-= Building a Guitar from Scratch with Absolutely No Woodworking Experience =-

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 598 =-

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

Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @Willyam (70)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (94.57)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (99.1)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (91)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @RaZrShReD, 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @Willyam (84.4)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka (99.71)
- Advanced: @drand (100)
- Masterclass: @RaZrShReD (94)

Bass:
- Beginner: @Classicoz (99)
- Beginner Bonus: @Willyam (100)
- Intermediate: @loudly (99.39)
- Advanced: @Mikson (98.77)
- Masterclass: @JobwanMojo (98.88)

 

 

 

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

More great news. There are players to be promoted to higher rank this week.

- @drand is promoted to Advanced class in Rhythm path instantly taking the adv win 😉 Bravo.
- @Vodka is promoted to Advanced class in Rhythm path.

Congratulations and good luck with new challenges!
In case the above players do not accept promotion, please advise accordingly in the post so we can revert back to previous Class.
 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn (3*) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (5*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: The Doobie Brothers - Rockin' Down The Highway (7.5^) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Anvil - Free As The Wind (8) (E Standard) selected by kayteck
Masterclass Bonus: Intervals - Sure Shot (9*) (E Standard) selected by week194
God of Guitar: Paul Gilbert - Fuzz Universe (10) (E Standard) [Week 2 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (4^) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Anvil - Free As The Wind (6^) (E Standard) selected by kayteck
Advanced: The Doobie Brothers - Rockin' Down The Highway (7*) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Intervals - Sure Shot (8) (E Standard) selected by week194

Bass Path:
Beginner: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (2.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Beginner Bonus: Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn (2) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate: Anvil - Free As The Wind (3.5) (E Standard) selected by kayteck
Advanced: The Doobie Brothers - Rockin' Down The Highway (7) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Intervals - Sure Shot (8) (E Standard) selected by week194

(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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Cover Song of the week

ANY BLOODHOUNDGANG SONG

or

JOAN JETT - I LOVE ROCK´n´ROLL

1 hour ago, cacahuate51 said:

bass playthroughs:

maybe eventually a bloodhound gang cover for the week? I think that would be doable since its kinda simple on guitar and ok vocals

clasic song

intwesting

surprised this is rated only a 5.5? seemed a bit difficult to me but oki 

Yessa..so be it..

 

Coversong of the week:

Any BLOODHOUNDGANG Song

7 minutes ago, Rodman said:

Yessa..so be it..

Coversong of the week:

Any BLOODHOUNDGANG Song

i should keep my mouth shut😅

First results of the week )from Mac):

Now have to find if the mods work with Mac

Have to do some RR because my brain thinks this is too fast & tricky for my hands 😅

Happy Sunday everyone! Thanks for hosting @ Rodman

Good beginner song if you're into this kind of music

Oops missed the screenshot

I can't play these triplets? right, need to slow it down 

Lmao yep it's advanced alright, gonna be a long ride up...

 

i miss you week 597

what in the world

ok this is a lot more fun chart than the rhythm section

Great week everyone!

Harder than i thought 

 

Some improvement:

 

I can do it at 95%. At 100% my brain melts and my hands don't respond accordingly 😅

 

22 hours ago, Rodman said:

Yessa..so be it..

Coversong of the week:

Any BLOODHOUNDGANG Song

Ok... been through the discography of the BHG ..... let´s put it that way - noone can be forced to do a cover on them ...... without alternative

SO

Cover challenge of the week
ANY BLOODHOUNDGANG SONG

or

JOAN JETT - I LOVE ROCK´n´ROLL

Bends do not want to be detected at all. I tried to play them with different ways. But no luck.

Wanted to retry it more. But got rage because of most every powers have stopped detecting. Tired of this permanent miss and miss and miss. Can't understand that's my hands my brain my guitar or what...

Finally got past 90% 😅

Had do RR the whole song at 85%, 90%, 95%, 98% for it to click in my brain

5 hours ago, Vodka said:

Bends do not want to be detected at all. I tried to play them with different ways. But no luck.

