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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 594 =-

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

Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ Willyam (90.46)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka  (100)
- Advanced: @ cacahuate51  (95.67)
- Masterclass: @ RaZrShReD (97)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @ RaZrShReD (96.76), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ Willyam  (90.46)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka (100)
- Advanced: @ robolechuga (98.8)
- Masterclass: @ cacahuate51 (95.43)
- God of Rhythm: No entries so far, 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: @ Willyam (95)
- Intermediate: @ loudly  (99)
- Advanced: @ kayteck (99.22)
- Masterclass:@ JobwanMojo  (98.87)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 1 is @ jimmy655 (99.4), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!
 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: T. Rex - Baby Boomerang (3*) (E Standard) selected by @ lowender
Intermediate: Hanson - MMMBop (4.5) (E Standard) selected by @ Daz40
Advanced: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop (6.5) (E Standard) selected by @ jellisjenius
Masterclass: Opeth - §4 (8) (E Standard) selected by @ Mikson
God of Guitar: Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight Album (8.5) (C Standard) selected by Nacholede [Week 2 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: T. Rex - Baby Boomerang (2.5) (E Standard) selected by @ lowender
Intermediate: Hanson - MMMBop (4.5) (E Standard) selected by @ Daz40
Advanced: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop (6.5) (E Standard) selected by @ jellisjenius
Masterclass: Opeth - §4 (8) (E Standard) selected by @ Mikson
God of Rhythm: Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight Album (8) (C Standard) selected by Nacholede [Week 2 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: PUBLIC - Honey In The Summer (3*)  3.5 (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus: T. Rex - Baby Boomerang (3.5^)  4.5( E Standard) selected by lowender
Intermediate: Hanson - MMMBop (4) 5 (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: Opeth - §4 (7*) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop (8) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius
God of Bass: Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight Album (6) (C Standard) selected by Nacholede [Week 2 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)

 

SIDE CHALLENGE - Let´s COVER some [25]

Rules? No rules! We pick a song and everybody is invited to share his version. Songs shall be called every week, if you don´t manage to nail your version within the week - entrances are ALWAYS welcome. No winners, no losers, just fun and personal progress, a bit bringing in the harvest of the hard work we all do here every week by converting to own produced music, and (for me very important) learning (easy versions) of songs to be able to play them anytime when a guitar is in the room - and that shall be a part of thinking on the next song selection maybe.

So - as we had Animals - The House of the Rising Sun last week  JUST GREAT, yay!!!! Everyone who has not finished his cover - just post whenever ready in the running week (yes, this one) so we all will recognise it.

This week NIN - The Hand That Feeds 

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

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The process is smooth and there is a tutorial as well. If you are interested, send a personal message to Rodman.

 

 

just a few run-throughs for fun

Some improvements

When I see how great scores @ Vodka  is achieving here, I'm starting to be afraid of competing with him! 🫣

I had to remind myself of this because the previous scores were from tests. Yes, this is good!

 

I just can't get it above that

Advanced Bass

Have a nice weekend!

 

 

Time for bass

The difficulty ratings for the lower classess are underestimated by @ cacahuate51 , which I've gotten used to a bit 😉 But I think the diff ratings for this week need to be increased in the worksheet to be consistent with the diff ratings from previous weeks.

I acheved 100% but this was quite fast and beginners might not be able to keep up. 3.5/4

4.5/5. Skipping across all 4 strings. Really good chart.

This song keeps surprising me. Fun on guitar and bass too. Some fast licks so 5/5.5.

7/7.5

 

Classic slap bass song. If you let go of playing it properly slap & pop technique you can get a much better score, but properly this is I think 8.5.

Finally i can post image to Steam

 

ok 10more hours of work 😉 ... all Shred Excercises 1 , Speed Building Ex and Licks updated with proper phrases for RR, better hearability for the metronome, nicer bg tone and tone and Mac versions. Plus all new Chunk lick 1.
Enjoy

 

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 160Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	173	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 150Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	158	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 140Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	158	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 130Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	158	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	178	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 110Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	163	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 100Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	187	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 90Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	187	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 80Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	255	LRB

	Rodman	Speed Building Excercise 2 - 30 to 80Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/21/2025	03/14/2025	156	LRB

	Rodman	Speed Building Excercise 1 - 30 to 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/21/2025	03/14/2025	176	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Lick 1 - 80 to 150Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	03/02/2025	03/14/2025	93	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Lick 2 - mixing triplets and eights - 80 to 150 Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	03/14/2025	03/14/2025	38	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Lick 3 - e-min stretchpentatonic - 30 to 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	03/13/2025	03/13/2025	45	LRB

Rodman

Chunk Lick 1 - b-min pentatonic - 200Bpm

Rodmans Shred Course

2025

E Standard

Rodman

03/13/2025

03/13/2025

43

LRB

Go Shred Some!

