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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 563 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @jimbobmccecil (96.58)
- Intermediate: @Daz40 (95)
- Advanced: @pedropmf (96.97)
- Masterclass: @johnal (97.46)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @BetterCallJamie (93)
- Intermediate: @jimmy655 (98.61)
- Advanced: @pedropmf (93.46)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (96)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Chaoszerg (87.7)
- Advanced: @Mikson (99.58)
- Advanced Bonus: @Mikson (98)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf (98.82)

 

 

 

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner:  Chevelle - Tug-O-War (4) (C Drop Bb) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner:  PITCH SHIFT LINK Chevelle - Tug-O-War (4) (Drop D) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Royal Blood - Better Strangers (4) (C Standard) selected by Daz40 D 
Intermediate: PITCH SHIFT LINK  Royal Blood - Better Strangers (4) (E Standard) selected by Daz40 D 
Advanced: Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind (7*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate
Masterclass: Boney M. - Rasputin (8) (E Standard) selected by Daz40

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Chevelle - Tug-O-War (4) (C Drop Bb) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner:  PITCH SHIFT LINK Chevelle - Tug-O-War (4) (Drop D) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Haddaway - What Is Love  - Lead path!!!! (4) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind (6) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate
Masterclass: Boney M. - Rasputin (8) (E Standard) selected by Daz40

Bass Path:
Beginner: Haddaway - What Is Love (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Beginner Bonus: Chevelle - Tug-O-War (3.5^) (C Drop Bb) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus:  PITCH SHIFT LINK Chevelle - Tug-O-War (3.5^) (Drop D) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Royal Blood - Better Strangers (4) (C Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: PITCH SHIFT LINK Royal Blood - Better Strangers (4) (E Standard) selected by Daz40 D 
Advanced: Christopher Cross - Ride Like the Wind (6.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate
Advanced Bonus: Boney M. - Rasputin (6.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Masterclass: Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media - Painted Paradise (8) (E Standard) selected by lowender

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

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9 hours ago, Vodka said:

ok. I'm passing this week. got completely raged on tugowar.

Give your heart and your soul.....

        ....... for that damn Rock´n´Roll!

@ cacahuate51  @ Rodman   Really interesting discussion about difficulty ratings. Truly academic 😄

For me this also deserves a 4, e.g. due to the quick movement along the fretboard, beginners may have a big problem finding the right fret quickly.

Rhythm

Hmm playing this I wondered why @ cacahuate51  used this as rhythm? I thought there would be chords throughout the chart, but here there is riff, riff, mini solo, riff etc. and only single notes with frequent bends.

These chords require some stamina.

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I would say if you know these chord shapes, I would say this is more of an intermediate song.

I disagree with @ johnal  here, some chords are really unusual and awkward to play quickly. The chart also has some odd single notes, for example an orange G7 should be played as a green B3. Maybe not 8, but 7/7.5 for sure.

 

@Rodman makes sense! ill try to keep that in mind next time!


Thanks for pointing out that i had put this song in rhythm and not lead @ Mikson  I meant to put it in lead since it has all the different techniques, pinch harmonics, bends etc and then place haddaway in rhythm since it has all the doublestops and is a little bit more predictable in structure/ repetitive.

So i have swapped them around both on the forum and in the sheet (thanks @rodman ! seems like i can now edit the pages!)

Also , i noticed the sheets already had the chevelle changed to 4.. so it is possible to have a higher/lower rating in a class? Just not reccommended i suppose for competition?
 

On 8/7/2024 at 9:32 AM, johnal said:

I would say if you know these chord shapes, I would say this is more of an intermediate song.

yea.. its a bit harder to find masterclass rhythm paths (so feel free to suggest them in the spread sheets if you have more!!)
Sometimes the paths are more of a combination to keep it entertaining...rather than an actual rhythm path...so when they arent a combination i think it feels alot easier since you arent soloing?

Im not entirely sold on it being intermediate but i can see it being a bit lower in difficulty...(even though i personally cant 99 it)
Regardless, great score! 

