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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 602 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ Willyam (98.25)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka (98.02)
- Advanced: @ cacahuate51 (96.62)
- Masterclass: @ shaggy_malagy  (96.44)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ Willyam  (96.77)
- Intermediate: @ loudly (99.65)
- Advanced: @ Mikson (98)
- Masterclass: @ avastreg (91)

Bass:
- Beginner: @ Willyam (100)
- Intermediate: @ loudly  (98.69)
- Advanced: @ Mikson (97)
- Masterclass: @ JobwanMojo  (97.3)

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (2.5) (E Standard) - Alt. Lead path!!!! selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus: The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Point North - Dark Days (ft. Jeris Johnson) (4.5) (E Standard) selected by loudly
Advanced: My Chemical Romance - This Is How I Disappear (6.5) (E Standard) selected by jimbobmccecil
Masterclass: Direwolf - Final Flight (9*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (2.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus: Point North - Dark Days (ft. Jeris Johnson) (2.5) (E Standard) - Alt. Rhythm path!!!! selected by loudly
Intermediate: My Chemical Romance - This Is How I Disappear (5*) (E Standard) selected by jimbobmccecil
Advanced: South Arcade - stone cold summer (6.5) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass: Direwolf - Final Flight (9*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51

Bass Path:
Beginner: The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (2.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus: Point North - Dark Days (ft. Jeris Johnson) (3*) (E Standard) selected by loudly
Intermediate: Vengaboys - We Like To Party! (6*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: My Chemical Romance - This Is How I Disappear (3) (E Standard) selected by jimbobmccecil
Advanced: Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me (6.5) (E Standard) selected by gspot
Masterclass: Direwolf - Final Flight (9*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51

(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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No theme this week just suggested songs and kinda recent made cdlc.

The begginer song might seem intimidating at first but its doable, I would play the other paths of the song ( alt lead 1 and 2) to get a hang of it.

To me lots of the songs had similar dificulty on bass so i went and got other bass songs.

South arcade songs structure is very simple and was tempted to put it in intermediate but the main hook is kinda fast and i couldnt get a good score, meanwhile my chemical romance song i did so thats why they are sorted that way.

masterclass song is tough.

Anyways, leave your ratings when you upload your scores to average them out, (numbers is prefered since i cant average higher than x or lower than x)
And if you like any of the cdlcs or see any errors let them know. thanks

Hopeyall have a nice week!
 

Thanks for hosting @ cacahuate51 !! We eating good this week

The octaves here got me by surprise, idk if I'm doing it the right way on the bass?? (4.5)

Yea it's a banger, reasonable rating (3)

Nice easy sight read with a little spice and yeah chart similar to MCR (3)

The bass is so elusive for me, it always says volume is too low so I keep moving the pickups around hoping for better accuracy but sometimes idk

And y'all is Jeris Johnson cringe? I like a couple of his songs like the "Kiss from a Rose" cover and" John" (and "damn!" but guilty pleasure frfr)

Even became a meme with that one dashcam video but he is fully committed to the bit so I kind of respect it 😭

I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!

This is all I hear when I play back my singing 🤣 last step is always to lower it a couple dB but was fun making this one

 

37 minutes ago, drand said:

I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!

This is all I hear when I play back my singing 🤣 last step is always to lower it a couple dB but was fun making this one

Are you kidding me! HOW! What a cool groove carrying me through that song - i absolutely don´t know the original - and i don´t think i have to ..... but i think come close to your quality work there will be more than a challenge.... however see us suffer and fail!!! BRAVO

 

COVER OF THE WEEK IS CLEARLY CALLED:
THREE DAYS GRACE - GET OUT ALIVE

1 hour ago, drand said:

I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!

This is all I hear when I play back my singing 🤣 last step is always to lower it a couple dB but was fun making this one

What a great job, push those vocals up a couple db - they are fine,  just getting drowned in the mix.  

1 hour ago, drand said:

I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!

This is all I hear when I play back my singing 🤣 last step is always to lower it a couple dB but was fun making this one

Started tentative but by 1:40 on really rocks, I really like the subtlety of the  lyrics.
It sounds like Goyte doing metal  really really good.