 

2 hours ago, Rodman said:

ok 10more hours of work 😉 ... all Shred Excercises 1 , Speed Building Ex and Licks updated with proper phrases for RR, better hearability for the metronome, nicer bg tone and tone and Mac versions. Plus all new Chunk lick 1.
Enjoy

03/13/2025

43

LRB

Go Shred Some!

Thanks Rod, you are a star.

17 hours ago, diceslinger said:

just a few run-throughs for fun

In hindsight, my score probably shouldn't count.  It is a version that I don't think is on CS anymore, I think charted by CSTMac.  Not sure it compares or not.  I didn't even think about it.  But I'm going to see if I can talk my son into working up a cover of the song with me.

Improvements in SA mode

Messed up in apreggio parts.

Fun little mix this week!

T. Rex are actually one of my mums favourite bands, along with Queen, so hearing this brought back some childhood memories. Fun little groove to it, hadn't heard this one in about 20+ years. If you liked this then give these a listen as well:

1. Children of the Revolution

2. Get it On

3. 20th Century Boy

Speaking of childhood memories, this brought many flooding back. Arpeggios were surprisingly tricky to get my head around but once I figured it out it was great fun to play. Really good song for practising common chord changes/progressions as well. 

No suggestions for these guys, pretty sure they were one hit wonders, the 90s was full of them!

John Frusciante loves some crazy chords. Every so often I come back to RHCP and try to learn some of their songs only to get frustrated with the chords so this was a good chance to challenge myself. This song was great fun even if it did require some rewiring.

Now, I'm not the biggest RHCP fan so they probably have better songs than I'm going to suggest here, I mainly know their popular stuff

1. Under the Bridge

2. Snow (Hey Oh)

3. Higher Ground

4. Pretty Little Ditty (might recognise another popular song that sampled this one!)

5. Blood Sugar Sex Magik

On the other hand, I do love me some Opeth. Mikael Akerfeldt, voice of an angel, growls of a demon, is a master of song writing; funny thing is that he's actually quite self-deprecating in his interviews and always manages to find flaws with his songs, man just operates at a whole other level. This song itself is great, I've given this album a fair few listens and this song always stood out to me, probably because Ian Anderson of Jetro Tull himself did that great flute solo!

Going to do 10 suggestions for Opeth here because I honestly can't narrow the list down any further. Should be a wide enough mix here for everyone to find something they like, safe to say Opeth aren't afraid to experiment with their sounds

1. Godshead Lament

2. Ghost of Perdition

3. Windowpane

4. Benighted

5. Sorceress

6. Heir Apparent

7. Demon of the Fall

8. Deliverance

9. The Moor

10. The Lotus Eater

Little tip, don't attempt this album playthrough after a particularly punishing arms day at the gym. I was deeply regretting my decision once No Quarter came around.

Managed to eek out another 0.2% and to make matters worse, I know that I made some very stupid mistakes out of fatigue more than anything else so that means I'll have to give this another go at some point this week.

Best of luck everyone, another great week!

33 minutes ago, diceslinger said:

But I'm going to see if I can talk my son into working up a cover of the song with me.

Sounds pretty cool to be able to play with your son. how long have you been both learning if you don’t mind my asking?

One more time. It was a good attempt!

Ok I averaged the bass ratings (since thats mostly where people rated)  / rounded up and they are updated now.
Kinda surprised trex still remains under mmbop since its kinda tricky to 100% but i guess it does repeat a lot.
(I just switched values on the chart and post i didnt delete it hopefully that's ok/ to me it doesnt make sense to delete the week and refetch everything/ might cause problems for whoever is doing next week. but if i have to let me know)

not sure what happened this week didnt have much time. And still havent done the cover, hopefully will later though

No no @ Mikson  don't be afraid. I will not be promoted in the next 10-14 years. At least I will not agree to do it (because I play terrible) 🙂

7 minutes ago, Vodka said:

No no @ Mikson  don't be afraid. I will not be promoted in the next 10-14 years. At least I will not agree to do it (because I play terrible) 🙂

nah, fraid to tell you I've seen the future, you go up this year and you do good in that class 😎

hey, is it possible to bookmark some posts in this forum? it's quite a few times i see good information that i would like to revisit in the future but without being able to save a post it can be difficult to find back...

 

1 hour ago, Willyam said:

Sounds pretty cool to be able to play with your son. how long have you been both learning if you don’t mind my asking?

We really haven't played much together unfortunately, he has been playing bass in jazz band.  I keep trying to get him to teach me what he has learned about soloing and such.  He has played the cello, then moved to upright bass, then electric bass, so probably 9 years for him.  I've been playing Rocksmith for 7 or 8 years, no formal training on guitar for me. 

This Is tuff and I suck at It

Can't stop is quite hard, heaven forbid if they put Snow on here (Though I prefer the parody version)

nearly but not quite enough. Do It again then, Ok I will