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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 591 =-

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=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @lowender (84)
- Intermediate: @Satinuke (99.69)
- Advanced: @Mikson (95.6)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (90)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @shaggy_malagy (88), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @drand (98.86)
- Intermediate Bonus: @loudly (98.34)
- Advanced: @Mikson (96.06)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (97)

Bass:
- Beginner: @Willyam (89)
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @loudly (95.66)
- Intermediate Bonus: @loudly (97.46)
- Advanced: @robolechuga (98.04)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (98.63)
- Masterclass Bonus: @JobwanMojo (96.48)

 

 

 

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Shawn Mendes - Señorita (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Pierce the Veil - Hold On Till May (ft. Lindsey Stamey) (5) (Eb Standard) selected by loudly
Advanced: Toto - Africa (7*) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Masterclass: Galneryus - Heavenly Punishment (9*) (Eb Standard) selected by Mikson
God of Guitar: Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe (9) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51 [Week 2 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Pierce the Veil - Hold On Till May (ft. Lindsey Stamey) (4) (Eb Standard) selected by loudly
Intermediate: Pierce the Veil - Hold On Till May (ft. Lindsey Stamey) (4) (Eb Standard) selected by loudly
Advanced: Shawn Mendes - Señorita (6) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Masterclass: Galneryus - Heavenly Punishment (8.5) (Eb Standard) selected by Mikson

Bass Path:
Beginner: Pierce the Veil - Hold On Till May (ft. Lindsey Stamey) (3*) (Eb Standard) selected by loudly
Intermediate: Toto - Africa (5) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced: Shawn Mendes - Señorita (6) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Masterclass: Galneryus - Heavenly Punishment (8.5) (Eb Standard) selected by Mikson

(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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SIDE CHALLENGE REBOOT - Let´s COVER some [22]

Toto - Africa
Details? see post below.

Hmmm.... that´s lower....

 

Unlikely to make a mistake throughout the song (of course i still did now), then UNEXPECTEDLY there comes the end with 3 short segments played on high frets

 

2 are the same, one is short and easier, with the hammer on notes those are not so easy. But - the way i see it it´s the only part of the song that has to be learned over the week, well manageable for int players. Is it a valid song to level up to adv or a tad below - i think you could argue both ways as you practically get the major part of achieving 99.5 quite easily and will be training the last section that on the other hand is already on the edge to advanced for the level up....

Let´s go with (5)
Order imho was and is correct, please tell us your thoughts - we will never be offended by inputs on difficulties - that only makes the CS stronger and more stable!

Rodders 

 

 

and that´s mc, yes

+ bass

 

 

 

a very good try after a failed one at the end

 

 

 

Arpeggios and me, episode 666

 

 

 

heissa!

after 2 hours an 30tries overall...

 

 

 

progress

let´s try SA again...

2 hours ago, Rodman said:

Order imho was and is correct, please tell us your thoughts - we will never be offended by inputs on difficulties - that only makes the CS stronger and more stable!

 

Thanks @ Rodman  for the update! I think the diff ratings 5 and 6 are optimal. There is currently only one 99% score in the Toto song, which confirms that this is a very difficult song to max out and if someone does it, they deserve a promotion.

Of course, I understand that sometimes a chart seems difficult/we have problems with it, and other participants publish screenshots with high scores that you can't achieve, I had that too. That's why it's important to share our conclusions about ratings, and then try to average opinions of other participants.

 Looks like imma have to practice alot to reach @ Mikson s 96%!! 

2 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

 Looks like imma have to practice alot to reach @ Mikson s 96%!! 

What 96%? Yesterday I complained that I can't achieve 90% here 😆

There's probably some error in the leaderboard, I don't know where it came from.

2 hours ago, Mikson said:

What 96%? Yesterday I complained that I can't achieve 90% here 😆

There's probably some error in the leaderboard, I don't know where it came from.

Jap - Error is that your training video score was approved as africa, and is hard to get rid off 😉

 

can't skip galneryusssss!!

even if I can't keep up even on rhythm 🤣

PS: right topic this time, I double checked 😅

 

 

 

After a few attempts at Learn a Song and a few at Score Attack (I failed a few times before the end), I finally did it...

Chord detection is really problematic here for me.

And this is what I mentioned yesterday. It was quite easy.

 

As promised - here is the next part of Rodmans Shred Course

 

Rodman Speed Building Excercise 1 - 30 to 120Bpm Rodmans Shred Course 2025   E Standard Rodman

 

 

Have fun!

I was today year's old when I recorded and uploaded my first play along.

I flub a couple chords, but we can only improve from here.  Appreciate the push to try something new and it forced me to learn the song structure.  Happy overall.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lLEjYSkPSLdFC33dMc3SXl7-B7i8s9QQ/view?usp=sharing

 

Here is a MP score from session with @ emu

 

 

 

And i did Speed excercise 2 also

 

Rodman

Speed Building Excercise 2 - 30 to 80Bpm

Rodmans Shred Course

2025

E Standard

Rodman

 

 

I think it´s really needed to visualize what we are doing here:

The lack of showing the bar structure makes this a bit subpar in RS when you don´t know what´s going on.

Hard excercise - tripplets with double speed bursts at the end of every other bar.
For the fingering  - i go 2-4-5 on those chords.
Another good excercise to help optimize hand positioning (you almost gotta bring your thumb opposite and to the same height as your middlefinger to do the stretches withe ease)

Enjoy.

Rod.

 

oh yeah. score attack, no x

 

 

 

better

 

 

 

 

that is not 90

 

 

 

And that is it for me. Could not beat Lowe, another time maybe 🙂

Hi,

As always, in the last hour.... 

practiced it a bit. I probably couldve gotten it higher if i played more through out the week, just got a bit busy