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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 614 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ALSRC (91.61)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (97.58)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (98.73)
- Masterclass: @TrevyMetal (97)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ALSRC (92.85)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (98.06)
- Advanced: @robolechuga (94)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (94.69)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @MaltaSoron (93.9)
- Advanced: @Mikson (99)
- Masterclass: @JobwanMojo (99.23)

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Q. Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (1) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Connie Francis - Pretty Little Baby (5.5*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Ozzy Osbourne - Straight To Hell (6.5) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - Scary Little Green Men (6) (Eb Standard)
Masterclass: Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark (8) (Eb Standard) - Alt. Lead path!!!! selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - One of Those Days (8) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Ozzy Osbourne - Straight To Hell (4*) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Connie Francis - Pretty Little Baby (5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - One of Those Days (4.5) (Eb Standard)
Advanced: Ozzy Osbourne - Scary Little Green Men (5.5) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass: Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark (7.5) (Eb Standard) - Alt. Rhythm path!!!! selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock and Roll (8) (Eb Standard) Lead path!!!! selected by cacahuate51

Bass Path:
Beginner: Black Sabbath - Changes (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus: Q. Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (1.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Connie Francis - Pretty Little Baby (4) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - Straight To Hell (4) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock and Roll (7*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - One of Those Days (6) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass: Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin') (12 Inch) (8) (Eb Standard) selected by rosefog
God of Bass: Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer (Full Album) (8) (Bb Standard) selected by Rodman [Week 1 of 3]

(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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So as previously mentioned, this week will be focused on Ozzy since he passed last week. I overcomplicated things by looking at who else died during those days using this website 
There have been lots of talented musicians such as amy winehouse, drummer from slipknot, chester from linkin park, drummer from styx, Johnny winter and the list goes on and on. Found some really cool music (and some good cdlcs) but the list of songs was getting overflooded so i reduced it and perhaps can save it for the future.

-Connie Francis also passed away this week and the song has been quite viral recently.
-One of Q Lazarus's members passed away in july (years ago) so thats why its also on the list this week and i think its a good farewell song.
-I did not add the wwe song as i think dell mentioned they would update it ( so i think it would be better to wait for that to happen).
-Stevie Wonder is NOT dead  although im pretty sure i read an article this year that said so. Anyways he's alive, i just chose the reccomendation cause i couldn't find a harder bass song.

I spent lots of time playing a bunch of black sabbath and ozzy. I actually don't really listen to him or his work so i wasnt aware DIO actually was the singer in lots of black sabbath albums (wouldve saved me some time 😅 )  I know it kinda looks like i just picked the most recent cdlc, but i really did test a TON of cdlc

They are not Ozzys most iconic songs but he has a huge catalouge of songs and i think they are decentish cdlc. We have played several of his more well known songs in the past championships according to Rodman "We played 6 Ozzy Tracks and 15 BS tracks over the years" 

Hope you guys enjoy the week!

Thanks for the week, hoping I can take part as fell off a kids toy last week which means I was not able to play most of songs . Couple more days rest and we should be good 

hey cool EASIEST SONG IN THE HISTORY OF THE CS!!! a true (1) - love that. still cool to play for beg esp.

 

 

 

Connie hit me on the wrong foot with those chords... now i hate her!

what a cool song here:

 

 

 

cool mc rhythm.. needs a lil work

 

 

 

Hah! Everytime that happens on a sightread i wish for a warning sign in the game saying "tapping (or two-handed tapping) coming in in 5...4....3..." 🙂

 

 

 

Great week! I miss some of those endings to songs 🙂

First results (Bass):

 

hard and cool

 

 

 

yes, it is

 

 

 

no you can´t

 

!

 

as expected only cool songs

 

 

 

changes, brothers, yes

 

 

What a voice.... especially in the more ballad like songs .... brrr brilliant and so unique

 

 

 

2 good hours of Ozz tribute. 

unrest in peace, master!

 

100 % 😱

 

clearly better than 1st try

 

 

 

87

 

 

 

Have a nice musweek everone!

Can't say I like Ozzy but his contribution isn't invaluable. Rest in Peace \m/ Thank you for everything. And for metal music. Back to the beginning was incredible. 

Q. Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses. Finally 100% in lead!

Connie Francis - Pretty Little Baby. I'm not a god of guitar to play it. Choooooords....

 

Ozzy Osbourne - Straight To Hell. Nice riff but I failed all of bends and pull offs. Absolutely crazy solo.

  

Ozzy Osbourne - Scary Little Green Men. Hard.

 

Ozzy Osbourne - One of Those Days. Hard.

 

Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark. Impossibru!!!

  

Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock and Roll

Very hard week.

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I thought since Connie Francis mostly just uses bottom barchords itd be fine for intermediate.

I noticed vodka struggling a bit so i decided to replay them. Thing is ozzys tracks are more familiar / what we usually play in the championship so i can see others getting higher scores there. maybe ill put connies in advanced? but i did notice i misplaced the numbers for fraqncis and ozzys so i changed it to how i originally intended:

Connie francis 4 to 5
and ozzys one from 5 to 4.5 .
 aliens from 6 to 5.5 (think this might be easier than connie tbh) 

 it should be a bit more balance but let me know if not.

3 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

I thought since Connie Francis mostly just uses bottom barchords itd be fine for intermediate.

I noticed vodka struggling a bit so i decided to replay them. Thing is ozzys tracks are more familiar / what we usually play in the championship so i can see others getting higher scores there. maybe ill put connies in advanced? but i did notice i misplaced the numbers for fraqncis and ozzys so i changed it to how i originally intended:

Connie francis 4 to 5
and ozzys one from 5 to 4.5 .
 aliens from 6 to 5.5 (think this might be easier than connie tbh) 

 it should be a bit more balance but let me know if not.

I reviewed Connie. The song is not such a hard. But I just can't place bares. I press the strings with my index finger and most of the strings are just muted 🤣🤦‍♂️ Technic part of mine is just a nightmare 🤪

First scores from this tribute week!

First thought? GTA, but I don't remember exactly which one 😉

In my opinion, this is harder than 5. Chords are 5 ok, but those licks at the end of the neck (18th-22nd frets) are really awkward, and I played them terribly on this attempt. 6 for me.

And Ozzy's stuff

I really liked this, lots of cool playing!

The tapping attack is surprising here 🫣

Improvements:

Woo hoo, decent performance 🤣