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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 596 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ Willyam (87.24)
- Intermediate: @ Satinuke  (98.85)
- Advanced: @ cacahuate51  (97.34)
- Masterclass: @ RaZrShReD (96)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 3 is @ shaggy_malagy  (96), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ Willyam  (92)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka  (99.18)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ loudly  (95)
- Advanced: @ Mikson  (95.55)
- Masterclass: @ RaZrShReD  (94)
- God of Rhythm: Leader after week 3 is @ Daz40  (90), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @ loudly (99)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ loudly  (99)
- Advanced: @ Mikson  (99.36)
- Masterclass: @ JobwanMojo  (99.37)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 3 is @ jimmy655 (99.4), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!
 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles (2.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Intermediate: Pinegrove - Old Friends (5.5^) (E Standard) selected by Argh1992
Advanced: Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only (6) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Masterclass: Kessoku Band - That Band (8.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
God of Guitar: Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight Album (8.5) (C Standard) selected by Nacholede [Week 4 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles (2.5) (E Standard) - Alt. Rhythm path!!!! selected by Mikson
Intermediate: Pinegrove - Old Friends (4.5) (E Standard) selected by Argh1992
Advanced: Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only (6) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Masterclass: Kessoku Band - That Band (7.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
God of Rhythm: Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight Album (8) (C Standard) selected by Nacholede [Week 4 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only (2.5) (Drop D) selected by Daz40
Beginner Bonus: Pinegrove - Old Friends (2.5) (E Standard) selected by Argh1992
Intermediate: SIAMES - My Way (4.5) (E Standard) selected by kayteck
Advanced: Klone - Gone Up in Flames (7*) (Drop D) selected by mikson
Masterclass: Kessoku Band - That Band (8) (Drop D) selected by cacahuate51
God of Bass: Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight Album (6) (C Standard) selected by Nacholede [Week 4 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 [27]

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 Any Red Hot Chilli Pepers Song 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 Black Sabbath - Ironman

 

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Thanks for adding new week!

 

This Week's guitar part is difficult for me.

 

Thanks for another week! 

 

I just hear nevershoutnever! 

This was a great pirate adventure 😆

I'm looking forward to next week, this week was utterly wasted on me 😕 

EDIT: and just to be clear: i was completely unproductive, unable to practice for lack of mental energy and other conflicting obligations. And the song felt so hard, I just need a reset next week 🤯

I'm sorry but no. This song is out of my... everything. I can't play it.

Pleasure to see @ drand  get a huge result here.

Bass

Wow it's been a really long time since I suggested this song and last played it. Really nice chart.

These Japanese bands know how to create funny bass charts 😆

What a fun song to play! I found the chorus rather challenging, but luckily it's basically the same every time, so you only need to learn the hard part once 🙂

Oh man, those synths, what a song of the times.

Oops, got it real quick

from SHREDDERS CORNER

 

@ Daz40  - m8, when i realised how long that 3rd burst ex was gonna be i was thinking to writ you should split into 3 parts like Int/Adv/Mc regarding speeds, then i played it through the whole 20mis + and it was damn worth it - i could manage the bursts even at 180bpm and was not thrown off the horse all the way to the end cause my fingers did nothing but the same for the whole time - good good ex!!! Thx.

But will it help me to chesney the hawkes? let´s see...

+ lead

 

95?

 

for 2nd, alright

 

 

 

a very very good run aside from sloppy solo

 

 

 

Improvements

On 3/24/2025 at 4:57 PM, Willyam said:

I just don't have enough time to practice 2 songs in a week so just for fun, I made a cover of the beginner song from last week championship "Jesus stole my girlfriend".

It's incredible how bad it sounds 😅 

looooong way to go.... 💪

I thought it was a great effort!  Your bass part really propelled the song forwards, great timing with it.  It had a good flow and was enjoyable to listen to!

On 3/26/2025 at 1:49 PM, Rodman said:

Ride on

Heissa. Thx @ diceslinger  . That was a real song there to take care off..... No acoustic. promised.
Drums midi through a sound engine, rest is me. Tries to fetch the spirit doing a lot of squealies, started out with divebombs and tried to go really terminator mechanistic on the solo.... all parts played without practice, sorry, just started at 0:00 and played one after the other repeating until i was ok with it. I really wanna come back to that and do with like 10 hours time.
So - one guitar line (incl. outrosolo impro), one bass line, sang along once, did the solo and did opening vocal. minimal mixing (volume and minimal panning).

Enjoy...?

Rod.

That was great!  Man, the drums, bass and guitar all just hit right on hammering out that riff!  I like your squeals, and the outgoing solo does have a desperate feeling.  You always distill something out of a song  something that in integral to the song that I would have missed.  Loved it my friend!

On 3/26/2025 at 11:26 PM, robolechuga said:

Okay, so I am about 3 songs behind on covers, but finally found the time to get ...and I love her done.  No vocals yet, need to purchase a mic and grow a pair.  Maybe in the near future, money is going into mods for the PRS S2 currently.   

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cA5Lof2b5FvUVVjDgo9L4gl5lh2Kj7fw/view?usp=sharing

Nice, that reverb was just tasty!

Unfortunately this week ended up being more manic than the last two so couldn't get any time to work on these songs which was a real shame, really feel like I could have gotten better than the scores I got. Just gonna dump my scores here, don't have much time to go in depth on them I'm afraid.

Ah well, fingers crossed for next week, best of luck everyone!

I should have played this on Score Attack and I would have been at the top but oh well it was still fun.

3 hours ago, diceslinger said:

That was great!  Man, the drums, bass and guitar all just hit right on hammering out that riff!  I like your squeals, and the outgoing solo does have a desperate feeling.  You always distill something out of a song  something that in integral to the song that I would have missed.  Loved it my friend!

Thank you very much!

will keep distilling 🙂

Really happy with that one... when i finished i wasnt sure, but now i am. Really hope you kick that one hard too 😉

Rock!

Rod.

10 hours ago, Rodman said:

- m8, when i realised how long that 3rd burst ex was gonna be i was thinking to writ you should split into 3 parts like Int/Adv/Mc regarding speeds, then i played it through the whole 20mis + and it was damn worth it - i could manage the bursts even at 180bpm and was not thrown off the horse all the way to the end cause my fingers did nothing but the same for the whole time - good good ex!!! Thx.

But will it help me to chesney the hawkes? let´s see...

 

Nothing prepares you for the Chesney 

but Yes the slow part of the Exercise Is as important...  actually no It's more Important than the fast speeds,
Its the time to watch your fingers, and get your technique tight, stop the flying fingers,

also exaggerate the the first beat, of the 8. hit that string hard really helps with coordination .

Glad you enjoying them I have the triplet ones to upload yet.

 

This was a great attempt, I lost a bit on the solo, but I probably won't play it any better, and it's still a long way from @ cacahuate51  score. He is on a different level of possibility so GG 😉

I'll play some more bass and then start preparing for the new week, so I think it will start in about 2 hours.

49 minutes ago, Mikson said:

This was a great attempt, I lost a bit on the solo, but I probably won't play it any better, and it's still a long way from @ cacahuate51  score. He is on a different level of possibility so GG 😉

what do you mean a long ways ? 🤣 You are right next to me you can pull it off !!