Wanted to retry it more. But got rage because of most every powers have stopped detecting. Tired of this permanent miss and miss and miss. Can't understand that's my hands my brain my guitar or what...

I am in the same boat, sounds right, feels right, my peterson strobe tuner says I am hitting the note when I practice the bends.  It is definitely closer than the tuner in Rocksmith detects.  It is aggravating, I will have a clear alcoholic beverage that was named after our Russian friend who experiences the same struggles. It may save a some of the furniture in the RS lounge area of my home.

The speed is craaazy good lord

My project is at a point where I want to share it.  I 3d printed a guitar body and paired it with a kit guitar neck and electronics to make a playable electric guitar.

I even cut my own "signature" headstock

It is assembled from 7 printed parts

The side pieces attach with nuts imbedded in the core piece.  I paused the printer at the layer right before it seals up the cavities for the nuts.

A closeup of the pattern on the surface.  It was rougher than I wanted, so I covered it with a piece of aluminum foil and ran a hot iron over it to smooth the plastic.  That was tricky, because any wrinkle in the foil transferred to my surface.

I set it up, adjusted the pickup heights, and it plays!  I've never had a Tele (as you can probably guess by my backwards switchplate) but I am blown away by how good it sounds!  Perhaps I will use it on one of my covers in the near future.

Finally understood what Vodka meant with his bending problems, better late than never 😄

 

 

I hate rocknroll

Bends on 6th string 2nd fret seems like solved. Slow bend it down a little with a little delay. Most of times it works. Except pre-solo bends.

Bends on 15th fret are still under investigation. Or I just drop it.

UPD. I drop it.

Updates from yesterday, will play some more now.

 

 

Start this week

Classic yes, I'm also surprised I haven't played this before.

Technically difficult chart, I've played this before but a long time ago and I couldn't even find a screenshot. Surprised I managed to achieve 90% because my previous score was much lower.

Difficult solo, the rest not so much.

Have a nice week!

But first lets shred some

the last one almos kills me every time, i should play it in the middle and not for last

 

 

Scores with my SG, the fatter strings helps a lot with this game, but 10s on my strat f* my fingers bad 

The bad part is that with the hard tail i'm missing some notes

i think i can improve on this, is this really an 8? 

 

 

7 hours ago, diceslinger said:

My project is at a point where I want to share it.  I 3d printed a guitar body and paired it with a kit 

 

It blows my mind that you and Rodman have made guitars. Real craftsmen ship from you guys!

 

I love the colors of the guitar I think if I were to get a new one or bass it's be with those tones. Also very interesting that most of it's been 3d printed. I remember my yt shorts were filled with them during covid. Almost convinced me to get one. Anyways much respect. 

 

RS hates me on this song, no matter, Twice every pass it randomly decides that was not good enough.  I played through 4x with same result and different notes.  More clear beverages to consumed in solidarity with our Russian friend.

This song is challenging enough, but seemingly the more I play it the worse I get, so we will stick with the 1st pass high score.

17 hours ago, diceslinger said:

My project is at a point where I want to share it.  I 3d printed a guitar body and paired it with a kit guitar neck and electronics to make a playable electric guitar.

I even cut my own "signature" headstock

It is assembled from 7 printed parts

The side pieces attach with nuts imbedded in the core piece.  I paused the printer at the layer right before it seals up the cavities for the nuts.

A closeup of the pattern on the surface.  It was rougher than I wanted, so I covered it with a piece of aluminum foil and ran a hot iron over it to smooth the plastic.  That was tricky, because any wrinkle in the foil transferred to my surface.

I set it up, adjusted the pickup heights, and it plays!  I've never had a Tele (as you can probably guess by my backwards switchplate) but I am blown away by how good it sounds!  Perhaps I will use it on one of my covers in the near future.

🤯 I already knew Rodman was an expert guitar maker, but I didn't know we had an expert 3D guitar printer. 👏

Was the 3D design your own, adapted or from a 3D modeling site (Thingiverse)?