Great song selection by @ lowender  - hoping to see you play this week 

fun (5)

 

if the intro is still off.... i really don´t know - i took my Sustainiac For a ride with ultra high volume - the only thing i heard was me, and i regret nothing.

 

43 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

yea.. its a bit harder to find masterclass rhythm paths (so feel free to suggest them in the spread sheets if you have more!!)
Sometimes the paths are more of a combination to keep it entertaining...rather than an actual rhythm path...so when they arent a combination i think it feels alot easier since you arent soloing?

Im not entirely sold on it being intermediate but i can see it being a bit lower in difficulty...(even though i personally cant 99 it)
Regardless, great score! 

Played it a couple of times and could not get to 99+.  So, I think my initial assessment is off.  I think @ Mikson  thoughts on this one make more sense.

Also, I have no issue with this, or easier songs, being set as the masterclass song.  So, even if debatably easier you still have to battle to get the win.

Was a real mixed bag this week:

First two songs went great, the other two... not so much. Let's just say that .11s on a Les Paul do not mix well with holding barre chords for 3 minutes or fast disco chord changes! Maybe it's just me, suppose it gives me something to work on

Noticed that Mikson mentioned the Rasputin chart earlier, I second the weird fret placements. Ended up trying to do quick +5 or -5 for most of the song.

Fun song selection though, not what I usually listen to so great to branch out into some new styles.

Well, I don't know, notes are just "miss" sometimes, especially on the 8th and 10th frets of the 6th string. So they are breaking my streaks all the time and ruining the whole play at the end of the song. And the strings sound terrible for no reason. They are old or something. I don't know. I thought the reason of the terrible sound was the tape I placed on the bridge saddle's screws under the strings (they are scratched my hand). And I was partially right. The sound became better. But the misses didn't disappear. 

I don't think I'm getting any closer, 99.6% is my max

Oh and this one. Is it me, I'm thinking Christopher Cross Griffin and then when I'm reading it, I feel like saying "Ride like the wind Bullseye"?

 

 

Now I just need to learn what a "pinch harmonic" is - looks like I lost a lot of points playing an ordinary harmonic there... 

Whaddaya know, just watching a Youtube video on pinch harmonics was worth a couple of percent

1 hour ago, jimmy655 said:

Now I just need to learn what a "pinch harmonic" is - looks like I lost a lot of points playing an ordinary harmonic there... 

 

@ jimmy655  if i recall corectly the game doesnt actually detect pinch harmonics...aslong as you fret the note and strum it like a normal note it should count.
kinda like with bends...you can cheese them by sliding into the note instead of bending....which i think detects better..

but you should always try to play how its been tabbed 😛

I hadn't planned to play these two again, but then I remembered @ johnal   saying " you still have to battle to get the win". I'm almost certainly not going to win with these, but if there is gonna be a battle then I want to get in there... 

 

Hurts a bit this one 

Hmm, just checked the google score sheet thinking my 96.03 for Rasputin was pretty good for now and noticed this:

 

I think @ cacahuate51 score is his bass score and @ Rodman 's score is that metal version.  Is that correct?

and yes, I can be annoyingly competitive sometimes 😕

Better but my concentration Is awful 

fluffed 3 notes 

Done I think !!

Now I have a real score I 'm happy with that 

9 hours ago, johnal said:

 

 

Ithink @ cacahuate51 score is his bass score and @ Rodman 's score is that metal version.  Is that correct?

 

and yes, I can be annoyingly competitive sometimes 😕

Noooo! you have spoiled my plans to win lead masterclass! 

It does look like it took my bass score and posted in lead...maybe its because the enumerating content is blocking the path type?  and i guess posting scores with similar titles is a no no for automatic detection.

well i tried to change the scores manually to the right ones but it didnt let me..not sure if its due to the way its set up or permissions. But im sure someone with the powah will fix it. thanks for pointing that out!


think attempting to do so changed my permisions again 😞 back to no permisions/ cant change ratings again. 
 

Thanks for adding new week.

And thanks for giving me some advices.

 

 

mmm.... difficult...