Now I keep singing Now i'm just somebody that you used to know

4 hours ago, drand said:

 

 

And y'all is Jeris Johnson cringe? I like a couple of his songs like the "Kiss from a Rose" cover and" John" (and "damn!" but guilty pleasure frfr)

 

Even became a meme with that one dashcam video but he is fully committed to the bit so I kind of respect it 😭

Tbh, dont really recognize the name and probably wouldnt even have searched him up cause his part in the song really didnt do anything for me/ wouldve been fine without it / i like point norths vocalist more, untill you commented about him.

Surprised he has almost twice the monthly listeners of point north (that band i did know from since when ghost in my home was released) 
A quick glance at his songs looks like he just does cover or sings on top of famous beats? cause i do remember hearing the banjo beat instrumental all over tiktok and yt shorts but ive never heard of damn...i do remember seeing the paparoach remix song and being like why? 😅 Doesnt seem for me but respect for him finding success and i guess it goes to show that there can be success by doing covers.

 

3 hours ago, drand said:

I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!

This is all I hear when I play back my singing 🤣 last step is always to lower it a couple dB but was fun making this one

Never really watched modernfamily but it does appear in my feed quite a bit and some sceenes like this one do give me a chuckle.

Great cover btw! Like it more than the rock n roll cover so grats! Agree with the previous comments. And always good to hear 3dg 🙂  

Crazy that it's been 15 weeks since that week! Seems like forever yet not long enough, cause i was gonna put a linkin park song this week and was like oof nah i just made a week with them 😅

 

Thanks for the feedback y’all 🙏🏻 

@ cacahuate51  What do you mean it’s been 15 weeks?? I am still waiting for you to drop The Hand That Feeds cover any day now 💀 & it feels like Linkin Park dropping a new song every week but I love hopping on ignition and it’s already there

I heard Jeris is a classic 2020s nepo baby solo artist so it tracks that he’s got more listens especially if he’s milking tiktok… I had blocked that Papa Roach remix from memory tbh 😭 so bad

@ Daz40  You got me, I think I don’t really have that beginning riff down tight so it sounded like a hot mess, especially with multiple guitar tracks 😅 maybe the intensity of the second half is more forgiving

@ Rodman  Every time I listen to your covers I crack open the DAW to work on a project, like y’all say at the end “thank you!!” gotta try these new IK multimedia plugins next time

11 hours ago, drand said:

I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!

This is all I hear when I play back my singing 🤣 last step is always to lower it a couple dB but was fun making this one

Amazing work!! 🤯

I agree that the voice could be a couple of dB higher, but other than that, awesome!! You even had backing vocals.

What did you use for the drums? The ones that I've been using came with the Akai mini keyboard but sound very artificial.

1 hour ago, AndreCardoso said:

Amazing work!! 🤯

I agree that the voice could be a couple of dB higher, but other than that, awesome!! You even had backing vocals.

What did you use for the drums? The ones that I've been using came with the Akai mini keyboard but sound very artificial.

Thanks! I used Monster drum plugin and libraries from here: https://agushardiman.tv/monster-drum-the-best-free-drum-vst-plugin-with-multi-kit-genre/

Setup might take some patience, have to figure out how to use Reaper’s multi-out feature and before that there will be no sound output, might be a little frustrating 😅 But you can change volume of individual elements in the mixer, big difference 

Also improve whatever plugin you use by routing some drum reverb. I followed this tutorial: 

 

First results of the week:

I agree with the ratings. The Vengaboys song is a bit difficult on the wrists because of the duration of the octaves, but it depends on each persons endurance (it felt like 10 minutes). But it was a massive hit on the discos a couple of decades ago 🤣 

Didn't know Ambrosia, but liked the song and the bass line (sometimes I don't really like a song very much, but the bass line is fun to play)

Have a nice musweek everyone!

The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait. Lead is hard for beginners. Rhythm ok.

 

Point North - Dark Days (ft. Jeris Johnson). Rhythm is easy. Lead is hard with skippings and slides.

