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

Finally revived my Schecter! anything to dodge attempting Hendrix. Fergie's version of the Star Spangled Banner still #1 yet to be topped 🤣

I couldn't really find any wiring diagrams for my model so had to figure it out, removed the push-pull functionality for now because I didn't even know what it was until guitar was already working 😅. Issue was a few ripped cables from spinning the loose jack and knobs over the years, oops!

I am surprised how doable it was to DIY, great skill to have.

Trying this one because I didn't make the cut on Player Level rhythm chart 🥲  Beautiful song, good challenge with the string skipping and quick chord changes.

 

Improvements:

I think I looked more to my hands and the guitar than the screen 😅

It's good that there have been changes in the Rhythm Beg & Int classes, now everything is much closer to correct 👏

I played this again because CDLC was updated, but I don't think I noticed any changes. I still think this is a really strong 5, because if someone achieve 99+ here, they really deserve to be promoted to the advanced class, but it doesn't matter anymore because no one will be able to achieve such a score 😆

Dokken

Opeth

On 10/1/2025 at 9:58 AM, Rodman said:

@ cacahuate51  @allplayers - so to have taken too long - here is what

PLAYER XP LEVEL 

is all about... (taken from the description i did for it)

Over the last years we got the weekly leaderboard, the 10-week leaderboard and awards all fine - we do have a great competition with good ruling.

What i felt and feel is missing is something that easily shows

1) the progress for oneself

2) more objectively than the 10w-leaderboard show how good a player is - what´s that players level in bass? or lead?

We are all here to progress - and what i wanted is something to show the actual XP Level of any participating player in any path.

Independently from how many people are competing in his class and how strong that competition is (which vastly will effect his rank in his class)

So i wanted a system like in any RPG or alike where a players level can be seen by one number.

Luckywise our man @meelo caught the idea and (- as my coding is - lets put it that way - if i ever will make a videogame - the hero is likely to be missing limbs -) he jumped right in and arranged all the fancy data - gathering scripting stuff in like no time, helped testing and gave a lot of input too - THX M8 🍹 !!!!!

So...

Here is RSCS Player Level (XP)

It´s a score from 1-(potentially 100) where 50 means you can about master a song rated 5 with 100% or get about 85% on a 6er..

or... someone who reaches the level close to 30 will be able to compete in INT and might wanna level up

or... the absolte guitar god who would have scored 99 on 3 GOG (10) songs in 12 weeks (and has no lower MC scores) would be level 99

I have tested the system extensively with many players´ data - and it works damn fine by now.

How is it calculated?

It takes all scores from top rated songs of players class (3/5/7/8 and 9 for MC) and the class aboves scores (here any diff rating) multiplied by the accuracy achieved - and that is averaged over the last 12 weeks without max and min score - so potential wrongly rated songs or single poor performances for any reasons won´t distort the level.

At least 3 counting scores in the last 12 weeks are needed.

It is updated automatically every week. Thx @ kayteck !!!!!!!!

Plus you can see improvement calculated against the gone years down to week 46, where the CS we new know started with 4 classe and diff ratings for each path (v3.0) and we will have the data all back since first week on CFCS soon.

Each whole year has to be implemented by me (that´s quite lots of work), so there is more or less delay for those numbers.

It is beta stage by now´quite in final shape - so please everyone look into your data - check your opponents and be verbose about improvements!!!

Enjoy.

Rod.

I am at adding 2023 and 2024 numbers these days.

OkOkOkOk... all is done.

PLAYER XP LEVEL completely updated 

The player´s level is calculated using the last 12 weeks, not taking into account the highest and lowest score.
Same goes for the 6.months level
For the yearly levels the top and lowest 2 scores are kicked (reason is to even out wrong diffed songs and single bad performances eg)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN-m8wF0lVkQ4cLWHBa009SkqDoPk0xN-C4-llcrXXs/edit?gid=351097837#gid=351097837
 

Enjoy!

Rod.

 

4 hours ago, Rodman said:

OkOkOkOk... all is done.

PLAYER XP LEVEL completely updated 

The player´s level is calculated using the last 12 weeks, not taking into account the highest and lowest score.
Same goes for the 6.months level
For the yearly levels the top and lowest 2 scores are kicked (reason is to even out wrong diffed songs and single bad performances eg)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN-m8wF0lVkQ4cLWHBa009SkqDoPk0xN-C4-llcrXXs/edit?gid=351097837#gid=351097837
 

Enjoy!

Rod.

how come @ drand  doesnt really seem to have a score in rhythm?

Improvements:

 

7 hours ago, Rodman said:

OkOkOkOk... all is done.

PLAYER XP LEVEL completely updated 

The player´s level is calculated using the last 12 weeks, not taking into account the highest and lowest score.
Same goes for the 6.months level
For the yearly levels the top and lowest 2 scores are kicked (reason is to even out wrong diffed songs and single bad performances eg)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN-m8wF0lVkQ4cLWHBa009SkqDoPk0xN-C4-llcrXXs/edit?gid=351097837#gid=351097837
 

Enjoy!

Rod.

I'm already ahead of AndreCardoso 🤘 🤣🎸

 

 

 

 

This was unbelievably fun to play


Did two more tries of this. Really happy about this score

Is it me, or is the song adding link not working?

27 minutes ago, MaltaSoron said:

Is it me, or is the song adding link not working?

It works for me 🤔

Bass

Oh no, this song again, and again a rating I disagree with 😆 If rhythm was underrated, bass rating is significantly overrated. The difficulty level is similar to Dokken, so I'd give 4.5, max 5 for both. On the other hand, for a week hosted by Cacahuate, this would be max 4. I'm mentioning this because we shouldn't have such scattered ratings depending on the week's host 🙂

7 minutes ago, Mikson said:

It works for me 🤔

Bass

Ah, it works in Edge 👍  I guess one of my browser extensions is blocking something.

Thanks for the new week! My hands are rather chapped because of the weather, but as said, suffering is the way.

I haven't yet figured out a good way to play the chords without a pick. Strumming with my thumb didn't really seem to work.



Maybe it's my lack of musical knowledge, but I kept being surprised where the notes were coming from, even on the replay.

Was rather aggravating to get to this score, had some @ Vodka type moments of anger with the middle finger salute to the Rocksmith fact checkers.  Maybe tomorrow brings a few extra percentage points.  Rock on all.

rhy

 

 

 

@ drand  Yay Schecter! just playing one...

c´mon show us a pic or two of the beauty

btw... 

so proud that this is actually easy by now

 

ok!! going wit that - no X, 90 and the solo sounded good

 

 

 

@ cacahuate51  looks like I'm off the charts 😅

 

ouch!!

here she is @ Rodman ! I agree the shred exercises really show progress! Thanks!