Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 615 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ ALSRC (100)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka (91.13)
- Advanced: @ Mikson (95.3)
- Advanced Bonus: @ cacahuate51 (98.56)
- Masterclass: @ TrevyMetal (92)
- Masterclass Bonus: LOST TROPHY

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ ALSRC (93.01)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka (88.54)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ Vodka (86)
- Advanced: @ kayteck (84)
- Masterclass: @ cacahuate51 (92.16)
- Masterclass Bonus: LOST TROPHY

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @ MaltaSoron  (80.4)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ MaltaSoron  (78.7)
- Advanced: @ Mikson (95)
- Advanced Bonus: @ Mikson (98.7)
- Masterclass: @ rosefog (98.61)
- God of Bass: No entries so far, 2 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!
 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Beginner Bonus: Nickelback - Photograph (3*) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Shinedown - Devour (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Bring Me The Horizon - WONDERWALL (4.5) (C Standard) selected by loudly
Advanced: Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon (7) (D Drop C) - Alt. Lead path!!!! selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass: BEMANI Sound Team "Yvya" - Bellatrix (9*) (E Standard) selected by Dood1332

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Beginner Bonus: Nickelback - Photograph (3*) (Eb Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Shinedown - Devour (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Bring Me The Horizon - WONDERWALL Alt. Lead path!!!! (4.5) (C Standard) selected by loudly
Advanced: Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon (6.5) (D Drop C) selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass: Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon (6.5) (D Drop C) selected by cacahuate51

Bass Path:
Beginner: Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate: Shinedown - Devour (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Bring Me The Horizon - WONDERWALL (4.5) (C Standard) selected by loudly
Advanced: Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You (5.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced Bonus: Nickelback - Photograph (5) (Eb Drop Db) selected by cacahuate51
Masterclass: T-Square
- Nab That Chap!! (8.5) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
God of Bass: Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer (Full Album) (8) (Bb Standard) selected by Rodman [Week 2 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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Hope you guys enjoy this week!

i selected mostly songs that appeared in music games. 

It is a lot of songs so If it gets too overwhelming let me know. Luckily if it is, I usually just host once a month (except last month cause i did the unexpected ozzy tribute).  Just play the ones in your class/the ones that sound like might be fun.

hmmm what else...oh yeah i couldnt find a masterclass rhythm song, always have trouble there, if anyone knows a song harder than bfmv song lemme know and ill add it (i think thats possible? but i also have memories of it having issues with AI? so i wont start react app untill the end of tomorrow to see if someone  recommends another masterclass rhythm song) maybe crazy train ozzy?

aka

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater - rockband dlc - judging by last week connie song and triads..i think begginners might struggle here? It was suggested 3.5 probably cause its slowish and not that many notes. i have nickelback song as back up
Nickelback - Photograph  - rockband 2 dlc
 Shinedown - Devour- bandfuse
 Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon - rockband dlc. Dont know which version is better tbh but xans has more paths. both creators are pretty active.
BEMANI Sound Team "Yvya" - Bellatrix - bemani
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Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You- this was one of the cdlcs i found last week that was on the death record website for july. really nice song and probably wouldnt have found it otherwise. According to google its on rocksmith+? dont know why its not yellow then
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Songs that werent in music games

Bring Me The Horizon - WONDERWALL - thought it was a neat cover suggested by @ loudly and the original is in rockband 4 as dlc- kinda wish it had lyrics
 T-Square - Nab That Chap!! - sounded cool and is tough

test scores







lost cause of the bends the first time lol











yea bellatrix one is pretty insane lol

Another great week with great songs that I haven't heard in a while 🤩

First results (BASS):

 

 

 

 

 

Have a nice musweek everyone!

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater. Nice beginners songs. But I think 3.5 is too high. 2.5-3 is nuff.

 

Nickelback - Photograph. Should I mute the strings after every hit?.. Unexpected fingering part ruined eveything.

  

Shinedown - Devour. Cool song

 

Bring Me The Horizon - WONDERWALL. The part on first strings, pinch harmonics and backward chords confused me.

 

Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon. 🤩🤩🤩 Pattern is clear. But hard and too fast.

 

 

First results (Guitar):

I don't know why but the half chords confuse me more and I get a knot in my brain  🤣

 

 

 

 

Improvements:

 

More improvements:

 

 

 

Early submissions for me this week, off on holiday for 2 weeks tomorrow and up at 4am so best get some shut eye!

Best of luck all, see you guys in a few weeks!

Oh, so far the turnout is poor this week, I hope it's just the holiday season...

First scores

6.5 is out of the question, the solo parts here are at a strong 7.5 level 😲

I played Lead first because I didn't realize we were playing Atl Lead. The charts aren't much different.

Have fun on your vacations! ! Glad you were able to submit something before going 🥳 @ jimbobmccecil

Hey everyone, happy shredding to all!

Used to jam this one a bunch back in high school

Ooooh yep, this one is nuts! A tough sight read lol, gonna have to practise this one a bit

On 8/5/2025 at 3:56 PM, Mikson said:

 

 

6.5 is out of the question, the solo parts here are at a strong 7.5 level 😲

 

 

 

huh interesting, i thought it was more straightforward than most solos weve played 🤔  the part i consider tough repeats twice which isnt so common in solos to do/ for me kinda makes it easier to remember (although i still havent gotten it down perfectly). ill move it to a 7 i guess ? 

some improvements: 

not 100s but i am happy with 99s. Mustve played on a different account cause the numbers of plays are off.

The song is easy but random misses won't let me get higher...

9 minutes ago, veggs95 said:

 

Wow! I wasnt expecting someone to get high 90s in the bellatrix song this week always nice surprises 🙂 

3 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Wow! I wasnt expecting someone to get high 90s in the bellatrix song this week always nice surprises 🙂 

Because @ veggs95 is one of the best players to have participated in the championship. But I haven't seen him in a long time (the spreadsheet says he participated in 2020-2021), what a surprising comeback, nice! 🔥

Some rhythm scores

 

Little improvements

 

Thanks for the new week! I was away on holidays, but I got back in time for this one 🙂

This one's really fun to play 😃



These kind of songs make me wonder: why bother dropping the lowest string if you're barely gonna use it?



A classic! I don't think it should be too hard to learn the song properly if you spend some time on it:



And I did a quick playthrough of Valhalla, because I hope to see Blind Guardian next week ^^

Bass

A strong 9 considering the slap & pop madness 🫣