimating the diffs normally, I do the OVERestimations, except that of course I got them all right no doubt, everytime 😉 I´ll report back about that one. Afair there are arpeggios also in lead - i cannot do those - so maybe my complete lameness acoounts for that. We will see.

Have a blast of a week

Rod.

🎶🎸🌏🌎🌍 WORLDWIDE CHAMPIONSHIP SUMMER NIGHT!!! 

YEEEAHHH!!! 🤟🤩✌️🤩🤟🤩✌️🤩🤟🤩✌️🤩🤟🤩✌️🤩

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Congratulations @ Rodman  !! We are still celebrating your 10th anniversary here!!!! 🥳

And thank you @ cacahuate51  for being such a good host!! I think the best thing that could have happened to @ Rodman  in his anniversary is that you joined the organizer's team!!!

OK, lets join this week!

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Isn't him the Knight Rider guy? Didn't know he sings! 🤣

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This is such a cool song to play...

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My daughter sang this for a presentation in her music school... 

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Sweet Dreams... This is a true classic!!!!!

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I need to work more on this song...

In case you are wondering: The meaning of the song is  Ijime (Bullying),  Dame (Don't) and Zettai (Never), so you can translate it as "Never do bullying". It is actually a song with a cute and healthy message agains bullying!! In the chorus it also says "Kakko warui yo", meaning (bullying) "is uncool".  

 

 

 

 

 

 

i´d go (3-3.5) - it´s a rather fast pattern for the beginner end, either use  your pinky well (not exactly beg technique) or you make it really hard for yourself.

 

Annie is cool