 

My Chemical Romance - This Is How I Disappear. Hard. Wanted to brake my guitar. my fingers and my hands.

  

South Arcade - stone cold summer

 

Direwolf - Final Flight. It was fun monkey play at least.

 

Seems like this week I will suffer.

Not sure what happened here, but 1st try - let's go.

  

MCR is a favorite of my daughter and she got me into the them.  Christmas gift for the both of us was tickets to see them in Dodger Stadium come July with The Wallows (another favorite) gonna be a blast.

  

On 5/3/2025 at 11:44 PM, drand said:

I went off the rails and did a cover of my favorite song from the Championship so far "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace, anyone want to do one too I would love to hear it!!

To wszystko, co słyszę, kiedy odtwarzam mój śpiew🤣, ostatnim krokiem jest zawsze obniżenie go o kilka dB, ale fajnie było zrobić ten

I can only agree with the others, this was really good! 👏 The combination of a soft voice with heavy guitar sounds is a really cool combination, giving the cover something fresh compared to the original. Don't be afraid to turn up your vocals 😉

First scores this week

I didn't know this, but it sounds cool and nice to play! Not very easy so 3.5.

Also cool, a chart without a classic solo, but it requires some technique, hard to rate, I would give it 4.5.

Double stops madness! Too much for me, I don't even know how to rate it, I think 6.5 or 7.

Game over. 9.5.

My favorite to play from this week, just super fun 


Had a pretty rough first run (barely got through without a strike) but if I played as sooooft as i could it was so much easier to get through without tiring out.

On 5/3/2025 at 9:57 PM, drand said:

Thanks for the feedback y’all 🙏🏻 

@ cacahuate51  What do you mean it’s been 15 weeks?? I am still waiting for you to drop The Hand That Feeds cover any day now 💀 & it feels like Linkin Park dropping a new song every week but I love hopping on ignition and it’s already there

Yep time flies! You've managed to go from begginer to advance in rhythm class and intermediate in lead so congrats and keep working hard! Also 94% to a full cover of the song thats pretty impressive.

As for my nin project here it is:

got burried and abandoned long time ago 😄 I rememeber trying to do vocals and i was like yeeep nope . So i tried using his vocals but even then it still sounded wacky. I do have more fun imo creating new songs or remixes instead...covers didnt seem to do it for me creatively.

Yeah I really enjoy ignition when people upload new songs cause it keeps me up to date with bands that I like but dont really follow. Forexample I didnt know adtr released a new album so i still have to listen to it. Hopefuly its better than better friends cause that album was a bit low for me, but i do think the more you listen to songs you tend to like them more so probably just needed to listen to it more.

On 5/3/2025 at 9:57 PM, drand said:

I heard Jeris is a classic 2020s nepo baby solo artist so it tracks that he’s got more listens especially if he’s milking tiktok… I had blocked that Papa Roach remix from memory tbh 😭 so bad

 

Imo nepobaby is a weird term. I would imagine it would definately help if you've got family or friends in the bussinnes but at the end of the day that can only take you so far since you can't really "force" someone to like your music lol. Also, if i were in the position to give an opportunity to someone  who really desired that position in a field i was in, aka friends or family, I think there would be no hesitation in trying to help them accomplish their dreams if you could, but maybe that's just me?

Nepotisim /nepo baby is only bad if they are half assing it/ they are being forced by family or friends as its not really their personal dream. But since music is subjective and not something really measurable, it is an odd term to throw around in my opinion for anything in the "Arts category". Unfortunately there will always be someone more talented unrecognized out there due to x reason but I think platforms like tiktok has sort of helped there. Who knows how the algorithms works or if the views are legit or whatever but you still gotta respect the hustle if they are putting out lots of content.

And yeah it was wiped out of my memory aswell 😅 i was surprised they even had a music video together. 

Speaking of nepobabys tho lol south arcade has a song called that and it was one i was considering instead of the one i chose, but i like the guitar riff more on stone cold summer
  

Tiny random result.

 

Some improvement:

Rhythm time

These riff parts, if you can call them that, are difficult, for me it's more than 6.

The part with single notes and chords is hard to me. Some random misses.